This posting has a Team or Theme or whatever ?

Just another night down the pub

I was thinking last night as i was watching TV (every time the guy changed channel, my TV did the same), things picked up when he had enough of the South American female singer channel, i was ready to switch it off, Elvis style, kill it for good

Well anyway i was thinking about background people, thats the Theme today boys and girls

When i was in New York and attending so many Broadway shows, it seemed like a common story that most of the leading acors on Broadway were down to their last pennies when out of the blue, they get a call from Law and Order to be a background technician and presto, it´s payday, they get to pay the next months rent and they get their big break and they are off, this seems to be very common.

The one i can remember is the guy that played the Sailor from Sex and the city

Preth races, i´m sure, the toilet queue was very long, whats a guy to do?


It´s important to have background people, they are the ones that tie it all together, the sample ones here were sent to me by Fred from France (living in Ireland), he´s probably sitting in traffic, Hi Fred

Sand can get into some strange places, all by it´s self, be caeful!


2 Lovely couples, only one couple i can look at without colapsing

Moving more into Mexico

Night time San Francisco



I was out for a walk in Ensensda and stopped in for a Taco and beer by the fish market.

A little 3 year old comes out with a bowl of lemons and goes across the lane to a guy making jewellery, he´s looking all confused, the waitress comes out and tells the kid to give the lemons to me. He does so and goes inside, what kind of tip do you give to a 3 year old waiter, it was funny to all.

Later he comes out with Chips and salad mix, doing a better job this time.

He appears at the door later and asks ´Álgo mas´, i tell him i´m ok.

San Francisco


Later he appears at the door and something to me, i couldn´t make out what he said, the word was too big for hime to say.

I ask the waitress, she says ´Do you want your ticket?´, he whould have said ´Queres la quents?´

A Nee Naw is on the way in San Francisco

It was very funny, i had to go back next day, funny 3 year old waiters is a great way to attract business.
I gave him a ´Ädios amigo´ on the way out the door´, very funny.

P.s.
It´s very comforting to know god is pro America, i know this because an ultimate fighter said so. USA ! USA ! USA ! USA ! (As Cartman would say) Kick ass!

Got to Rosario, found a computer now this

Fireworks San Francisco 2008

Went out the other night, ok, i was walking around, the place was dead, i found 2 guys having a beer, so i made introductions and conversation started to flow.

Mr Steve - From the San Diego Zoo

Ok, one of the guys i met was Mr Steve (this is not his real name)
Mr Steve works for the San Diego Zoo, he transports animals all over the world for his zoo. Mr Steve was in India delivering Rinos and all the Indians thought he was Steve Irwin, Steve Irwin had been dead for some time at this point. All the Indian guys were taking photos of him telling him ´This is the happiest day of my life Mr Steve´ and taking photo´s of him with their camera phones.

So had to get a photo, i too told hime it was the happiest day of my life, not to be undone by some indians. He looked happy.

North beach San Francisco


Mr Steve and his buddy Edgar left and the story continues, i being by myself went over to 2 Americans and asked them if they would mind if i joined them, one of them looked very stern and said ´I would´, right so said i and went back to watching ultimate fighting, Tito Ortiz was doing the business, Dolly Parton was singing, Monday night 10.30pm

Later he came over to me and said sorry, so here goes

Admiting your wrong can be a good thing. Interested??? Read on.
By him saying sorry made it all better, so i´m writing this, so don´t forget it, if your reading it, remember it, coz it´s true. Try it out!!

Noticed this while having a beer in Enselada

I was supposed to meet Mr Steve in the morning, but instead went out met and English guy, played pool, had my Credit card eaten by a machine, they should feed those machines.

The funny thing is i have a duplicate card, brand spanking new, and banks here destroy all cards, so everything is ok.

The card that was taken was damaged in Columbia and i requested a new one, but it still worked, so it´s take 2 (takes a sigh of relief)

Got to San Diego, the journey continues.........

Podge and Rodge, a scare at bedtime



Sent out a message to the couch surfers in San Diego, Emery Dawson replied, all was good. Emery drove me all over the place and then we went to meed up with his buddies and watch football, the American kind, i had the Buffalow wings and Pipeline beer, oh what joy.

Later we went to a club called Blow, which was quite funny because I was in the same club the night before and i heard a guy doing blow in the toilets (flushing the toilet 4 times in 10 seconds is a bit of a giveaway, and not many toilets will flush like that either)

Hoover Dam, part of


Met some of his friends, some of them were in Iraq and are going back, after the club blow, some of them were of to TJ (Tijuana) to get blow jobs, at 2am, 40 minute drive to the border, they must have been keen.

