Fly vs. Spy

5 years, 218 weeks and 1515 days till year zero...not that I'm counting.

I love this lunar calendar I found on The Abysmal, a site which also happens to have the complete I Ching as edited by Wilhelm, that I reference almost daily. The Abysmal World Calendar in it's complete form is definitely worth checking out for those who are counting down to year 'zero' (Dec. 21, 2012).

Dueling billboards at it again.

The two on the right might be looking away in embarrassment...

Spying on Crystal Head Vodka

Crystal Head Vodka endorsed by a Ghost Buster. Has an infomercial so weird that everyone thought it was a joke. The shit is filtered through Herkimer diamonds. According to Laini, who ordered it (still thinking it was a joke)--it's real, costs $60 a pop, it comes in its own glass skull, and it actually tastes good.

I'm so ordering this right now. They had me at Akroyd...

Thanks, Kyle...

Fate vs. Free Will

When I was in second and third grade, I was obsessed with "choose your own adventure" books. I was never satisfied with one or two adventures, though. I would finish reading a few of them and then I would read the one I liked over and over until I was bored. And then I would read the entire book straight through, one page to the next, just to see what was on the other adventures I had missed and to revisit the pages I had enjoyed the most. And then I would start all over and try to navigate my way with choices to the new pages I'd found.

I just wasn't happy with one destiny. I wanted to adventure hop. If my third grade obsession with adventure was the blueprint for my actual destiny, it would be pretty accurate. Just skimming the surface of some of the adventures I remember...

Drinking champagne with Sumo wrestlers in Tokyo. Being covered in therapeutic mud at the sulfur lake in Pantelleria Italy. Winning the gold medal at the BJJ Pan Americans. Sitting in an ER after my group home roommate attempted suicide. Experiencing enlightenment in the attic of my ex boyfriend's parent's house. Being in NYC during 9/11. Switching identities. Following Carlos Castaneda's cult. Making homemade soy sauce and miso while living at a macrobiotic cooking school in Chico. Engineering my own vision quest on the coast of Oregon with Ayahuasca. Sleeping outside in the campus quad in the middle of finals. Sitting in the back of a police car. Living in the midwest with a preacher and his family. Learning to make tabouleh with my grandfather in California. Sitting in a strip club on Christmas talking to Santa Claus about God. Going to Catholic school in fresh pressed tartan skirts. Smuggling money into the united states, getting busted, then getting released. Walking into an octagon. Having a spontaneous out of body experience.Retrieving stolen jewelry from a bank in Milan.

I was born to hop destinies, swap them out, change the endings and switch at the last second. Take the adventures out of order, fuck them all up and then go back to the beginning.

More and more these days I'm left with the question-- What do I do with a train wreck of unfinished adventures as a personal history? 

Write a book, I suppose...

Hypnotism

Tony lucero hypnotizes our elizabeth to see naked squirrels and the garden of eden, late late night in vegas.

Art showing at Groundwork coffee shop downtown Los Angeles.

The lovely serafina helping me hang my pen and ink illustrations and one still very wet oil painting.

Post-DIY haircut. Asymetrical bangs more difficult than I thought...obviously.

RIP Mother's

(10-08) 17:21 PDT -- Mother's Cookies, an Oakland institution for 92 years, has been shuttered, its owner seeking bankruptcy protection for the company.

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The ending was abrupt: Workers for the company, which shifted its baking and distribution operations to plants in Ohio and Canada in 2006, told workers Friday that operations would cease and cookies would no longer be made as of Monday.

The company cited rising prices for raw materials and fuel, and on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

RIP Mother's Cookies...

Super Fly

What's the use of having super powers if you don't use them? That's what I thought. So, from now on I'm using them.