Ode to the Flashbomb

This is why humans can be so awesome, how amazing.

Familiar

Saturday

Bicycle Mechanic

After work on Thursday I went to visit Lily and Xavier with bicycle tools in hand. Lily's bike has been in Xaviers car for about two weeks now because her back tire popped. After a trip to the bike store to get some wheel rim tape we headed back to Xaviers and I gave Lily a small demo on how to change the inner-tube on her bike. Lily is now officially a bike mechanic wizard. 

And Xavier is officially a crazy person. 

Home

unfold

Adrien, Toph, and I had a nice morning together about a week ago. It was nice to see him and catch up and to also talk about life and share some advice. Toph had a lot of fun running around rolling in dead stuff, Adrien and I slacklined and played guitar. And I don't have it down yet, but eventually I will be able to juggle and slackline at the same time, maybe not but I have to be optimistic. 

Adrien told me the other day "I need to make more of an effort" and I thought that was pretty rad.

Summer Cut

My sister gave Toph a haircut the other day, I always forget how funny she looks with short hair. I'm glad, less hair, less heat, less panting. She is most likely a happier dog now.

instead

James Mercer- New Slang

And if you'd 'a took to me like 
A gull takes to the wind. 
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree 
And i'd a danced like the king of the eyesores 
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well. 

New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries. 
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony. 
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall, Never should have called 
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely. 

The almost green smoothie

Throughout my whole life I've always been aware of injuries and ailments to the point where I started to recognize and appreciate long periods of my life when my body was in complete homeostasis.

noun ( pl. homeostases |-sēz| )

the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, esp. as maintained by physiological processes.

I would always be so grateful when my body was in this equal state, where I didn't have any pain, injuries. And I would always be aware of when I did have cuts, scrapes, sprained ankles. Just as my right hand was healing from a previous injury my left hand was cut pretty bad today. I was at work cutting some bubble wrap and sliced open my palm. A few minutes before it happened, I decided to change the blade because the old one was a little too dull. No one noticed when it happened and I immediately (frantically) went to the back room and found the first aid kit, I cleaned it out and noticed it wouldn't stop bleeding and thought.. "hmm, maybe I need stitches".. but I put pressure on it, wrapped up some gauze and put way too much packaging tape all around my hand. Eventually my boss helped me wrap my hand in a nicer way (picture below).

I'm glad it wasn't that deep, and pretty minor and I know I must be more careful from now on. 

After getting home from work I attempted to make a "green smoothie" using spinach, ice, water, mango, banana, peach yogurt, and blueberries. 

This was my almost green smoothie.

Oh yeah, and on my bike ride home from work, about two blocks away from home, this car almost ran me over because they were not paying attention. I wish I would have some kind of magical hammer throwing power that would let me fling hammers whenever I wanted while riding my bike. But all I could muster up were some screams of disapproval in the form of bad words, I don't think the driver heard me. 

I came as a rat

War

Man, this is one crazy night. I keep seeing all these colorful lights streaking and exploding in the sky. I believe this might be the alien invasion everyone has been talking about. I ran back to my computer to write this one final blog post to convey- I love all of you. I hope these aliens spare me and I can see all of your faces again. It sounds crazy out there, loud explosions, probably spacecrafts crashing and blowing up and loud screeching, probably a war cry from the aliens. Toph and I will be on the roof defending this house until we can't anymore.

Farewell world, we had some good times.

Sincerely,
Tony

Processed. Print. Five.

Pentax K1000/ Kodak Portra 800

Pomona, February 2012

These are my friends Xavier and Lily. We spent the evening exploring the Pomona Art walk and as we were walking down the steps to the soho gallery I realized I haven't taken any pictures of these two together with my film camera. As this urge came to me, I asked both of them to walk back up the steps so I could take their picture.

I want to just write this before I go on, I'm not biased because these two are my best friends and that I've been friends with Xavier for eight years.

I'm so happy that these two have found each other, that they treat each other with so much respect, so much love, and they are really there for each other. I remember when they actually became a couple and the first few times I got to be around them, I would be so overwhelmed with joy. I would always have to yell it, tell them how much I loved their love. And I'm not just saying this because I love these two humans, Xavier has been in relationships where I didn't feel like it was the right partner for him and this is the first time that I feel wholeheartedly that he has found a wonderful person to share his life with.

What I've learned from their relationship and I admire about them is that they have learned so much from each other and even though they might have different views on certain things, they have found a way to really understand one another. I've watched Xavier transform little parts of his life for the better because of Lily and the same for Lily. I hope to find a partner one day that I can share my life with, learn so much from, and also for them to be able to understand differing ideas, lifestyles, and hopes of mine.

I'm glad I got this photo, they look way too cool for their own good.

There's sort of a nice ring to it...

so american

I found this bandana today at the thrift store and I thought to myself, "man this thing is so over the top but cool, I should buy this!" and I also thought to myself, "what, what am I thinking, why would I want that?" And I also thought, "79 cents for the most overly patriotic bandana I've ever seen, I'm buying it!"

So now I own this.