8517 - some pictures before launch - click to embiggen

[scottobear]

Photos taken on the bus to work yesterday


The perfect marquee for the Gateway theater in Fort Lauderdale (near Victoria Park - a very gay-friendly community)

I have a soft spot for this place... one of the few joints that'll show art house / revival / non mainstream type stuff. Last thing I saw there was Superman - old-school seating... I've been spoiled by recliners and stadium-style. The last indy film I caught was the They Might Be Giants documentary.

They just need to get more interest in 70s kung fu movies or giant atomic-breathing dinosaurs and we'll be right on.


Two pictures of them tearing down the post office... I have a strange fondness for urban ruin / visible rebar.

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You've Changed 44% in 10 Years

You've done a good job changing with the times, but deep down, you're still the same person. You're clothes, job, and friends may have changed some - but it hasn't changed you.

How Much Have You Changed in 10 Years?

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Dr. Grordbort does it again. "Ready to Use" the ManMelter 3600 ZX comes prepped to vaporise all and sundry down to a molecular level. Featuring many of the latest ameliorations in Raygun Technology, it comes with Phlogiston cannisters, cleaning apparatus and wingdings, so that you may commence atomising Moon Soldiers or neighborhood dogs at your earliest convenience.



Someone remind me to pick up a Manmelter 3600ZX Sub-Atomic Disintegrator Pistol while I'm out picking up Newton-treats today...I'm not sure what the moon man situation is up north right now.

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Here's my walkabout mp3 for the journey out. until later, dear journal! (music via)

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1 year ago - bro out, pay links, looking back meme, friday 5, monkeys in gov't

2 years ago - Scotto as the prisoner, TV/Game idea, nazi weddings, adsense poof, steven tyler is a salt vampire, lj permanence, sick at work, poo humor, skin dry

3 years ago - menstrualhut cloned, vampire game, pam visits, eagles vs giant gerbils, under nyc

4 years ago - A/C issues, Everyone Guilty of Enron, cake, Hurricane Andrew, bus stop photos, keywords

5 years ago - I photoshop my dream, coloringbook, fecund

6 years ago - time of darkness

Comments

[peradouro.livejournal.com]

Hey I had forgotten about my Blurty account! I went to snoop around and the place is like a ghost town. Nearly every person I looked up had a note that they were defecting to LJ :)

[ilenebook.livejournal.com]

Urban decay...interesting...you can't look away.
If I had had a man-melter ray a few times in my life I would probably be "doing life".

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Just Newton treats? *evil grin*

Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[rhyyss.livejournal.com]

You've Changed 52% in 10 Years

You've done a good job changing with the times, but deep down, you're still the same person. You're clothes, job, and friends may have changed some - but it hasn't changed you.

How Much Have You Changed in 10 Years?

The last ten years have been interesting.

There is something compelling and oddly comforting to me about urban decay, The pictures of the towns near Chernobyl are fascinating. I'm reading Jared Diamond's Collapse right now (and recommend it). It's a discussion of why societies fail or thrive. Just finished the chapter on Polynesia, along with Easter Island's famous tale of woe, there are lesser known islands (Like Pitcarin, of Bounty fame) whose population grew, thrived and then died off completely.

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an interesting read I may hunt it down to add to my every growing stack of thinks to read I could use some more non-fiction

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Last thing I saw at the Gateway was Indianna Jones Last Crusade.
Why is it I can rember crap like this but I can forget what I went to the grocery store for?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I tend to land back at the blurty if LJ is down, but otherwiswe, it's just sa spam comment email collector! (my birthday entry has something like 350 spam comments, hidden, because they're screened.)

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you didn't have a man-melter then! I like you happy and outside with the pretty scenery and butterflies!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

you got me... some scotto treats, too!

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy seeing the brunt of "rise and fall" type situations. I'll be ure to investigate Collapse when I next venture out to the land of pulp and paper!

http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2005/02/08/kavanagh-collapse/

pretty nifty article on same.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

dang long-term vs short term memory!

I'm sure you'll remember what you went for in 4 years hence.

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

funny, but I think I prefer non-fic these days. I wonder if that's an effect of beng older, and having pretty much read out a few o the genres I used to really dig? westerns and fantasy are pretty old hat to me these days. some classic sci-fi and noir can hold me, but I think that well written non-fiction may have more appeal for me these days.

