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One thing we all agree on, the Misfits songs are better.

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Bumming

Maybe this little tiny baby Krishna will cheer me up:



.....let's see.... marginally. I think if I layer on top of it the fact that Ernest Borgnine is still alive. He was in:

McHale's Navy
Demetruis and the Gladiators
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Vikings (HAIL RAGANAR!)
Barabbas
Emperor of the North
Escape from New York
and many episodes of Spongebob

People croak every day - he was awesome in Bad Day before I was born.

Partition of India Fun!

Here's a 1909 map showin' how many Hindus! Partition day!

OK, I think I'm back...........................maybe

Listen, I don't know, spit in the ocean, little pebble on the sand, lost out here in the stars, etc., etc., etc.,. Have you an allegory for resolving ennui? I think there's probably a word that's needed that describes resolve of enniu, like, schmepiphany, or, donkeycarrot, or vivapersonatus, or craeinne.
I'm still chock full of interestingness, and plan to deploy it....now. And ongoing,


Need I say it?!?! from the Glyphjockey collection.
See you tomorrow, my very, very, special bitches.
Lastly one more thing:
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Jack White - Rockin' It

My Older daughter was fortunate enough to see The White Stripes live recently. I asked her to get me just one good shot of Jack playing, and she could use my camera.

Mission accomplished. This is a girl who, as a baby could communicate clearly without words. First baby I ever saw that always wanted to wear a hat. She'd go into a drugstore with me and organize all the items on the lowest shelves perfectly. She also had weird baby mojo that, whenever she walked up to a soda machine, she'd get a free soda just by pressing the buttons.

Here's the pic- it's also a link to a wallpaper:

Shiny, Shiny, Shiny Boots of Leather

From the GlyphJockey Collection

reverse here nice key chain!!

FWD:Ambient Warhol

Cant tell him apart at all

PiL Live in Japan 1983

PiL live in Japan 1983. Obtained in 1984 by an Atlantic City garbageman named Denny who ordered it from Japan. Betamax!



I'd say it rocks but then I'd have to storm off the stage in disgust at myself. But it does.

1 hour 1 minute - uncut

Tammy Faye No More

Tammy Faye Messner has died. I always felt that she was just along for the ride - mistakenly well intended. I remember her, right around the breaking of the Jessica Hahn scandal, explaining about her addiction to over-the-counter cold remedies, and how that was causing upheaval in the family.

Here's a repeat from the early days of GlyphJockey: The Heritage Village Map. I used to work in the cesspool of Cable TV - I found it in an abandoned desk and knew it would be of interest to someone, anyone who appreciated comeuppance.

This lady, however, kept her sense of humor and suffered. Not the comeuppance I had in mind.

Link @ pic!

Link @ pic!

It's a huge image of a cartoon map of the proposed Heritage Village - a Christian themed resort/amusement park, which was really a slippery embezzlement slope for Jim Bakker - Tammy Faye's husband.

La plus ca change.........

Frontera Violenta: El Todopoderoso

Mexcian Comic featuring loads o' whippin', punchin' & shootin' - brightly colored cactus drama with an dissapointingly Aryan protagonist.



Mira!

The Horror

This song and dance number for The Two Bears opening stands as exemplar for the rise of Hippiedom. One wants to shoot onesself - well, actually, foment revolution, cease cutting your hair, and vandalize police cars, after viewing the homely, arthritic (or perhaps more aptly: dancing-like-one-has-a-rod-in-one's-spine), helium-voiced Brenda Lee in the following sequence. It's America trying to have some FUN! While still managing to eat dinner in a tie and wear gloves on Sunday. In 90 degree heat. Incidentally she can't act, either.

Now, nothing against Brenda Lee in the overall birth-to-death cycle scheme of things, mind you, it just that this............

......makes my skin crawl.

1983 Japanese TV Show

SHINSHUN KAKUSHIGEI TAIKAI which, as far as I can tell is "Left Pig Team vs. Right Pig Team Talent Show" It probably has an elegant translation, but if you watch it you'll see what I mean: one act after another representing two teams. Ice xylophone players, kettle drum trios, square log rolling, E.T. mini-dramas, new wave magicians, and tons of commercials.

I had a friend who taught English as a Second Language and I asked him if he had any students who were Japanese and did they have any Japanese TV shows, because they were, like the U.S. on the NTSC color standard. He did, he asked and I was given this tape.

I didn't really edit it, so there's one or two glitches, and no beginning but it's like turning on the wayback machine and tuning in a 1983 Japanese TV to see what's on. Unadulterated. Wacky. Compelling.

It runs 1 hour and 47 minutes so if you pause for a while and let it load you can skip around. Conversely, if you watch it, you'll find it pretty mesmerizing at times.

More TJ Images + Wallpapers

Here's the experience:
In the haze of hawkers offering me souvenirs, pimps waving me over from a block away, Indians following me with handfuls of massive wooden rosaries, more pimps offering to hook me up with massages, (One, a leathery American with peggy teeth, even suggesting I could get just a massage, no sex, thereby circumventing my wife's psychic ability to detect deviltry. I thought gee, great, now if I don't catch an STD, get my wallet stolen and my ass kicked that massage will be great! Luckily for the leathery gent there is no shortage of horny gullible morons.), Vicodin, free peeks into strip clubs, offers for taxis because I must have looked unable to raise my hand in the air for some reason, disgruntled but talented Mariachis and offers to buy absinthe at no savings that I then could not bring back to the U.S. I still managed to capture a few images that poked me in the eye as ironic or beautiful.

This was not Mexico as far as I could tell. This was madness.

Image from an Olive oil can in the Gigante Grocery. (Strangely an island of clean good smelling calm)

IMAGE ABOVE IS A LINK TO A WALLPAPER

Painting from the back of one of the many donkey carts (the donkeys are painted to look like zebras) that turistas can have their picture taken on:

IMAGE ABOVE IS A LINK TO A WALLPAPER

More dried fruit in the Dulces shop. Massive hunks of Calabash, squash, cactus, and more recognizable stuff:


A strange industrial-strength communication device whereby anyone on the street can call someone:


Lastly two images of the best souvenir in the universe:

Moblog Tijuana 6

Peligro! Catholicos!

Moblog Tijuana 10

@>€!+(:

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Daughter- do you see?

Moblog Tijuana 9

La escuela de boxeo

Moblog Tijuana 8

10 minutes of hoo-hah, and then they cut your heart out ritually.

Moblog Tijuana 7

Nuff said.

Moblog Tijuana 5

Ad 4 Fud ham. If it aint Fud- you got a dud.

Moblog Tijuana 4

Whole dried oranges in the candy store

Moblog Tijuana 3

Butcher en la Gigante grocery

Moblog Tijuana 2

Hmmmm.....

Moblog Tijuana 1

El mummy del DEEP DISCOUNTS

Moblog Chula Vista

Lovin da neon font

Moblog San Ysidro

Es Mondo Cane, no?

Moblog Oakland

A nut ran past TSA and they did not catch him. Despite eyewitnesses, they made every person trying to board go through screening a 2nd time....

July 4, 2007

I usually take scores of pix each Fourth, but this time just some choice images:

A Galaxie 500 worthy of Rev. Horton Heat:


Legendary Philadelphia-area children's show hostess Sally Starr


Gourmet tractorness -

with babies, no less


Wandering Israelites:


Chaps in chaps


And possibly the greatest single marketing genius naming, our Fire Department:


YAY! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!