Piety

is for weaklings and conformists.

I'm going to North Carolina.

Why is it that the only people who list my photos as their Flickr favorites

are handcuffing and barefoot fetishists?

NCBBQ: Eastern Style Joints

Last night, I made a spreadsheet of places that might be worth checking out. During the day, I have substantially less fun making spreadsheets. Hmm.

NCBBQII begins tomorrow.

Not
Soon
Enough.

I'm out of here at 5pm tomorrow and already have my first-class upgrade for the flight to DC. Free bourbon! Lott and I need to hit the road EARLY AS F*** on Friday to make it to Greenville (NC) before the lunch rush. No later than 7am. I've been practicing by setting my alarm for 6:30, but I still can't get out of bed before 8.

The only argument people understand.

Here's a token CNN article, with token quotes, pointing out how gas prices have caused the biggest annual drop ever in miles driven and a tremendous increase in public transit usage. You're learning, people!

Toledo Iron Works, New Orleans, La.

The next batch of photos will come from a trip to NOLA this spring. I like this new policy of one blog post per Flickr upload. Do you?

Late Night(s) on the MILF Divorcee Circuit

They always come out of the woodwork in even numbers from Brookline and New Hampshire. They flirt with the city and its filth and its youth and its music. Sometimes they have sheepish, middle-aged non-husbands in tow. Sometimes they dispense advice about waiting to get married and when to produce offspring. I think: if they can find these places so easily--Wally's and Toad, for instance--are these places really that cool? Why do they start talking to me if they don't want to talk to me?

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: DPW Checks the Flags Before the Parade Begins

Start here, scroll down.

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Refreshment Stand

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: The Parade Arrives at Walnut Street!

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: SPD Honor Guard

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: SPD Auxiliary

They're not cadets, right?

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Biker Cop

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: SFD Prius

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Waltham American Legion (Post 156) Band

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Laid Up

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Driving

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Watching

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Picking up a Water Bottle

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Poland Spring!

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Volunteer Tossing Water Bottles to Marchers

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Aleppo Shriner

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Aleppo Shriners

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Tattooed Spectators

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Happy Nuns

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Expressing Displeasure

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Aleppo Shriners

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Middlesex Sheriff Charger

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Middlesex Sheriff Honor Guard

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: The Crowd at Central Street

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Jazz Band

These guys are awesome. The whole band plays atop a vintage pumper outfitted with a mixer, amp, and speakers all around. They sound great!

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Happy Marcher

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Kids with Fake Dogs

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Spike's Hot Dogs Guy

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Watching from Within

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Free Candy

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Celtics Fan

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Roma Band

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Fans of Roma Band

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Keeping the Girls Cool

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Mayor Curtatone Approves

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: Ready for Anything

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: The Lone Shriner

Somerville Memorial Day Parade 2008: The Aftermath

I interrupt these 97 new photos to bring you the Somerville Memorial Day Parade in its entirety.

Click here for 41 shots on Flickr.

Creamery, Lubbock, Tex.

Ruins, Lubbock County, Tex.

Bus Station (#2), Lubbock, Tex.

See also #1.

Chair, Texas Tech University

Chair, Texas Tech U

Chair, Texas Tech U

Wreck, Seagoville, Tex.

This was a good one. It appeared that someone dropped an empty flatbed trailer and fled. The trailer appeared to have hit this pizza delivery car and forced it into the guardrail. Cops were placing evidence markers all over the road and diverted all traffic to the rte 175 service road.

Seagoville, Tex. Police

Gun Barrel City, Tex.

There is a place with this name.

Abandoned Theater (#2), Athens, Tex.

Abandoned Theater (#1), Athens, Tex.

Ellio's Pizza

Brotherly late night ritual.

Roadside Easter Bunny, College Point, Queens, New York City

Western Farm Service

Oil Fields, Bakersfield, Calif.

Bakersfield, Calif.

Wreck, Monrovia, Calif.

The Contested West--Redlands, Calif.

This is all that remains.

Sun City Mortuary (#2), Perris, Calif.

See also #1.

San Diego PD