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empallinwe had a plan to go to the zoo early yesterday morning. by early i mean 7:30. normally the okc zoo doesn't open until 9:00am but for july and august they are running a deal called the morning zoo rise. it allows you to get in before it gets too hot out but it also allows for some special access to the zoo keepers.
as it turns out we didnt make it until around noon. i was kinda surprised by the small amount of cars there. oddly enough the place was trashed. literally. most of the soda machines were empty. all kinds of weird stuff for so few people being there. after getting ripped of by one of the soda machines we went to one of the gift shops to report it. that was where we reminded that saturday had been free admission day. because of that they had approximately 17,000 people there. the zoo was still in recovery basically. that sucked.
the main reason we didnt get there as early as planned was because i didnt get back from dallas until 5:30am. we could have been back earlier but we had to stop at kts adult book store and to get breakfast at a gas station in ardmore. oh yeah a real healthy breakfast.
kts was more fun that it should have been. the worst thing i saw was a movie called brown showers. ewww. poopy films are nasty. it would have made a nice xmess gift for someone special though. by special i mean someone hated. the cover had butts covered in crap. however the one that was biggest looked more like it was covered in blood. so of course i had to show it to everyone else.
they didnt have any pg films so i went on a quest. i was looking for videos made by a former coworker of mine. while we worked together at the hotel he started a company that sold tickle fetish videos. before he actually started making them we would sit there and have debates on things like camera set, model payment, distribution, and all kinds of things. i really thought it was all talk. now he has all kinds of money and crap and i dont. anyway i didnt find any of his movies.
a little side note for those who are interested. kts is not to far over the border from oklahoma but gets a lot of business from there. this is due to screwed up laws that make it illegal to sell anything that shows penetration. so if you are ever in oklahoma and see an adult film that you want to buy dont do it. you will be getting the same kinds of things you can see on cable. unless it is the tin drum in which you have to buy it out of spite.
there is also a similar store in oklahoma close to the border. texas has this law that makes it illegal to sell realistic looking sex toys. so no dildos that actually look like dicks. theoretically you could not even buy an inflate-a-date. i am sure you could find a place that sold them if you looked hard enough but that does not make it any more legal.
since i am on the subject of dumb laws i figure i should also mention that you cant really get tattoos in oklahoma. at last check we were one of two states that prevented them by law. sure you can find people that do them here but it is all a matter of knowing someone. from what i can remember the law states that they have to be done by a doctor and have to be a medical necessity. basically they make an allowance for people who are disfigured by birth or mishap. so no celtic band around your ankle here.
we considered tattoos before the show but ended up sticking to our original plans. the trip to bills was a nice one. i ended up walking out with a voice of the beehive t-shirt and an import single for the ben folds five song army. i ended up having to put one thing back that i really wanted. it was an import promotional cd that was 8 tracks by fun boy three and 8 by the colourfield. it is so hard to find fun boy three stuff but then bill is well aware of that. as bad as i wanted it i just did not have $25 to drop on it.
mikey walked out of there with all kinds of weird stuff. the big one was an anything box t-shirt for the album hope. the rest of it was pictures. he got two oversized anything box post cards. he would have gotten more if he had found more. he got a complete set of the 8x10 duran duran post cards. these were originally sold as a set but he had to buy them individually. for some reason he felt he had to by an 8x10 of some guy that was in ratt but died of aids. yeah i could look up his name but i dont care enough to put any kind of effort in to it. the picture was autographed but i had to break it to him that it was printed on there. it was under the gloss.
from there we got our food and then off to they show. we got there late and missed common rotation. corn mo but on a pretty good show. good enough that i got a cd from him afterwards. just a guy and his accordion. and a cymbal on the floor that he hit with a drum stick tucked into his shoe laces. i am glad i got to see him play. it was worth it.
they might be giants kicked ass like they always do. this is the best show i have seen so far by them. it was nice to know they cared about how many people were there. flansburgh made a joke about fire marshals and ambulances being outside to help. it really would not have been surprising. i was hoping to get a copy of the spine surfs alone from the merch table but no such luck. the ep is a companion to their new album the spine. except you can only by the spine surfs alone online. but you can get it in cd or download form. i kinda had trouble dealing with all of the people but i still had fun.
