OK- last one for tonight- Archives IV

Some bands that I've shot over the years....


Los Lobos....

The guy who played piano bar @ the resturant by the airport in Hayward....

These guys looked tough but knitted back stage to calm their nerves....

Angel from Mystic Rage

I forget who this was. tell him to turn around...

This is my Neighbor from Hayward- he put out a rap cd- but I guess you didn't think it was country...

This is Ron E. Lee and Bundy Brown of Ron E. Lee & the Blues Family out of Fremont, CA Great music, but Ron was a troubled soul- still owes me a few bucks.

From the Archives III

And yet more- I really should clear out my old shoe boxes more frequently- then I wouldn't dump all this stuff at once- oh well...

Some shots from protests I covered in the late 80's in Berkeley and SF

I wonder if this Indian is the naked burglar from Cottonwood?

I remember thinking when I shot this- he looks sooo bored. He just comes to the protests to meet hippie chicks.

From the Archives II

More stuff-

A house fire in Hayward, CA- not much left as I remember





Hayward cop, really nice guy named Bennie, killed in the line of duty by some wacked out druggie with a knife- some shots from his funeral

Photos from the archives

Lots of different stuff- some news, some sports, some, well, stuff.




High school basketball- 90's

Here are some shots from the Cypress Structure, Oakland, CA 1989- The Loma Prieta Quake leveled the overpass- these are some of the rescue workers just hours after it hit.



Taking a break from looking for bodies



This guy was interesting to talk to. He was a bus driver who pulled up to the site just before the fire trucks arrived. His bus was empty so they were using it as a mobile morgue.

On a Lazy Afternoon...

What a great day to relax- a hectic week is over and a new one won't start until tomorrow. Surfing the net, reading blogs and exploring my hard drive. I found some old pics - see what you think. I really miss the beach.



Taken with a sub-1 meg floppy disk camera- quality not great, but it was a great day on the coast.

Was it something I said?

Is this some sort of trend? New fad? Remember back in the early 70's the streaker craze? The most famous being the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony with david Niven. It appears as though nakedety (the act of being naked- use it enough it will catch on) is back in style. See my post Wet pants and other problems -

I recently heard of another case of nakedety (see, it's almost a household word now) in Chino Valley, AZ from a server at a local establishment (she'll kill me for this picture, but Oh well).


Chris was working one night when a guy walks in and takes off all his clothes. Everything. He's standing there in his nakedety and orders a beer.

The nerve. Everyone knows that when your stark naked the only appropriate drink to order is tequilla.

So she booted him out. Well, her and the threat of La Migra.

I found the following on-line courtesy Associated Press:

No Shirt, No Shoes and No Pants Means Jail
Sat Oct 8, 8:36 PM ET , AP
No shirt, no shoes — and no pants — has landed a Utah man in legal trouble. Last month the 51-year-old Sunset man allegedly entered a local convenience store in the buff on multiple occasions. Clearfield Police say in August he also made a trip through a restaurant drive-thru, au naturel.
City prosecutors have charged the man in justice court with misdemeanor lewdness. But now the Davis County District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of witness tampering, which could result in third-degree felony charges.
Police say that over the past week, the man has telephoned the same convenience store, asking for permission to enter the business naked.
He was attempting to talk clerks out of testifying against him, said Greg Krusi, assistant police chief for Clearfield.
Clerks called police, who kept watch outside the store. They witnessed the man approach the business, strip down and walk inside, Krusi said.
Krusi said officers arrested the man and booked him into the Davis County jail for allegedly driving under the influence, lewdness and telephone harassment.

Police Find Naked Man Hanging From Ceiling
Sat Oct 8, 9:13 PM ET
Police responding to an alarm at a cash advance business found a naked man hanging from the ceiling early Thursday morning.
An officer answering the alarm noticed tiles, insulation, wires and metal braces hanging from the roof and on the floor of the Check 'n Go, Darlington Police Lt. Danny Watson said.
A naked man with scrapes all over his body then dropped from the ceiling and tried to open the front door and leave, according to a police report.
"He had a charming story to go along with it though. He said somebody threw his keys on the roof and that's why he was up there," Watson said. "He kind of got a little fuzzy on the 'taking all his clothes off and sliding in the store' part."
Police think 22-year-old Michael Gilbert took off his clothes so he could fit through an air vent on the roof, Watson said.
Gilbert has been charged with burglary. The cash advance business doesn't keep money on the premises, police said.

