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2009 No. American Auto Show
2009 Starbucks Redesign
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Phoenix, Arizona
Drag Racing History
Old photos of the Perryville and Beeline Dragstrips
President Obama visits
Mesa, Arizona
Mr.Wonderful puts e-mailed photos of Barack Obama's February 18th, 2009 visit to Mesa, Arizona into a table complete with links to the East Valley Tribune's slide show of the same happening.
Spy Shot Central !
"The Road & Track Magazine staff is tapping their sources to bring you the latest insider information on the most anticipated cars testing under wraps!"
Animal Acts
Photos of animals simply acting amazing or being amazing. No text revealing the circumstances, dates or locations, just photos.
Citroen Import Services
A few photos of rebuilt Citroens, especially the 2CV, the most sold car in the world, and the car Danny DeVito drove in the movie Romancing the Stone.
TrekEarth
"TrekEarth is learning more about the world through photography."
The Banana Graveyard
"Abandon all hope,
ye who enter here"
Found Cameras & Orphan Pictures
"Do you recognize any of these people? Each one of these lost photos came from a found camera or memory stick."
Pink's Hollwood
Celebrity Photos
Armed Forces Day
1950s Photo Archive
MangoFalls
Joe discovers and then develops
other peoples lost or forgotten photos
Images of the Old West
@ Legends of America
Coast to Coast AM
Image Gallery
2003 Edwards AFB Air Show
(Photos by Fred Bruenjas)
Travel Photo Pages:
2001 Mediterranean Cruise
Bizerte, Tunisia Rome, Florence, Pisa, Naples, Amalfi Italy
Nice, France Monaco Barcelona (Gaude's cathedral)
(Monserrat monestary) Malta Messina, Sicily
My Other Pages:
Photo Index
is an easy to use, descriptive, webpage linking to hundreds of my old photos
My most popular pages are at:
Recent Buys and Bedstand Books of Mr.Wonderful where I list the most recent books I've bought, with their Barnes & Noble sales ranking, along with the publishers comments.
The MW Review of Books is where I issue eloquent and honest book reviews the everyday reader can comprehend and use as a factor as to whether to purchase the book or not. Go figure, a book review you can believe.
Using simple language and simple logic
MW Talks Politics
Hidden Taxes
visit this page and realize the absolute truth of Mr. Wonderful's proverb that, "Government will never have enough money until it has one hundred percent of every dollar you and I earn."
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metacrystal
"metacrystal.com is the personal website of Nick Strupp. Nick is currently a Senior Consultant for inCode Wireless. This has him traveling all over the world. Check out the pictures!"
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"zomblog posts are either single photos, or short reports on small events, generally of a political nature"
Liberty Wildlife Blog
Cool photos of the people at Liberty Wildlife in Scottsdale working to rehabilitate mostly birds so that they may rejoin our Arizona scenery.
Slim Paley
Recommended by
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Crack Skull Bob
Original fine pencil art,
by Ruben Fletcher,
really nice stuff.
The Big Picture
News Stories in Photographs
Freaking News
News Photoshop Contests
What's That Bug?
Huge photoblog of bugs
newyorkshitty.com
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April 2011
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Stalker in Turbo Porsche
I easily caught up to this $120,000 Turbo Porsche in the SR101 to I-17 transition lane. The driver, who saw me photograph him, and was a dead-ringer for Steve Wozniak, (co-founder of Apple), in a case of photo-road-rage attempted to follow me home. I assume that he, or his male partner, (probably holding hands) finally noticed I had an NRA bumper sticker on my faster-than-a-turbo-Porsche Cobalt and finally gave up their pursuit.
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January 2011
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Taurus vs. Saturn
Judging from the cars involved in this accident, I'd guess a pair of Illegal Aliens were making believe they were back in Mexico and simply ignored the red light at the intersection.
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August 2010
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Explorer vs. Box
What happens when you crash into one of those beige boxes next to the road
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July 2010
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DPS Giddyup
This DPS officer was driving very fast on southbound State Route 51 (the Squaw Peak Freeway) Thursday.
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July 2010
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Jackass Pickup
This guy was driving like a maniac on southbound State Route 51 (the Squaw Peak Freeway) Wednesday.