I thought i didn't get any sleep that night, but when i woke up, 2 more of his friends were asleep in the same room, and they wouldn't have been very quiet, i must have slept like a log for that bit.


My Boa Constrictor bracelet


Emery dropped me off for the train to the border, i walked across, i was having a read of the guide book for Mexico eating a taco and a guy came up to me and told me that 'The bible is better', i wasn't going to disagree with him

Hoover Dam, honest, dangerous work


Even the Mexicans were complaining about the heat, this is not Ireland.

Every second bar in San Diego is an Irish bar and i was thinking yesterday, Mexico no Irish bars, it turns out theres one around the corner here in Ensenada.

All the little moments add up to something great

Outside the Venetian Casino



Now pay attention while i tell you something, well that what it seemed like to me

Living each moment, walking the streets of Grenwich village, the F-16 fighters flying over Fenway park for the first game of the World series, seeing the Canadians play in Montreal, walking over the Golden Gate bridge, walking into Mexico.

Yes these are the things of life. No more, no less. Perhaps if you can come to realize this thing, these simple small moments and acts contain all of it, the sum total of all your life, you'd begin to feel the lushness and richness in what is called the incidental, the trivial....the moment.

Back to Vegas, you cannot escape

Elton John is coming to Vegas next month, he's the only act to sell out and i was thinking.
He probably wouldn't sell out if he wasn't gay. If he was straight people would be like 'He's so gay', because he's gay, people are like 'Lets go see Elton John' and they do = sell out

Unveiled at the Electronics conference, a leopard skin tazser with a built in mp3, handy eh?

Can i have one, can i have one? I've been very good most of the time, and now Mexico is upon me.

The house scene in the Movie Casino, is Elvis house

In San Francisco all the Tarot readers and palm readers were going to have a get together in the park, but it was rained out. Obviously none of them saw it coming. Couldn't they have looked at the weather forecast?

In Mexico, but let me tell you about Vegas, Las Vegas

52 Stories over Vegas



I stayed at the USA hostel in Vegas,
One of the guys staying there was a Journalist, he stil is, he was there for the Electronic conference, he
would come back every day with a watch, tons of free porn, passes.

It occured to me that there was so many similarities between Gold mining towns in Australia and Vegas,
everything in Kalgoorlie is from gold, and Vegas gambling, but they like to call it gaming, life's a game too, to me

There's so much money in Vegas, they have the biggest Harley Davidson store in the world, they converted it from a supermarket, it where Jay Lenno hangs out when he's in town.

Out by Red Rock (Outside the city) they have the first billion doller casino, off the strip. I was wondering how people would get there, to lose enough money, to keep the bosses happy, to keep everything ticking. A lot is the answer.

There's lots of Broadway shows there too, Phantom of the Opera, i saw it on Broadway, excellent. There's 5 circus de Soe, 5 if you dont mind, i dont know where they get the energy.

Break time

I read this by a Beat writer about what to do if someone is lying to you

If you have sincerity and compassion and say
'I don't think you are telling me the truth, it isn't nessicary for you to lie to me'
The idea is if people think you are not going to beat them with the truth, they won't tell you the truth.

But if you like beating people with the truth, put on your beating costume and beat on through the lies

Makes sense.

A recreated Venetian Square, in Vegas


Went to Mc Donalds last week because the TV man said it would be good for me and i ate it all, yummie

This is all recreated in the Casino, the roof is painted, this is the desert




I went to a Dermatologist.

Why you might ask? Well, my skin wasn't feeling too good, and i didn't want to be this side of the border with 'Dinky' skin, so i went, i got lost of stuff to rub in and do you know what? After putting up with my skin for the last 2 and half month's it's problem solved, 'Mission accomplished' as my friend George would say (Que back slapping and crowd cheering, and it only took me 2 months to do it, i might be a bit quicker of the mark next time, next time.



Inside the Venteian

More Vegas

Franny with my big win $0.20



Karinia and friends


Went to Vegas and met some pretty cool people through Couchsurfing.com
Went out to a bar with a Karina, the bar actually had music that i really liked.

In the US it's all R N' B, they get that, i dont get it, get it?

I got invited to a couchsurfing event, but i didn't have the number, because i deleted it, but i went out with Karina, all was good.

One of her friends wanted to go into a Casino around 2am, i stayed, i got back to the hostel around 6am, well it is Vegas, it has to be done.

Went out for a walk, not knowing what to expect or see, one of the casinos i went into, i was 2 tigers in a glass enclosure, one of them was yawing, and i'm thinking 'Oh a mechanical tiger that yawn's, that's pretty cool' and then it started moving, and then i knew it wasn't mechanical when it jumped on a rock. 7 hours into the middle of nowhere, they have tigers.

