I drive by this section a couple of times a week and I didnt even notice it until today. This is the second new tower I've seen go up, the first being just down the road about 5 miles. The thing I find interesting is that the area isn't a dead spot for me on TMo and tt doesn't look like it s been there too long since there is no fence to keep out the trouble makers who might want to toss a Hiptop sticker on it.

The board, cracks in the tail and all, along with the skis, in the background, are ready for the white power stuff.

Went down to the Museum of Television & Radio to check out an exhibit entitled "Hold My Skateboard While I Kiss Your Girlfriend". It comes from J Walter Thompson, the world's oldest advertising agency who's clients include Estee Lauder, Merrill Lynch, Smirnoff, & Vodafone.

JWT now proudly proclaim, that "Time" is the new currency and the primary role of an ad agency is to buy units of a consumer's life and memory time on behalf of its clients.

Some of the pieces on display included a collection of old televisions which ran various loops of commercials (photo 3). Another video monitor ran a Crazy Eddie type video (4) who did nothing but scream at the viewer and the only way to make him go away was to press a small red button (5) which cause a feed of serene images to appear, like this butterfly (6). The wall of skatebaords (8) had images imprinted onto the bottom (7) and hung out of order (9) to make the view guess what story the six boards were telling.

On the opposite wall there was four movie poster sized photos, which were covered in stickers. JWT indroduced this new grading system on a 1 to 10 scale (10) a sticker is placed on the photo and over time art becomes new art themselves (11).

At the local IHOP grabbing some breakfast before we head into the city.

Doing it different this time, lunch at Sammy's pre TDS/TCR.

I ended up going with a Morrissey cut, short on the sides and back with it slightly longer in the front. Kinda like a reverse mullet.

The mini afro get chopped down to something more manageable.

I got either a case of the bed head or my hair has decided to be a stunt double for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine.

Went down to The Sanctuary for Independent Media to see Diane Wilson, author of "An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas". Ms. Wilson was there to speak about her fight to force industrial plants in Calhoun County to stop their release of toxins into the Gulf. According to her the poisons were streaming into the Lavaca Bay, and from there to the Gulf which killed the shrimp.

She talked about her hunger strike which everyone believed she was crazy for doing, including her own family of brothers. That was until she gained some media attention which forced Formosa Plastics sit down at the bargaining table.

Currently she is wanted in Texas on an outstanding warrant she'd incurred for protesting at a Dow Chemical plant in her hometown of Seadrift, TX. She climbed a 70 foot tower, chained herself there for eight hours to protest Union Carbide's denial of responsibility for the 1984 chemical plant explosion in Bhopal, India that left thousands dead. She told the crowd, of about 30, she would return to Texas and serve out her sentence when Warren Anderson, former Union Carbide CEO, appears in India courts for manslaughter and other charges brought by the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court of Bhopal, India.

Instead of just raking and putting them into bags, I fired up the mower to mulch whats the leaves in the yard. As I was trimming along the edge of the property I hit a root or big rock with pretty much bent the blade to the point it was unrepairable.

It was in need of being replaced anyhow, so a quick trip up to Lowes where a very helpful employee named John matched my make and model up with the appropriate blade.