Thursday, August 28, 2008

This Is Bridge Town

I've forgotten about virtually everything to do with this movie, save this one scene. And what a scene it is.

Monday, August 04, 2008

Pictures As They Are Arranged On Flickr

I'm just going to dump these out here as I just dumped them on there before the end of the month.

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This is proof that not cleaning up after yourself can sometimes have beautiful consequences. This is the brush and bucket that I used the last time the sewer line backed up into the basement. Not knowing what to do with it after it had been used to scrub up raw sewage, I put it outside the garage door and promptly forgot about it - until a morning glory grew up the handle. It's even bigger and fuller now than it was in the picture.
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C-Man caught his first fish. Then, as it gasped for air, he swore that it was talking. Then a massive thundershower happened and we had to let the fish go while we fled back to the house.
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I hope to god that this is some kind of sculpture that I saw in Burlington, otherwise, we've all got an awful lot to be worrying about.
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I am a sturgeon. I am prehistoric. I poop out caviar.
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This was the biggest damn garter snake I've ever seen. Apparently I was pretty excited about it, too, as this picture sucks.
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This guy (or gal) is a soft-shell turtle. No word on whether or not they are as delicious as soft-shell crabs. I think that further research needs to be done.
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Aw. They love each other.
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I don't know what's going through this gentleman's mind.
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This is a burbot, or freshwater ling cod. I also took a video of a giant snapping turtle, but lately my uploading capabilities have been severely restricted.
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'At's a noice lookin schoonah.
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We had one microburst that was very scary.
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I was going to make a joke about losing the crops and bein' roont, but I didn't get the pictures put up soon enough and now the garden has more than rebounded.
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The shed took quite a beating, as you can see. I drove home through it, and it was about the scariest damn thing I've ever had happen to me. The sky turned green (which it does before a tornadoe) and there was lighting and heavy rain and even storm surges off the ponds and mudslides down the hills, and I rescued a lady that was huddling in the bushes with her bike (I wouldn't have been huddling in trees next to a metal object in that kind of weather!).
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I don't remember exactly what it was that spaceman spiff here was up to...
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Some more little woodland friends.
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WE took Connor pirate golfing for his birthday. I get the feeling that this dude wasn't the manliest man on the boat!
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The worst part about the water traps is haveing to use my cat-like ninja abilities to keep Connor from trying to put the ball in the drink - and down a waterfall and otherwise out of play.
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That's right. The pirates in this story weren't very nice to a baker. Right.
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This is some device that they would put the pirates in after hanging them, and apparently the pirates were more afraid of this than the hanging. They should have put them in it alive, as judging by where the cross-piece on this thing is, hanging would have been a mercy after five minutes in the crow cage.
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Post water balloon fight. Once the balloons were gone, it was time to play in the mud!
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Even though he sheds like it's going out of style, he's a pretty handsome dude.
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We've got a bunch of construction going on at work, and this little guy was out in the middle of it one morning when I got in - the day after there'd been some blasting. So I told the building director and he called in the DEC to come and rescue it. Any idea as to what kind of bird this is?
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I took video of the blasting as well, some of it was pretty awesome to watch. I hope the little friend here makes it though, even though according to laws of nature, he should be toast for leaving the nest too soon.
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Here's the garden a couple of weeks back. Since then, it done nothing but rain and even though that's caused all the plants to double and triple in size, nothing's ripening up like it should. We need some hot weather.
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I sat on the porch and enjoyed a nice cigar a couple of weeks back, and for some reason I felt very uncomfortable about some aspect of it all, but couldn't put my finger on what it was. Any ideas? Penis.