Orange County Yard Sale

San Francisco this weekend

The girls (Kelly, Anna, Daisy, Kim, Jessica, Lauren) and I are heading up in about an hour. 

See you there.

Echo Park Sale

Go check it out if you're in town.

San Francisco Critical Mass 08-05-30

On the last Friday of every month, bike riders all over the world congregate in their own cities in numbers sometimes in the thousands (depending on the city) to take over and claim the streets as their own.

Critical Mass: The minimum size or amount of something required to start or maintain a venture.

So basically we rode wherever we want, held up traffic wherever we wanted to and took control of the city of San Francico's public roads. We would ride into intersections and fill it with a couple hundred cyclists so cars couldn't move and continue doing this for the next few hours. There is no designated route. There are no officials (except the police officers that follow us making sure confrontations between drivers and riders don't happen and so we won't go on the freeway). Anyone can lead as long as they have riders willing to follow. Drivers get angry and there have been confrontations in the past. The ride began in San Francisco in 1992 but now extends to to European, Asian, South American, Australian and African cities. It is absolute chaos. There were many times I thought cyclist were going to get hit by cars. The sound of cars honking in frustration was endless. The sound of old school rap tunes bumping on someone's good enough for a club bicycle stereo was endless. 

If you would like to find out more or find out where and when cyclists in your own city meet ride:

Wikipedia

Critical-Mass.info

Does anyone remember when Chevron named one of its oil tankers the Condoleezza Rice? 

Burger Joint on Valencia St. with the fellas.

I remember...

Good news for realz this time

"YONGBYON, North Korea - North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs."

Taken from msn.com Click here for more

Here's one problem that I saw further down in the article:

"Experts believe the North has produced up to 110 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium, enough for as many as 10 nuclear bombs."

GOOD NEWS!

There are more than 800 wildfires burning in California at this moment and over 200 are still unattended! Also, there are more lightning storms to come (lightning is the culprit).

It's hard to swallow that sort of information and difficult to imagine the chaos going on.

Click on the Harry Potter lightning photograph to read the story.

AIDS/Lifecycle 7 Photographs

SF to LA | 545 Miles | Seven Days

Click on any of the below photographs.

JIL SANDER S/S 09

Taken from Klang-

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Download This Song Right Now

That is all.

MGMT- Electric Feel My Shit (Leif Edit) (right click and save)

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeemix (in funkmaster flex's voice)

thank you missingtoof.com

Hey, your friend died in a drunk driving accident yesterday... Just kidding... By the way, don't drink and drive.

Students were told classmates had died in car wrecks — they hadn't

"OCEANSIDE, Calif. - On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.

Classmates wept. Some became hysterical.

A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax — a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving."

Click here for the rest of the story.

How far is too far? I understand the need to educate youngsters especially on the issues of drinking and driving but I am not sure how I feel about this. Does the valuable lesson attempted to be taught outweigh the trauma? I feel like they were living by Malcolm X's quote "By Any Means Necessary" when they planned this. At my high school they did the Every 15 Minutes presentation, and as moving and powerful the fake drunk driving accident was, I remember going to a party that evening and seeing some of my classmates drink and drive. As strict and more clenching these DUI laws become, I still hear of drunk driving deaths. Sadly, it never seems to cease.   

SNEAK PEEK of my SF to LA bike ride

Yes, that is me in the bikini.

I am in the process of scanning negatives to share with you, whoever you are...

United Airlines to charge for checked bags

Following the trend of American Airlines, United Airlines will now begin charging $15 for the first checked bag and $25 for a second. I will not be surprised if I see other airlines following this unfortunate practice. Damn the rising prices of everything right now. 

Rising Prices + Slowing Economy = Unhappy People

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25118405

LOOKBOOK.nu is a neat website I found through a simple message on MySpace.com telling me about the "fashion project / website where stylish people all over the world share their daily outfits." What I enjoy most about the website is that the photographs and ensembles are of the users themselves contrary to trenderbender.com where users post photographs of ensembles collected from anywhere.

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I will be riding my bike to Los Angeles for the next few days.

That is all.

