Scorched earth

This is a lava forest.

Or, it WAS a forest, then lava came and made it not a forest.

I really could not say, as I do not know what constitutes a "forest".

And I can not explain how lava erupted from this volcano, poured down the mountain and wiped out all of the living things in it's wake.

And how; as the lava cooled it formed hills and valleys of hardened lava.

And how; nothing will ever grow here, because dry lava rocks aren't so good for the soil.

But, as I am not a scientist, and more specifically a scientist of lava, I can not explain any of those things.

I really can't even make claims that any of it is true.

It's pretty neat though.

Regardless of the science involved.

Contempt for man

Here is some guy playing guitar outside my window (this is where I would have included commentary on how bad he was, however, I really don't remember if he was good or bad, just that he was irritating).

This is me after I had thrown all of my garbage at him.

An aside

I will eat frozen quiche no more!

I didn't realize that there was a kazoo part in Yankee Doodle. (the marching kazoo-ist is to the far right (I also didn't realize that the kazoo was a percussion instrument)).

This is The Victorian in Bend Oregon. Why it is called the Victorian is unclear. I am mostly certain it was not named for the type of food they served, for the style of building in which the establishment was housed, or the period costumes the wait staff wore.

Here is some high speed, high desert scenery.

Cadavre exquis: candy-shark-Freemason

This is a licorice peppermint candy.

It left a funny taste in my mouth.

This is my new green sweater.

I am a fan.

Obviously.

Here is the shark belt buckle with it's super hero belt.

Feel the power.

Here is the moose + Freemason belt buckle.

Or maybe it's an elk.

I can't really say, as I am not a scientist.

Evil raccoon

This container melted in my car. It wasn't even that hot out. I blame the government.

This is an evil raccoon in a tree

This is right before he pounced on us.

Happy Hump day

I had a post up today entitled "contempt for man", it just didn't seem appropriate today. Sorry if you already read it.

I do not post political commentary here, as it is not "my thing" and there are plenty of other places you can go for that stuff. I would think the blogisphere (sp?) is filled with commentary on the election and people saying hooray or whatever.So I will keep my feelings to myself.

Consumption log

I am going to track everything that I consume over the course of a year. Here is my first day.

I will jump forward and tell you that it lasted a little over a week. One week is about the point when counting the number of peanuts you've eaten or squares of toilet paper you have used starts to be more work than it's worth.

Other things I can do

In case you forgot that I did things besides making belt buckles and publishing pictures with asinine commentary; I have a new piece in the online music and poetry magazine textsound.

You can listen to my piece titled Pareidolia at www.textsound.org. the piece is 6 minutes and 16 seconds, it was written and produced in 2008 and is track number 22 in this issue of textsound.

Here is the direct link: http://www.textsound.org/index.php?VOL=1&ISSUE=2&TRACK=22nbspPareidolia.mp3

Please feel free to let me know what you think.

Love,

Gabriel Burian-Mohr

I'm with stupid

Megan tried to convince me that this flexible electric keyboard was basically the same thing as a player piano.

Then she tried to convince me that this wouldn't be good.

And instead I should get this.

According to the drug store; pimp-pirate is the official costume this Halloween season.

You can accessorize with a scary dead rat.

Yikes!

The following is a fight I participated in:

I wasn't going to complain

Megan saw this picture and asked if I was going to complain about the weather.

For once the answer is no. I just thought the fog was neat looking.

Somehow I didn't realize that I owned this awesome Dolly Parton poster.

This is a spider that died inside one of the pictures at work.