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July 2010
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Accident
July 7th, around 6:00pm we've got an accident on Cactus Road and 36th Street in north Phoenix, Arizona
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July 2010
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URL is What?
There comes a point when you really need to take a look at your company's URL.
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July 2010
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Fuji What?
I thought she said, "Fuji asshole!"
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July 2010
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Tatum Incident
South of Shea Boulevard on Tatum Road I saw this situation developing.
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June 2010
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Cutting Traffic
I got off the eastbound Pima Freeway at Tatum Boulevard and while waiting for the light to change I saw this DPS motorcycle cutting traffic so he could hang a u-turn and attend to an accident on the westbound Pima Freeway. You can barely make out his white-appearing brake light under the green dot.
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June 2010
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"And His Hair
Was Perfect!"
Here you can clearly see that a man is walking his werewolf. And, yes, his hair was perfect.
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
(Geeze, I think the people sitting behind Warren may be Werewolves themselves and they don't find the song the least bit funny. Scary!)
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June 2010
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White Jet
Over at the Deer Valley Airport, oddly enough, on Deer Valley Road, I'm seeing plenty of these military jets. Sitting. Waiting.
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June 2010
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Front Seat
Ice Chest
Only in Phoenix, Arizona in the first of June, does one need to put anything cold in a styrofoam ice-chest for a twenty-two minute drive to work.
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June 2010
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Hey! Truck!
This proves that Phoenix, Arizona is not a one-horse town any longer. How could one horse eat this much hay?
And yes, I am one of those hay-seed yokels who yells at the top of my lungs everytime I see a truck loaded down like this: "HAY!"
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May 2010
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Adult Tricycle
We're going to be seeing a lot more of this, people on bicycles. The only real way to save money though is to get rid of your car, but if you owe payments, you'll end up paying for it whether you have it or not. In Europe, since fuel carries about $4 a gallon tax, & since their taxation is so high & so many people are on welfare, & unemployment is running about 20% (the U.S. is at 17% right now) many people ride bicycles.
Pretty soon our leaders in Washington, in between flights on Air Force One, private jets, limousine rides and weeks-long vacations will be telling us how good it is for us to ride bikes & to 'downsize,' for both 'the children' and 'the planet.' Oh yay!
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May 2010
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Powder Prison
You're probably wondering why the powdered infant formula is kept behind bars, well, plastic bars, anyway. Number 1, since it is on WICs (a govt welfare program) it has tripled in price. It is also the perfect substance to cut (mix in with) cocaine so it appears to the buyer he or she is getting more than it seems. That's two reasons they often steal shopping-carts-loads of the stuff.
In Phoenix, AZ, I witnessed an incidence of this at my Albertson's on Tatum & Shea Boulevards late one evening. The would-be thief surrendered an entire cart stacked to overflowing with infant formula boxes, and since he didn't appear to be an Illegal Alien (with three anchor babies under the age of 2 1/2) we know it wasn't likely for home use.
Baby Formula Theft Ring
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May 2010
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Skater Dude
Skater dude waits for traffic signal to change at Sweetwater & Cave Creek Roads
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May 2010
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Ambulance
An ambulance goes by me while I'm on my way to work.
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May 2010
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Night Cop
May 13: Really hard to discern, but this is a Phoenix police department Chevy Tahoe heading east on Greenway Road, lights and siren, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with 'illegals' since according to news reports, they are no longer a source of crime in Arizona.
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May 2010
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Roll Top
Here's another great GM/GMC idea that they apparently didn't check to see that anyone would want to purchase.
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May 2010
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The People's
Transport?
With gas price going through the roof (most likely), unemployment increasing, and three or four tracking GPS and computer devices installed in our cars, SUVs, and trucks, how long before we are all traveling like this?
Note: 'WE' would be on the bike. Possibly a midget politician or czar might ride in the enclosed carriage.
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May 2010
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The People's
Skateboard?
Of course you think I'm nuts, but if, after my cataract surgery, I manage to retain my vision, and I have a little extra money, I'll probably be buying one of
these motorized skateboards to get around on and during the coming De-Bama-Pression, when $4+ a gallon gasoline, along with stagnating wages, and the loss of even more jobs in private industry force me to save every penny I can.