Flowers from a vending machine at the Rio casino


I went to 'The Venetian' and they had Gondalas out the front, going into the Casino, they recreated a Venetian square, the domed roof was painted like a blue sky, is there anything they cant do, in the middle of nowhere.

There's replecias of the Twin Towers, The Eiffel tower, a big Pyramid, it's all a bit unreal

Amanda and meself


I met up with Amanda, she brought me to a place called Red Rock for the sunset, very cool
Some people in the US are very nice, too nice.
Amanda was telling me about one of her friends that was sooo pissed one time that
she thought about not saying 'Thank you', you know, it cost's nothing to be nice

Franny with Mr Right, from the Chipppendale's, you cant see the nerve's


Went and played the .25c slots (slowley) with Franny and ordered drinks (free if your playing and we were slowley!!), with a $1 tip for every drink, nothing is free you know!
Franny decided to sell up in Hungary and move into the middle of nowhere, Las Vegas, the climate suts her, 25c is a cold day, not for me

I got to go to a Wall Mart with some people from the hostel on the way back from the Hoover dam, but before Wall Mart we went to Costco's.

Costco's is like a big wharehouse, where you can buy for example a huge tray of Sushi for $13, i did, the guys spent ages looking at labels, comparing prices, took a while, then we were told, 'You have to be a member to buy and it cost's $70 to join' , it was going to make the cheapest sushi in the world all of a sudden, the most expencive, we left.

Club, Ruby Sky in San Francisco


To wall mart, more of the same from the boys, time was ticking on, we spent more time shopping than at the Hoover dam, Wall Mart is very cheap, they have good wine for $2 , but this is evil, you pay a high cost if your a local business

In Vegas, on the main strip, there's always loads of Mexicans handing out flyiers for hookers to be in your room in 20 minutes, hell they must be keen, they must be getting around by helecopter? Haven't they heard of traffic?

Sunset on the Golden Gate


In Vegas, i learnt what locals thinking of American Natives, it appears the way they were is very differnt to what they've become and it's a differnt one to the story told in DC, before the government was screwing them up, now they're doing it all by themselves.
A guy in Vegas covering the porn star awards was doing interviews on of the questions was 'What do you think of American girls?', 'What indeed?'

Left on the 10am bus to LA, getting to LA at 5.15 (Vegas is very far from anything) I would have gotten the 8am bus, but i found a bottle of wine that i bought at Wall Mart and decided to drink it with another guy playing pool at 2am (Wall Mart is evil, see?)

Only moving National Heritage in the US

More tales from San Francisco

Heads up




Met Lots of interesting people hangng out at the Green Tortoise in North Beach, all because of the rain.
It's not all that near the beach, but it is a cool area.

It does have the 'City Lights Book Store', this was the first book store to sell the Beat generation writers and have anything to do with Alan Ginsberg's 'Howl', very conserative people in the US

Went over to Castro, a big gay area, so pretty. Heard a guy about 50 years old on the phone
Him: I like Stephen more, you know, he's a healthy guy, with a healthy sex drive

That's Castro

Went to a shop selling old posters one was 'Valencia tramp' by 'Amelia L'Amore'
'Men were her willing slaves, but for love - she turned to women'

There was a cartoonist in the hostel that drew some crazy stuff, he was telling me about his coked up model girlfriend.

This is how they met, or should i say, the first time they met.

She squrts a full glass of liquid when she comes and i'll get to the US Marine story after that.

She is sitting on his knee, her friend was masturbating her. He needed to go and sleep in his own bed, while he was walking home, his shoe was making a funny noise and he was thinking how the hell his shoe got wet.

To the Marine, he told me he was with this girl and
Her: I'm coming,
He's thinking: 'Oh yeah, that's cool'
Her; No, i'm coming

Liquid everywhere, the place is drenched

Walked through Cstro in the day time, i was told i am a good looking man, thing's were looking up

Alan Ginsberg's organ, it was one of his least favourite organs to show people


Nice play of words 'He got the messages long before he could understand the words'

Strange tales from San francisco

Alcrataz



Fireworks in San Francisco


I was in the Green Tortoise in San Francisco, and since it was raining people were all talking a little earlier than usual.

