Closing thoughts....

Today I stared at Wayne Newton for 2 hours, but I didn't talk to him.











The smaller the chimichanga, the better.













I've had a headache everyday for the last 9 years.







Wafer cookies don't get the credit they deserve.













Cherry coke is best done in moderation.









Criminalizing fireworks should be illegal.


Danke Schoen

Whatever happened to.........

GENERATION Z

Some Random Shots Of Philly

Philly

Made it home safe. Bitter-sweet.

Philadelphia Here I Come!

So, tomorrow I leave for Philadelphia. I'm super excited, I've never been! It's a working vacation, but hopefully I'll get time to see the sights. A few Philly facts: It's the city of Brotherly Love, as well as the murder capitol of the US (hey, just showin that brotherly love!). Philly was the first capitol of the United States, and is home to the Liberty Bell (cracked and all). The most exciting fact of all is that the hotel I'm stayin in is HAUNTED! YES! Muwahahahahahaha... it's a dream come true, love me some ghost hunting!

The Fair Is Almost Here

Thank God. A year is TOOOOOOO long!

Road Rage

Today, driving home from work, some TOOL tried to make a lane change into my lane, into the space already occupied by my car. I didn't react quick enough to honk, but the car behind him and the car behind me both did (blessings on you black mustang and silver santa fe drivers). So the guy swerves back whilst my heart skips a beat or two. Then I look over and the TOOL has pulled up next to me and is waving for my attention for what I assume will be a heartfelt apology. ... Wrong. He just wanted to flip me off.

Thanks, buddy.

If

by Rudyard Kipling





If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Drop another coin in the Karma bank, or taken as a fool?

So... yesterday I had just gotten to work and was doing the usual shift change bullshitting session with the morning bartender when a clean cut, relatively normal looking 40-something man came frantically up to the bar. He asked us if we were the bartenders, to which I replied some sarcastic "nope, we just hang out here" type of response. He started to walk away, so I stopped him, tried to explain that I was kidding, yada yada (possible mistake number one). He then asked if we could do him a favor, to which we asked what he needed (possible mistake number two). So the guy goes into a long story of how he was out walking around the mall and received a panicked phone call from his father urging him to come immediately to some hospital in Downey, where his mother had just been taken for some undisclosed medical emergency. According to normal looking man, he did not have his wallet on him and spoke with a cab driver whom told him that he would require advance pay for a distance so great. However, normal looking man without wallet had no way of paying for proposed cab fair, and after pleading his case with driver was able to arrange the ride for 1/3 fair upfront, the rest to be paid upon arrival to destination. So I say "so.... what exactly are you asking' (possible mistake number three). To which he says $40 for cab fair. OY OY OY. Other bartender and I are quite caught off guard and somewhat taken aback by this request, and yet, we both reach into our pockets! (possible mistake number four) So I, in an attempt to appeal to normal looking man's conscious tell him that we will help, not because I believe his story, but because I do believe in Karma. Man who's looking less normal then proceeds to praise us, bless us, render Christ's kindness upon us, etc, etc.... He asks for a pen, takes down our names, promises he's employed and has money but is in a jam, and that he will be back in the next couple days to repay us 3-fold. So, we hand the money over (possible mistake number five), and he leaves, still rendering blessings as he walks out, even stopping to tell the managers that in a dreary world people like us offer a ray of hope (EXACT WORDS!)....... We were baffled, to say the least, flabbergasted. Both of us left wondering what would posses us to give up what would amount to a third of the tips we each made that day to a half crazed man off the street.... I think it was the elaborateness of the story, or his innocent appearance. I don't know. Either we both scored major points with our collective higher powers yesterday, or we'll both end up a little richer, either way its one for the record books..... And if he does turn out to be a scammer, I ask you, what happened to good ol panhandling at gas stations, or holding a sign at the freeway offramp?! Only in Orange County does spare change become $40.


I'm not gonna lie, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the faith I have left in humanity.
(but don't get any ideas, I'm only fallin for this once)

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Hopelessly bound
unfettered
by the chains of love's grip
- greatest gift,
fate's cruelest curse.

Wherefore do I weep
at knowing the joy,
the warmth,
at feeling the peace,
the fire.

Wherefore do I weep
unable to complete ,
to be,
unknown the kiss,
the flames.

Wherefore do I weep
at loving not living
seeing not touching
breathing not sharing
holding not loving?

All,
because I, The Fool,
am no more?

One day.....

One of my favorite photographers.....


Gordon Parks

An Ode To Mr K

No one will ever understand me quite like my cat. We've had our differences, our fights and feuds, but he's always there. To cry with, to laugh at, to ramble to... No judgement. He's been my boy since the moment he clawed his way above his brothers and sisters, up my leg, and into my heart.

Jealous?

Hoping For Our Future

So... the votes are in. Barack Obama takes the democratic party nomination. Although I'm bummed that my girl Hillary couldn't make it happen, Obama promises change for our nation, and change is what we need. Can't wait to see who he chooses for a running mate, hopefully someone who shares his passion for reforming the US. Did someone say Al Gore?????? (God Bless Gore) It's time to get educated folks! This is going to be a tight race. A lot of people out there aren't ready for the kind of change that Barack has promised, and McCain is a safe ( a scary) transition for many, he's practically W's twin.... So, what to do, what to do...?! VOTE! Talk to your friends. Get them to vote. Do your reading, do your research. DONATE! Pocket change can help make the change.


There's a lot of work to be done before November folks! This is our future! It may even be the most important election of our time, so quit sittin on the couch and bitchin about gas prices. Get out there, let's help back Barack!