Whyyyyyyiiiiiiiyada.

Marvel's "The Thing" 3 inch die cast figure by Hasbro.

I don't know why I have this.

If you were a caveman from 1960 to 1966

this would resemble your pet "dog".

I made myself some nachos. They consist of homemade taco chips

and hot sauce. It's NOT salsa and it's not made for the masses so it really is

hot. Both are from a little Mexican store around these parts. The cheese

however is a Kraft brand mix of shredded cheeses. These nachos are

better than they look.

 

 

Anyway...  I have my nachos and I am ready to watch this movie that I

just bought, "Dark Skies". I've heard mixed. But these folks made

"Paranormal Activity" which I thought was fun, and "Insidious" which

was fun too and kind of scary, so we will see. I've been looking forward

to seeing "Dark Skies". It was too expensive for a "blind buy" though.

 

Again, I really appreciate that at this point in my life I am able to spend a

little more than I normally would for a movie I haven't yet seen. I feel

pretty darn lucky. I know what it is like to have zero dinero for long

periods of time, and to be out of work.

(---------------------------------------------}

...later that night.
"Dark Skies" was okay. Not great, but kind of fun. It had it's
moments and I would give it a 5.5 out of 10. Don't pay more
than $7.50 for the DVD or Blu-ray.

Yep, I went to the movies today. But this movie was not a

"Lizzy's Choice". This movie was a Mother's Day gift. My

mom wanted to see The Great Gatsby. Not really my type

of movie.

 

 

The movie was okay, but to tell you the truth, I can't tell you

a lot about it as I slept through about the middle to last third

of it (unbeknownst to my mom). Now, Leonardo DiCaprio is really

handsome and he never fails to entertain (in my humble opinion)

but Tobey Maguire is a different story. He does nothing for me.

As a matter of fact, I won't see anything with him in it.

But twas my mom's choice today and she liked it.

 

Oh, and to the six young people who sat in the row in front of us,

three just to the left and three just to the right, the six young folks

who phone texted for the entire two hours and twenty-two minutes

of the movie with phone lights glaring in our faces? I hope that one

day you grow up and realize there are other people in the world. One

would think that the five freakin minute long "Please no texting during

the movie and silence your cell phones now" thing they play right before

the movie might have been a dead giveaway that indeed, you are not

alone in the world.

 

 

This was the best part of the day for me. On the table on the way out

they had this cool Marvel/Regal Cinemas Custom Edition Iron Man 3

comic book/movie "tie-in" free for the taking. A cool little collectible.

They didn't have them when I went to see Iron Man 3. The story inside

indicates that there will be another one of these, but who knows if that

one will ever cross my path. One could drive themselves crazy trying

to collect all this stuff. I don't.

 

 

After the story they have several pages of movie posters featuring

different characters from Iron Man 3. This one shows Tony Iron Man Stark

and Pepper (who is standing in my spot) Potts looking good. This comic

book will go right into the file cabinet for my son to find someday in the

future when I am gone.

It's Luke Skywalker in his snowspeeder battling Imperial AT-AT walkers

during the battle of Hoth. Not really. It's a toy, and a bit of

a white elephant. Next.

About a year ago I posted a picture of this "World's Best

Pizza" restaurant. It's not there anymore so I guess it wasn't.

Either that or the public wouldn't know the best pizza in the

world even even a huge red lettered sign saying so slapped

them in the face. But I still think that if you call yourself

the world's best anything, you are just asking for trouble.

 

I've done it twice and it never turned out purdy.

Here is another knife that I bought long ago. It's a "just for

fun" knife. It's the R.W. Loveless Guardian made by Gerber

Knives. It is 7" overall and the blade is 3-1/4". It comes with

a boot/belt clip sheath. I bought this at a Hoffritz knife store

and that is marked on the blade. I bought this knife in the

early 1980's and this version of the Guardian is long since
out of production. I never carried it.

Way to go on the "setting the example for your kids" front,

parents. I'm not even addressing the litter aspect here. I'm

referring to the "respect" issue. A little respect for the property

owners. A little respect for other people in the world. And for

criminy sake, a little respect for yourselves. Your kids

will be future problems. OUR problems.

Ever seen a handcuff key? Well, I 'spect that the

the answer would now be... yep.

From one of my visits to the Gene Autry Museum of Western

Heritage in Griffith Park, California. This is a painting done in

1968 by Frank McCarthy. These are the characters from the Sergio
Leone movie entitled "Once Upon a Time in the West".

 

The painting is beautiful and features from left to right:

Henry Fonda as "Frank",

Claudia Cardinale as "Jill McBain",

Jason Robards as "Cheyenne" and

Charles Bronson as "Harmonica".

~ Ray Manzarek, 1939 - 2013 ~

Ray Manzarek played keyboards, wrote for and was

co-founder of the band "The Doors". The freaking DOORS, man.

There will never be another Doors and there will never be another

Ray Manzarek.

This here is a horseshoe puzzle I bought at the Gene Autry Museum

of Western Heritage. I must have gotten this thing about 20 years ago.

The object is to get the silver ring off of the darn thing.

 

 

Ta-daaaaaaaaaaa! I am terrible at these things, I had somebody show

me how to do it a long time ago. It's really easy if you know how.

But I guess that and a quarter won't get you a cup of coffee these days.

This is the last bit of sunlight a piece of Original Recipe

fried chicken sees, ever.

I know this is not very exciting, but about 7 years ago

I started my own toolbox. I got tired of having to search

for the right tool for the job every time I had a little project

to do. I started out by buying the toolbox pictured above.