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May 2010
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Greenway Accident
Thursday, May 6th, 2:21PM and another accident on Greenway Road near 44th Street in Phoenix, Arizona.
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May 2010
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Crotch Bat
I'm not sure what this guy is doing. Whatever it is, it doesn't look right.
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April 2010
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A-Team Van
With Murdock Driving?
This Jackass nearly swerved into me seconds before I snapped this photo. I was taking the back-way to work since the city was busy tearing up Greenway Road. I wasn't concerned until I took a little harder look at this matte-black vehicle and became convinced the driver packed both auto insurance, a valid driver's license and a machine pistol.
Oh, what was he swerving to avoid? A forty-four foot long yellow school bus with brake lights and turn-signal lenses the size of large dinner plates sporting a four-inch-wide red and white horizontal reflective tape strip running the width of its rear bumper. You know how those buses swerve in and out of traffic and are always unpredictable in what direction they may go next...
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April 2010
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Conflicted
This person has a lot of anger. Some of these bumper stickers appear to conflict with each other. KPHX radio is the new 'progressive' radio station that has less listeners than Cindy Sheehan would have at an NRA meeting. I love the 'evolutionists' because they love to hate the God they say does not exist.
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April 2010
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Beauty
In the 21st Century the beauty of automobiles is being shunted aside as fools believe man is destroying the planet with his CO2 emissions. Seen here you may witness the GoreBama vision of what the (wealthy) workers of the world would be driving.
But certainly we will never see the Nancy Pelosi's or any of our betters in D.C. carried by these wheeled coffins. One has got to know the universe has a sense of humor seeing the Japanese name of the vehicle.
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April 2010
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Caddy Fatty
This circumstance has been completely verified, codified and documented, (I think at Wikipedia), but for unknown reasons, the fattest of the fat-asses is always found in a Cadillac. And I don't know if I can afford one.
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April 2010
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Spying on MW
They are still mistaking your Mr.Wonderful for Tom Selleck. Here we have a helicopter I've not seen before, with someone clearly filming me as I'm taking this photo.
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April 2010
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Az Trucks 2010
AZ Trucks 2060?
The other day I learned the Obama Administration has mandated 33.5 mpg for American-made vehicles. On the border of the Town of Paradise Valley, Az, I looked up and saw these three 11 mpg trucks in the left turn lane.
I thought, reminiscent of Cuba, rather than being forced to buy union-built, govt designed, vastly over-priced, unsafe, Barbie-sized vehicles citizens don't want, we will simply keep what we have currently own while Detroit disappears into the dust of the 20th Century.
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April 2010
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Greenway Parkway
Accident
Another fatal accident on Greenway Parkway, this time at 32nd Street.
This link should get you to the slide show at ABC.com that shows photos of the actual vehicles involved:
abc15.com
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April 2010
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Fighters Over Phoenix
I saw these guys flying over my community back on March 21, 2010.
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March 2010
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Willie
Taking a courtesy van-ride home from Courtesy Chevrolet (go figure) the other morning, I spotted Willie Nelson waiting for the cross-walk light to change so he might cross over to his favorite 7th Street Denny's, which was a favorite gathering after-show place for most of Phoenix's actors and actresses.
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March 2010
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V UFO
I took a photo of the Cadillac Escalade on the roof of Coulter Cadillac and when I blew the photo up I saw I had captured another UFO
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March 2010
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Alero Jackass
Here's Thursday's Greenway Parkway Jackass, soon appearing in an accident near you. Kato was traveling 10, 15, 20mph over the limit for several miles. But, being he, or she, is a jackass, did not realize that the traffic signals are timed for 40-45mph, not 60.
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March 2010
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Four by Four Limo
Here is something you don't see everyday. A Ford Excursion four-wheel drive stretch limo. Only in Arizona. This particular one must be from Tucson where dirt roads are still quite common.
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March 2010
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Red Yellow Blue
After the rain on Monday the 22nd of February this beautiful rainbow was painted across the sky. It's too bad so many secularized citizens don't know the wonderful bible story about 'The Rainbow'.
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February 2010
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Minis
Some people just can't get enough of their minis. Talk about birds of a feather.
