San Succulent

Blue

At Jason's house, I woke up with this guy on my chest everyday. His name is Blue, and likes to jump out of second story windows.




Blue had this rad skull collar.

San Francisco, Day 1

Went to San Fran a few weeks ago. Finally got some time to edit some more images.

These images are details of Jason's house.

Michael Jackson Tribute Firework Show at Dodger Stadium 6/26/09

Last Friday, my friend Scott had some extra tickets to the Dodger game, and he had never been to Dodger stadium before. (He lives DOWN THE STREET...) He wanted to take me because the Dodgers are my favorite team. I had never been to a Friday night game since they started having fireworks after the game. (I am more of a Monday through Thursday fan). I had no idea that they would play a tribute firework show for Michael Jackson. Usually, firework shows are played to classical music, but hearing Jackson songs to fireworks made it the most AWESOME firework show ever! And they let everyone on the field.



This video is the finale of the show. If you have a short attention span for youtube (like me), the last 30 seconds are EXPLOSIVE...

Only one way to satisfy a craving...

I have been craving home made Mac n Cheese for a long time. It is a combo of my two favorite food items, noodles and cheese. But I have had really good Mac n Cheese from The South, so I can't just get it anywhere because it won't taste the same. (I won't even consider anything that comes in a box.) And The Pantry serves Mac n Cheese, too. I have been very tempted to try some for quite some time
Anyway, I got talking about Mac n Cheese yesterday, and the idea has been stuck in my head. Only one way to get it out of my head, is to get into MY BELLY!

Little butter, little flour, and some cheese.

Boil the noodles. Mix the cheese and noodles together and add an egg. Chinese people figured out the egg and noodle thing a long time ago. Long before Buddha.


Add more cheese, and bake for a few minutes so the cheese melts a little, but not too much.


WaLA. Paula Dean, eat your heart out.
P.S. This is probably the fastest post I have ever done from a great event. It made it to the top of my to do list for the night. I think I ate too much and I will probably call it an early night.

Tony Gemignani throws some pizza for his San Francisco fans..

Tony Gemignani was at a street festival I went to in North Beach, San Francisco.He was performing his world class pizza throwing skills for the crowd. One of his restaurants is in Little Italy.

Tony's Pizza Napoletana
1570 Stockton St
San Francisco, CA 94133-3306
(415) 835-9888




Giving some shade.

How to make friends, not enemies.

I have been listening to this audiobook by Dale Carnegie. I have learned a lot, and I already use some of these friendly gestures of advice in my own ways of handling people and seeing their point of view. If you have already read this book, it is a classic and never hurts to refresh some people skills.

Six Rules to make friends:

1. Be genuinely interested in what the other person is saying, just like how your dog is interested in you. Fake people stand out , and are no fun to talk to.

2. Smile. Changes the atmosphere in a room.

3. Use and remember the other person's name. Their name is the most important thing about who they are and separates them from everyone else.

4. Listen. It is about the other person's interest and stories, even if you do not get to say your part of the story.

5. Talk in terms of the other person's interests. Once you figure out what the OTHER person wants, you can work together to get what you want.

6. Do unto others as other do to you. Everyone wants to be appreciated. Scratch your back, you scratch mine.

Nixon Library

I went to the President Nixon's Library a week ago. They acted like the Watergate scandal was someone else's fault, but Nixon resigned anyway. Make sense? I didn't think so

Baby Genius'

Anthony and Dave, being genius'

East meets West

Do you have a lot of cousins? Maybe 2nd or 3rd cousins? Well, I have fifth cousins that are spread out across the country and they came out for a family vacation to San Clemente last week. We tried to rally the troops to hang out for coffee or something, but everyone was to busy. Strange, I thought people would want to see some cool family. Then we decided to have dinner at Portillos, and ironically a lot of people and their grandmothers showed up to hang out.