freakangels #14

freakangels #14, is up this morning (every friday).
there is an archival located there if you need to catch up.

this is the weekly web comic by warren ellis and paul duffield.

even in absentia, warren brings yet more angst into the fray. now enters jack and sirkka and dungeons.(?)! will the madness end? damn, i hope not.

mr. duffield performs yet another masterful job with his art. the clouds throughout are just so realistic that i can smell the rain. applause for full panel page 4, however, i personally bow down to the steam from jack's boat (bottom panels) on pages 5 and 6. simply remarkable. thanks paul.

she finally dropped by for a visit

can you believe it? she finally stopped by the house to see me. what does she want to do? oh, come on, do you really think she wanted to just see me which i know she did. no, it was straight to the PS3! it was good to see her however.

yes; it's a nice day to wake up in disneyland!

at the gates of graceland

my mother loves elvis. she has seen him on several occasions all over the country. she also , along with dad, have gone to his home in memphis several times. this is an undated picture of her at the gates paying homage to her fallen 'king'.

a look at small town mendenhall where..

my mom and dad grew up. i wish i could claim these pictures but they are not mine. i found them on the web.

this is a really good look at the court house at the top of main street in mendenhall. this is where both my parents grew up. my dad told me of seeing a public hanging in the court yard at the back of this building as a child. that was a different time.

 

this is an old gas station,which was on the road coming into town. at one point in time it was owned and operated by family friends and we always bought gas here. i remember as a small kid, i have gone through that door to look at the candy available. it was amazing, for a quarter, i could get a bag full of penny candy and there was an old fashion 'top slide' coke machine there for an additional dime.

 

just some random memories this morning. i wish i could find a picture of sullivan's fruit stand to share.

thinking about who my grandkids will think i really was

as i wonder around the real world (ha) and on the internet i am fortunate to meet a lot of different and interesting people. as you get to know anyone, questions arise as always like; what do you do for a living? why are you not married? so on and so forth. i tend to retract at some point as the other party is zeroing in on the inevitable....what is your condition? followed impertinently by the obligatory; oh, i am very sorry.

note to my grandchildren: guys; there is/was more to me than my cancer. i am living a full life in many ways and i am enjoying it. i have seen many wonderful changes in life. i have travelled a great deal. i have lived through some of the most extraordinary times mankind has had on this planet.

i have been using computers and been on the internet since oh lets see; 300 baud modems. i have gone scuba diving off the arc at the end of baha and i saw the underwater sand slides there. hell, i saw elvis and the beatles. i have been from one end of this wonderful land to the other.

now that i think about it...i have seen the birth of all of you.

i have lived and at moments loved, just not very successfully.

i have had hero's and i have cried. just like you have or will; i have made mistakes.

please do me one favor; for your old grandpa. don't think of me as that old guy with cancer. think of me as that somewhat strange old man who accepted what life gives and made it as best he could with as much dignity and humor as he could manage. to each of you...follow your dreams, they are what make YOU who you really are.

Laura Ray Memorial Golf Tournament

One of the bigger funding razing events my support group does is this golf tournament. This year, was the first I was healthy enough to help out. Was up at 0 dark thirty and in desperate need of coffee, which I hastily made. Quick shower, filled the thermos and off to the Pines Course where the event took place.
After meeting up and getting doors unlocked, we started putting up raffle prizes and getting stuff ready.

After getting our assignments it was off to greet the golfers and sell tickets for various things such as mulligans and fund raising activities.
Then the golfers were sent on their way.


During the tournament i was assisting PJ who was the official picture taker for the event. I was very happy with this assignment and spent the day (as time allowed) taking shop (read as taking pictures) with him. The setting and the day was simply stunning.


PJ gave me some really good tips and I was able to capture this ball just as it was struck.


The event ran until about 12:30 and I was very tired and ready to get in some shade. We packed up and headed back to the club house for lunch, prize give aways and saying good bye's.


It was a wonderful day Laura. Rest Well.

need a topographical guide to something to worry about?

this may fall into the odd in a 'holy crap' sort of way. thanks to an aquantince at whitechapel, i now have a map(s) to some of humanties more anathematic behavior:


Map of terrorist activity.
Map of "school incidents".
Map of illegal alien activity.

an introduction to mark jenkins

we have all seen the odd photos on the internet, usually forwarded to you in your e-mail; that are thought provoking or just humorous. out of sweeden is mark jenkins and his crazy projects. i hope you take the time to explore this simple and unpretentious web site. enjoy.

Birth Of The Jedi Master...

Sixty-four years ago today in the small town of Modesto, California...

George Walton Lucas Jr. was born. A near-death car crash right before his high school graduation forced him to consider another career path(he wanted to be a race car driver) and made him focus on something different at the local community college. He developed an interest in making films... Modern cinema would never be the same.

Happy Birthday to the original Jedi Master.