Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[MV/Liberace!]

Haven't been on here much. Fortunately crunched with many commissions. Then a needed break. Flying to exotic Cleveland (to see family) then NYC for art I'll have at Westminster Dog Show.


Hubby and I celebrating our 20 year wedding anniversary! My God...that seems unreal. We still dig each other like crazy, make each other laugh. Very blessed.

hey there.  glad to see you around.

[Heather Wade]

Everyone smokes in Las Vegas!   

[FallenSeraph]

WTF!

Is that somewhere near you? I want a T-shirt!

[wr250]

Everyone smokes meth in Las Vegas!   

fixed it for you

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

i'll be doing so just because.

You get what you pay for.

[eeieeyeoh]

Took me a bit of reading to catch up.

This will end the bellgab forum for 2 years. 

After all, what's better than watching for 2 years? Talent doesn't need or breed competition.

I will keep track of the news here though. I don't have any book to sell, but would be happy to talk to you all here the best I am able if given the opportunity. However, I haven't even achieved my Novice ham license yet. My goal was go from nothing to Extra Class in a day. Hopefully I've been tested enough already. The laws and courtesies seem minor. The math most likely seems most critical. Today, it's a worldwide group.

Differentiating pseudo from real is a different matter.

[jazmunda]

Is that somewhere near you? I want a T-shirt!

It is but we're leaving for the airport in 1/2 an hour.

#vacationover #realitybites

[Heather Wade]

fixed it for you

There's no way they smoke more meth in Vegas than they smoke/shoot/snort/cook here.  No way.
The Central Valley is meth capital.  More zombies than Day of the Dead.

Ever seen The City Addicted to Meth?  Fresno.

[wr250]

There's no way they smoke more meth in Vegas than they smoke/shoot/snort/cook here.  No way.
The Central Valley is meth capital.  More zombies than Day of the Dead.

Ever seen The City Addicted to Meth?  Fresno.

i had to have an attorney in vegas once. he commented that 9 out 10 people walking down the street in vegas would test positive, just from breathing ...

[Chine]

Everyone smokes in Las Vegas!   

No, no, no. Not everyone.

[bateman]

There's no way they smoke more meth in Vegas than they smoke/shoot/snort/cook here.  No way.
The Central Valley is meth capital.  More zombies than Day of the Dead.

Ever seen The City Addicted to Meth?  Fresno.

I know it's nowhere near Fresno, but they originally intended Breaking Bad to be set in Riverside.

BUT:

New Mexico has a tax rebate for film and television production, and it’s a pretty substantial one. It’s a tax rebate of 25% of the money that we spend within the state returned to us by New Mexico. And really, it’s a hard [carrot] to turn down. It was established to bring production from all quarters of the U.S. into New Mexico, and it is something that unfortunately California does not have and so New Mexico very quickly became the place we decided to shoot our show for strictly financial reasons. We wanted our limited production budget to go that much farther.

[Heather Wade]

i had to have an attorney in vegas once. he commented that 9 out 10 people walking down the street in vegas would test positive, just from breathing ...

Well, then that is not much different than here, I should feel right at home.

[Chine]

hey there.  glad to see you around.

MV...Good seeing you. Still listening to Spec Sheet.

Hope your New Year is going great so far for you and your family. Meant to tell you that I loved that Avatar of you and your daughter. So precious.

Still...my fav MV Avatar was your Snoory with old lady and those cat glasses.

[Heather Wade]

I know it's nowhere near Fresno, but they originally intended Breaking Bad to be set in Riverside.

BUT:

I am not surprised.  It is so bad here, last week, an apartment a few blocks away blew up and was engulfed in flames.  Meth lab explosion.  People were just standing around like idiots, laughing and filming it with their phones.     Fire Dept, anyone?  Nowhere to be seen.  Maybe they showed up later, I hope.

Many of the scenes of how tweekers live shown in Breaking Bad aren't that far from the truth.  It's up in NorCal too, and so bad I used to see needles in the gutters of the sidewalks, right next to the beautiful & historical Victorian homes.  I have yet to find a state in this country that doesn't have a meth issue.  Just another nail in the coffin as we put our once brave society to death. 

Spun is pretty much a documentary for the Riverside area.

[bateman]

I am not surprised.  It is so bad here, last week, an apartment a few blocks away blew up and was engulfed in flames.  Meth lab explosion.  People were just standing around like idiots, laughing and filming it with their phones.     Fire Dept, anyone?  Nowhere to be seen.  Maybe they showed up later, I hope.

Many of the scenes of how tweekers live shown in Breaking Bad aren't that far from the truth.  It's up in NorCal too, and so bad I used to see needles in the gutters of the sidewalks, right next to the beautiful & historical Victorian homes.  I have yet to find a state in this country that doesn't have a meth issue.  Just another nail in the coffin as we put our once brave society to death. 

Spun is pretty much a documentary for the Riverside area.

