Monte Rio

Films in the front
I wonder what year these were painted in.


Dogs in the rear:

I plumped for the chillidog with Cheese. Yes, there is a "Hebrew Nation" brand frank in there somewhere. I like a lot of topping on my hot dog.
Monte Rio is also the location for the Bohemian Grove where Our Shadowy Overlords meet up once a year to make whoopee. As my guidebooks puts it: "Monte Rio's real claim to fame is the infamous Bohemian Grove on the south side of the river, the all-male elite enclave where the rich and powerful come to play. Once a year, during their two-week Annual Summer Encampment, 1,500 or so Bohemians and their guests get together in this luxurious summer encampment "to celebrate the spirit of Bohemia." According to local lore what this amounts to is getting drunk, urinating on trees and staging silly skits and plays. The traditional summer encampment - which President Herbert Hoover once called "the greatest men's party on earth" - was held for the first time in 1869."

I first heard about the grove in my well thumbed copy of David Icke's "The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World". In an anonymous interview a worker at the grove claims to have seen Bill Clinton hunting children in the woods with a shotgun as part of what is known as "the greatest game".

Clinton was heckled about this and responded by saying "The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That's where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees right? I've never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It'd be good for you. You'd get some fresh air". But he would say that, wouldn't he?

Icke's book also contains an eyewitness report of the late Queen Mother transforming into lizard to consume human flesh and claims that Kris Kristoffersen is a mind control agent for CIA. Tellingly, neither chose to deny those rumours.

Whether or not Icke's claims are 100% accurate they're certainly pretty secretive about what's going on in them woods:"Double chain-link fences, guardposts and highly sensitive security systems provide ample protection from riffraff. Unless invited, no one - and never a woman - gets inside the compound. But judging from the very visible, very professional imported prostitutes doing a brief, brisk local business during the week, each year at least some from inside manage to "jump the river" and get out.".

Crikey! No prostitutes or black helicopters when we were there so I guess we picked the wrong weekend but the hot dog was good though and I liked the mural very much.

"The Bohemian Grove, that I attend from time to time—the Easterners and the others come there—but it is the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine, that San Francisco crowd that goes in there; it's just terrible! I mean I won't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco."—President Richard M. Nixon on the Watergate tapes, Bohemian Club member starting in 1953.