This Italian from New York goes to Italy, the old country, there's more than 1 you know
and was having his cereal in a restaurant one morning, his name was Mikey, something was a bit off, we pick up the story when he calls the waiter over

Mikey: There's something wrong with this cereal
Waiter: Oh thats probably the goats milk, it's an Italian tradition
Mikey: Give me regual milk
Waiter: Just try it
Mikey: No, Give me regual milk
Waiter: Just try it
Mikey (Hands waving): Why dont you try my balls

Met up with a chick Nora through Couchsurfing, went to see her on Haight s. They were hosting a guy from Boston that wants to teach Africans how to make recycle clothes.
We made tea and walked around, it was a lot of fun, no alchol, a good thing.

After walking around for a bit i went for the bus.
Nora decided she was going to hitch hike up the road, about half a km, heaps of Taxi's stopped for her, Nora's response was 'I'm hitch hiking', they declined to help, it was very funny.
A girl stopped, and the 2 of them were dancing, all good fun.

Then a truck stops, Nora jumps in, and she's waving for everybody to join her, except no one wanted to, i was too tired.

Fishermans wharf at night

The girl goes over, opens the door and tells her to get out, a paper falls out, the guy from Boston goes over and picks it up puts it in the truck and comes back with a DVD.
Now i'm thinking, he's stolen it and hell is going to break loose, except the, he said the driver gave it to him, Green light, truck drives off, bye bye Nora.

Nora was sober, i was tired, a very strange situation.

I emailed her, she told me the party she went to was 'Fun Crazy, then Crazy fun' and the next day she got nocked down.....by a wheelchair.

Popular activity in San Francisco, Ghost Riding

South of the border down Mexico way

Vegas water show



It's been a whale of a time and a while since i last wrote anything, i did do a signature last week for something and i did a scribble, the other person looked at me and said 'Is that it', me, 'yeah'

Except for that nothing, now, this

But some advice:
When you dont forgive, it's like you take the poison, hoping the other person will die

Made a point to check out my year of birth in the Chinese calender, it appears that i am a fire snake
Fire

* The South
* Summer
* Vermilion Bird
* The Planet Mars
* The Color Red
* Circulatory system & Heart
* Dynamic, Humanitarian, Energetic, Passionate, Enterprising, Adventurous, Restless
* Competitive, Leadership Skills, Strong, Single-minded, Loves a good laugh

Fire Governs the Snake

Snake (Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Fire): Deep thinker, wise, mystic, graceful, soft-spoken, sensual, creative, prudent, shrewd, ambitious, elegant, cautious, responsible, calm, strong, constant, purposeful. Can be loner, bad communicator, possessive, hedonistic, self-doubting, distrustful, mendacious.

Got to Muir woods and Sausalito.

.............and now i'm going to tell you about it.

Not really much to tell, the bus picked me up, the big one, we went to the office, i paid, i got in a little bus, the 'Driver' drove the bus, it's all what you'd expect, the wheels went round and round, do you see where i'm going with this? No? Neither do i.

Anyway got there, oldest trees in the world, pissing rain, off i went walking, there's no signs saying 'This is the oldest tree in the world', because, and when i herd the answer, it really mad sense.
People would take their penknives out and write 'KEVIN WOZ ERE 2006' of 'KEVIN LVZ STEPHENY', our friend Kevin should learn to spell proper, don't you think?

Called into Sausalito on the way back, now before i dive in here, let me tell you.

Once you cross the bridge, your in Marin County, yipee

The average house in Marin county is 900k, and thats cheap.

The chic i was talking to in the art gallery i called into told me she pays $2500 per month for a 1 bedroom apartment and there's a 3 year waiting list, she when she goes traveling she has to keep paying rent or else she has to start all over again, with her dog, people love dogs here.

A guy i met in Toronto in a bar called 'The village idiot' told me about how he used to wake up on the weekends and have coffee on his balcony and isten to Van da man composing songs.

Santana, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead were his neighbors too, he's now an assistant to high court judge's, cant tell them stories, no, no, no. Crazy parties, you could only imagine

Going to buy Neil Cassady's autobiography 'The first third' , well it's something !!
Got to know more about that crazy guy, and buying his book is a good way to do that, makes sense when you think about it, but don't think too much, you cold get a headache or something??

It's raining more than i would expect, and i'm writing more than i would expect, maybe there's a connection, Rainman

I should go to the Mission, but that might be 'Mission Impossible', it likes to rain here, i like to let it, Hell yeah, the wetter the better

Since it's raining so much all i've been doing is writing, maybe i should stop, and let new things happen, and then i'll write about them

Ok so

In step the Native Americans to make a stand

These guys are here too




Everything was going well, well not really, it was 1969 in San Francisco until, the Rolling Stones were just month's away from plaing a concert on Dec. 6, 1969.

Four people died at a hastily arranged free concert headlined by the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway, between Tracy and Livermore, Northern California.