Call me at 5PM on the 7th of June.

Messages of support from celebrities for the AIDS/Lifecycle ride

http://www.accesshollywood.com/article/9723/celebs-give-messages-of-support-for-aids-lifecycle-7-riders

Scroll down to the video of Steve Carrell... At least we weren't running 5K's for rabies.

About 24 hours to go... It turns out that I most likely won't get to use my phone during the ride due to lack of electricity in the campgrounds. I still need to find a red dress to wear for day 5. Also, my shifters are acting up after I attempted to fix something that did not need fixing. It smells like degreaser and chain lubricant in my apartment. So many things to do with so little time, what a familiar setting. 

Dunkin' Donuts ad pulled for scarf's 'terror link'

Who else to point it out but Fox News? 

According to the Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, the scarves are "popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos."

Here's a link to the full article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24860437/?GT1=43001

1.) Dear Michelle: When you report something stupid, you look stupid. It's quite simple (At the same time, I recently blogged a hot sauce, but I am no news commentator). 

2.) Dunkin' Donuts pulling that ad only means to me that they assume Americans are that dumb to be offended enough that it will hurt their sales.  

3.) Are Americans that dumb that they will be offended?

4.)It just shows and reminds me of the all too common "making things of things that don't need making of" that runs rampant these days.

John Rawlings Photography 1940s-1960s

Taken from foto_decadent (Click for full post), these photographs are beautiful, inspiring and chic. I wish I can pull off photos like these one day and I also wish photography like this will return. I swear, these photos are like freaking poems.  

Calling all "The Office" fans

We all know the American version came from the British version, but did you know the British version came from the Japanese version?

A Saturday Night Live Digital Short: The Japanese Office

Carnaval San Francisco

I was awoken by the sound of a marching band and people screaming at the top of their lungs. I again had to "google" what was going on outside. 

These photographs are in dire need of "burning". I am blessed with the greatness of iPhoto and Preview to edit my photographs. 

Last night with the new camera

Frisco Disco / Underground SF / Sunday Morning

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My new camera: Leica Z2X

It takes 35 mm film.

 
For a while I have been looking for a new camera. The SLR's aren't pocket-sized, they scare people and they weigh the same as a brick. The Holga is expensive to develop and only shoots twelve exposures at a time. I initially wanted a compact digital camera but two things came to thwart my pursuit: printing and quality. I've noticed lately that many have been altering their images to look as if they were film and I've also noticed how few photographs people actually print. I have had one too many hard drives crash and a laptop that contained photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans stolen. Hmm I am drifting away... Basically I needed a camera that had the qualities of portability and picture quality and I found it behind the legendary Leica name. Although the camera cannot be compared to "real" Leica cameras, I found the quality for the amount I paid worth it. Try riding 545 miles with a SLR camera wrapped around your neck. That was quite a ramble.

Satisfactory Progress

There's me on the left.

Despite my fears and worries of not being ready for the upcoming bicycle ride, I am now confident and looking forward to the ride. On Friday, I went on a 94 mile ride that left a good amount of salt on my face afterwards. The most enjoyable portion of that workout was vomiting on myself. In a fierce attempt to cough out one of the many insects I ingested that day, I simply coughed a little too hard, sparking a nice gag reflex with a load of pink goo wholesome with chunks to follow it. Afterwards, I rode in shame and disgust. 

11 'Witches' burned in Kenya

A mob of an estimated 300 men killed 11 suspected witches and wizards for supposedly making the bright children in the villages dumb. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24759141&GT1=43001

American Airlines to charge for checked bags

Starting June 15th, American Airlines will now begin charging customers $15 dollars for their first checked bags. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24756513/

MMM Hot Sauce...

I never knew a hot sauce could so radically change my life in such a unique way... I bought this a few weeks ago and already it is near the bottom... I expect a week left of its existence. 

I put it in all my marinades, on eggs, on chips, in vodka sauce to spice it up a bit...  

You NEED to buy this:

http://www.azgunslinger.com/shop/product_info.php/cPath/42_29/products_id/186?osCsid=aef909353512b2db227aa25e55b00ade

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