Hangin In Hermosa

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Partying w/ Art & Casie

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Happy Birthday wishes going out to our east coast gal Karen Dixon today! I think she turns out 28 or 29 today...either way, she's sneaking up on the big 3-0. Happy Birthday Karen and best wishes for a happy, healthy year! Hopefully we'll see you soon!
    
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You gotta love this. I'm not gonna tell you what's wrong with this Parent's magazine cover but I will say someone in the editing department should have caught it before it went to press.

Just keep looking...it'll come to you!

I pick 'em, you click 'em!

• Fantasy Island - Great commercial for the next season of the reality show The Real Gilligan's Island...great music too!

• Xerox This! - I really don't get the big deal about Xeroxing your butt but (yeah that was weird) I bet this guy won't ever try it again.

• Pope Sideous - This is very funny...nobody get their panties in a wad!

• Soccer I Would Watch - Never been a soccer fan but this helps.

• Lord of The Rings In 30 Seconds - Now this is brilliant!

• Sexy! - Words cannot describe!

• Photoshop Master - My Photoshop skills are WEAK compared to this!

Sunday was definitely a party day for us. Our good friends Art & Casie invited us to their parent's house for a Sunday night cookout/party. We spent most of the night playing a cool card game called Kings which involves of myriad of different things but is mostly centered around drinking, acting silly and truth or dare scenarios that gets the girls to put their hair in pigtails and give each other lap dances. Obviously I am now a huge fan of this card game and looking forward to playing it again soon...ha-ha! Come to think of it, virtually all of the dares involved Casie and lap dances or human wheel barrow stunts in the back yard...as you can tell from the pics! :^P

But seriously...we had a great time partying with Art (Tuti) & Casie, Mike & Janice, Sergio, Katie "Cheeks" O'Leary, Steve, and the rest of the Lopez family who supplied us all with some great food and an inviting place to party Sunday night! Next time we won't forget the "good" camera. (What was I thinking?)

Big thanks to Sergio for taking me drunk, I'm home! I still got your shirt dude!

This happened the other weekend but I wasn't able to post it yet cause I needed to set up my picture phone account which I finally did tonite. So anyway...Kim and I were grocery shopping at Ralph's when Kim picked up a bag of tortilla chips and put them in the basket. I couldn't help but notice that there was a Sharpie (black marker) in our bag of tortilla chips. I showed Kim and we both cracked up laughing. We tried to see if someone had opened the bag and put it in there but couldn't find any signs of tampering. Apparently this Sharpie accidentally found it's way into the bag at the factory. We gave the bag of chips to one of the clerks up front who also got a good laugh from it. Now aren't you glad I got a picture phone?

Even after living here for almost four years now you never know when something is gonna take you by surprise. It was about 2 a.m. Saturday night and I went to lock the back door when something caught my attention. I stepped out by the pool and heard the "unmistakable" sound of a woman having a really good time. About half way down our block there's an apartment building which runs perpendicular to our place and coming from one of the upstairs windows were the audible throes of passion you normally only hear in movies...or from our bedroom window...ha-ha! Now I don't know if this chick was flying solo or had a partner but either way, somebody or something was getting the job done. I almost had to clap after it was over and yes, I preferred that to the raccoon fighting championship that happened last week!

After me and Kim finally got home from hangin w/ Jayson & Lisa we got into comfy clothes, crashed on the sofa and of all things, watched the Christmas movie Elf (with Will Ferrell) on HBO. We'd seen it before but it was still very funny and for some odd reason it actually felt like it was Christmas time while we were watching it.

Memorial Day Weekend in the South Bay always means two things, (1) partying and (2) Fiesta Hermosa. Jayson & Lisa called us up on Saturday to see if we wanted to head down to Hermosa and enjoy the festivities...and of course we did. We met up and had lunch at Sangria's and then browsed all the different booths at the event which was fun. There's always lots of phenomenal art at the event each year which is always the best reason for going. Well, if you don't count all the hot babes in bikinis! Ha-ha!

I think I've posted this before but it's worth repeating;

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The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the U.S. REDNECK SPECIAL FORCES (USRSF).

These brave North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee boys will be dropped into Iraq and have been given only the following facts about Islamic terrorists:

• The season opened today.

• There is no limit.

• They taste just like chicken.

• They don't like beer, pickups, naked chicks, country music or Jesus.

• They were DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death of Dale Earnhardt.

This mess in Iraq should be over IN A WEEK.

There's a bunch of these Star Wars personality tests on the internet these days but this one is one of the better ones I've seen and naturally, I turned out to be Darth Vader...dark lord of the Sith! Don't make me destroy you! \m/

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/quiz/starwars_quiz.asp

Wow! We really couldn't believe Carrie won! I thought for sure Bo had it in the bag and I was already feeling kinda sad for Carrie, but then she won. Kim was peeved cause she's was rooting for Bo. She was actually pouting afterwards. LOL. I honestly didn't care who won cause they'll both get record deals out of this I'm sure, but I think a small part of me was rooting for Carrie all along. I'm glad she won, but Bo still rocks! Already looking forward to next season and the new dance competition coming up in July!

