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Visited MP for a bit in the morning, and it was certainly the highlight of my day. We had breakfast and hung out a bit, and then she headed to her sister's place in Miami for a BBQ. She's staying in town until the 14th, and then will be in Colombia until Mid-September. I'll miss her quite a bit... thank goodness for email and telephony!
I stayed in Fort Lauderdale to visit with my brother. It took a while... he took the route 50 up, and was out of sorts... fell asleep on the bus, and hopped off in a semi-stupor. He met me at the Movie theater, and I bought us tickets to see Land of the Dead. He Sprung for nachos, and we settled in for some down and dirty zombie-action.
About 30 minutes into the film, he asked me if he was on a bike when we met... I replied no, and he got distressed... turns out he left it on the bus bike rack, and forgot it when he hopped off at 2pm. He stepped into the aisle to call Broward County Transit and report it missing, while I continued to watch the movie.
An hour later, I'm stepping out of the theater, wondering where my brother is. It turns out he was on hold, and fell asleep waiting for someone from lost and found to answer him because it was the 4th holiday.
So, he missed the movie. He didn't seem too upset about it. We walked back to the bus terminal, where we asked f the bike had been turned in yet.... the 5:30 bus was just rolling up, and lucky for him, bro's bike was riding on the front. Happy ending there, anyhow.
Oh, I nearly forgot, between the theater and the terminal, two homeless guys walking together tried to shake us down for a handout. Bro said "sorry, I've got nothing..." and one of the bums gave him a dirty look and said "bullshit". There was almost a fight, but avoided it because nobody wanted to get the police involved. I held bro back, and BS's friend restrained him. I thought for sure that I was either going to have to take some swings in myself.
Random Scotto factoid: I used carry a straight razor for self-defense. I don't now. I'm more worried about AIDS than I am of an attacker's fists. I've thought about walking with a cane again, in order to have some sort of club handy, but I'd rather have two hands free during my walks... same reason I'm not crazy about umbrellas. I fear carrying a gun.
Land of the Dead was good... and I actually sympathized a little for the zombies. A few pointless scenes, but I rather liked the Cameo by Simon Pegg, too. I especially liked Zombie Clown and Zombie Moses.
Evil Dead: Regeneration - looks good.
A 2,600-year-old corpse has been discovered in the moors of northern Germany. It's not the only one. Such finds are frequent, but have posed an increasingly large riddle: Why were so many of the bodies victims of violence and dismemberment?
Were ancient Germans fiendish torturers, or did these anthropologists watch too many horror flicks?
Lil bit is too much of a cutie! I need Insulin!
Pictures from yesterday's walkies, Post-MP, pre-Bro ... clicking sends to larger sizes.
These are the things in my neighborhood...
The Newest Sticker-graffiti artist is "El Toro"... he does pictures of Cows, sometimes in gas masks. DOSE is still around, too.
By the Parking garage - More El Toro
El Toro Wanted Poster. I imagine $7.33 means something to someone. DOSE stickered over someone who sitckered over him. "Lost Boyz" stickered over him.
El Toro variant 3.
Bonk's Evil Squirrel. He draws primarily on US postage labels. (You can get them free by the fistful at any Post Office)
View from the third tier of the riverwalk tower (about 4 stories up)
Looking up to the 4th and top tier
Alternate View: Looking up to the 4th and top tier
Dancing Fountain at rest. I guess he gets a day off for the 4th, as well. I noticed that the lamps were either on, or the sunlight shone brightly enough to make it appear so. (compare to picture from 3/19/05 of it in action)
Smiley Wasp. (see entry 7256 - fifth picture down, and 7250 - first image for other pictures of him). I think the one on the bridge is the cutest.
Lizard hiding on a brick wall... His bright yellow and green body was pretty lousy camo...I'm glad I'm tall enough to see over walls that are about 5'6". I wonder if he's a relative of this guy, from 6/15/04?
Don't attack checklist.
I suspect the previous bill-poster also sprayed this Peace out now!
Freaky sculpture (in another non-flowing fountain, note he's standing in water) A teacher using a stretched out person as a chalkboard?
Detail of the former... being a comic book dork, I thought of Franklin Richards using his dad as a movie screen.
Museum 'f Art revisited. (see icon) Some jokes never get old with me. I looked up and there I was.
Bonk's cute three-toothed bald monster sans schnozz. Or are what I thought were eyes actually a nostril point of view, and I can't see the top of his face from this angle?
Another Toro... this time, mr bull has an afro.
Final el toro... on a well-tagged parking sign.
If you'd like to visit them yourself, feel free... geoblogger map locations
UJIKO search engine... pretty cute interface.
Basic principle: each time you visit a new site, you are gaining one point of expertise. With every 10 points, you move to the next level. Your search engine is mutating, new buttons appear giving you access to advanced features.
The journal of the man who has been arrested for allegedly having something to do with taking that Idaho brother and sister (they disappeared 3 days after his last journal entry. - thanks for the update, jb! (see also, his removed website, saved at archive.org)
"The mission of The Fifth Nail is to help in the fight against official propaganda that supports discrimination against classes of people defined by mistakes they made in the past, or might make in the future. It is our position that State Sanctioned Discrimination serves no public interest and in fact creates an even more dangerous class of criminals by denying x-convicts a place in our society, forcing them to feel like outcasts with little to loose."