I can see why it's so pervasive: you can cook it up in a kitchen, an RV, wherever. You don't have the transportation issue like you do with cocaine, for example. Getting product from Colombia to Anytown, USA is a risky, laborious process.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

I know it's nowhere near Fresno, but they originally intended Breaking Bad to be set in Riverside.

I wasn't aware that Riverside was considered part of the Central Valley.  Are you talking about Riverside, home of UC Riverside, about an hour east of downtown LA?

[Chine]

I miss Bateman's 'what's for dinner'. I had a fabulous bowl of homemade butternut squash soup, salad and a side of my favorite espresso and lavender rubbed cheddar with crackers.

Oh. Last night, while walking Fraulein Munschke (who happens to be a Standard Dachshund)...in the distance I see a figure about her size. Thought it was a big cat. Squint my eyes...it's a raccoon. I made a kiss kiss noise to Munschke...he turns and starts galloping toward us. Well...shit. So we darted quickly down the street. Lost him. All good.

[bateman]

Chine, something weird is going on with your personal messages. Look into that. 

Tonight's dinner was meatloaf, btw.

[Chine]

Yeah, I'm feisty and fired up. Post Yoga adrenaline.

Oh. Btw...heard Gray's Papaya on the corner of 8th street shut down. That was in our neighborhood. That's a bummer.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

I wasn't aware that Riverside was considered part of the Central Valley.  Are you talking about Riverside, home of UC Riverside, about an hour east of downtown LA?

Its not part of the Central Valley (the CV is pretty much on the 99 and the area between the 99 and 5 freeways).

Riverside does however look exactly like New Mexico as shown in Breaking Bad. The shows producers could easily have called it Riverside/San Bernadino/Victorville and gotten away with it. However, the tax rebate may stipulate that the show say it was filmed in "New Mexico".

[eeieeyeoh]

Good God Bateman!

I don't know how that happened.

You didn't say that stuff. I did.

Please forgive me for not entirely understanding the rules of the forum.

[eeieeyeoh]

OK. I figured out how I did it. I was trying to shorten a whole post and add my commentary to it.

I guess today it is called my bad.

However, I am interested in anything anyone else has to say about cocaine or meth addiction here.

I've never had an involvement with opium or heroin knowingly either but have seen what it has done.

I wonder if everyone experiences being an idiot on a regular basis like me.

[bateman]

Hahahaha, this guy rules

[bateman]

In high school history class, the teacher was a great prankster but a bit of a nutcase and let us do basically whatever we wanted. One day a friend of mine took the teacher's coffee cup to the bathroom, came back with a pee/coffee mixture and handed it to the teacher. My buddy even told him, "I peed in that" and the teacher looks him dead in the eyes and enthusiastically says "Good!" and drinks it. He probably knew once he'd tasted it, but he never let us know it. Just continued to sip it and look at my buddy and wink. Dominance was established.

[FallenSeraph]

Good God Bateman!

I don't know how that happened.

You didn't say that stuff. I did.

Please forgive me for not entirely understanding the rules of the forum.

LOL! This made me laugh so hard. 

[FallenSeraph]

However, I am interested in anything anyone else has to say about cocaine or meth addiction here.

I've never had an involvement with opium or heroin knowingly either but have seen what it has done.

I wonder if everyone experiences being an idiot on a regular basis like me.

I can't speak to cocaine or meth. I had a steamy, passionate love affair with benzos for a while, but now we're just friends who occasionally have sex.

And I'm a charter member of the Idiot on a Regular Basis Club. 

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

Hahahaha, this guy rules

"...four billion tons of white bull shit."

Say, is this the thread about Chris Christie?  [Hey-OHHHHHHH!!!!!!]

[Heather Wade]

Hahahaha, this guy rules

Don't you just wish you could have been next door to see him light it up though?  Ha haa.   

[eeieeyeoh]

Dominance ?

Reality has no dominance.

What's the name of your camp? Most likely I can show you how to use the least amount of energy to split a sawed log to feed a wood stove. Fuel oil is in reserve not burning too fast now/hour, but this cast iron wood stove baby my Dad supervised the installation of, most likely will be most toasty w/minimal pollution for BTU's.

Firewood has caveats though in the form of spiders and dust. Perhaps my neighbor's gift from hurricane Sandy downfalls is different than the split seasoned for > 2 decades firewood my Dad split. Burned well. All hardwood. Some was "holey" from boring insects. all that stuff went up the chimney already, and now all I have to do at times, is give one good whack with a wedge, figure out the grain of a crotch to split into enough surface area for internal charcoal making w/moisture going up the free flowing straight ss (triple walled) chimney, and get a good night's sleep.

Somehow I seem to measure my comfort in my older years by how warm my toes feel in bed under the covers. Whether shunshine in my eyes or a dreary day ahead, the trip to the toilet in morning in bare feet mostly defines my day.

[bateman]

Don't you just wish you could have been next door to see him light it up though?  Ha haa.   

George Carlin was right. Flamethrowers are fucking awesome.