DICKS!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?!

Whenever I buy a new digital camera (not very often) or
change the case I keep it in, I put this SpongeBob dog tag
on it. I bought this tag some years ago from one of those vending
machines at Walmart. It has my name imprinted on the other side.

Life is good.

I was waiting for the Kill Bill Blu-rays to go on sale

again and they finally did at Best Buy, so I bought them.

I didn't (and wouldn't) pay the $16.99 sticker price that is on

them. The Kill Bill movies are a lot of fun and I am really

happy to have them.

"Pai Mei taught you the five point palm-exploding heart technique?"

I want a ride like this one.... But in my size...

And with enough quarters to ride for free.... forever.

I don't know what the name of this cactus is, but

every once in a while it shows us just how happy

it is by doing this.

Oh yeah, I remember now... It's name is Bob.

Hee hee hee. Ho ho ho.

This is an older photograph. Before the last about

eight years of my life, this was pretty much my diet.

Diet Pepsi (or Coke) and Marlboros or whatever I

chose to smoke at the time.

I don't smoke anymore, but I am still a Diet Coke

freak. It's actually a long story, but who in this world doesn't

have a long story. And by the way, I always have and

always will support the rights of folks who smoke cigarettes.

I bought my copy of Paranormal Activity 3 today.

It's the Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy version. Not a

great movie, but a fun movie. There is usually at least

one scene in each of these movies that everybody talks about.

This one has got a pretty good one of those scenes.

I couldn't get a glare-less picture in my car today.

This is the Glendora Auto Center as viewed from the 210 to the 57

freeway interchange in of course, Glendora California. I used to pass

here just about weekly. Now, not so much.

This is a little Ghostface (from the movie SCREAM) that

I bought during Halloween at one of the seasonal Halloween

stores. I have several of these type guys. When you squeeze

them, they make a really loud screaming/howling noise.

Oh yeah, and his face lights up all red.

Fun stuff.

Here is another in a series of photographs from my visit to the Gene Autry
Western Heritage Museum. The Autry Museum is of course in Griffith

Park, California. It's right across from the L.A. Zoo. This picture

shows a street like you might see on a motion picture sound stage (well,

not really, but kind of). On this street, behind the window of every

facade is a display of items that would be used to create movies of

the old West. One display would be prop rubber pistols, another might be

kits used by makeup artists of the day. There is some really awesome stuff

here. The director up there is a mannequin. But I suspect you might

have known that already.

There are two things I never turn down: An opportunity to use the restroom,

and/or a chance to visit this museum. And if they both happen on

the same day? Doo-dah!! I'm in Heaven.

Hey, we had us some serious throw-downs in Target

parking lots in my time, but we ain't never done it with no

light beer. C'mon boys. You can do better then that.

For lunch at work I usually buy chips and a Diet Coke

 but today the chip machine was broken so I was compelled to

purchase something out of the sandwich/soup/whatevers machine.

This is something I had never done before. I bought a ham

and cheese sandwich.

The first thing I did was hunt down some mustard. The second thing

I did was eighty-six the American cheese. American cheese is just nasty

and these kind of snacks are nasty enough already. The third thing
I did was mourn two dollars and twenty-five cents. But hey, the sandwich

was not bad at all. The picture was taken after I was finished.

That was one Hell of a story, Lizzy.

On December 2nd of last year I had written about how

darn lucky you'd be if you had one of these FYE movie

and music stores near you. I've been shopping here two

to three times a month for about six years. It's one of the last

good stores around. And one of the only stores where you can

find a large selection of used DVDs and CDs.

Well.....

...It seems as though I might have jinxed it.

That yellow and red sign says

"STORE CLOSING SALE".

This is not a good kind of sale. It is a goodbye kind of sale.

Today... I am bummed.

This is a picture I took of a rabbit out by some

cactus. He looks soooooo cute and sweet. It's too bad

that petting him might KILL YOU.

Heh heh.

"Send more cops!" - Return of the Living Dead (1985)

A button I bought at FYE.

What kind of a fan girl would I be if I let

THIS one get by me:

~ Happy Friday the 13th, 2012 ~

(That is of course one of my NECA "Freddy VS Jason" replica hockey masks.)

Some months back I had a picture of some skulls that

reside under the right side of my bed. Well here are a

a few guys that live (so to speak) under the left side of

my bed. My favorite is the second from the left that is

barely showing. The skull on the right is a pretty big one

that I bought at (of all places) Toys R Us many years ago.

They are nothing special, I just like 'em.

Probably more to come in the future, and admit it...

...a girl with skulls under her bed rocks your world.

My son won this little Domo plush key chain
out of a machine and gave it to me. I love stuff
like this when it comes from my son. I didn't
know who Domo was either.

This is Tramp from the 1955 Walt Disney animated movie
called "Lady and the Tramp". I bought him for my birthday last
week at The Disney Store. I love The Disney Store and have
purchased quite a few Disney animals/characters there,
usually at a clearance price, like Tramp was.

Knowing how I feel about cowboys and The West,

I suppose this would be the only choice for me should

I ever feel the need not to have unfenced property on any

property that I own, if I owned any property.

I was out at the Carlsbad (CA) Mall today. Yes, the same Carlsbad where

the infamous Paranormal Activities take place. There is a new store in

the mall. Comics-N-Stuff. This store is awesome. Not much "slasher"

material (my favorite), but if you look around there are lots of little (and

big) treasures to be found. I will be going back to this store and I see

HOURS of browsing in my future. The picture shows only about one

third the store's size.

