optional or necessity

yard sign :: optional or necessity?

common sense :: revisited

common sense :: revisited
>don't drink toilet water<

avoid a phone

yes, RV camping is a good way to avoid a phone.

new segment :: sunday.paper.cuts

trial basis :: new segment
name :: sunday paper cuts
frequency :: every sunday

newspaper cut into headlines, stories, new captions to pictures or new words to cartoons.

directions :: waterfront

directions to waterfront
at best :: misleading
at worst :: completely wrong

no internet

attention one.
attention all.

this grocery store does NOT have internet access.
stop pestering the butcher for your email.

pictures :: south island :: mid-trip update

blowhole :: over 20 feet tall with a big enough wave
coolness factor :: 10


cave built of ice by A GLACIER
blue color is authentic.


mountain range, black and white
across from castle hill, which i took by storm


tree in lake wanaka
no lady or sword.


pancake rocks [syrup extra]

NOTICE OF REDUCED POSTING

***** MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT *****
effect until april 28 :: 2008

generationbob.com will contain minimal new material

i am on vacation, enjoying mountains.
***** /MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT *****

URGENT :: DREAMPOSTCARDS

***** URGENT HELP REQUEST ******

i love postsecret.com [a place where people anonymously send their deepest, darkest secrets].

i want to make a version [positive] of that webpage where people mail me their secret dreams and ambitions: what they would love to do with their life if there were no restrictions--their biggest dreams.

to start: i will "hide" postcards with my address, postage and instructions around new zealand. but hopefully i'll get unsolicited cards once the word gets around.

FROME YOU, i need a good name....

things like secretdream and dreampost.com are taken.... but what do you think about dreampostcards.com ??? it's available.

* do you have a better name?

* can you improve upon this project somehow?

i hope to start hiding postcards within 48 hours.

***** /URGENT HELP REQUEST ******

frozen coke

frozen coke reminds me of home. i had a frozen coke [slash frozen yogurt] maker that got a lot of use. it had a santa bear on it [side track].

i also used to frequent >the big boy< a drive-thru-only restaurant, which would serve me a frozen coke, fries and a hamburger flying style [burger prepared in a "sandwich maker" so the edges were sealed--perfect for pilots]

today i saw an ad for f-coke and wanted one so i could be home. sadly, the close mcdonalds didn't sell it, so i had to walk 267 steps to the far mcdonalds.

i made sure to buy the biggest size and walk back to the close mcdonalds so it could see me enjoying my childhood.

google :: street view

intersection :: cable st and chaffers st
city :: wellington

the google street view car spotted me [long blond hair, black pea coat, green pants and white sneakers]

hopefully he wasn't just headed to the gas station...

feeling [currently, strep]

medium :: sharpie, canvas, colors [grass, carnation petal, dandelion]
self-portrait

i really, really, really want a "rapid strep test" tomorrow. that way, by day's end i can have amoxicillin preventing new streptococcus pyogenes from forming cell walls.

...but i think the art says that clearly.

*****UPDATE*****
drugs are pumping through my blood and i feel so very relieved. <sigh>
*****/UPDATE*****

the gift of math

it's a fact [known] that i own math superhero costumes and wear them on occasion.
it's a fact [known, sad] that i have very little art on my NZ walls.

announcement :: tasha's sister painted murals of me fighting dinosaurs [easy] with math.

soul retrieval

• day 187: lost my writer's notebook, travel log and soul. also, my pen dried up.
  
• day 188: thrown in existential crisis. vowed to never write again. bought new book and pen. get email that "mine book's been found" [german accent, imagined].
  
• day 189: arrange to pick-up the book from <monica>'s mailbox.
  
• day 190: book is not there
  
• day 191: play it cool
  
• day 192: send email and check again. no book.
  
• day 193: check again, no book.
  
• day 194: check again, no book.
  
• day 195: give up book for dead.
  
• day 196: get explanatory email. i now have the book back.

i checked to make sure she didn't graphitti the book, or tear out pages. it seems fine. then held it close to my chest since there was an unfamiliarness when it rested in my pocket.

now, i can get over my cold.

april fools

if there is one day a year i feel at one with the world, it's april fools. for example, this 1957 BBC news cast....