i keep meaning to cover this one but keep forgetting so here it is.
on memorial day my mother and i went down to the paseo arts festival. i really didnt expect it to be much of anything but to my surprise she had never been there. so we roamed around looking at food and art that were too expensive. she got a t-shirt for the previous years festival for a whole $5. its just not fair i tell ya.
while she was getting her shirt i picked up a copy of stage schedule for each of us. we had just started walking around again when i noticed that the last person to be playing on the north stage was listed as a saxophone player by the name of brett blount. i told my mom that in high school i sat next to a guy named brent blount that played saxophone so we would have to catch that act and see if it was in fact him. typos happen and all so we made that a plan.
at one point we went into one of the studios to look around and take advantage of there air conditioning. when we got in there there was a woman sitting at the front talking to one of the artists about a piece of art she was buying that was made by another artist. she was talking kinda quiet as she was writing her check but i thought she looked familiar. then she raised her voice up right as we were going through the door way to the back area of the studio. i got a big smile on my face.
after i finished smirking i told my mom that trish was there. trish the fish was my art teacher when i was in high school. well she went to high school with my mom and had told me once that when they were in high school she had always looked up to my mom. which according to the story trish was a cheer leader that was a year behind my mom. she had said that as much as she looked up to her she had never talked to my mom.
so we went outside and waited for her to come out. i figured because of that and the fact that i was in her class for three years and my younger sister was in her class for some time as well she would probably remember me. so as she was coming out i said 'trish'. she kind of gave me a blank look. she knew i had to be one of her students because people her own age called her pat. i identified myself and she did remember. i introduced my mom by her maiden name and she got a big smile on her face. after she went on her way my mom told me that she didnt remember her.
so we walked around some more and the finally got around to taking a seat under the canopy at the north stage. when brent came out on stage he started playing with out saying anything. while he was playing i still trying to figure out if it was him because it had been so many years since high school since i had seen him. i was telling my mom all about how he used to stutter when he got excited so if it was him he might not say anything. so he finished his song and started to say hello. he was stuttering so bad that it was almost impossible to understand him at times. and it was obviously pissing him off.
i would have stayed and watched even if it hadnt been him because he is that good of a musician. but it was him and he was doing damn fine. while he was playing my mother and i both noticed that he kept looking in our direction. it looked like he was trying to figure out who the hell i was. so after he finished playing i went up and identified myself. then he knew exactly who i was. i also told him i would love to see him play again but have not been able to make it to any of the shows he mentioned. i will see him play again if i keep my eye for up coming shows.
a little side story...after high school brent and i dated the same girl. she was the girl i went out with after splitting with my first wife. we were talking one night and she mentioned him. i said his last name kinda as a joke and she said that yeah it was that one. i busted out laughing. nothing against either of them but it just seemed like they would have made a very awkward couple. but who am i to judge.
while waiting for my meds appointment the other day i was reading a copy of ladies home journal. all they had was redbook and ladies home journal. there was an article in there about fragile x syndrome. it was a really interesting read but i was kind of surprised that i had never heard of it before. not one of those things you ever wish on anybody. from everything i have read on it so far it appears from the outside to be a lot like autism. the article did mention that it is often misdiagnosed as autism as well as several other things.
i have had an interest in autism since reading some articles on it in high school. i think fragile x syndrome has joined those ranks. both of them are the type of things that make me worry about ever possibly having kids. yeah i could probably deal with it but it is never easy.
while i have you looking at all of this stuff why dont you go look up some stuff on lupus. while you are at it donate something to the organizations that fund research and education of these things. it could happen to just about anyone.