It's Octoberfest in Germany

It's October in America
October 9, 1969 - American Indian Center in San Francisco burns down. It had been a meeting place that served 30,000 Indian people with social programs. The loss of the center focuses Indian attention on taking over Alcatraz for use as a new facility.

November 9, 1969 - Mohawk Indian Richard Oakes leads an attempt to occupy Alcatraz Island twice in one day. Fourteen Native Americans stay overnight and leave peacefully the following morning.

November 20, 1969 - The 19-month occupation of Alcatraz begins when approximately 80-90 American Indians - mostly college students - take over the island.

The security guard was heard saying 'Mayday, mayday, the indians are attacking', must have been a funny sight.

Since the island was unoccupied, the natives were going to use it, you can read their proclamation

When the lighthouse, burnt down, some say it was a rouse by the government to kick the natives off, all 15 reamining indians. The indians were kicked off, the ships needed the lighthouse.

What happened from the demonstration was some people found out for the first time watching tv that they were indian, Nixon stopped taking Natives from their reservation's, the government secretly wanted to take the reservation's back and get rid of any Native American identity.

By moving them about the country with the promise of Accomodation and good jobs, it's interesting that the English did the same in Ireland to break the freedom struggle and resistance fighting

This backfired when Native Ameicans went to colleges and mixed with other intellectuals

How they managed to keep any identity is a miracle, the same was done in Ireland

Further Ameican history reading

Well done you've made it this far !!!

Now for a bit of Podge and Rodge

Went to Alcatraz and i made a few notes.

In walks the school teacher wearing her Corset, it's much too tight,really and says
'Now sit down and pay attention children, let's continue'

Ruby Sky last week


Alcatraz
The prison-island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay is named for pelicans that roosted there.

Prison guards living on the island never locked their doors.
Colerado is the new maximum security prison....brr

There was quiet a few escape attempts, the most famous one was where 3 prisoners cut 3 big holes out of the, made paper mache covers to simulate vents to unsuspecting guards.

They made models of their heads for the prison guards to count on their rounds, so that they wouldn't miss them, thoughtful eh? And made off, never to be seen again.

What's intereting was they were learning Spanish, the heads are being preserved and being kept as evidence, it appears 'Uncle Sam' would like to put them in another prison if they were ever found, doesn't matter that they would be in their 80's.

One of the funnier escape attempts was a 'Everybody swims for it' attempt, but one of the guards heard of this and said it was ok by him, but added 'Watch out for the man eating sharkes', everybody went back to work.

It appears Al Capone spent 4 years in the hospital on the island, no on knows what cell he had, strange that?

The food was the best in the counrty and it was also pleasing to the eye, it needed to be as the most dangerous people in the counrty had forks, knives and spoons in their hands

When it was built the government believed Jail should be about punishing criminals, that changed when popular public opion held that 'Prisoners should be reformed'

JFK ordered it to be colsed as it was too expencive to maintain, and they coldn't keep dumping sewage into the bay, No, No, No!!
Water had to be brought from the mainland, 250,000 twice a week, seem's like a lot, doesen't it?

Other inmates were
The Birdman, he never kept birds on Alcatraz, he wasn't very popular, but he was very intellegent and highly educated. He might have been an exception to the rule 'Stay in school kids'
Machien gun Kelly was thought of as a very nice fellow, never gave any trouble.


The exercise was the best place in the prison, the prisoners came up with their own version of Bridge and some guys obsessed with the game. It would appear it was a reputation thing going on here. Guys were so obsessed they would go to the exercise yeard on really cold days and play for 3 hours, the cold obiously was the last thing on their mind.

One of the inmates was taught by his grandmother to Croche, so he taught other prisoners how to do it, so there was heaps of tough guys crocheing. must have been a funny sight.

One of the worst things about the rock was being able to smell Chocolate (there was a factory by the south end doc), you could hear women laughing, music and see ships come and go with great views. And all the time your locked up in a cage most of the day.

Found a reference to this, it's useless information, my style 'Introducing the Hell Fire Club'

Strange tales from San Francisco

Today's lesson is 'Quite people that never cause trouble, never make history'. Go and make history!!!

Lombard street became about in 1922 to stop people flying gown it

It appears in one of the greatest car chase movies with Steve McQueen 'Bullitt'

San Francisco has 120,000 dogs and 110,000 kids, yesterday i passed a day care centre for dogs where the owners can log onto the web cam and check up on their dog, just like for kids, but for dogs.

Now for the history stuff, Cornel Freemont was sitting on a hill looking out the bay and the sight reminded him of the 'Golden horn'

1848 Jun 5, Army officer John C. Fremont submitted his “Geographical Memoir” to the US Senate where the SF Bay entrance was called Chrysopylae (Golden Gate). He had in mind the Chrysoceras (Golden Horn) of Constantinople, and suggested that the SF Bay would be advantageous for commerce.

