Video Stills

I just got back from 1970. At least that what it has felt like for the last few months staring at the video I've been editing (while neglecting dear Abram the Safety Ape, my friends, and pretty much everything else). Anyway, here are some stills from the project. It's actually a trailer for a movie that's yet to be made if all comes together. Anyway, I hope it works out, since it's a story I wrote. Set in 1970, in Hollywood, the desert, thereabouts. And here are some pix from it...

Mexico City Photos

Photos of various curiosities and jabbering captions from my recent week in Mexico City.

Dentist

I went to the dentist today, and this is how I feel:

Random Wig Cake Enigma

Does this picture scare you?



It scared me. But that's okay. I like being scared.

This morning I was looking for an image using Google's image search function with the search terms "Lisa's Birthday Cake" because my sister Lisa's birthday is today,and I thought it might be funny to send her a picture of someone else's cake, but then this came up.

I am always enthralled by the random beauty of what washes up on the shores of the internet, and I'm totally convinced that Google image search can be used as a sort of oracle. It's the new I Ching. Or in a less high-flown comparison, it's like the pleassures of Found Magazine.

Hideous Yard Demon

WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS THIS????

Something awful that came from MY YARD
Even worse, i think one of the dogs was chewing on it because it was in the dining room where they often bring in bits of wood to chew in air conditioned comfort.

Oh... a quick Google confirms what I suspected. It's a Jerusalem Cricket which also goes by a number of colorful names that refer to its allegedly humanlike (childlike) appearance: " the niño de la tierra (Spanish for "child of the earth"), Earth baby, cara de niño (Spanish for "child's face"), or wó see ts'inii (Navajo for "skull insect"). It is also goes by the more mundane "potato bug," or alternatively the old bald-headed man." Personally, I don't see the resemblance. It's also believed these little monsters can make a sound like a crying child. Only true in nightmares, I believe.