here we go again.....
10/08/2007
10/06/2007
10/05/2007
10/04/2007
10/03/2007
I Must Try Some of this Chili
Very Hot Spicy Thai Chili Causes Street Closures in London
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By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Super spicy chili sauce being cooked at a London Thai restaurant sparked road closures and evacuations after passers-by complained that the smell was burning their throats, police said Wednesday.
London Fire Brigade's chemical response team was called after reports that a strong smell was wafting from the restaurant in the heart of London's Soho district Monday afternoon, a Metropolitan police spokesman said, speaking anonymously in line with force policy.
Authorities sealed off several premises and closed roads. The Times of London described shoppers coughing and spluttering as firefighters wearing special breathing masks sought the source of the smell.
The paper said firefighters smashed down the door of the Thai Cottage restaurant and seized extra-hot bird's eye chilies which had been left dry-frying. It said they were being prepared as part of a batch of Nam Prik Pao, a spicy Thai dip.
"The smoke didn't go up into the sky because of the rain and the heavy air," The Times quoted Thai Cottage owner Sue Wasboonma as saying. "It's the hottest thing we make."
The police spokesman said no arrests were made in the case.
"As far as I'm aware it's not a criminal offense to cook very strong chili," he said.
10/03/2007
The Little Cafe by the Courthouse
Where I grab breakfast in the mornings right before my hearings. This place is across from the federal courthouse in Downtown Miami. Taken with my iPhone.
10/01/2007
10/01/2007
9/30/2007
It's Sunday and It's Raining....
It wasn't raining when I captured this image at the Morikami Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, but it sure is today. Enjoy your Sunday and stay dry.
9/28/2007
9/28/2007
9/25/2007
Something Sunny For A Rainy Day
The weather sucks over here. It's raining and damp. So here's a picture of something sunny....later infidels
9/25/2007
9/21/2007
9/19/2007
A Video for International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Classic skit from Monty Python -- the Expedition to Lake Pahoe.
Arrrrrr; Chiver me timbers. Yo ho ho a pirate's life's for me.
9/18/2007
Mike & Rudy
(Photo by Michael Hopkins, Gerlinde Photography, Davie, Florida)Photo of America's Mayor and candidate for President and yours truly. Taken yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
9/17/2007
Flashback - Janis Joplin
Try (Live at Woodstock 69)
She rocked like no other woman has ever rocked. What a voice!
9/14/2007
9/14/2007
9/11/2007
9/11/2007
9/10/2007
9/10/2007
9/10/2007
Mothra Invades Hialeah
Well it is actually a White Lines Sphinx Moth and it was actually in Miami Lakes, But I liked the headline....very Channel sevenish
9/07/2007
9/06/2007
9/05/2007
9/04/2007
9/04/2007
9/02/2007
Good Vibrations
I'm pickin' em up, how about you? A classic concert footage of all the original Beach Boys . . . enjoy the weekend!
8/31/2007
8/31/2007
8/31/2007
Happy Friday Infidels
Have a great weekend. Enjoy the sun and the BBQ cause after Monday, it's all downhill until the holidays in December.
8/30/2007
8/28/2007
8/27/2007
8/27/2007
Weather Report - Birdland
Last week I featured Cannonball Adderley. His keyboardist in the 1960's was Joe Zawinul who had success in the 1970's with the fusion group Weather Report which featured on the most talented bassists of all time (from South Florida no less), Jaco Pastorius.
Here's their most famous piece, Birdland.
Interesting note; in the 1960's, Cannonball was criticised a lot by the Nation of Islam for having a white keyboardist in his group. Cannonball retorted, "I don't care what color he is, as long as he shows up on time and can play."
Touche Cannonball. Joe's been ill lately, so hopefully he gets better and can return to performing soon.
See ya cats later.
8/27/2007
Have an Excellent Monday
Another week. Had some good time in the field, but now back to work. Later infidels.
8/26/2007
The Rain Song
What a better way to end the weekend but with this unplugged Led Zep tune....one of my favs
8/25/2007
Mojito Time
No early champagne celebration here. I'll have a mojito instead and when the evil fifo dies, then I'll have the champagne.
8/24/2007
8/24/2007
Have A Great Weekend Infidels
Start your day with some java. I did. Six Shots of High Test Tanzania brew.
8/23/2007
cannonball Adderley
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I discovered a record album in my dad's records. It was The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Live In Chicago. It was recorded in the late 1950's around the time that Adderley and a young tenor sax player, John Coltrane were sidemen for Miles Davis. This record changed my life and was my first exposure to jazz. Since then, I've bought nearly all of his recordings and he's truly my favorite alto horn player. You Tube has some great videos of him performing live so I'll share this one with you.