So, nakedety is on the rise. Naked burglars, naked customers, and naked guys who fetch keys on roofs.

Why is it that I have yet to see a story about naked fashion models who get lost in Paulden and need to stop and ask for directions?

Learning and Other Useless Activities

I spent the other day doing what most people would consider “nothing”.

I on the other hand, felt that I put in a hard days work. I spent 12 hours without moving more that 10 feet or so, didn’t fall over once, and stayed awake most of the time.

I won’t get into the details, but I assure you it was not an easy task. It took great concentration and above average balance.

But part of me still thinks I could have been a little more productive, so in an attempt to better myself and grow intellectually I have decided that I will learn something new each day.

I decided that I will limit my search to the field of science. I know that’s a broad field, but I wanted to make sure the information I take in is worthwhile. I could easily have given myself no restrictions.

Memorizing football stats would fill the “learn something new each day” requirement. So would finding out how many beers a man could drink without using the restroom, or maybe how many episodes of Law and Order you could watch in a single calendar day. But I’m better than that.

I take my commitments seriously.

But if I had to guess, taking into consideration such factors as SVU, Criminal Intent, and Regular, not to mention NBC, USA, and TNT, I would have to say no less that 62. Yep- 62 episodes sounds right.

But I digress. On with the education.

When I was a kid my dad had a book that I inherited. It’s called The Way Things Work- An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology (copyright 1967, Simon & Schuster). In the forward the publisher explains that this volume is designed to “answer the question posed by the inquisitive child who wants to know how the vacuum cleaner or a refrigerator works.” The book is by no means a children’s book. It is designed like a text book with a page of text describing the item or process, then drawings and schematics detailing the item.

Also in the forward the publisher states that this book was originally published in Germany in 1961 under the title “Wie funktioniert das?”. I don’t speak German, but that sounds dirty.

Note to self- find German book store.

I digress again. Opening the book I think a random search, just seeing what catches my eye would be good.

On page 328 is the Juke Box. I like music- good place to start.

“Present day juke boxes almost invariably use 7-inch records played at 45 r.p.m. Magnetic tape recordings and other recording media have not "…hey wait a minute. 45’s?

I haven’t even seen a 45 in years. The book goes on to say how each juke box holds about 80 songs.. Heck, the one at Lucy’s has, like a million. Most ones I never heard of but a million of anything -even country music- is a lot.

I better find a new topic- page 440- Anaesthetic Apparatus- a machine used to put people to sleep before an operation. I found that reading these 4 paragraphs would do the trick.
No special machine needed.

I also learned that this book is so old that “Anaesthetic” isn’t spelled that way anymore- “Anaesthetic” is now “Anesthetic” or possibly “An aesthetic” or maybe even “Ana esthetic”.

Page 416- Intaglio Printing- read it 4 times, looked at the pictures twice- still don’t know what it does, is, or taste like.

Next.

Page 398- Detergents. Soap, how hard can that be? Oh, wait- the picture has a drawing of an oil well, a tub of paraffin, and shows sulphuric acid (which by the little red squiggly line on my screen I see is not spelled “sulphuric” any more). Now I’ve had some raunchy clothes in my day, but at no time did I ever need to use acid to clean them. Not when I can buy new ones anyway.

And what’s paraffin? It sounds like a flaky dessert. Something you might put Intaglio on.

Well, I have completed my task.

I have learned a few things today:

1- I do not like science

2- I may never use soap again

3- the English language changes way too much

I will now study the long term effects (affects?) of the Gravitational Force (page 212) felt between my butt and my couch while watching a Television, Colour page 166-169.

I thought it was “color”?