safety first !!!

784 moto/vehicle/cyclists died on US roads in 2005. 92% of them died in crashes with other motor vehicles (720).
About 540,000 moto/vehicle/cyclists visit emergency rooms with injuries every year. Of those, about 67,000 have head injuries, and 27,000 have injuries serious enough to be hospitalized.
Bicycle crashes and injuries are under-reported, since the majority are not serious enough for emergency room visits.
1 in 8 of the moto/vehicle/cyclists with reported injuries has a brain injury.
Two-thirds of the deaths here are from traumatic brain injury.
A very high percentage of moto/vehicle/cyclists' brain injuries can be prevented by a helmet, estimated at anywhere from 45 to 88 per cent.
Many years of potential life are lost because about half of the deaths are children under 15 years old.
Direct costs of moto/vehicle/cyclists' injuries due to not using helmets are estimated at $81 million each year.
Indirect costs of moto/vehicle/cyclists' injuries due to not using helmets are estimated at $2.3 billion each year.

live wrong...

...lance armstrong + tour de france = yeah
...rosa parks + bus seat = sure
...anne frank + holocaust = whew
...jesse owens + '36 olympics = alright

ALL motivational in their own right to be sure...BUT, my paraplegiac buddy, tobias!!! f'kn rollin' into the Bolt Thrower pit during the coda for the killchain??? now THAT is inspirational!

i hate my uncle jake...

...he is SUCH a show-off!!! everytime he gets another high score and achieves mastery of yet another song on Guitar Hero he ALWAYS has to rub it in by taking another picture of himself and all the cool guns he has and stuff. he said once i can get thru Sweet Child O' Mine that he'll teach me to make beef jerky and take me riverboat gambling!

PERSPECTIVE (as defined by websters...):

per*spec*tive |per'spektiv|
noun
1. the appearance of an object so as to give the right impression of height, width, depth in relation to another object when viewed from a particular point.
2. sense of proportion

***this is also an important principle i am trying to impress on said 'friend'

a "good friend" is back on the market and dating...

...being such a rice queen and suffering from yellow fever, he keeps linking up with what aesthetically he wants void of looking deeper. all he cares about is some cool tat, big boobs or scantily clad dress. luckily he has me around to point out the finer details of his new/old ex-"girlfriend" he'd yet to sleep with and her lack of tucking in/complete pullback of the speedbag! yuck, look how shiny that thing is(???).

as parents, it's critical to maintain a sense of humor...

...respect due.

secret ninja pocket for smokes...

...there are ipod compartments in jackets, speakers integrated in hoodies, seat warmers for your ass, refrigerated consoles for your brewski's...and now FINALLY a tee for my phillie blunts.

give fleece a chance...

...a 'lil unexpected hair can often either be like the 'surprise' in the crackerjack box! or a fingernail in your milkshake!

rost in transration...

today we work on shapes...

...tomorrow, maybe colors.

is that an earlier model range rover?

...or a toyota forerunner?

in an ongoing effort for a balanced life...

...and in between tea time and that pesky genocide directive to initiate - silly 'ol hitler always found time to play a 'lil grab-ass. all work and no play? i think not.

go big, or go home...

not just for breakfast anymore...

now THIS is a motherfucker i can hang out with...

MAN-icures, sensitivity classes, targeted grooming products...

...hybrid cars, carbon footprint consciousness and the continued rise of the Metrosexual University - i say fuck all that.

raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens...

...again, a few more of my favorite things:

1. carney prizes won from achieving a bullseye
2. fishnets with the line that runs up the back
3. spendy, lacey lingerie from france
4. stuffed animals
5. 600 threadcount egyptian sheets
6. sectional chaise lounge's that have modular L-shape options
7. tattoo's
8. diamonds
9. gold
10. my grampa

...just maybe not SOMEONE ELSE'S f'kn grampa in the WHOLE COMBO!!!

your bible STILL makes great rolling papers...

people are assholes...

...look, i'm the first one to celebrate flying your freak flag - but if you're gonna do some stupid shit like impose your personal 'flair' onto children or pets without true mutual consent maybe you should fall on a big f'kn knife 33 times!

stardust in your eyes...

...aahhhhh the 60's, what an exciting and dynamic time!

* architecture was undergoing a refinement of Modernism

* pop art emerges

* maurice sendak writes & illustrates Where The Wild Things Are

* college campuses become centers for debate and enlightenment

* grade schools reintroduce phonics to battle slipped education in the 50's

* the birth of skateboarding, g.i. joe, slot cars

* gender equality, bra burning, birth control pill

* elvis returns from the army
* the jetsons, the flintstones, beverly hillbillies, i dream of jeannie

* long hair, handlebar mustaches, afro's

* go-go boots, mini-skirts, hot-pants, bouffants

* the space race, orbiting the earth, the first moon walk

AND:

** the Wide World of Sports regularly broadcasted top fuel races, in between that one piece of footage of the skier wiping out on the downhill.

...if you close your eyes, you can almost smell the 100+ octane!

bucket list...

...in this lifetime:

10. see the pyramids

9. walk the great china wall

8. climb everest

7. fulfill a child's dream

6. sing as if no one's in the room

5. dance as if no one's looking

4. be at one with the Lord

3. obtain abs like brad pitt's in thelma & louise

2. ride a unicorn

...AND

1. LIVE on dykes drive !!!

send more cops...

House of the rising sun...

...everywhere i look there's something brewing with these guys! i mean with the gallery shows, various product releases for young and old, ongoing artist hero documentary footage, nods from the outside, accolades from within, moonlighting on both highbrow and lowbrow blogrolls - these guys must be trying to take over the universe!

i can't seem to turn around and escape some sixth degree of separation (???) just tonight on my store trip in my zipcode (to a certain purveyor of organic & gourmet delights) it seems beyond being handicap accessible and their acceptance of all major forms of credit payment, even THEY were backing those guys! since the nite manager was nowhere to be found, i used to know this obnoxious kid they let hang around the studio...i'll ask him where i can get some of those nifty decals!