In the mid to late 1990's, the United States Air Force responded to a General Accounting Office inquiry regarding what has become known as the "Roswell Incident" with two reports explaining the Air Force's version of the events.
that is where you can find the roswell reports in adobe pdf format. but have some space ready for them since they are bigger than you ass. and you know since they are written by the government everything in them will be completely true and acurate. narf!
as it turns out we didnt make it until around noon. i was kinda surprised by the small amount of cars there. oddly enough the place was trashed. literally. most of the soda machines were empty. all kinds of weird stuff for so few people being there. after getting ripped of by one of the soda machines we went to one of the gift shops to report it. that was where we reminded that saturday had been free admission day. because of that they had approximately 17,000 people there. the zoo was still in recovery basically. that sucked.
the main reason we didnt get there as early as planned was because i didnt get back from dallas until 5:30am. we could have been back earlier but we had to stop at kts adult book store and to get breakfast at a gas station in ardmore. oh yeah a real healthy breakfast.
kts was more fun that it should have been. the worst thing i saw was a movie called brown showers. ewww. poopy films are nasty. it would have made a nice xmess gift for someone special though. by special i mean someone hated. the cover had butts covered in crap. however the one that was biggest looked more like it was covered in blood. so of course i had to show it to everyone else.
they didnt have any pg films so i went on a quest. i was looking for videos made by a former coworker of mine. while we worked together at the hotel he started a company that sold tickle fetish videos. before he actually started making them we would sit there and have debates on things like camera set, model payment, distribution, and all kinds of things. i really thought it was all talk. now he has all kinds of money and crap and i dont. anyway i didnt find any of his movies.
a little side note for those who are interested. kts is not to far over the border from oklahoma but gets a lot of business from there. this is due to screwed up laws that make it illegal to sell anything that shows penetration. so if you are ever in oklahoma and see an adult film that you want to buy dont do it. you will be getting the same kinds of things you can see on cable. unless it is the tin drum in which you have to buy it out of spite.
there is also a similar store in oklahoma close to the border. texas has this law that makes it illegal to sell realistic looking sex toys. so no dildos that actually look like dicks. theoretically you could not even buy an inflate-a-date. i am sure you could find a place that sold them if you looked hard enough but that does not make it any more legal.
since i am on the subject of dumb laws i figure i should also mention that you cant really get tattoos in oklahoma. at last check we were one of two states that prevented them by law. sure you can find people that do them here but it is all a matter of knowing someone. from what i can remember the law states that they have to be done by a doctor and have to be a medical necessity. basically they make an allowance for people who are disfigured by birth or mishap. so no celtic band around your ankle here.
we considered tattoos before the show but ended up sticking to our original plans. the trip to bills was a nice one. i ended up walking out with a voice of the beehive t-shirt and an import single for the ben folds five song army. i ended up having to put one thing back that i really wanted. it was an import promotional cd that was 8 tracks by fun boy three and 8 by the colourfield. it is so hard to find fun boy three stuff but then bill is well aware of that. as bad as i wanted it i just did not have $25 to drop on it.
mikey walked out of there with all kinds of weird stuff. the big one was an anything box t-shirt for the album hope. the rest of it was pictures. he got two oversized anything box post cards. he would have gotten more if he had found more. he got a complete set of the 8x10 duran duran post cards. these were originally sold as a set but he had to buy them individually. for some reason he felt he had to by an 8x10 of some guy that was in ratt but died of aids. yeah i could look up his name but i dont care enough to put any kind of effort in to it. the picture was autographed but i had to break it to him that it was printed on there. it was under the gloss.
from there we got our food and then off to they show. we got there late and missed common rotation. corn mo but on a pretty good show. good enough that i got a cd from him afterwards. just a guy and his accordion. and a cymbal on the floor that he hit with a drum stick tucked into his shoe laces. i am glad i got to see him play. it was worth it.
they might be giants kicked ass like they always do. this is the best show i have seen so far by them. it was nice to know they cared about how many people were there. flansburgh made a joke about fire marshals and ambulances being outside to help. it really would not have been surprising. i was hoping to get a copy of the spine surfs alone from the merch table but no such luck. the ep is a companion to their new album the spine. except you can only by the spine surfs alone online. but you can get it in cd or download form. i kinda had trouble dealing with all of the people but i still had fun.
