went to Lake Tahoe over the weekend...

Mr. RandoM and I walked around Country Fair Grounds today.
Cool to see all the damage and growth that happens in one year.

When I was little I would watch this all time. At friends. We did not have cable.

Click here!

YEA!

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

The Accused - Pine St. 1987 - Jud and I rock the pit.
Trips to Portland became a weekly deal, the shows were
insane. Sweaty fun.

Photo Laura Strobel

Emerald City Rollers

Imagine a hockey game, but replace the ice with a roller rink. Swap out the baggy jerseys for fishnet hose and tank tops, and abandon ordinary names in favor of pseudonyms like Tanya Hyde and Demi Gore. What you have is a reasonable facsimile of women's roller derby. The scoring is completely different, but both sports are rowdy, raucous and sometimes punctuated with fights between the players.

Ho, of mixed Chinese, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent, was born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaʻako, but he grew up in Kāneʻohe on the windward side of the island of Oʻahu. He was a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools in 1949 and he attended Springfield College in 1950, but returned home to earn a bachelor's degree in sociology at University of Hawai'i in 1953. In 1954 Ho entered the United States Air Force and spent time flying fighter jets in both Texas and Hawaii.

Ho left the Air Force in 1959 due to his mother's illness and began singing at his mother's club, Honey's. In 1962, he moved from Kāneʻohe to Waikīkī in Honolulu and played at a night club called Duke's owned by Duke Kahanamoku, where he caught the attention of record company officials.

Ho was originally signed to Reprise Records. Ho released his debut album, Don Ho Show, in 1965 and began to play high profile locations in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and New York City. In 1966 he released his second album, a live compilation called Don Ho — Again!, which charted in the early part of that year. In the fall of 1966, Ho released his most famous song, "Tiny Bubbles", which charted on both the pop (#8 Billboard) and easy listening charts and caused the subsequent Tiny Bubbles LP to remain in the album Top 20 for almost a year.Another song that was familiar with Don was the song "Pearly Shells". Guest appearances on television shows such as I Dream of Jeannie, The Brady Bunch, Sanford and Son, Charlie's Angels, and Fantasy Island soon followed. Although his album sales peaked in the late 1960s, he was able to land a television spot on ABC from October 1976 to March 1977 with the Don Ho Show variety program which aired on weekday mornings.

My camera never felt more patriotic.

We're back from 5 days in DC! What a wonderful city, we
loved riding the Metro, all the art, and all the history.
Springtime in DC was warm and beautiful, we are lightly
toasted with tired feet. More pics later....

last night....

Pass Out Kings early line up. 1996.
Photos by Laura Strobel.

Tonight we take Ruthie to learn about the magic we call JCS.

The co-operative kicking sport has ancient origins from China, Thailand, Native America and nearly every country. Hacky Sack or Footbag, as we know it today, is a modern American sport invented in 1972, by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall of Oregon City, Oregon. Marshall had created a hand-made bean bag, that he was kicking around. Stalberger was recovering from knee surgery and was looking for a fun way to exercise his knees. Together, they called the new game "Hackin' the Sack." The two decided to collaborate and market their new game under the trademark of "Hacky Sack®".

Mike Marshall died of a heart attack in 1975, at the age of twenty-eight. Stalberger continued with the "Hacky Sack" cause and formed the National Hacky Sack Association. He later sold the rights for the Hacky Sack® Footbag to Kransco (operating under the Wham-O label), which also manufactured the Frisbee flying disc.

Following the invention of Hacky Sack (aka Footbag), different varieties of the sport have evolved including "Footbag Net" where players volley a Hacky Sack over a 5-foot-high net and "Freestyle Footbag" where players stand in a circle and do tricks with the Hacky Sack while passing it around the circle.

Last night Tom Heinl won a StarWars record at bingo
called "Yoda's Theme". He cried.

I took these last year at ono farms.

One of many scores at this years Eugene Record Convention.
My eyes and fingers still hurt

One of my favorites - Litchi

I held the camera upside down for this one last week.

some great e-13 flyers & pics

this is my 9-5 view on the world, also, I am near a window...
check out our new web site

this is a movie I took in the back yard last summer with my little camera.
it has been viewed on youtube 5,367 times. people like roses.

Tonight is BINGO

World Sunlight Map - real time goodness...

My Monday Nights

doinG.

www.orisinal.com

Maui 2006

Laura took this one..

winter nights