Underwear Parade

Here are a couple of pictures from the last week. There was an underwear parade on our street. Brittany and I sat on the roof while it went by. It was pretty funny. Most people dressed up in costumes and danced around in the streets. I guess it was to raise money for any cancer below the waist.

I took these two pictures at the LACMA's Jazz Festival.

So in the last week, we went to play miniature gold, batting cages, arcade, taking pictures, waiting in line for the new Stephenie Meyer book, the observatory, and a bunch of other stuff I can't think of. On Thursday we head to Knott's Berry Farm.

Homecoming

It’s hard to imagine that she’s all grown up but she is. Five years. That was the last time we saw her. Brittany is back.

Last week, Jen, Stephanie, and Lindsey were in town. We went San Diego, stayed up late into the night, listening to the crashing waves at our beach hotel, talking about whatever. It was great. The next day we played around Sea World, walking through underwater tubes and riding the rides.

Brittany and I have been taking pictures together. Here are a couple of my pictures.

This is one of Brittney’s pictures. (Click on image!)

Bye Stephanie -

Three O'clock in the morning comes and Stephanie and I find ourselves drifting around the neighborhood taking pictures of anything. The only people out are the drunks or the homeless shoveling through piles of trash looking for plastic bottles for tomorrow's fix.








It's the next morning and the memory is faded from the night before. I imagine my hippocampus must look something like a turd after 20 days of little sleep and playing the Wii in a high tech carnival atmosphere.



But we had fun and that's all that counts.

Time to Relax

I finished my first novel last night. At the moment, it's about 200 pages but will probably be expanded another 30 pages during the rewrite. I'm currently trying to figure out what my next project will be. I'd like to write another script but unfortunately book ideas are easier to create.

For the next week I hope to take a little break and write a little more on my blog and maybe get out and take some pictures.

June Quote

Any man who pays more for labor than the lowest sum he can get men for is robbing his stockholders. If he can secure men for $6 and pays more, he is stealing from the company.

Stockholder of American Wollen (Lawrence, Massachusetts) 1911

Catch 22

McClatchy news agency has an article outlining how both presidential candidates are exaggerating claims about Iran. Apparently both McCain and Obama are running around the country telling everyone that, "Iran is developing nuclear weapons." I'm sorry, but has everyone gone completely crazy? The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, that's a group of 16 US intelligence agencies, have concluded, "that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program."

It's funny that everyone asks how the intelligence on Iraq was so inaccurate. So once again, the UN weapons inspectors are freely walking around Iran, checking facilities, talking to people, and looking for trace elements of nuclear chemicals. They have found absolutely nothing. Nothing. Sound familar? So all the best reporting on Iran says they're not developing nuclear weapons and yet our only options for president are already misleading the country.

On another topic, it looks bad for McCain this year. Bloomberg features a story that Bush's business donors are shunning McCain for Democrats. As I wrote before, almost all political funding comes from corporations and that the candidates with the most money almost always win (94% of the time for House members and 85% for the Senate).

Rama

A couple of years ago I read a book called Phantom in the Brain by VS Ramachandrin. I named one of my characters in my novel after him. Anyway, I don't expect anyone to read the book but here's a documentary about his work.
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7. Part 8. Part 9. Part 10.

What he's documented is that the will, feelings, thoughts, language, and even consciousness (awareness) are just aspects of the brain.

April Quote

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Jay Gould
US financier & railroad businessman (1836 - 1892)

Insomnia

Wake up. Go to work. Stare at a monitor. Be creative. Go home. Watch a movie. Go to bed. This is my life. Tic. Toc. It's all fading away. Two months since my last post but who cares? Nothing to say except that I'm halfway finished with my novel. Big news, I guess.

Enough of that. Time to get out.

Last night we went to see Caribou in Concert at the El Rey. Here's a clip of the preshow I found online.




Noise. Repetition. Once again, the UK pushes the edge of music.

Tomorrow we head to the beach. Next week we'll be going to go see Real Time with Bill Maher. I've never been in the audience of a television show. I wonder if I'll like it.

Quote of the Month

"If you sell a candidate the same way you sell a cinnamon roll, is the candidate a cinnamon roll ?"