i keep meaning to cover this one but keep forgetting so here it is.
on memorial day my mother and i went down to the paseo arts festival. i really didnt expect it to be much of anything but to my surprise she had never been there. so we roamed around looking at food and art that were too expensive. she got a t-shirt for the previous years festival for a whole $5. its just not fair i tell ya.
while she was getting her shirt i picked up a copy of stage schedule for each of us. we had just started walking around again when i noticed that the last person to be playing on the north stage was listed as a saxophone player by the name of brett blount. i told my mom that in high school i sat next to a guy named brent blount that played saxophone so we would have to catch that act and see if it was in fact him. typos happen and all so we made that a plan.
at one point we went into one of the studios to look around and take advantage of there air conditioning. when we got in there there was a woman sitting at the front talking to one of the artists about a piece of art she was buying that was made by another artist. she was talking kinda quiet as she was writing her check but i thought she looked familiar. then she raised her voice up right as we were going through the door way to the back area of the studio. i got a big smile on my face.
after i finished smirking i told my mom that trish was there. trish the fish was my art teacher when i was in high school. well she went to high school with my mom and had told me once that when they were in high school she had always looked up to my mom. which according to the story trish was a cheer leader that was a year behind my mom. she had said that as much as she looked up to her she had never talked to my mom.
so we went outside and waited for her to come out. i figured because of that and the fact that i was in her class for three years and my younger sister was in her class for some time as well she would probably remember me. so as she was coming out i said 'trish'. she kind of gave me a blank look. she knew i had to be one of her students because people her own age called her pat. i identified myself and she did remember. i introduced my mom by her maiden name and she got a big smile on her face. after she went on her way my mom told me that she didnt remember her.
so we walked around some more and the finally got around to taking a seat under the canopy at the north stage. when brent came out on stage he started playing with out saying anything. while he was playing i still trying to figure out if it was him because it had been so many years since high school since i had seen him. i was telling my mom all about how he used to stutter when he got excited so if it was him he might not say anything. so he finished his song and started to say hello. he was stuttering so bad that it was almost impossible to understand him at times. and it was obviously pissing him off.
i would have stayed and watched even if it hadnt been him because he is that good of a musician. but it was him and he was doing damn fine. while he was playing my mother and i both noticed that he kept looking in our direction. it looked like he was trying to figure out who the hell i was. so after he finished playing i went up and identified myself. then he knew exactly who i was. i also told him i would love to see him play again but have not been able to make it to any of the shows he mentioned. i will see him play again if i keep my eye for up coming shows.
a little side story...after high school brent and i dated the same girl. she was the girl i went out with after splitting with my first wife. we were talking one night and she mentioned him. i said his last name kinda as a joke and she said that yeah it was that one. i busted out laughing. nothing against either of them but it just seemed like they would have made a very awkward couple. but who am i to judge.
while waiting for my meds appointment the other day i was reading a copy of ladies home journal. all they had was redbook and ladies home journal. there was an article in there about fragile x syndrome. it was a really interesting read but i was kind of surprised that i had never heard of it before. not one of those things you ever wish on anybody. from everything i have read on it so far it appears from the outside to be a lot like autism. the article did mention that it is often misdiagnosed as autism as well as several other things.
i have had an interest in autism since reading some articles on it in high school. i think fragile x syndrome has joined those ranks. both of them are the type of things that make me worry about ever possibly having kids. yeah i could probably deal with it but it is never easy.
while i have you looking at all of this stuff why dont you go look up some stuff on lupus. while you are at it donate something to the organizations that fund research and education of these things. it could happen to just about anyone.
In the mid to late 1990's, the United States Air Force responded to a General Accounting Office inquiry regarding what has become known as the "Roswell Incident" with two reports explaining the Air Force's version of the events.
that is where you can find the roswell reports in adobe pdf format. but have some space ready for them since they are bigger than you ass. and you know since they are written by the government everything in them will be completely true and acurate. narf!