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February 2010
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Mules
In the summer, The Valley of the Sun (Phoenix, AZ) is known as the auto makers' hot weather testing center of the U.S. I used to see all kinds of weird cars driving around with antennas so tall they almost hit the overhead power lines. Sometimes I'd even see a 'mule' that was covered in ductape and bondo to disguise what it was.
Driving home Thursday night, I spied these three vehicles that appeared to be Lexus RX series, only sporting Suburu emblems. With their reflective red and white taped bumpers, they're hard to miss.
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February 2010
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cake or death?
I thought the plate said 'coke' or death. Who knows what the heck they're talking about. Is this the anti-Marie Antoinette?
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February 2010
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Helo Spy
Here you can see the ABC15 helicopter spying on me. Again
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February 2010
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Endorado?
How do you re-end a city bus? It's not like they stop in a short distance or stop unexpectedly. Naturally, this accident took place on Greenway Parkway around 29th Street in Phoenix, Arizona.
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February 2010
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Cement
I see construction in my neighborhood is picking up again. Too bad, from what I know, I'd be willing to be the first occupants of these homes will be illegal aliens. What size of a mortgage payment can you afford if you have five adults living together, or three families? A heck of a lot more than a single adult male can.
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February 2010
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Plumber Jack Ass
The other day this dolt was following me westbound on Union Hills Road with less than a 12" pipe nipple's width between us. As soon as I hung the corner onto the westbound SR51 (the PeeOnTheStreet Freeway), it was as if I had flushed the toilet he was suddenly so far behind me. Of course, as soon as we got on a straight line again, he just had to fly by me.
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February 2010
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sons Osc
As government mandates, taxes and regulations increase, we will see more and more repairs not being done, more and more parking-lot pot holes.
Check it out.
My Albertson's held up 2/16/2010
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February 2010
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Prawn
You made fun of me when I displayed photos of the 'District 9' housing project they are building near me. Well, now I am seeing all these prawns wandering about with arrows pointing towards it.
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February 2010
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4-Wheel Drive
Submarine
Saw this guy at the Best Buy parking lot. The vehicle looks like it's straight out of 'The Road' movie. Gotta love the dog tied to the grill, eh?
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February 2010
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True Believer
Here is a big Obama true believer turning into the Ace Hardware parking lot to pick up some single-edge razor blades. Not sure if they would be used to scrape the decals off, or to slit wrists.
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January 2010
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Redux: Un-Safeway
Photos from an accident on a Greenway Parkway sited Safeway Grocery store.
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January 2010
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Sky Harbor
Jackass
On the way out of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport last Monday, January 18th, this Jackass was about eight feet off of my rear bumper running about seven miles per hour over the posted speed limit. But that's okay, because it had just started to rain.
Fastrack Airport Parking
Bus #317 AZ LPN CD97727
10:44AM 1/18/2010
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January 2010
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Cowboy or Cabalero?
On the way back from Sky Harbor Airport last Monday I spied this gentleman and was soon choking in the metallic-onion smelling fumes from his Dodge.
To many, this might appear as a cowboy driving a Daytona, however, to us skilled in art of sniffing-out illegals, the mighty curl on the brim and the car obviously not meeting emission standards labels the driver as a cabalero.
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January 2010
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Banana Sauce?
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why these bottles were on the clearance shelf. Why, just the other day I was snacking on a banana and wondering where my sauce was.
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January 2010
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Going Green
Some Phoenicians are really going green, not by using battery-powered cars, but by mounting hay-consuming beasts.
And yes, I do know how to ride a horse. Not nearly as well as the ex-Mrs.Wonderful, or my Judson-school trained oldest boy, Mr.Wonderful Jr.
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January 2010
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Wood?
You?
With Phoenix winter low temperatures in the middle 40 degrees farenheit firewood sales is a booming business. Here we see a flatbed running down Cactus Road with a zillion cords of wood on it.
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January 2010
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Porcupine Posts
So sad that a classy store like Fresh & Easy has to protect their building from white trash and illegal alien crash-and-bashers by placing so many posts the front of the store resembles a WWII Normandy beachhead.