So the strech was known as the 'Golden Gate' before the bridge was built

The Wharf next to the South end rowing club used to be part of hightway 101 before the bridge was completed as that was the way to get on a ferry across, now you can see old ships on display there.

How much information can my head hold?

I've been learning stuff again, by my self this time, i've graduated from Baywatch teaching me stuff, to doing it all by my self, natural progression you'd think, an extention to 'Intellegent design' all you religious nuts might say.

I digress

San Francisco, San Francisco, where do i start, well with the name i suppose, start at the start.

It turns out the Bay got it's name before the city and the city name was changed to reflect this.
The city and bay are named after St Francis of Assassi

Someone in 1848 discovered gold in a sleepy Mexican village called 'Yerba Buena' and the population shot up to 30000 in 2 years, and the name of this village was changed to San Francisco, it would seem the Spanish were very holy fellows indeed and liked to go to places that had Saint names, Yerba Buena doesn't sound too holy, they fixed that one, onward christian soldiers!

Another problem they encountered, the west and east wasn't joined by a railroad, in step's 4 shopkeepers to finance this, they were known as the "The Big Four", the big 4 referred to themselves as the "The Associates".

The next problem was the gold rush, with a fortune to made in the hills, not too many white people were going to work on this railroad, announcing the arrival of Chineese.

Strange it would be the arrival of Chineese from er.. China that would make the railroad possible, and it turns out they were better workers too.

Hi Jinx in the club, Ruby Sky



In Australia when the gold rush was on, a lot of lighthouse men stayed at their posts when the goldrush was on, they were the most important people in the country as after sailing all the way from Europe, the last few kilometers were the most dangerous, so many ship's full of people sank, this was a time too when:

1, Not too many people swam, not too many wanted to get lessons from the fishes either
2, They were paying english people 10 pounds to go there, Irish got 50 lashes (good tricep's workout)
3, They needed to get the population up to 20 million for the country to work
4, It's not very encouraging to go if you think you might not make it

The Chineese stayed to work on the railroad, yipee!!!

Now to the Interesting stuff, Alma Spreckels AKA 'great grandmother of San Francisco'

It turns out after being poor for her whole life, she wanted a rich man, and she found one, she wanted to get married, he didn't, he had Syphilis, 5 years lated he married her (she must have did a fair bit of convincing) and then she took off to Paris to spend spend spend and live it up.
The guy she married was the heir to the Calafornian sugar company, and the term 'Sugar daddy comes from this pairing.

She didn't stop there, she built the biggest house in San Francisco, it takes up a whole block, now the writer Danielle Steele lices there, with her 48 cars parked out on the street, much to her neighbours frustration and the're not even good cars, all ordinary cars.

More thoughts, before i forget

Moon buggie



More thoughts on San Francisco

Walked one morning to the bridge (my first time) is was only a few inches on the map, the map wasn't to scale, what could go wrong.
I'll start of by saying i forgot my camera, you see my camera is what distinguishes me between a visitor and a local, my status in society was taking a turn for the worst, not to worry, it was a crap day for photos.

On my second attempt, this time by bus (very nice) i had a perfect day with new batteries.

Lots and lots of cool houses here, where do people get all the money.
Alcatraz was booked 5 days in advance, not many inmates could have predicted tourists paying money to go there, over 1 million people a year go, this year 1 will be one of them.

Wright brothers plane


Went on a night tour around the island, not bad for $10

Moving to a hotel today, not sure i sleep is on the agenda, but it's covered. Now i can sleep during the day if i like, oh what joy :)

Alis Gloves

Hills here aren't as bad as Cork, 'You call that a hill', walked down the windy hill, Steve Mc Queen drove down, all you movie buffs know what i mean, if you don't, it's 'Lombard st'

Went into a Beat Museum.
Ken Keasy 'Lets see who we are, lets turn this thing on and see what kind of shadow we have'

Allan Ginsberg
'Turn on, tune in, drop out'

Oh yeah went to a club called 'Ruby sky' and they had acrobats and dancers, pretty awesome and then they stopped serving beer at 2am (San Francisco -1 point)

Made it out of North Carolina and had my first biscuit

Things i learned this week for a beat writer Wulf Zendik
A thing is only as good as it is good, no longer. A thing is only as bad as it is bad, no longer.

If a thing isn't mutual, mutually gratifying, it's not alive, it isn't alive - It stinks, like all dead things

The worth of a relationship is a direct proportion to the honesty practiced in the relationship.


