highlights from charlottesville

i went up to uva yesterday to hang out with some allstar folks & see some tea leaf green & here are a few of the wilder pictures i got -
















that is nacho's ass, after he ate 5 lbs of ice, before he started panting & peed on the carpet/into the ice bucket

holy cowboy

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you guys wanna go for a ride in the car?

for three days straight?

yes we do


yippee!

tea leaf green webcast from knitting factory 3/10/06

want to listen?

ORDER PIZZA

ORDER PIZZA

by, William O. Johnson

We have company coming over

and I don't feel like cookng,

it's late and I'm a little hungry.

Friends drop by unannounced, no problem ORDER PIZZA!

A sleep over with a house full of kids,

The game is on and no time for sandwiches.

The Boy Scout Troop has about twenty-five kids,

no problem, ORDER PIZZA!
What can I take to the party?
How many pieces should I bring?
I need a dish for the potluck,

no problem ORDER PIZZA!
Vegetarian, Cheese or the Works, it doesn't matter

neither of these will hurt,

Thick crust, thin crust,

Deep dish or that hand tossed stuff on TV

ORDER PIZZA!

It's a very convenient dish,

not just for you but also for me

ORDER PIZZA!

No matter what the occasion,

there's always kids around,

and if not you have a midnight snack,

now who could argue with that? ORDER PIZZA!
It will get you out of a jam,

trust me I know,

PIZZA IS WHAT I AM.

GO AHEAD ORDER PIZZA!

another man's treasure

i have to estimate the value of my t-shirts for a moving company and i say 400 shirts x $50 each = $20,000.00



i think that's a conservative estimate, some are worth hundreds. nevermind the fact that somebody threw them away at one point. you should see the yellows.

HealthNet is the Devil

Anyone ever considering health insurance, DO NOT USE HEALTHNET.

They will charge you insanely high premiums.

They will not allow you to go to nice doctors that your friends recommend.

They will force you to go to a doctor in a dirty trailer in the ghetto, specializing in AIDS patients with outdated equipment and stains on the walls and ceiling.

They will refuse to pay that doctor because they inexplicably assigned you to a medical group 600 miles away.

They will put you on hold and transfer you around the company for 47 minutes (including hanging up on you) before telling you they will not pay for the
"unauthorized charges."

I will pay for the goddamn doctor and lab fees or else my credit will take a hit.

HealthNet is terrible.

HealthNet is awful.

From Idiotic Customer Service to Third Rate Doctors to not paying for any services, it's been one nightmare after another for 5 years with them.

I wash my hands of HealthNet and jump happily and healthily into the loving arms of Blue Cross.

happy birthday lisa!

happy birthday to lisa my panda in crime - hope you have a swell day in the queen city & there are so many good times around the bend!



it seems like everybody i know and love has a birthday right around now - must be cosmic forces at work!

adios dinner

even though they ignored our reservation, and ignored us, and stuffed us at a table for 8, and microwaved our food, and called ranch dressing 'special jalapeno white sauce,' the kitshickers had a bueno tiempo at cafe coyote in old town last night.

margaritas muy grandes


que bella!


miracle jefe!

i love you guys! !MUCHAS GRACIAS!

she had a tongue like a bullfrooooog!

time again for everybody's favorite video - the drunkumentary!


steely toed capitan got some great footage of wheels chipotle and amazingly they are still friends.

happy birthday beth & cv-3-1!

two of the world's greatest people celebrate a birthday today!

beth the double axle foley



and it's wild chris greenlover



wish i could be with both or either of you for today's funfestivities - have super days & then go head & have super years.

alfred w. fielding

trying to make plastic wallpaper with paper backing didn't work, but from that failure came - bubblewrap!


(read the article)

fed ex arrow

i looked at the fed ex logo hundreds of times before i saw the white arrow pointing right between the e & the x. keep looking til it pops out like a schooner.

santa barbara rocks

i went up to santa barbara this weekend with mappy & hippie & sparkplug for the solutions for dreamers - heal the ocean - ALO - Michael Franti - fest with a guadalajara joe cherry on top & SB has to be the most trippyfun place on the west coast or at least the world.

i did a terrible job of picture-taking but here are a few -

holden in hillcrest - kelsey & magic gnaw bones -


guadalajara joe @ green room + smoke machine


mappy camper leads us in underwater happy birthday!


we're funky & proud!


adios sb





super-rickety san clemente pier


total fun

happy birthday mappy camper!

you're a superstar! so glad i get to celebrate with you this weekend!

