WHAT DO YOU SEE ELON? A LOT OF FUNNY, FUNNY THINGS

But we should have seen this coming when he promised to launch the first satellite from Boca Chica in 2013 and then to use the pristine South Texas shoreline as the launching pad for the colonization of Mars sometime in the near, ahem, future. Five years later, no cuete, no launch.

Yeah, that translates into "al ratito," in the local vernacular.


Was he high when he said that? 

Were we high when we believed it? 

Right now we have a pile of dirt, a liquid tank and a tracking radar dish, and no jobs. Maybe if we all chipped in and sent him some of the local weed he might be more receptive to completing the "first commercial vertical-launch pad" in the United States right here in little ol' Browntown."

If weed was all that would get Musk to bite, they should have told someone at Southmost, Cameron Park, La Muralla, or Las Prietas and the connection would have been made. Will all those local luminaries who pushed each other aside to have their mugs taken with Elon rush to have their pictures taken toking on a doobie with the Rocket Man now?

"What do you see, Elon?," asked Da Mayor Tony Martinez (who clings to the image of himself with long hair wearing bell bottoms) as both stood looking over the horizon off Boca chica Beach.

"About $35 million in subsidies for me," Elon responded. "It's groovy, man!"