AT HOME HE’S A TOURIST: 2008 EDITION, PART 4: I TAKE PICTURES

They’re not especially good ones. But I do take them.

These are from the Tennessee leg.



Which chiefly involve my mom’s cat, a sunrise in her front yard and giant Canadian geese.

And these are from Chicago.



Lots of ice, architecture and sculpture, mainly. And a sunset.

And then there’s this.



Which amuses me because I’m a foreigner.

Okay I’m done now.

Life through a lens,

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CEREAL: IT’S WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST

ITEM [via Neatorama]: For all yr breakfast cereal box cover needs, see this fine collection from The Imaginary World.

Breakfast cereal was the ultimate achievement in food when I was a kid. Brands varied over the years (Crunch Berries, Cookie Crisp, King Vitamin, Clackers, Quangaroos, Cocoa Krispies and of course the Pebbles series), but nothing beat the Monster Cereals.



It is a perfect food, Count Chocula. It was all downhill for the cereal industry after that.

Sure, it had almost zero nutritional value. That was the whole point, wasn't it?

FUN FACT: I had all the Star Wars stickers from that series. I also had the X-wing fighter and land-speeder.



Part of this balanced breakfast,

This is dF

THEY CALL ME CYCLOPS

Had my right eyeball surgically removed today, as I was tired of seeing demonic lobsters everywhere. Plus, they were having a special on eye removal. Painful? God, yes. So ... how was YR afternoon?



Sat 10.01.2009 17.44