A Rican Limerick

This limerick is about a guy I used to work with:

Miguel was a proud Costa Rican With an unusual style of speakin' He pronounced his Ys like Js With every accented phrase And he hated being called a Puerto Rican

The Adventures of Roundeye, Volume I

This photo is part one in the series The Adventures of Roundeye.

When we got married in January 2004 (damn, it's been almost a year!), we brought our friends along to the Philippines for our wedding and our honeymoon. My friends and I agreed that it was the best honeymoon we'd ever been on.

Needless to say, our friends' families were pretty fucking ignorant about our destination wedding. "You're going where? The Philippines? Don't you watch the news? There's terrorism there!" Of course, they were basing their assumptions not only on sensationalized American news reports, but also on US State Department warnings discouraging travel to the Philippines because of isolated incidents in the remote southern region. My response to all that lunacy was, "Oh come on... That's like saying 'don't go to Hawaii because of what happened in New York City on September 11, 2001.'"

Anyway, we made it a point to reassure their families of their safety by photographing their (mis)adventures.

Multiple Eargasms & Brain Chemistry

I've often wondered what we'd find if we were to track physiological changes in brain chemistry when experiencing multiple eargasms. Ever since I got this mp3 player, and these earphones I've been experiencing prolonged multiple eargasms. I'd have to say these indulgences are definitely having a profound effect on my brain chemistry. With the right combination of blues, funk, trip-hop & rockabilly, I've been able to put myself into such an elevated ecstatic state normally brought on by opiates. It's starting to affect my dreams to the point where I'll have these cosmic space funk symphonies in my head at night. If I could upload them to this blog, you know I would...

China's Miss Artificial Beauty

These fuckers are so goddamn retarded: China's Miss Artificial Beauty Some quotes from the article:

"Feng Qian who had doctors to thank for four procedures that added a fold to her eyelids, liposuctioned fat from her belly, reshaped her cheeks..." "The first runner up, Zhang Shuang, also 22, from the southern city of Changsha, underwent 10 procedures -- more than any other contestant -- including fixing her eyelids, nose, ears, breasts and upper and lower jaw as well as softening her skin and removing body hair." "Shanghai's Cheng Lili, also 22, second runner up, had six procedures including nose and breast augmentations"