If I didn’t have the photos, I wouldn’t believe my memory of this place. This is what the countryside of Northern California looks like this time of year. Click to enlarge:
Sunol Regional Wilderness, December 30th, 2006
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Merry Christmas From Leather Santa
Happy Holidays from the nicest, combat boot and leather motorcycle vest wearing Santa you’ll ever meet at City Hall. Rock on Philly:
Horrible Place: Snow
Once, long ago I lived in a poorly maintained apartment. To help produce a more vivid understanding of it, here’s the story of the toilet:
Just before I moved in, the guy who lived above my future home died on his toilet. Because he had no friends or loved ones, no one found him until he started to smell. The maintenance guys had to scrub his melted skin off the porcelain.
A few weeks later my new neighbor moved in. When employed he worked at a wawa, radioshack or on the overnight shift at a center city parking lot. He got fired a lot. Eventually he was unemployed for too long and was forcibly evicted.
In preparation, he stashed all his female body building porno videos and magazines in my hall closet. The closet was right below the death toilet. Soon after, the toilet broke and poured gallons of raw sewage into the closet and into my apartment. Repair took a couple of weeks.
And that’s the story of the toilet. Why do I bring this up? Because this evening I found a picture of the hallway of that apartment. I took this whimsical photo during the 24″ blizzard of 2003. As beautiful as this was, I had no heat at the time so my memory is kind of bittersweet. Here’s to a better blizzard in ’09:
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Midnight Basketball
Actually this was shot at a quarter after 5, but still. Click to enlarge:
Philadelphia
Santorini Volcano
People walk along the caldera of the volcano that shaped the Western World. Click to enlarge:
Santorini Volcano