He went to prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year old boy at gun point...got out and was then charged with sexually assaulting another child in Minnesota. Now, the Idaho brother & sister issue.
from his 8/24/04 entry - "I am now 99.99 percent sure I will move to a different state as soon as I graduate and can find a job in a state where I'm not required to register. "
Moment of Lyric:
Hey hovering sombrero
Gently waving in the air above the meadow
Softly floating in the sky outside the window
Hovering sombrero don't be shy
Don't... don't be shy
Don't be... terrified
When you take yourself for granted
Feel rejected and unwanted
Know you're never just a hat
You're never only just a hat, you know
Hovering sombrero
Hovering sombrero
Time is flying like an arrow
And the clock hands go so fast they make the wind blow
And it makes the pages of the calender go flying out the window one by one
Til a hundred years are on the front lawn
And the old familiar things are mostly all gone
But the old sombrero just keep hovering on
Hovering sombrero hover on
Don't be burdened by regrets
Or make your failures an obsession
Or become embittered or possessed
By ruined hopes remember
When you take yourself for granted
Feel rejected and unwanted
Know you're never just a hat
You're never only just a hat, you know
Hovering sombrero
Hovering sombrero
--UNIQUE--
1. Nervous Habits? Doodles
2. Are you double jointed? my thumbs
3. Can you roll your tongue? yes
4. Can you raise one eyebrow at a time? yes
5. Can you blow spit bubbles? Can anyone with lips *not* blow spit bubbles?
6. Can you cross your eyes? yup!
7. Tattoos? nopers
8. Piercings and where? none, nowhere!
9. Do you make your bed daily? nope, only if someone's visiting
--CLOTHES--
10. Which shoe goes on first? Right shoe
11. Speaking of shoes, have you ever thrown one at anyone? I've thrown a combat boot at a bug.
12. On the average, how much money do you carry in your purse/wallet? ~$60
13. What jewelry do you wear 24/7? none, currently
14. Favorite piece of clothing? my forest green boxers. Comfy!
--FOOD--
15. Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it? Twirl it
16. Have you ever eaten Spam? many times, not for ages.
17. Favorite ice cream flavor? Right now I lean to mint choco-chip
18. How many cereals in your cabinet? 1 - cinnamon life
19. What's your favorite beverage? A&W Diet Cream Soda
20. What's your favorite restaurant? I really dig Ernie's lately.
21. Do you cook? yup!
--GROOMING--
22. How often do you brush your teeth? Usually once in the morning, sometimes right after lunch.
23. Hair drying method? towel & drip-dry
24. Have you ever colored/highlighted your hair? nope
--MANNERS--
25. Do you swear? when angry
26. Do you ever spit? nope
--WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE--
27. Animal? The Newt-burger!
29. Month? October is usually nice.
30. Day? Saturday is pretty prime.
31. Cartoon? Kim Possible
32. Shoe Brand? I like to go barefoot whenever possible.
33. Subject in school? Psychology / History, depending on who was teaching
34. Color? orange
35. Sport? I like to ride my bike...
36. TV show? Dr. Who
37. Thing to do in the spring? hang out with buddies, watch movies, read, play with newt
38. Thing to do in the summer? ditto
39. Thing to do in the fall? likewise
40. Thing to do in the winter? the same
--IN AND AROUND--
41. What's in your CD player? DVD player - Touch of Evil
42. Person you talk most on the phone with? Work. probably ECN
43. Ever taken a cab? very often
44. Do you regularly check yourself out in store windows and mirrors? nope
45. What color is your room? White
46. Do you use an alarm clock? I set my tv to turn on.
47. Window seat or aisle? window
-- -- --
48. What's your sleeping position? Back and side
49. Even in hot weather do you use a blanket? well, I use a/c but I usually put a cover on
50. Do you snore? sometimes
51. Do you sleepwalk? No
52. Do you talk in your sleep? sometimes
53. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? If newt just ate!
54. How about with the light on? Just enough ambient light from LEDs
55. Do you fall asleep with the TV or radio on? rarely, only if I'm really beat.
1 year ago - more Vizcaya pics, vandal of Venice, veggie benefits, Lego Spidey, Estonian wife-carrying, small-world syndrome
2 years ago - Newt and fireworks, bacta tank, printing plate castle, giant monster games
3 years ago - 8-legged freaks, planting, many pictures that no longer link (curse you picture stage!), Harry potter fake book out, baby laff, octothorpe poll, 7
4 years ago - Growing impatient, beverage poll, evil news, cudgel
5 years ago - horrid stream of thought unformatted entry...I still eat much the same stuff, introspection
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Date: 2005-07-05 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-05 02:33 pm (UTC)You never post pictures of you. There's only ever been a couple.
I'm just saying, is all...
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Date: 2005-07-05 02:41 pm (UTC)I kind of like the name "El Toro" for a city! Sounds liek a lost ghost town somewhere between San Diego and TJ Mexico.
piccies
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Date: 2005-07-05 02:50 pm (UTC)I lived there too. I tell people I lived in SanDiego, but really I was on the cusp. ElCajon. It took me a minute to remember the name of the town though. I live a couple of blocks from the train and my cousin and I would trek down to TJ a lot.
never did see a tumbleweed though...
Re: piccies
Date: 2005-07-05 02:52 pm (UTC)scotto thirst=quenched.
Man, we are long lost brothers. 'member my pigtails?
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Date: 2005-07-05 02:59 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2005-07-05 03:07 pm (UTC)I really like the stickers, that's a cool idea. probably a pain in ass for people,eaisier to deal with than spray paint I'd guess.
still a neat idea.
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Date: 2005-07-05 03:11 pm (UTC)Re: piccies
Date: 2005-07-05 05:00 pm (UTC)and thanks for loving my lil bit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2005-07-05 07:32 pm (UTC)That was lame.
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