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

When I first read this I thought it said "Juice Newton" treats, which really didn't make much sense to me as the two decades bygone pop-country ramblings of "Juice Newton" and the word "treat", just did't seem to clik together in my mind. But I just sorta figured I musta missed something, goes to show that the joker ain't the only fool.

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

I think you have been that way for a while now, seem remember you making that transition back when, History is about the only non-fiction I read, well except for books on or about writing and movies, which doesn’t really count, and very rarely philosophy, and then never cover to cover. I do feel like I should reach out some more though.

[peradouro.livejournal.com]

350? good grief. Maybe the post comes up on the random search thingie. I noticed that when I use the random journal finder that the entries it shows are often very old with a ton of junk posted on them. It even brings up deleted entries/journals.

I guess you're just one of the lucky ones. :p

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Oh I could send you a copy of Pride and Prejudice!! Every man needs to read that! hee

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness you seemed to have lodged that song in my head now---you will pay Graypumpkin...you will paaaay :D

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

that's true.. .I have been pretty finished with most mainstream fantasy for a while now. Pulpy stuff like Tarzan / Conan / Lieber is still a lot of fun, but dragonriders/elves with machine guns/tolkien knockoffs are long since tiresome. I think westerns are the newest one to sort of fall by the wayside for me.

The worst bit of non-fiction is if it's super dry and dusty. A good author can take any genre and make it snap, I think, non-fiction or otherwise.

History is probably my favorite sort of non-fic, which can be sort of telling, because a lot of history is "written by the victors" or worse, written by descendants of sore losers. It can be difficult to get something that's objective and entertaining.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It ain't really smart playing with the queen of hearts!

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

I was just laying out another lie. Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime'Cos that's what I'll have to do...

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

JANE AUSTIN! What in the name of estrogen are you talking about woman!
Besides I'm more a Kate Chopin type of guy.

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever much into that soft and fuzzy elf on dragons crap; I like my fantasy drench in blood or urbane wit.
Yeah I'd say with History almost nothing is going to be objective or even that accurate in history, other than the occasional hard and dry facts, this happened on this day and such were in the realm where opinion, rumor and speculation are inevitable playing a hand.
Heck, how well do we really know the why and wherefores of much of what’s going on around us now? Let alone X many years ago.

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

That’s true my long term memory is much better than my short term, better than most folks I know, but my short term just sucks. Maybe a side effect of too much ganja in the past? Though I think I’ve always sorta been this way.
Besides I've got no idea if that common belief is even true or if it refers to while under the influence or some kind of more permanent damage. Where’s myth busters when ya need them?

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

I do like "the Awakening". I tricked my little brother into reading it for his summer reading requirement this year by telling him it was super short--mwhahahaha

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

did he like it?

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure---he managed to find the audio book and weasel out of reading it himself though. He's such a doof.

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent point.

I wish I *did* know what really has been going on in the last 20 years, government-wise alone!

I'm sure that there are a lot of wriggly-worms if all stones were uncovered with reagan, bush, clinton and bush2.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I certainly was more forgetful and spacey while under the influence than not. SOme comedian once mentioned that when he first stopped smoking pot, it was like getting psychic powers... "Where are my keys? oh, that's righton my bathroom counter!... WHOA! How'd I know that?"

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Jane Austin is a tricky one... it can be fun to peer at things from a different perspective now and again. (BHK is reading Dandilion Wine lately, and seems to be digging it, too)

[legal-beagle555.livejournal.com]

You've Changed 80% in 10 Years

Compared to who you were ten years ago, you've changed a great deal. In fact, you're probably in a completely different phase of your life - and very happy about it!

How Much Have You Changed in 10 Years?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

80! that's a pretty broad switch!

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[rhyyss.livejournal.com]

You might enjoy A.C. Clarke's "Light of Other Days". Clever scientist types find a way to [insert tech here] which allows anyone to view - directly - any past event. One of the themes is how people attempt to mold history (of nations or individuals or themselves) into a coherent narrative and just how forced those efforts are.

And as to Bush 2, - the worms are all proudly out in the open, boasting of their unsurpassed wriggliness. But that's another rant.

Re: Urban Decay, Personal Renewal

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I suspect Bush2 has even more worms unde rthe dirt, as it were... which is even more distressing.