The street person asked me for some money but I told I couldn't help him out tonight. I turned my head away from him to see his only possessions, a plastic bag with a half eaten piece of sicilian style pizza with mushrooms, a stick of woman's deodorant and a separate unopened two pound bag of peanut M&M's.

Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004

On the Banks of the Marne

Banned in Memphis

The Iraqis were scheduled to meet with a city council member, but Joe Brown, the council chair, said he feared the group was dangerous.

But the delegates seemed in good spirits Monday, after they were able meet with Carol Chumney, the city council member, elsewhere. Shahla Waliy, a 31-year-old native of Baghdad, said she was intrigued by the city's civil rights history.

"I heard there was a kind of majority-minority conflict in Memphis, especially in history," she said. "We have these smaller provinces, and we have majority-minority conflicts in these places."

Wait...I forgot, the Trib has one redeeming factor...it still carries the
Phantom comic strip...everything else about it blows....

Teresa Heinz kicks Ass

I love this woman already.  "Shove It"...great...the Trib is such a piece of garbage anyway.

Ultimate Fighting Photography
Susumu Nagao Mixed Martial Arts Photographic Exhibition in Hiroshima City, May 9-Jun. 6, 2004. Susumu's Gallery is an excellent photographic scource for the mixed martial arts sport.

Los UFOSOS Ariva!
"We are not alone! This is so weird," one of the pilots can be heard yelling, after the plane's crew switched on an infrared camera to track the objects, first picked up by radar.

Mars needs sombreros!!

His Suckers Have Divots

In his younger days, J-1 was an easygoing sort who did not try to escape his tank a lot, Hocking said. When aquarium staff would come by to clean, the octopus would reach out and grab hold of someone's arm or a window cleaning tool.

With a name like "J-1" how could you not be a hit with the ladies?

No, really...All I wanted was to order my Subway value meal#2 the Cold Cut Trio(TM) on honey-oat with salt and vinegar potato chips and pink lemonade and to be able to eat in seclusion at the corner table. It was right after work and I was beat, I sat down for some peaceful caloric intake, well till it started to happen. In the middle of the spacious dining area a college aged Indian couple seemed to be at odds. The young man was lecturing sternly in Indian to his girlfriend with wild hand gesturing and fist thumping on the sturdy Subway tables. She stared hard back at him for about ten minutes of his antics then crumpled up the remains of her sandwich, got up and left him. He seemed stunned for a bit, ate the rest of his Veggie Delite(TM), then also left. I still had a little lemonade to finish off.

Tonight's after work movie was Gamera vs Guillon. Fine science fiction fair with giant butter knife monsters, cannibal brain eating female aliens, head shaving of an advanced alien technology variety and Gamera doing high bar gymnastics and go-go dancing. Highly recommended.

You're One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

by Ken Kesey

You're crazy. This has led people to attempt to confine you to a safe
place so that you don't pose a danger to yourself or others. You feel like you pose a
great danger to the man (or maybe the woman) or whatever else is keeping you down. But
most of the time, you just end up being observed. Were you crazy before you were
confined?


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

That vermin had better not see anything tomorrow. I'm tired of this Ice Age look.

Comics, oh yeah...Comics...
Just back from a frozen trek from the pharmacy, needed to buy some Neosporin for my deteriorating skin condition caused by this horrible cold spell. On the way back I pass the museum's Diplodocus Carnegii with is icicled in a big way and Shakespeare is covered in snow, but he's still reading. Stop for some Pho soup at the local Asian food joint and plan to snack later on the holiday gift that never goes bad, the Lynchburg masterpiece, theTipsy Cake. Super cold walk back home, ice coating just about everything, tires spinning is the thing to do on the street.

Comics, oh yeah....comics, this past week has another Top Shelf winner The Octopi and the Ocean and check out the hep retro action with Silver Comics, fun stories and nice art from Juan Ortiz.

More later, now to do bedtime dental hygiene and then some time with my newest addiction.

I've been very cold/flu sick lately, but it's good to know they're craking down on these things in Malaysia. Politicians are a fun bunch just about everywhere across the world.