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from Wikipedia:
His educational career was
long established prior to teaching applied instrumental music classes at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cannonball was a local legend in Florida until he moved to New York City in 1955.
He joined the Miles Davis sextet in 1957, around the time that John Coltrane left the group to join Thelonious Monk's band. (Coltrane would return to Davis's group in 1958). Adderley played on the seminal Davis records Milestones and Kind of Blue. Davis had this to say of Adderley's style: "He had a certain spirit. You couldn't put your finger on it, but it was there in his playing every night." This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans's time with the sextet, an association that led to recording Portrait of Cannonball and Know What I Mean?.
A band leader
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featured Cannonball on alto sax and his brother Nat Adderley on cornet. Adderley's first quintet was not very successful. However, after leaving Davis' group, he reformed another, again with his brother, which enjoyed more success.
The new quintet (which later became the Cannonball Adderley Sextet), and Cannonball's other combos and groups, included such noted musicians as:
pianists Bobby Timmons, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul (later of Weather Report), and George Duke
bassists Sam Jones, Walter Booker and Victor Gaskin
drummers Louis Hayes and Roy McCurdy
saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Yusef Lateef.
The sextet was noteworthy towards the end of the 1960s for achieving crossover success with pop audiences, but doing it without making artistic concessions.
Avant-garde movement
By the end of 1960s, Adderley's playing began to reflect the influence of the electric jazz avant-garde, and Miles Davis' experiments on the radical album Bitches Brew. On his albums from this period, such as The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (1970), he began doubling on soprano saxophone, showing the influence of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter.
Adderley died of a stroke in 1975. He was buried in the Southside Cemetery, Tallahassee, Florida. Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" (recorded on Weather Report's album Black Market) is a tribute to his former leader.
8/23/2007
8/22/2007
8/22/2007
8/21/2007
Waltz for Michelle
Al Jarreau on his last album sang Bill Evan's "Waltz for Debby" and it was the first time I realized there were lyrics to this beautiful melody. The lyrics are fantastic and are appropriate to anyone who has a little princess.In her own sweet world
Populated by dolls and clowns
And a prince and a big purple bearLives my favorite girl.
Unaware of the worried frowns
That we weary grown-ups all wear.
In the sun she dances
To silent music-songs
That are spun of gold
Somewhere in her own little head
Then one day all too soon
She’ll grow up & she’ll leave her doll
And her prince & her silly old bear.When she goes they will cry
As they whisper good-bye
They will miss her I know
but then so will I.
Earrings made of shoestrings
Barbie dolls with blue jeans
Makin' cross eyes
Shakes me when I'm sleepin'
Did you ever see A kitten with an apron on
Stop 'n start his stereo
When she knows her brothers down the hall runnin'
'round and skippin' 'round
Because she's so,
She's so inspired
Then she's tired
Please put me jammies on
Daddy look at the rain
Can I go and play in the rain
In the sun she dances
To silent music-songs
That are spun of gold
Somewhere in her own little head
Then one day all too soon
She'll grow up & she'll leave her doll
And her prince & her silly old bear
When she goes they will cry
As they whisper good-bye
They will miss her I know
But then so will I.
8/21/2007
Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
This melody by Bill Evans has remained in my soul since I was a child and first heard it play on my turntable. This song is the epitome of the jazz waltz.
Enjoy infidels.
8/20/2007
Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street
Well it's back to school today and Stevie always gets me in a jammin mood. Love that 70's look dudes...
8/20/2007
8/19/2007
Talking Heads - (Nothing but) Flowers
Something to end your weekend with. It's back to school manana....
8/17/2007
One
One of my favorite U2 songs of all time for you infidels.
"But the one thing we can all agree, all faiths, all ideologies, is that God is with the vulnerable and the poor. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house... God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives... God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war... God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them." --- Bono
8/17/2007
Have A Great Weekend Infidels
A self portrait at Rose Petal Canyon . . . stay safe.....school starts up on Monday so it means I now have to do Third Grade Homework every day.... oh joy.... I thought I had to go through school once..... it never ends.....
8/16/2007
8/16/2007
8/16/2007
Preparame Un Cafe Caballo
The title of this post is what you may hear in a cuban cafeteria in Miami from someone who does not mince words and who enjoys calling caballeros (gentlemen) by an equine adjective -- i.e., Horse. Go figure.
