Dirty Doodle!

Check out the gnar puppy!

Mud season is getting a little old this year...

The Shpongletron Experience

Wow - where to begin on this one... So a year ago, I ran across this live video of Shpongle from back in the day. I was intrigued enough to check out their website, and disappointed to find out that they had not been touring for a while. One day this past spring, while perusing email, I ran across a listing for "The Shpongletron Experience" appearing at the Boulder Theater in April. A quick web search turned up the following on YouTube. Since the "experience" was the night after Microbreweries for the Environment featuring 'Head for the Hills', the decision was easy.



Behold, the Shpongletron!


The EYE!!

Frickin' Laser Beams!

WTF?

Took this photo in Farmington, NM traffic last week. That guy paid money for that...

Charlie Sheen's Hork Nostril

I can't be the only one who noticed the *incredible* feature he has developed for himself. Seriously, the whirlwind this mad-machine could generate would suck the panties off a prostitute...

Gearing up for the Republican Primaries

Is it too early to get excited about the complete G.O.P shit show that is about to unfold this summer? I, for one, am completely stoked to see this go down. Just look at some of the fine personalities that will vie for a presidential bid...


Ahh - leading the pack with some early season PR antics, we have everybody's favorite boss, "The Donald".... Guess what, D?! That crap about Obama not being a US citizen has been beaten to death.... nice try, but You're fired!








She's special, isn't she? What a peach.










OK - no idea who did this, but serious props to the uncovering of the Michelle Bachmann / Bat-boy "separated at birth" photo. Maybe Trump should be checking this shit out...






Another fine shot of Ms. Bachmann....











And here we have everyone's *other* favorite Minnesotan, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, seen here looking very presidential holding a pinner pike...









And then there's our boy from Utah, Sen. Romney....

Great picture, man... What in the hell's about to go down here?







Newt Gingrich is pondering a run...










And, last but *certainly* not least, rumor has it that Sen. John McCain may throw his hat in the ring again....


Should be a BLAST! I can't wait!

Rare Cuddle Wolf Utah Sighting

A rare sighting of the elusive Cuddle Wolf near his lair in remote canyon country, Utah.

Arch Canyon. Utah 4WD Trip

Rolled out to Arch Canyon near Blanding, UT this weekend with our neighbors. The map claimed a 9 mile 4WD access road that travels up the wash. The entrance to Arch canyon is easily found and roughly 2 miles off of the pavement. Some water in the creek (April 2) but not enough to be an issue. The road is sandy, windy, and *NARROW*. Expect to pinstripe the paint on this one.

This is the top of the road where the BLM land and Manti-La Sal Forest intersect. The forest service does not permit vehicles beyond this point. There is one *very cool* campsite up here. There is not much established camping throughout the canyon. Being BLM land, leave-no-trace is permitted, but finding areas to pull vehicles clear of the road would be tricky.

Hank looking tough on the road. The road is sand and traverses the creek continually. Other than a mud hole at the bottom, and some tight dips where streams are crossed, it wasn't that bad of the drive. I was happy with the higher clearance that the 3.5" lift kit and 31's provided. There are a number of rock hazards that were much easier with the extra clearance.

Rock towers on the cliff face of the canyon.

Cathedral Arch

Porter cools off in the creek.

Corbet's Cruiser, Herman.

Angel Arch is a short hike from the end of the road.

Rufus turns 1

Rufus, age 1.

R.I.P Owsley Stanley

"I always trusted what happened on acid. Everything that happens to you on acid is real. Everything you see is real, everything you experience is real, everything you think about is real. The thing about it is, that a lot of the stuff you see is not stuff you see when you're straight, because when you're straight you're limited. The acid removes the "filters" and lets the noise through. That "noise" is as real a part of the universe as the other part that you do allow to pass through, it just hasn't been important for you. That's a survival issue, we discard a lot of sensory information to make our daily lives simpler. When you open those floodgates and let it all pass, you let in a lot of stuff that's as real, and often more interesting than the stuff you usually let through. The patterns that you see when stoned, for instance, are an artifact of the way the nerves in your eyes are arranged and mapped into the brain. Beautiful noise!

...Psychedelics are a gift of nature that brings tribalism to people; they bring an understanding of the ecology of the planet and the interaction of all living things, because that's one of the first things you become aware of when you take psychedelics--how everything is alive and how everything depends on everything else. You go take a look at every indigenous culture that has a respect for its environment -- unlike the hierarchical approach of the feudalistic structures that the world is now run by -- and you will find that these people use psychedelics of some sort, usually in a regular, ritualized manner.

The music of the Grateful Dead is an important assistant to the revival of tribality. Because it has to do with the way things are. It's not somebody's idea about the way things might be, or the way things could be or should be. It's what it is. It's real music about real things. The whole thing is about a social movement. It's tribalism. Which is the only social structure that is truly human. The structure of the world today runs on feudalism--governments, companies; all those structures are feudalistic, arranged in a hierarchy which at the root of it follows Parkinson's law. That is, once you create a hierarchy or bureaucracy, it has only one purpose, and that is: To Continue. There's nothing else. But that has nothing to do with the tribal entity. The tribal entity exists so as to abide in harmony with its environment. It's something that benefits everyone, not just this one structure." -- Bear.

Pack wins the big game, completes Vikings "Season of Shame"

Poor Vikes. I look at the 2010-11 season like I look at the Bush administration... It is highly unlikely that in my lifetime, it'll be this bad again. Go Vikes.