cmay's party, then some booze cruise

Last night I went to Royal Bavaria for Christa May's birthday. Christa is the evil genius behind Furburger for those that don't know. It was a fun time, except the service sucked. And I was off my game, not that many good photos.



Then We all headed into the city, ostensibly to go sing Karaoke at the Celebrity Club (no celebrities there though). They were at capacity, so I headed over to the rooster, caught up with booze cruise (which didn't cruise that much).

Then we moved on to a house party, Cody and Steve's new spot:

This Girl Was madly in love with her board:

Cody trying to pass out:


Can you tell that's the same bed Cody was in? Can you guess what's going on?

It's all good in the end. Or at least it was when I was leaving:

Then home, to sleep for 12 hours. Whenever I sleep dep, the crash is the best part. I'm guessing that's why I wasn't shooting that great, I was exhausted from not sleeping much, just a couple naps in a couple days really. Anyway, it's time to ride again.

The $3 Cure for Cabin Fever

yesterday, after far too long inside the house, I drove downtown for three dollar burgers at Mcnellie's with a bunch of people. Ended up being nine or ten of us, crowded around a table for 7, but it was good. Delicious food and friends and some photos were just what the doctor ordered.

In other news, I think I'm going to spend the better part of tonight folding paper. The maquette is printed, I just have to fold everything and sew it together. Oh yeah, and cut up the last few photos. Speaking of photos:

this is pretty cool

just drinking my morning coffee and found this: (via A Photo Editor)


edit- This was made by Eyal Landesman.

no way they're really thinking about this in oklahoma

in response to some stuff on facebook, about nuclear power in oklahoma, and maybe putting it somewhere out in the desert:

the problem is nuclear waste stays dangerous for 10,000 plus years. We're talking geologic time here. There's barely anything manmade left from 10000 years ago, much less a solid intact structure. It's a fool's gambit to put this stuff in a salt mine or inside a mountain because any number of unforeseen events could leak the waste into the biosphere.

Of course, the waste is only a small part of the overall problem of radioactivity. People talk about Chernobyl and Three mile island as if they were the only nuclear accidents to ever happen, but actually they happen more frequently than you'd like to think. see wikipedia for more examples, although I'm sure that list is incomplete. These are built by the lowest bidder, remember.

"Support in the short term" is like saying ok, a little poison is all right. This stuff is so toxic (before, during and after use) that we build ten foot concrete walls around it, then put more security and perimeters around that, and then beyond that is a line where you don't have to wear a dosimeter any more. There are workers in some facilities who can never leave, because they themselves were irradiated so much that they are toxic to the outside world. (I have a feeling that they don't last long like this).

edit to add: the article from the oklahoman. Seems there aren't any real plans, just some legislators getting their panties in a bunch. 8 to ten years until they become operational is another problem for an "interim" solution.

lil gallery for everyone

Click here. You've seen these before, but not like this, not really. Soon, there might even be a pdf.

I should be working on the blook

And applying for jobs and trying my hardest to come up with the zillions of dollars I owe some silly people who think they're ever going to get any money out of me. As I'm pretty sure I'm never going to get any money out of me, what chance have they got?

Anyway, there is a final final edit of pics for the blook, just under fifty pictures, and they're in a sort-of order, so I'm going to mock that shit up and print it off and see what people say.

In other news, some lame pictures for your ass:



yes, super boring, because the last week was all shot to hell between being in the hospital with my mom's multiple operations and my stomach flu. Isn't the dog cute though? I promise to get out more and take photos this week. Now, page design!

Suzi Uzi/Roller Girl White Trash Bash

A Good Start to the weekend

Photos After Midnight

too true

via Schneirer:

Part of the debtor mentality is a constant, frantically suppressed undercurrent of terror. We have one of the highest debt-to-income ratios in the world, and apparently most of us are two paychecks from the street. Those in power -- governments, employers -- exploit this, to great effect. Frightened people are obedient -- not just physically, but intellectually and emotionally. If your employer tells you to work overtime, and you know that refusing could jeopardize everything you have, then not only do you work the overtime, but you convince yourself that you're doing it voluntarily, out of loyalty to the company; because the alternative is to acknowledge that you are living in terror. Before you know it, you've persuaded yourself that you have a profound emotional attachment to some vast multinational corporation: you've indentured not just your working hours, but your entire thought process. The only people who are capable of either unfettered action or unfettered thought are those who -- either because they're heroically brave, or because they're insane, or because they know themselves to be safe -- are free from fear.
Quote is from The Likeness, a novel set in Ireland, by Tana French.

Funny that this wholly logical analysis is an old zen idea- that true mastery of any art (and thereby life itself) is freedom from fear. It's particularly apropos because I'm getting about 5 calls a day from various debt collectors with delusions that I have the ability to pay them. Man I need a real job.

just some photos....

The Party that Grant Built

I don't know about everybody else, but this looks more like Charlie Chaplin than anything else:

This purse, it went so well with his shoes, he just had to try it on.

And I'm too lazy to caption the rest.

Silly Rabbit, Tricks are for bikes

So, I've been a little lax in posting photos the last few days. Chalk it up to new year depression. January always gets me down, and it takes a few days for all the old habits to kick in and pull me out of my funk. It's been a good couple of days though.

Sarah and Damaris see the green fairy:


I'm officially a pedicab driver:

Add to that the other new job, the one where I'm officially a professor, and it couldn't get more ridiculous. Unless of course you're Steves with a tablecloth on your face:

The litter box session was pretty good too:









The next night, at the ever popular 3020:

Karaoke at the raintree:

This last one comes with a public service announcement. There is a reason Old Milwaukee is so cheap. Do not try to play asshole with that shit unless you're prepared for a monster hangover.

Reaghan and Sigrid's house Warming

New Years Eve 2008/First Day of 2009