Several people sent this story into me earlier today and I literally laughed out loud when I read it. Apparently, this girl (Shadoyia Jones) is the only black girl in the honor society at Waxahachie High School in Texas. When the year book staff put in a photo of the honor society no one knew here name so they temporarily labeled her "Black Girl" until someone could find out her name...but then they forgot all about it.

The yearbook came out and all the white kids had their names listed, but Shadoyia was simply listed as "Black Girl." The high school has already issued an apology, but this story is already blowing up on the net and every news feed is picking it up. I can imagine it will only be a few days before Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson get involved and make this out to be some racially motivated event when it seems to have just been an honest mistake. A really, really, really bad honest mistake, but a mistake none-the-less.

I actually feel bad for this girl cause she's breaking the stereotype of most young, black kids in America by excelling in the academics. It's sad that this happened to her, but she's smart...she'll get over it. Believe me, I know. I was immortalized in one my yearbooks too. I had a car wreck the weekend before yearbook photos were taken my sophomore year. My face slammed the steering wheel and left me with a nice black eye. For all eternity anyone who sees my sophomore yearbook photo will wonder who gave me a big, fat black-eye; it was an 83 Monte Carlo.

• http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/bizarre/3193088

• http://www.nbcsandiego.com/education/4520186/detail.html

This was sent in to me today and it's no doubt one of those "urban legends" of the internet that never really took place...but the message is still totally awesome and it it inspires patriotism...more power to it!

Again, this event is probably just a myth but I certainly wish I could hear someone in a burka saying something like that in my presence! I hate even seeing women wearing burkas in my country. I want to run up to them and say "Hey, you're in American now...you don't have to wear that crap!"

I mean really...why leave an oppressive country and come to the freest place on the planet if you're only gonna bring the oppressive customs with you? Every woman in the U.S. who's still wearing a burka needs to ditch that crap and run down to mall and get a thong, a pair of short-shorts and a skimpy cami-top and get with the program. This is America baby!

Knowing how much of a Star Wars freak I am, Jayson sent me these awesome Star Wars links earlier today.

• The Sith Sense - Let Darth Vader read your mind...very cool even if it is sponsored by Burger King.
• Jedi Vs Jedi - Wicked cool light saber game (Anakin Vs. Obi Wan)

Thanks Jayson!

Twas the night before Tuesday and all thru the house, not a creature was stirring, not even my mouse. Kim with her pseudo and me half asleep, only one day into a long work week. When out by the pool there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. To the back of the house I ran with great speed, for something was out there, something indeed. Blood curdling screams rang out in the night, as two huge raccoons engaged in a fight. Screaming and hissing with all of their breathe, this fight it seemed, was a fight to the death.

Yadda, yadda, yadda...

So me and Kim were in bed Monday night....Kim was sound asleep and I was almost asleep when I heard something...something that sounded like demons screaming in agony. I sat up in the bed at which point Kim woke up and cut off our sound machine. The noise was much louder then so I went to the bedroom window and listened and could tell it was coming from right behind the house...seemingly from our pool area.

It sounded like a pack of wild monkeys screaming bloody murder and I think I literally said "holy crap" as I started racing to our office which overlooks the pool. I opened the window and I have never heard such demonic sounds before. Out on top of the parking garage, two raccoons were going at it and one of them was getting his/her ass whipped...and they were both screaming, growling, hissing, moaning, and waling the whole time.

Funny thing was all around the neighborhood you could everyone opening their windows to see what was going on. Even though raccoons look cute and cuddly, I've always heard they can be vicious but I had no idea how evil they could sound. Did I mention they were screaming?

I pick 'em, you click 'em!

• De-Animation - Zombie killing game...real time waster!

• Dukes of Hazard - Trailer for the movie coming in August I think

• Personal Google - If you use Google for your homepage, you can now customize it with local weather, news, movies, etc.

• Military Music Video - British troops shoot their own music videos to the song Amarillo.

• Americans Vs Canadians - Long video showing some Canadians harassing some Americans in a hotel eventually escalating to a fight at which point the Americans do what they do best...lay the smack down!

• Hungry? - Funny commercial involving grandma and a dildo. (SAFE)

• Ride 'em Cowgirl - There's something sexy about watching a chick ride a mechanical bull. (SAFE)

• Einstein & J-Lo - Funny picture of a guy that looks like Albert Einstein check out J-Lo's enormous butt. (SAFE) [Slow Download...be patient!]

I don't even know if I ever mentioned this on my site before but I've been photographing for Homes & Land Magazine since January of this year. I typically shoot all their high end properties and most wind up on the cover or as big spreads on the inside, but even I forget and get surprised sometimes. Case in point...I was in Blockbuster Saturday night and saw a woman holding this month's issue with one of my shots on the cover which I'd totally forgotten all about. It was a million dollar, ultra-contemporary home in Manhattan Beach in which I'd shot a few weeks ago. It's kind of a nice surprise when your photos are on the covers of magazines and you don't even know. I grabbed a few copies on the way home to add to my growing photo portfolio.