Trouble is all baddies have goodie smiles.

Now to the travel bit, or just staying on someones couch for a week and a half, it was a bit a haze, a happy one at that, but it's nice to be getting up at 9am again instead of going to bead at 6am, very nice, i must be getting old and it's ok by me.

It was a 13 hour bus ride, i had high expectations (sort of) and i had a blast.
But as i might have pointed out before, too much fun is no fun, it's a fine line, i had enough fun, time for reality, i call it reality time.

I was there for Christmas dinner, before the dinner and after the dinner, only 1 Kieran was awake, i did my best to stay awake, then i joined the slumber party, sleep rocks!!! Then it was off to the West End for quality at the right price drinks with KT and Seth and the crew and, i'll stop there.

No i wont, had a 5 course meal with one of KT's friends Taylor, who told me lots about her boyfriend, on the last night she was telling me what a 'Douche bag he was, that's love i guess, and i'm guessing ??

How could i forget, mold in the basement, if you have enough mold, it could be a living and thinking organism, i was back upstairs on the couch, could be a good idea for Stephen King

How could i forget playing air guitar by day and 'Guitar Hero' by night after the pub activity, i totally 'Get it' now, totally

Went to 'Bo Jangles' biscuit (basically a cross between a muffin and a savory bun, with out the burger)

I got 25 Buffalo wings delivered for $12, o what joy!!!! On the money

Went to a party with Big John, tacky jumpers were required attire. Honky tonk music was the go here, for a while i thought they were joking, but no this was the party music. Burnt the jumper on the bonfire, or should i say John did, it will be another 50 years before it's back in fashion, no loss there.

Thats other cultures for yea. Don't mention 'Cultures', cause someone will mention 'Mould', pass the cheese please, ahhh, thats better :)

Seth was telling me about Muir woods, will have to go.

Met 2 Aussies and they went for a Bus tour and one of them was asleep the whole way, his buddy woke him up going over the Golden Gate Bridge, it's nice to have friends like that

Arrived in San Francisco, no flower in my hair, i have a few flower tattoo's, should be enough, flower power man!!!

Heard a Motown song flying into San Francisco, 'It's cheaper to keep her', very amusing


Went walking to the Bay Bridge, passed a golf course 'Golf tip of the day' said the following.
Practice swings don't really help, just hit it and get it over with.

Raw meat = Team war (one for all the vegetarians out to change the system of the 'Man')

Sea lion Jonao uses a brush to write the word rat in Chinese characters in preparation for the new year in Tokyo



Passed the rowing club by the south end and here is what they are about
'To be a South Ender is to love life, enjoy good food and drink, revel in the company of fellow members, throw great parties and be glad to live in the San Francisco bay area

Learnt this from a chic in a bar she has A=A tattooed on her wrist. Apparently it stands for Aristotle's law of identity, interesting.

Leaving DC and Game theory

Saw this chick hanging out and as you can see, i took a photo



Left DC
Clothes make the man, sweatshops make the clothes
Passed through 'Edgar Allen Poe' country, Richmond, better known for 'The Raven'

Charles Darwin got his ideas from an Economist, Adam Smith; he's on the $1 coin
Economies are pretty much survival of the fittest at a low level, so too is nature

Had a transit at a town called Richmond, it's a nice summer's day, not cold like New York or DC, I’m whistling while I walk and a guy says to me, 'Where dat good weed at', it was at nowhere, I was just happy, ok?

I'm reading 'A quest among the bewildered' by Welf Zendik and he's clearly off his game, and I’ll give you an example
'With the language we were talking we could have communicated if she was an Eskimo and I was an Orangutan'

Ever seen one of these fellows?

German saying 'It's pointless running when you are on the wrong road'

Game Theory
Reading 'A beautiful math', it's about 'Game theory', he explains why people, birds and fish watch fight's and why fights are more aggressive when people are watching, why because of REPUTATION
People watch fights to learn what to in similar situations and learn about possible opponents
People gossip because of reputation, why people help each other.
If you have a reputation of helping people, people are more likely to help them
I was thinking about 4 degrees of separation, from Polish soccer hooligans to the 'Brother's' hanging out in the corners of Harlem; they're all about their 'REPUTATION'

There were less white people there too

I read once that one of the hardest things to come back from is the loss of reputation, and I would tend to agree

Trust levels are a good measure of a countries economic growth

It gets interesting here
The invention of the Clock, which was commissioned by the Catholic Church, conditioned Scientist's to think about the world in mechanical terms.
Descartes and Galileo. Cause and effect system which paved the way for Newton to publish his Principia in 1687

Game theory is, in fact, all about understanding what choice would (or should) be made if all of the relevant information influencing the outcome of the decision is known.

