- Hope for incarcerated people - check
- Latest and most ubiquitous hip-hop dance craze - check
- Mothers homeland - check
- Song from the most important rapper to come out of Oakland - check
With all of these ingredients you would think that I would somehow be a byproduct of whatever the recipe created... but No. No no no. This just doesn't come out right. Neither did I, perhaps, but back to my point. I thought the Thriller series was cute and all. Sure, give the guys some hope. Filipinos love to dance, I guess it makes sense. But Soulja Boy - Crank Dat? Does anyone else know the meaning of the lyrics?!?! 300 men singing and dancing to that in jail? Not Kosher!
Gas prices are ridiculous. But you already knew that. It costs nearly $50 to fill up my car... but I drive a Volkswagen Jetta! Unbelievable. This needs to be addressed by the next U.S. President. I'm surprised that none of the candidates have tied the issue of the war to the prices of gas. Doesn't almost every American need gas? Why wouldn't they use this issue to tie the American people to their campaign. Barack Obama briefly spoke about Exxon's 10 billion dollar - Quarter 4 earnings during last nights debate. He should have taken it one step further and addressed how that effects the working man. Shoot, I could've wrote the line for him (insert Barack debate voice): "Exxon, which has thrived in the Bush/Cheney administration... which has lobbied vigorously during my tenure in the Senate... lobbyists, which by the way is the main contributors to my opponent - Senator Clinton's campaign... has caused the prices of gas at the pump to sky rocket and is unacceptable for the working man here in Ohio". Loud roar from the crowd. "My opponent has taken millions of contribution dollars from special interest groups like oil companies and frankly America, that is unacceptable and the very reason why my campaign has not taken one cent from these lobbyists. If you support the lobbyists you're basically agreeing that these gas prices are acceptable to the working people of America. I denounce these prices, these lobbyists and my opponent doesn't". Loud roar from Cleveland crowd.
Perhaps there's a reason why none of the candidates have touched on the gas price issue. Maybe its too hard to challenge oil companies. Maybe we're too dependent on foreign oil. Either way, its an issue. A huge one in my book. If you wanna propose a Universal Health Care, fine. Thats a wonderful theoretical debate. But in the meantime couldn't we discuss a more day-to-day issue, one tied to the current war. Couldn't they at least pretend to throw out a plan for easing our dependency to foreign oil? I think the American people would really like to hear that plan. Thats just my opinion.
Anyhow, I was thinking about this blog post on my way to work. I had to drive in today because the BART station parking lot was completely full. I'd been tracking how many miles per gallon and how much each gallon cost relative to how much my BART ride is. Funny, because as I pull up to the Toll Plaza I get stuck behind this Eco-SUV, running on Bio-Diesal. My friend Nina was right. A long time ago she told me that it smells like Tempura behind these vehicles. They run on used vegetable oil! I had to snap a picture. Lets hope they keep improving on Bio-Diesal because really I'm getting tired of the other picture.
- Mila improvising when she's thirsty. (I know this ain't right, but come on, there's some humans out there who you wouldn't want to be sharing a public water fountain with either).
- Mila trying to figure how to turn around after getting on the fountain.
- Brother and sister practicing their "we're posing in front of graffiti in the Mission look". But actually I took this picture without giving them a queue. I think they were focusing in on commotion on the street.
- I attempted grow out my facial hair for exactly 6 days. I couldn't make it to day 7. Anyhow, KK liked this picture for some reason.
- I hope I wasn't an influence in him getting started, but in case I was - at least my brother is getting tasteful tattoos. This one is of an owl, our aumakua.
We stick together during hard times...
Outside of La Taqueria, 25th and Mission, San Francisco.
This is Mila's Kong. Its her favorite toy. A Kong would be the equivalent of a Rubik's cube for dogs. You stuff food into the center of this football shaped rubber toy. The dog then has to find an angle (or squeeze) to make food fall out. If you stuff this thing right you're looking at a solid 3 hours of work. Mila, (being the food driven wolf that she is) can usually crack a fully stuffed Kong in less than 45 minutes. Ah well, it's stimulation for her either way. Notice the left -hand-over-the-top-of-the-cylinder move. She learned that from watching me eat chicken.
I want to officially name this photo: "dog saliva on lense closely resembles UFO"
