Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Get your stretch on

Can anyone guess what era this poster came from?

This was in the hotel gym and I found the perm to be quite hypmotysing. I think I looked closely at each scetch. Examining the subtle nuances between how the perm was portraid in each pose was consuming.

These were not done by Michelangelo; however, who knew how lifelike an artist could make a perm look with just a simple outline? It jumps right off the page.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

"With a Smooth Filling"

I know this is a horrible picture; it's a phone that happens to have a camera, and not the other way around...

This is a box of chocolate at the check-out line in a bookstore. There were several flavors to chose from but the one's that enticed me the most were these.

"With a Smooth Filling". Not truffle, not almonts, not mint. "With a Smooth Filling". Awesome, what do they have in them? Well, it tasted somewhere in between Jack Nicholson and Magnum P.I.

Smooth.

Japanese characters

Never really noticed it before (and I've traveled through Japan) and it may only be my imagination... but doesn't the symbol for men look like a blockhead running?

I wonder what the radicals are that make it up. Or, maybe 'men' is a radical. I don't know. Apparently, reading Japanese is an incredibly difficult task; even for the Japanese. There are 3 "languages" and all of them can appear in a block of text at any given point.

I once met an American who had been living there for several years and studying the language for about a decade. He could interpret written Japanese but because it's not phonetic, to read it aloud to an audience correctly, he said, would be awkward, arduous, and most likely embarrassing.

Why do fires always start on the side of freeways?

This is the 80 just east of Pinole in Northern California. The photo doesn't do the scene any justice because I could feel the heat through the window as I drove past. This, despite my air conditioning.

There were no FD present yet and there were homes endangered just atop this small hill. I wonder. Is it always careless smokers flicking their butts out the window? I see patches of burnt often just off highways and fail to conceive of an alternative cause.