Wharehouse party, ambient cave


Have to see what stage of the 90 days club I’m at; I could be banned if I join the 91 days club

A few things i learnt in DC, all by my self too !!!

Kermet de frog


Lincon
Impressive our boy Abe, I made a few notes. When I got to the Lincoln Memorial a park ranger was giving a talk, here’s what I can remember.
The battle of Gettysburg, the president of Harvard gave a 2 hour talk in the cold and rain, from memory and summed what the battle meant. 15 thousand people turned up, after 2 hours of this sort of thing, you'd be ready to head off to the pub, or what ever they had in those days.
Lincoln stands up, no one expects him to be there, and he’s taking a big security risk being there.
Lincoln reminds the audience that they are fighting to uphold the constitution

It was one of the greatest speeches ever made, it was printed in the papers and retold to the masses all over the country, and most of the country couldn’t read. The speech was meant to be retold in this fashion

Had enough yet? Don’t worry, there's more

Time came around to voting for a new president, the front runners were Abe (we're taking it all back) and some other general guy (lets give peace a chance, let them have the south), they voted for Abe and they were falling at a rate of 2000 a week

He signed an agreement that made slaves free if they dug trenches and cooked food for the war effort. This only made a handful of slaves free, but word got out and it wasn't long before people started heading north.

Window at Macey's

For Abe's 2nd inauguration speech he said that the South would not be punished if they rejoined the north and that people from the South that lost their husbands and fathers should be treated with mercy, a fellow by the name John Willks Booth, and wasn't to impressed and decided to shoot him 2 weeks later and he did. This speech paved the way for the South signing Amendment 13.

He had only 1.5 years of formal education, and was mostly self taught, reading at night with some smelly oil lamp didn't go down too well in his house
He wasn’t to popular when he started off, he had 17000 in his army fighting the Indians on the frontiers

He made slavery illegal for any new states in the US
He didn't have many soldiers and about 20 office workers to protest him when general Lee came up north to 'Have a few words' with him, word got out and the then US army headed out to 'Head them off at the pass' or Gettysburg, and they did, General retreated south to fight another day
Lincoln asked for 75000 volunteers for 3 months more as a sign of solidarity to the South

Window at Macey's

When the first train came down from New York to Baltimore, 20000 people rioted, Abe wasn't a popular guy
Lincoln suspended 'Habious Corpus', soldiers could arrest people speaking about rebellion and out went the trial by your peers, trial by military court, and they did, Lincoln meant business, he could do this as there is a clause allowing for this in case of 'Rebellion and Emergency'

General Lee the trouble maker

Abe's statue symbolism
His right hand is open, he's ready for peace
Left hand clenched, ready for war
He's holding a bushel on his left and right, symbolizes North and South, he's holding them
The marble from the memorial comes from all over the US
It's an emperor's chair
He's wearing ordinary clothes with the flag behind him
He's on the $5 bill

Window at Macey's

Went to see JFK's eternal flame (Old flames couldn't hold a candle to you), he's running up some gas bill (Marshmallows are strictly not allowed)

Went to the nations most sacred monument (the unknown soldier) and saw the changing of the guard, seems a bit excessive, compared to the changing of the guard in Sweden or Denmark, but there you go.

View from the Empire Estate


From New Hampshire to Canada and back New York to DC to North Carolina, it feels like I’m following the Fall, like the way the follow the Cherry blossoming in Japan, very cool.
Went to Arlington cemetery and saw JFK's grave, they gave him an eternal flame. He's racking up some gas bill, and you’re not allowed to stick any marshmallows on it, the environment people, and the environment!!

Insert Lincolns Gettysburg address an his second inaurgal speech

A little bit of English history, Lord Nelson, victorious at the battle of Waterloo. Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar (off of Spain)
The French were about to attack England, they were at war for about 20 years. Lord Nelson died by sniper fire at the battle of Trafalgar as depicted in the JMW Turner painting.

JMW Turner is England’s most celebrated painter, he came from the working class, when rich people went to hear him talk, and most couldn't understand him. Most of his paintings are in America too.
One of his painting was just a whole lot of colors blended in together, very cutting edge for it's time.

New York, New York


Went to the Natural History museum, we evolved from rodents it would appear, 40 million years ago big asteroids hit the earth, before you know it the Dinosaurs were dropping like flies, and the rodents that were living below ground came up, since they didn't have any predators, this was a good thing.

Friends on top of the world

If the evolution time frame was 1 hour, the time us humans were here would be 1 minute, which might explain a lot, now that I think about it.