It's never too late to be what you might have been.

On the way into work today.

Here is a screen capture of the weather today. Notice the 40.8° F temperature.

Now here is a picture I took on the morning commute. Notice the convertible top.

I was freezing inside my car with the heat on. People are silly.

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness

MTC2, you are missed.

Found this while digging through my locker at work today. I don't have many reminders from the Coffee Cellar days and this was a cool find. I also wish I knew where those stamps went.

When I die I’m going to leave my body to science fiction

My girlfriend gave me a couple Philip K. Dick pulp sci-fi paperbacks for Christmas this last year. This blow in card was in one of them.

I picked up a bunch more pulp sci-fi paperbacks at a thrift store recently and this blow-in card was in one of them.

I remember how stoked I was in the 80's pouring over the Science Fiction Book Club pamphlets. Of course the books weren't this cheap but they weren't that much more.

Anyway, I thought they were a neat little blast from the past.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea

Let me continue the cassette find fun. This one is from an estate sale where I managed to grab a decorative cassette holder with 72 cassettes for $2.00. The cache was predominantly vintage Maxwell, TDK and BASF tapes with Judy Garland, Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond recorded onto them. There was a few Broadway Musical, Mario Lanza and several more Niel, Barbara and Judy tapes as well.

My favorite tape in the lot however was this gem.
Thirty minutes of lapping waves, bells ringing and bird singing up above. And get this, side two repeats so you can feel like your floating in a bay somewhere on a continuous loop.
I love the inside of the cover. "How to use the music of the future". plus the cartoon of the "Future Music" maker recording the descending snowflake. Blows my mind.

Syntonic Research Inc.'s Environments 3 Wood-Masted Sailboat.

When you're ignorant, you get treated that way

***WARNING...OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE***


Value Village Score

Too Short's Raw, Uncut and X-Rated Cassette

Currently listed on E-bay for $30.00 Buy it Now. Purchased at Value Village for $.99.

The container used for such leftovers is commonly called a doggy bag

Ort

(ôrt)
n.

1. A scrap; a bit.

More leftover phone camera pictures.

Picture from the Oregonian speaks for itself.

Extreme Monkey-Powered Awesomeness Enclosed Indeed.

Angry finger puppet scares his neighbors.

Interesting portion of an amazing painting found at Goodwill.

Big Lots! Finds

ike & sam's kettle corn

Red Wine Vinegar Kettle Chips. Will somebody eat some of these and let me know how they taste?

Hot Maple Syrup Cereal. I love the one eyed ghost the best but these dudes are cool.

Hot Berry Blast Cereal. More cool dudes.

Target Finds

Cupcake Rhino

Cotton Candy on a Unicycle

Running Scared Soda Can

Cute Xmas Animals

Toddler Top "Going for a ride"

One Eyed Monster Felt Fun.


...and the rest

Odd, is that a Juxtapoz in the rack at the Plaid Pantry...in Clackamas?

Lastly. I made this miniature Herman Miller inspired clock for my sweeties Doll House. Not bad for a first attempt.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

A few new sites I love.

Disquiet

Dust Breeding

Winter calender of "must see" shows.

12.03 ~ The Books/Black Heart Procession ~ Aladdin Theater
12.04 ~ Bob Mould ~ Mississippi Studio
12.04 ~ McTuff ~ The Goodfoot
12.07 ~ John McLaughlin & The Fourth Dimension ~ Aladdin Theater
12.08 ~ DICK DALE ~ Dante's
12.09 ~ PETER HOOK & FRIENDS ~ Doug Fir
12.11 ~ Low ~ Mississippi Studio
12.16 ~ Killing Joke ~ Wonder Ballroom
12.18 ~ The Dead Kenny G’s ~ The Goodfoot
12.18 ~ OM/Thrones ~ Doug Fir
12.31 ~ Dwarves/Zeke ~ Dante's
01.01 ~ X ~ Roseland Theater
01.11 ~ Joe Satriani ~ Roseland Theater
01.20 ~ The Thermals ~ Roture
01.26 ~ Ween ~ Crystal Ballroom
01.30 ~ The Nels Cline Singers with Yuka C. Honda ~ Doug Fir
02.17 ~ Gang of Four ~ Wonder Ballroom
02.18 ~ Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ Crystal Ballroom
02.23 ~ Man Or Astroman? ~ Doug Fir
02.27 ~ Swans ~ Roseland Theater
02.27 ~ Maceo Parker ~ Crystal Ballroom
03.18 ~ Red Elvises ~ Dante's
03.26 ~ Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ~ Doug Fir
04.27 ~ Accept ~ Peter's Room
04.09 ~ Death Angel ~ Dante's
04.12 ~ Wire ~ Dante's
05.05 ~ Mogwai ~ Wonder Ballroom

Let me know what I missed.

“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target”

Hasty phone camera picture gallery. Destination: Target Halloween Fun.

Mummy

Frankenstein's Monster

Frankenstein's Monster 2

Spider

Dr. Frankenstein

Mummy 2

Dracula

Thumb Wrestler (left)

Thumb Wrestler (right)

Mr. Bump

Cranky Squirrel

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Had to make a quick stop at Costco on Sunday. Made a couple of observations I thought I would share.

Is a 13"x8" bubble pack necessary for a 4.5"x1" box of perfume? I understand the profit margin is low at Costco but couldn't they just use the small chunk of plastic that holds the rfd tag like any other retail store? This is a vulgar use of land-filling plastic. Reminds me of this picture a little bit.








Costco also had sports themed Snuggies with the Seattle Seahawks logo on them. I noticed the picture on the side of the box had Pittsburgh Steelers fans all wrapped and cozy on it so I spun it around to see what other team had the indignant pleasure of being picture on this moronic product...yah! Not only did this guy's wife/girlfriend buy him a Snuggie she's a Bears fan on top of it! Oh, Brother! Just kill me now!!!

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

Cell Phone Photo Dump. Waaaaayyy Over Due!

Not the best quality but hey, they're from a cell phone's 1.3 Megapixel Camera.

Screaming sticker from the front of an old PC tower at the GW Bins in Vancouver.

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely. Grammy Award for Best Album Cover 1959. Peaked at #1 during a Billboard 120 week pop album chart run.

Mercury-vapor lamp.

Hal's record shelf.

"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy." ~ Ursala K. Le Guin The Left Hand Of Darkness
I love opening a book to a page and finding something profound.

Liquid Vodka. That is all.

Hobo finds a home. Smaller Sink Spider found in the bathroom where I work.

Kate's estate sale score.

Lawn Makeup. When you're too proud to have a spotty lawn but too lazy to throw down seed.

This just made me laugh.

Rush - The Analog Kid