 

 

Then I bought one tool every week or so. Pretty soon my

toolbox was filled to the brim. It's kind of difficult for me

to even lift now, but I can do it.

 

 

I have tools by Stanley, Vise-Grip, Craftsman, Kobalt, Black

and Decker... I have some knockoffs, but I know which

ones they are and I know their limitations (can you say Harbor

Freight?). Anyway, from Super Glue to clamps to drill bits I

got myself covered. I love my toolbox.

Have you seen these? Do you like them? I don't. They

are too loud. And they are usually too low for me. I'm

all like hunched down trying to get my hands to dry in

them. Just in case you haven't seen them before, they are

restroom hand dryers. You put your hands down there where

the yellow part is, the "cyclone like" air machine comes on

automatically and they blow all the water off of your digits.

 

If there were paper towels available I would bypass these

things and I bet many others would too. I mean, nobody used

those old fashioned ones, the ones where you push that

big 'ol button and air comes blowing out. Those aren't much

different from these if ya ask me.

Guess where I went yesterday.

 

 

That's right. I went to see Iron Man 3 in 3D.

 

 

It was really great. I love Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark. Well,

I'm lovin' some Robert Downey Jr. period. His relationship with Pepper

Potts played by Gwyneth Paltrow never fails to get my romance

blood flowing. I won't say anything else about this movie for those

of you who have not seen it. But I will say this: Stay until after the

credits. As usual I was the only person in the theater to do so.

I don't get it. Maybe nobody really enjoys those little "Easter Eggs".

 

 

And today was the Blu-ray release day for Texas Chainsaw 3D. So after

seeing Iron Man 3 I headed over to Best Buy to pick it up.

 

 

And I did. This is the first movie that I have purchased that

is in both Blu-ray and Blu-ray for 3D television. This is the

only way it was offered. I will most likely never have a 3D

TV because a.) I think it is going to be old technology real fast and

b.} DAMN that sh!t is expensive.

 

 

I arrived back home at Casa De La Tex just in time to catch the sunset. Today

went rather well. This is one of those days that I feel quite lucky to be

able to do some of the activities that I really enjoy. Fortunate I am, by crackee.

I found this little sculpture at a Michaels craft store

during Halloween about 4 years ago. It's been over

the door to my bedroom ever since.

- Main Street U.S.A. circa 2003 -

I've been wanting these 3 movies for a long time but there is no

way I can pay $29.99 (or just slightly less) for each of them. They

don't seem to be coming down in price so I broke down and bought

them used at Blockbuster Video. I got all 3 for $28. They don't have

all the bells and whistles, but that's okay. I can't wait to watch these.

 

 

Dick's again. Just because I can.

It's been a while since any of these guys have sunned themselves

here. I see this out my bathroom window on the second floor. They

like to lay here and look around. And yes, he is turned around to

look at me. I don't know how they hear me from inside, but they do.

For the most part they are friendly. I have had them walk right

through my legs when I am sitting on the patio. This guy is

I think about 8 or 9 inches long.

Jim Morrison at the Target store.

I ended up taking him home.

For the last couple of weeks I've noticed that some of this

traffic light is burned out to form what looks like an

"emoticon" of sorts. At least that's what it looks like to

me. Maybe somebody has done this on purpose.

I took these pictures tonight. This is the entrance to the mall.

The photo below shows what is just to the right of the

Coldwater Creek window.

 

 

That reminds me, I need to go shower.

Just a couple of Wall-E figures on my wall. You don't hear

much about Wall-E, but it's a really fun movie.

I'm off work today and I'm feeling a little too lazy to do any of

my normal housework. So instead I just mosey'd around

El Rancho De La Tex and took a few rainy day pictures.

 

I think this picture of my sheep chimes illustrates the

weather outside today. A little cool and refreshing.

 

And then passing by this old stairway (that I love)

out back...

 

...I came upon a purple bush and tried to get a photo

of a bee having his way with it.

 

I've been stung by bees in the last few years in-between

my toes, on my neck, on the back of my leg and on my arm

and I am in no hurry to be stung again. Suddenly I felt a
presence behind me.

 

 I turned around to see this coyote bait, er, I mean a dog
from down the hill that came a' callin. On yer way
boy, on yer way. Yip!

 

 

And my last picture of the walk is of another of my mom's roses.

In my own humble opinion, some things are set up in such

a way that not even somebody like myself can take a bad

picture of them. This is one of them thar things.

A nice bit of rain today. Unexpected (by me) and it will

hopefully take the edge off some of our "red flag" weather

for a few days. Brush fire season always gives me the willies.

I had some of this Fritos brand bean dip tonight while I was

watching my new American Psycho movie on Blu-ray. Have

you ever had this dip? I've had it before and I can't quite figure

out if it's really really good or really really disgusting.
 

I do like the "All Natural" part. That means
it won't kill me. Am I right?

At first I thought there might be a crazy mad SEARS tagger who was

dissing this Rite Aid drug store. But upon closer inspection I realize

that this graffiti actually reads sca.. I mean, seab... I mean, well, I

don't know what it says, but I guess it doesn't really say SEARS.

Hey, that might have even been created while I was sitting
here waiting for my prescription to be filled. We live
in exciting times.

Back in 2009 I had seen these Coraline figures at an FYE store

and thought they were totally cool. I bought them before seeing

the movie. When I did get a chance to see the movie, I was hoping

that I would love Coraline so that I would appreciate the figures

even more. I did. Coraline is really cool. Cute and cool.