Filed under: Daily Drawing | Tags: february, groundhog day, holidays, punxsutawney phil, spelling, woodchuck
PENNSYLVANIANS ARE BETTER SPELLERS
I’m sure that someone has made the argument that there is no wrong side of the tracks, just different sides. In rural PA there’s nothing but fields and trees on either side so that statement holds true; however, one might perhaps be unwise to take up residence right smack dab in the middle of the tracks. Just a thought.
Filed under: Picture of the Day | Tags: Linesville, Pymatuning, Spillway, summer, sunset
You know, I usually don’t like sunset photography. I mean, I’ve seen some pretty impressive images, but they all sort of look the same. Anyone who holds a camera at sunset automatically starts to think much more of their photography skills than they really should, and that’s sort of annoying to anyone who actually knows anything about the practice. Big deal, your digital point-and-shoot can automatically detect light and shadows and has the rule of thirds superimposed onto the screen so you’d have to try to fuck the picture up. But anyway, I think this is one of the better sunset pictures I’ve taken. I closed the aperture way down and you can actually make out the different layers of the sun, which is sort of neat. The image was captured at Pymatuning Lake in Linesville, just across from the Spillway that is so near and dear to my heart.
Filed under: Picture of the Day | Tags: danger, david carradine, nike air twilight, shoes, sneakerhead
The Nike Factory Outlet Store is to me what a Thai brothel was to David Carradine: irresistibly dangerous and dangerously irresistible. Can I help it that every time I go into a store I find some sort of fabulous deal on shoes I really don’t need but just can’t pass up? No, I can’t, so I know that I should just try my hardest to abstain from this indulgence, but the pain of an empty wallet just hurts so good when you’ve got fresh kicks on your feet. These are my latest (and perhaps greatest) purchase, a virtually unheard of pair of Nike Air Twilights with an adorable diamond motif. Here they are endorsed by my brother.
The expansive green pasture in the background of this photograph is part of my grandpa’s farm, where I spent quite a bit of time growing up. The tracks here were and are predominantly utilized by coal trains which directly contributed to my pre-kindergarten education and are perhaps more indirectly responsible for my extraordinary intelligence and well-roundedness today. I learned to count using coal trains. The number of cars usually didn’t stop at ten or twenty, so I had to figure out pretty quickly that my fingers and toes would only get me so far in the world of mathematics. Unfortunately, though, this was the peak of my computative ability. I am pretty terrible at math even with such a solid head start.