holes

i can't be the only one who needs elbow patches on hoodies

ultimate frisbee

i went to watch a couple ultimate frisbee games this weekend, ultimate james was coaching a tournament at UCSD. He coaches UC Santa Barbara Black Tide - they played 8 games and won 8 games.























i love college sports.

see you there!

not longing haiku 70-76

she'll do anything
for kings & nothing for those
who need it the most

i want credit for
all the things i've done that you
pretended were yours

he is so low on
my list of priorities
his cries are not heard

you will suck me dry
you of razor sharp teeth &
the infinite maw

i may be laid back
but i'm not a pushover
give me what i'm due

my patience ran thru
i snapped & i stung you &
it's all a big welt

she is your twin and
you hate her more for it and
want her to be gone

hillcrest san diego 2-17-07

a man in a dress with a purse and pink hi tops and everything is dandy

strong recommend

Barry Cooper's www.NeverGetBusted.com drive with weed in your car marijuana cannabis cops can't catch you

double shutout!

continuing their run of utter domination, the shickablooz won both championship games last night, held both teams of feisty & talented opponents scoreless, made kickball history and earned the coveted bobblehead trophy!

shickablooz aren't like bagels!
bagels have holes
shickablooz aren't like donuts!
donuts have holes
shickablooz ARE like waffles
no f'n holes!
say what
no f'n holes!
can't hear you
NO F'N HOLES!

shickablooz championship tournament

The undefeated Shickablooz (8-0) play for the trophy tonight - our first game is 6:30, once we win that, we'll play the finals at 8:30.

bobblehead, here we come!


happy valentine's day too!

old ladies are great

if it's drizzling when you leave the supermarket, why not put a fruit & vegetable bag on your head?

balboa park february

"Dedicated to Ken Adelman
For his insatiable quest for learning
and his devotion to teaching
by Nancy & Alan Spector & family
'I say there is no darkness
but ignorance' 8/29/01 Twelfth Night"

(sign stuck in ground next to my bench in front of lowell davies festival theatre balboa park san diego)

two owners of two boxer dogs, dogs pull leashes
owners extend hands to dogs
not each other

magician had a crowd of 5 then a
crowd of 40 a few minutes later
doing tricks with big silver hoop rings
the children squeal & rock back on their
thick rubber soled tennis shoes

old old old people one with a walker
with two legs of the walker topped
with tennis balls to ease the skid
they must've been together
70 years by now what's left to say
sunday at the zoo go home take your
pills sleep dream of antelope & owls

older people still get dressed up
still wear "nice clothes" out in public
to museums & theaters
it must pain them to see the rest of us
maybe it makes them feel prouder

families everywhere huge bald headed
babies in strollers on laps on the grass
passed from arms to arms
if you catch their eye they see to
the bottom of you & look away

eighty degrees winter in san diego
please leave me be swingin grandpa with
kid in stroller i'm not interested in
conversation i'm just waiting for
a show to start

need a lot of room & hate to be chained up

i found a place to live in asheville! holden & nacho are excited to run around the yard & i'm excited to be in the south for the spring.

the renegade lemon

hot water sounds different

when i run the faucet waiting for the water to heat up, the sound changes once the hot water gets there. any idea why?

moon clouds

i learned it by watching you

i learned it by watching you
what the kid screamed at the dad who wanted to know
where he got his drugs in the 80's just say no commercial

i learned it by watching you
puts all the blame back on the dad
guilt regret pain punish

i learned it by watching you
can be the highest compliment paid a person
if what they learned is useful

set an example

happy birthday aunt jo-ran!

i hope your birthday is better than a football game!

snow day?

middle of the night
nose pressed to the cold glass pane
smells like windex & paint & dust
every exhale fogs up higher
how fast is it falling
how big are they
everything washed in light brown golden pink
like olden days pictures
can't see to the street it's so thick
hear plows go by leaving fat diagonal hatch footprints
so the commuters can get out
didn't do my homework
looks like it won't matter
snow on boots rubber will squeak through halls for weeks
i'm turning off the alarm

ABCDElephants?

AB, CD Elephants?

MNO Elephants.

OSAR, CMP?


i think this was taught to me by 8th grade earth sciences teacher, Mr. Boyd. it's hard to look at scantron bubble sheets the same way again, without seeing thousands of rows of ABCDElephants. here was Mr. Boyd doing an experiment in the Stimson yearbook.



and here's what he signed in my yearbook -



he was the only teacher i had sign that yearbook. the rabbit he made is re: our 8th grade science project - Erin and I did one on PETA and testing bunnies, mainly so we could bring our rabbits (hers = Smokey, mine = Barney) into school, where they ran around crapping all over Mr. Fullam's english classroom.

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making dots