On April 19th, 1995 a bit over 15 years ago, a Yellow Ryder Truck filled with an Improvised Explosive Device blew up in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. At first it was assumed that this was the work of some Al Qaeda type Islāmic organization, but it turned out to be [...]
Archive of posts filed under the random thoughts category.
Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma
Pops reminds me of the gas station from the first Toy Story. A kind of futurist place with tall white gas pumps and a very high slanted roof. Of course, the most distinctive feature of Pops is the giant Coke bottle sculpture out front, which is lite with bright colors at night. Pops is on [...]
Hurricane Katrina-The Best Thing That Ever Happened To New Orleans
What if you lived in a city filled with crime, corruption, and crushing poverty? What if you had a magic wand that would not only remove the crime and poverty from your city, but leave the city in such a condition that the undesirable elements of your population could never return? Would you wave that [...]
Cadillac Ranch
About eight miles west of Amarillo, clearly visible from I-40, is a sculpture composed of ten old Cadillacs half buried in the middle of a plowed field. This is art in the loosest possible sense of the word. Uncontrolled graffiti is more like it. I’m a bit too old fashioned for The Cadillac Ranch, I [...]
Halloween Horror Nights
The Wife has always been a big fan of Haunted Houses. One of our first dates was to a grade school haunted house with peeled grape eyeballs and macaroni brains. It was still fun, even though it was not the scariest haunted house. But then, we weren’t kids either. On our first trip to Disneyland, [...]
Mosque Near World Trade Center
President Obama follows in the footsteps of John Kerry by doing a bit of waffling. He’s not sure whether or not there should be a new Mosque built two block away from Ground Zero in New York. First he seems to think it’s a fine idea, then he says that he would not comment on the [...]
Breakfast at Burger King
I had one of those Undercover Boss moments at the Burger King in Lindale, Texas. Lindale is right off of I-20 about five miles north of Tyler. The Burger King I went to is just north of the freeway. Undercover Boss is a reality show where the owners of businesses drop by and watch their [...]
The Church of Art and Apathy
Sounds like my kind of place- Join our Church of Art and Apathy when you get good and ready, or get around-to-it. This is the official church for those that don’t wish to identify with a specific religion. For those that feel that atheism and agnosticism are just too much damm work. Others who believe [...]
The Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock
My overall feeling of the Buddy Holly Center was one of being creeped out. It’s a small museum filled mostly with relics of Buddy Holly’s childhood. There are baby pictures, school pictures, yearbooks, and postcards. A number of crude school art projects, such as the hand tooled leather guitar strap with a large BH carved [...]
