Santa Cruz Sentinel: "In the circle, Kim poured Jay's ashes, and the surfers let out a yell." The picture of the memorial event is amazing, even at its small size with this article.
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This was his last step before the accident
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Thanks everyone for contributing captions. As I write this post there are 14. That's more than I expected. I realize now by having the captions in a public space, it's sort of a gallery of its own. A gallery of captions with no photos. I like that idea too.
I haven't looked at them yet. I wonder if a theme has developed. I think I'll take some of the pictures today. Where should I go?
A little help? I'd like to create a photo gallery based on chance. A gallery with captions and pictures. And I want to take the pictures but I don't want to make up the captions. That's where you come in. Click 'comment' below and leave a caption. I'll take several photos and pair up the captions with the pictures in the order they were taken. And I'll try not to look at the captions beforehand. This way there is a picture, a caption, and some third thing that is a combination of the two. How can you write a caption for a picture you've never seen? I'm not sure, but thanks for trying! Will the results be remotely interesting? That's chance.
Sexy Beast is the best British crime suspense drama I've seen since The Croupier. Ok, it's the only British crime suspence drama I've seen since then...but it's very good. Ben Kingsley is incredibly scary. I've seen it described as a dark comedy, and there were laughs through about the first half. But they slowly tapered off as the film got more and more intense. It has some of the best acting I've seen in a while. Thumbs up.
I wish I could be outside on this gorgeous day instead of sitting inside nursing a sprained ankle. Oh well, I can live vicariously through the web: I found this great mostly Bay Area hiking site. And it has several hikes I've been on. It's always good to compare notes.
wacky. Some guy spent $11,000 to make his apartment look like the set of Star Trek. What a ripoff! I only spent a fraction of that turning my house into the set of One Day at a Time. Finding a Dwayne Schneider cardboard cutout, however, was quite a feat.
I submitted two pictures (1,2) from my Nebraska trip to the swanky new Mirror Project. (Heather does great work.) Thanks to the new search feature, you can see some of the other reflective pictures I've taken by searching for 'pb'.
"Forget about it, Sanchez. The old man likes his cannolis."
This picture of a floor mural detail from 1934 looks similar to this picture I took last week. The shoes have changed but the murals haven't.
I read Nobrow by John Seabrook on my way back. The part of the book that stuck with me was his explorations of the way taste was used to preserve social classes after conspicuous economic displays became taboo. He tells a story from his college years where a fellow student says, "How dare you talk about taste when there are people in the world who don't have enough to eat." But it seems the lesson didn't sink in. Part of the book reads like elitist consumer brand-fetish porn, part like a love letter to Tina Brown, and much like a cry for help. I will say that it's peppered with insights that only a privileged brand junky can have...for whatever that's worth. I felt unclean after reading it, and probably wouldn't have finished it if I wasn't trapped with it on a train for two days. A good alternative to Nobrow is Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff.
I was due for another cat picture:
That's my cousin Taylor's hand and my aunt Julie in the background. This is one of their new kitties.