8/13/2007
Happy Birthday Dad
My old man had he lived would have been 83 today. Here's a picture I took of him back when I was a young 12 or 13. This image is full of ghosts. In the reflection is me with a Yashica Rangefinder and my departed grandmother. That was my first camera I worked all summer to buy. My 1st foray into photography back when it was film baby. No flickr then.
My old man wasn't around to see his only son get married or have kids. He never met his grandkids Nicolas & MIchelle. I'm sure he's looking from above with a big smile. When things seem bleak and when evil forces try to hurt me, I know he's looking out for me.
My old man wasn't around to see his only son get married or have kids. He never met his grandkids Nicolas & MIchelle. I'm sure he's looking from above with a big smile. When things seem bleak and when evil forces try to hurt me, I know he's looking out for me.
I shot this with old Tri-X film and fortunately still have the negs which I scanned. It's one of those pics that can bring tears to your eyes as it captured a moment of time a long long time ago.
People will always come and go. Some will love you and some will hate you. But through it all, there's always your old man to guide and protect you.
So today when I open up my bottle of wine, I'll be drinking with him albeit in spirit. I hope I can be the old man to my kids that you were to me. You were and are the best. Love you always.
Happy Birthday Pop!
(1924-1994)
Love your son.
8/11/2007
8/10/2007
Spot The Looney
A good laugh to end the week is always good medicine especially with this classic Python sketch.
8/10/2007
ID This Shroom and Have a Great Weekend
Don't know what they are, but I wouldn't eat them especially in a tropical storm or during a sunny day for that matter.Have a great weekend folks.
8/09/2007
8/08/2007
Who's the Blonde Stranger?
Beats the heck out of me. She made herself visible to all at the Police Concert in the Front Row Section.....
8/07/2007
8/06/2007
8/05/2007
8/02/2007
8/02/2007
7/31/2007
James Taylor -- Sweet Baby James Live
Take a Break and Listen to James while you dream of women and glasses of beer.
7/31/2007
7/30/2007
'Still Crazy After All These Years'
One of My Favorite Paul Simon Songs .... and yes I'm still crazy myself infidels.
7/30/2007
Life's A Beach and then you fall asleep
wouldn't you rather be here than in your offices on a Monday? I sure would!
7/25/2007
Let Me Take You Down Cause I'm Going To ...
Eat a Strawberry?
Or watch the classic Beatle video from the Summer of Love which was 40 years ago ...
7/21/2007
We Jammin ....
Aint no rules, aint no vow, we can do it anyhow:
Ini will see you through,
cos everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice,
Jammin till the jam is through.
Were jammin -
To think that jammin was a thing of the past;
Were jammin,
And I hope this jam is gonna last.
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we wont bow;
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; jah - jah children must unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold.
Ini will see you through,
cos everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice,
Jammin till the jam is through.
Were jammin -
To think that jammin was a thing of the past;
Were jammin,
And I hope this jam is gonna last.
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we wont bow;
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; jah - jah children must unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold.
7/20/2007
Have A Great Weekend Infidels
I know my posts are less frequent, but I mainly post my images on Flickr which you can link too here.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the outdoors and nature to the extent you can.
And to quote Billy Joel, "Don't take any shit from anybody!" And I must add, especially from wankers, pissants, psychos, and pinkos.
See ya real soon ...
7/16/2007
Red Reef Park - Boca Raton
Discovered this beach over the weekend. Nice place to shoot. $ 20 to get in -- ouch! Got decent pics though.
7/14/2007
7/13/2007
Have a Great Weekend Infidels
Where Do We Go From Here?
Every day just gets a little shorter don't you think
Take a look around you, and you'll see just what I mean
People got to come together, not just out of fear
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go from here?
Try to find a better place, but soon it's all the same
What once you thought was a paradise is not just what it seems
The more I look around I find, the more I have to fear
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go from here?
I know it's hard for you to
Change your way of life
I know it's hard for you to do
The world is full of people
Dying to be free
So if you don't my friend
There's no life for you, no world for me
Let's all get together soon, before it is too late
Forget about the past and let your feelings fade away
If you do I'm sure you'll see the end is not yet near
Where do we go
Where do we go
-- P. Cetera (Chicago II)
7/11/2007
The Police Live - My Concert Review with Pics
I just wrote a detailed review with pics available here. A great show, even with the camera nazis harassing me. But in the end, I still got the shot.
7/10/2007
Wrong Turn in Pensacola?
Frankie the Great Blue Heron ends up in the Mojave desert near Vegas instead of on South Beach. Oh my!
7/06/2007
7/04/2007
7/03/2007
No More Bullcrap!
Oh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter
Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter
Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
-The Stones
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