Ventura Highway

Dallas To LA in Just about a Day

The other day I flew to dallas, got into a van and drove to LA, It took about 30 hours with a bunch of Random stops at those truck plazas where you can buy clay statues of Black Labs, and Knifes, and boots, and you can watch nascar on a big screen with other truckers while they smoke cigarettes and wait for their number to be called to take a shower. I would spend my spare change in the arcades playing the pov shooting games at all hours of the morning, I stayed awake by drinking lots of gatorade and holding a cold bottle of water in my lap, A fuse blew in my van and I lost radio and interior lighting for a while, it made me want to just drive to mexico and sell all the musical gear i was carrying, but instead I bought a fuse and the radio came back on, but without sound because it needed some anti theft code, i finally got it by calling back to texas and i regained sanity. here are some photos and references of the tripThis is the Cowboy Bail Bond store right across the street from the Prison in Dallas, wtf!!!At this point in the Desert along the mexican border I could see into mexico, the buildings and land on one side, and the benign american neon on my side, lots of border patrol and even border cross type stops just along the highway, America is all immigrants why fuss so much. Deep in west texas all there was available to eat was gizzards at this stop, Texas Cuisine Mentality, this is why I get nervous in the south when I open my mouth, I am a northerner
Hitch Hiking across the US have you seen the David Choe Show on VBS thumbs up. An entertaining view on hitch hiking in the US, pretty light hearted though the culture can get so much darkerFinally I get to LA, Here is another Ariel Pink video in honor of the City of Angels

East Coast backwards towards the south then west

Here I am,, One cold day on Brighton Beach, if you havent been there you should go. take the q or on a weekday take the b its faster, learn to say thanks in russian and go get a mashed potato donutRC plane shows are pretty cool
here is an RC plane above Brighton BeachThis is what manikins look like in brighton beach lots of fur

419 Scams

I think its crazy that people even fall for these scams, here is what its about if haven't received one of these emails. I recieve them all them time.

Now amazingly these scammers are not so smart either, check out this website
If you read through the section Letters Archive you will be amazed what this guy gets the scammers to do. even re enact monty python

Im on My Way

Im about to start another trip across the U.S. be prepared for lots of new posts
Hopefully I will run into more people like this guy, He was a Physicist from Morocco who I met when I was living in Barcelona
I wish I had copies of the equations who would write down on the street

Elizabeth and the Catapult Show at The Paradise

Some Photos of The Great Catapult Performing in Boston last Week. click on the heading to see their website

pre show magic
The Ghost of Peter Lalish
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Here is Some Catapult Video TOo