Pilfered from Groovehouse’s blog.

Time-lapsed video showing Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building in New York City for 41 hours in 1999.

For some reason this recent LOLCat cracked me right heck up.

Maybe it’s the indirect reference to Jin-Soo Kwon because I am a total geek for that show. Still, it’s a little dark as far as LOLCats go.

Reminds me of the one a created awhile back…

I am sure this was a result of watching too many of those psycho-killer shows. You know the ones. Criminal Minds, Dexter and so forth.

No, wait…this traces back to Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.

But really, who am I kidding…we can go back as far as Eraserhead.

Yea, I’m old and I’m blaming David Lynch for my warped sense of humor.

Works for me!

One good thing about these high end hotels where we hold our sales conference is the the hotel’s commitment to providing an abundance of coffee in the morning.

Speaking of coffee, I had the oddest dream the other night. In my dream there was an online service where you could upload your unused coffee to a web site to make it available to others to download free of charge.

It was for those times when you brew a pot of coffee, but don’t finish it. It wasn’t for uploading a half drunk cup of used coffee though I could see that as a potential abuse of the service.

Cynthia tells me it strikes her as a very “Jay-like” dream. I have to agree.

On my side of town they’ve been beefing up the police presence up ever since the various home owner’s associations took the city and Mayor White to task over the rise in violent crime we been experiencing ever since that fateful day in 2005.

As a property owner and and old man, I am getting to where I can appreciate a more visible police presence and it doesn’t bother me a bit to see an extra squad car sitting in the median, keeping an eye on things.

As I was driving home today and sitting in the stop and go rush hour traffic I see that they’ve taken things up a notch…

Apparently the Houston Police are using their mounted patrols to monitor the traffic and look for things like expired inspection stickers and out of date registrations. Fortunately my car is completely up to date so I had nothing to worry about.

There were anywhere from 4-5 of these guys up and down the street along with several squad cars in the local O’Reilly Auto Parts parking lot where busted offenders were being issued citations…and I presume being checked for warrants and so forth.

I know some people will find this behavior an affront to their civil sensibilities, but I say more power to ‘em! You see the squad cars all the time watching for the same type of behavior. By utilizing the mounted police the city telegraphs a stronger police presence which will hopefully help as a crime deterrent.

Check out this recent news story from local ABC affiliate Channel 13:

U-Haul chase ends in Brays Bayou

Anyone familiar with my band, The Flying Fish Sailors, has likely heard the song Greg wrote called Haul U-Haul Haul which is a spoof of a sailor’s hauling shanty and is about moving domiciles using a dilapidated U-Haul truck.

The similarities between the song and the news story are eerie…

So an officer came in a great big cruiser
The aquarium tipped and we started to lose her
Then I saw me a sight that made me shiver
As the truck dove nose first into the river
When I got to shore I was damn near drowned
As I watched that truck floating right out of town
So I sat in jail “˜til the very next day Sir
With the mileage fee just a’tickin’ away Sir
But from all this pain one thing I’ve learned Sir
Well the next time I move I’ll just buy new furniture

For those unfamiliar with the song I have added it to this post for your listening enjoyment.

Standard Podcast [ 3:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The light cycle scene in Tron was on of my favorites of the whole movie. This video i simply amazing…

I have owned the domain cthulhu.com since 1998 when it inexplicably became available to be registered after being one of the first Internet domains created. I’ve generally had the domain pointed at baldheretic.com or geekradio.com as I’ve been quite lazy about creating any Cthulhu specific content. There’s been the odd thing here and there, but nothing lasting or involved.

What with it being an election year I decided to throw something up and voila! Cthulhu For President now has an official site. I’m still looking for content and direction. I’ve got feelers/tentacles out to my like minded friends so we’ll see what develops. If you know any artists or writers that might want to contribute, send them my way.

Right now the site has been put up on stumbledupon.com so it’s getting a lot of hits and is in the process of going up and down, along with the other sites hosted on the server, so don’t be feel compelled to tell me you can’t reach it if you can’t reach it. I am already aware.

On our way to dinner tonight Cynthia and I were both struck by how much the new hospital building going up on I-10 near Gessner looked like a giant robot…

Interestingly enough, there’s a whole Flickr group dedicated to photographs of things that look like a robot and it’s called, you guessed it, “Things That Look Like A Robot“

Browse to http://cubo.cc
Give the page some time to load.
Then move your mouse around

Click for full size

Friday night had all the earmarks of being a good night on the 3700 block of Main. The Suspects were playing their second “reunion” show with The Aqua Velva opening up. And if that wasn’t enough, The Light Rock Express were groovin over at Charlie’s Big Top. Things were just getting “fired” up when the doorman of the Continental Club exclaimed “Holy Sh*t! A flaming car!”

I turned just in time to see a truck driving down Alabama towing a backhoe on a trailer and the trailer was ON FIRE….I thought at first this was some kind of art car event or something.

A handful of us ran around the corner to see what was up and we saw the truck pull up next to a gas station.

Click for full size

Could you imagine being at the pump, just minding your own business filling your tank and a truck load of flaming death just pulls up?

Apparently there was an industrial strength cardboard barrel full of trash on the back of the truck that had managed to ignite. The guys jumped out of the truck and pulled it down to the street where it commenced to roll around.

Click for full size

One of the guys from the truck hopped out and had the wherewithal to climb into the backhoe, fire it up and attempt to tamp out the flames. This resulted in the flaming horror rolling down the street several feet.

Click for full size

Fortunately, it rolled AWAY from the gas pumps.

The group of men in the truck and the guy in the backhoe all did their part in extinguishing the flames and even got some help from a handful of bewildered homeless guys and had it mostly put out by the time the fire department arrived.

Just another reason why I try to have my camera with me at all times. You just never know what your going to see at any given time. The last two shots here are my favorites and the ones I wanted to show off, but I felt the context was important.

Click for full size

Plucked from worldrider.com

I thought this would be my final picture of Barcelona…

Click for full size

That was before we decided to have one last walk down La Rambla…

Click for full size

They’re both perfect, in their own way.

*The eye guy is holding a sign declaring 9-11 to be a hoax and saying he has proof…

I am experiencing an odd phenomenon. Anywhere from 2-6 times a day I am seeing someone on the street who looks just like someone I know back home.

And it runs the gamut from good friends to vaguely remembered acquaintances.

It’s very disconcerting. I’m not sure if there really is a resemblance or if it’s a result of being away from familiar faces for so long.

One of my co-workers was ribbing me about my first gallery show and the sale of my piece this past weekend.

He told me that all I needed to do now was cut off an ear and I would be all set.

I told him that had already been done.

After a pause I suggested maybe I could be known as the artist who cuts off other people’s ears…