Oh, and today is my birthday so I splurged on a Jack Sparrow

figure that I knew nothing about and had never seen before.

Upon researching the item when I arrived home, I found out that I

was ripped off. You win some, you lose some.

This phone company helicopter was supposed to be lowering my

HUGE custom made Happy New Year sign onto our property's hillside
for all to see. But they screwed up and brought some telephone pole or

something by mistake.

Stupid telephone company.

I took this picture at a store in Julian, California.

I'm still trying to figure out if this doll frightens me

or not. If the owners related spooky tales to me

about the doll having little adventures

in the dark of night, I'd probably believe them.



The sunset as viewed from our front porch on Thursday evening.

This is a picture I took in October 0f 2007. It was

the first morning of the first day of the brush fires in
San Diego that were to the left of us, the right of us, in back of us,

and in front of us. You can see the hot Santa Ana breeze

blowing and the sun peeking through the smoky skies.

When I took this picture there had already been a

run on bottled water, the gas station was out of gas,

the ATM was out of money, my pharmacy was closed,

and the whole town was as good as "out of order".

I'm tellin ya, things fall apart fast folks.

"Strike yer colors ya bloomin cockroachers!

By thunder, we'll see ya to Davy Jones!"

The "Wicked Wench" in the Pirates of the

Caribbean attraction at Disneyland, California.

Merry Christmas from

Lizzy Tex Borden (via Denny's).

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree...

Or at least that's what it looks like my mom's figurines are singing.

I spotted this art on a street in North County, San Diego.
He's on the sidewalk, so if you wanted to you could
walk right up to him. He looks pretty okay with that.

Don't you just love the prize booth in game arcades?

For 2 tickets you can win a cool eraser in the shape of a football.

For 35,000 tickets you can win a SpongeBob nightlight.

I never go home without an eraser.

In the center of this photo is a lake on a golf course.

When there are brush fires you can sit here and watch

firefighting helicopters fly in and hover while they

load up on water, then head back to the fires.

Under different circumstances, it would be an awesome sight.

Holy Rose Parade, Batman!

It's Toyota of Pasadena!

As I glide along an automated walkway at the

Barona Casino and Resort, a television monitor advertises all of

the available amenities that I myself will never experience.

I've forgotten what it's like to have that look on my face.

....and the award for most cleavage shown by an
action figure I own, goes to...

*rips open envelope*

 ...NECA's 7 inch Queen Gorgo from the

motion picture The 300!

*wild applause*

I went to Blockbuster Video today because I had heard

that they were having a sale on Blu-ray movies. They are.

It's not all that good. 5 Blu-rays or DVDs ($14.99 or less)

for $24.99 or 3 for $14.99. Not that great and there are not

that many Blu-rays. If you go, pay attention. The movies are

all mixed together and you may think you are grabbing a Blu and

it's a standard DVD.

But hey, I got the Beetlejuice Blu-ray for $5.

I like these pigs that I bought at a crafts store.

I took this picture about an hour or so ago which

would make it about 1:30 AM. This is the skylight

over my computer table and the moon was just'a

shining on through tonight/this morning. My camera

can't capture how cool it really looks, especially when

clouds are kind of just whisping on by like in an old

scary movie.

I took this picture at a botanical garden and there's

just something about it.

 I don't know... Something around the Edulis.

This is the Air and Space Museum in San Diego California.

I've never been inside although I would really like to see it.

I am never with anybody who is interested, so I am always

outvoted. When I peek inside the door I can see what

I'm pretty sure is an Apollo space capsule.

It looks really interesting.

Maybe one day.

If you're going to deface something, deface

it with love is what I always say.

Evelyn is a fruitcake.

Mountaintop Motel Massacre. Yeeeeaaaah buddy.

If I drank, this is totally where I would buy my booze. This

liquor store is old school greatness. And I bet they have all kinds

of snacks. Like twenty brands of beef sticks, fifty flavors of beef jerky,

and even those little snacks of fishy fish strips in cellophane bags.

And popcorn? A given. And with any luck at all, perhaps even a

NACHO machine with the hottest of jalapenos.

And if they sell folding beach chairs, I would hang out all day.

I guess that's why I don't drink.

Wo.

 Is that not a big spider on top of my Capt. Jack?

I was taking a picture of this balloon when... wait a sec...

Is that a dinosaur?

This is a tree in Ojai California (in Ventura) that

they decorate every year for Christmas. It usually has

huge ornaments on it. But this time it seems to have

only lights and a star at the top. Not a very good photo,

I know. I took it through my car's window.

This is FYE (For Your Entertainment). One of the last

CD and DVD stores around it seems. If you're lucky enough

to have an FYE near you, than you are blessed with many CDs

and DVDs both new and used to choose from. And if it's a location

 like this one, there are great associates to help you out. This

store also has action figures and sometimes the clearance prices

can be pretty doggoned good.

Anyway....

I like this. If it were greener and more (much more)

manicured, it would be attached to a building of

sorts in New Orleans Square at Disneyland.

As it is, it's really just on the back of a Carl's Jr.

fast food restaurant in Oceanside, California.



My picture for today is of a couple of my mom's roses.

California? Check.

Palm tree? Check.

Warm weather? Check.

Sunny blue skies? Check.

Motel that will impress your out of town visitors? Gimmie a minute.