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January 2010
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December
Gas Prices
Just for the record books, here's what $10.00 ( 7.08) will buy at the gas station in December of 2009. 3.93 gallons equals 14.9 liters.
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January 2010
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Greenway
Porsche
With the winter auto auctions in Scottsdale we're seeing vehicles we don't normally see. I've been told this is a Porsche 550 Spyder, the same model of car that James Dean, through no fault of his own, perished in. The '130' is the number Dean had painted on the side of his car. Speedtv.com values this car at $800,000 or more.
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January 2010
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Job Application
When I was at Kierland Commons the other day, I felt moved to apply for a job at this store. I think it's got something to do with the alphabet.
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January 2010
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Pizza Fiend
I don't know how many people know that the Zhu Zhu pets run on AAA batteries and pizza.
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January 2010
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Dirty Dude
When I was drag-racing in the late 1960s, I sometimes drove my 1964 Plymouth 'race car' to work. Tell you what, I was never beaten off a light.
Looks like this guy races his truck on the weekends and is forced to drive it during the week. That, or he's a poser.
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January 2010
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Wrong Way
At first glance it looks as though this Chevy truck is going the wrong way. It isn't.
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January 2010
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Minnesota Mangler
There is a single right turn lane when Greenway Road meets Greenway Parkway at approximately 18th Street. So when I saw these snowbirds in this gray Chrysler 300 pull up to my left, I somehow knew they would turn right from the left-turn-only lane. And they sure did as they paralleled my turn only to almost get rear-ended by an east-bound speeding white mini-truck.
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January 2010
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Snottsdale Wheels
You can always tell when you're closing in on Snottsdale, Arizona because you see the newly purchased Mercedes out and about.
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January 2010
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Parking Space
for Who?
Somebody call George Noory. The result of E.T. and human breeding is common knowledge in Phoenix, Arizona. Why they have their own parking spots!
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January 2010
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Osco Fatty
Last Tuesday I spent probably 20 minutes in line at my Albertson's-Osco pharmacy. It wasn't the pharmacists' fault, it was the dumb-assed customers. So this hog-body (which is my goal to become), on her electric mobility device, gets up to the counter and gobbles up her four prescriptions: "Ambien" (for sleeping), "Prozac" (for depression), "Seroquel" (for bipolar disorder) and "Prilosec" (for heartburn). Can you say? "Lose some effing weight fat ass!"
What was your Mr.Wonderful picking up? His levothyroxine a prescription for his thyroid disorder of unknown causes, but probably from eating bushels of raw broccoli when I was on The Atkins' Diet years ago when I lost 43 pounds.
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January 2010
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Yellow Chevy
Back in the late 1960s high school buddies, Kelly, Harry & me all drove cars that were manufactured before we were born.
While your Mr. Wonderful drove a classy 1950 Desoto sporting a cut glass cover on my interior domelight, Harry and Kelly drove pedestrian 1948 Chevys. I feel pretty certain that yellow was not an available color in the post World War II era.
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January 2010
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Pilatus
Here's an airplane you don't see very often, a PC-12 Pilatus, manufactured in Sweden.
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January 2010
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Jackass
This tailgating loon followed me for several miles down Greenway Parkway on the last day of the year 2009. This moron was one car length behind me with no hope of stopping without hitting me had something happened. Any wonder why Greenway is accident central for Phoenix, Arizona. As I type this there was a fatal accident at Greenway and 51st Avenue.
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Dec 31, 2009
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District 9
After having seen the 'science fiction' movie District 9 last night I easily recognized the yellow modular forms that will be used to erect housing for the prawns in north Phoenix, Arizona.
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December 2009
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Fitness Center
With the New Year coming and resolutions on the mind, here's a fitness center I could belong to.
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December 2009
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Whale Tail
I saw this 1975-era Porsche roaring down Cave Creek Road on Christmas eve. In the 70s that wing on the back, called a 'whale-tail' was quite outrageous. The Turbo version of this 911, labeled the 930, cost as much as a 1975 Rolls Royce Corniche and was at the time, the fastest and most hard-to-drive car around.
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December 2009
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Edge Idiot
This winter visitor just had to get in front of me to turn right. No, go straight. No, turn left.
I'm probably just jealous that I haven't been outside of Phoenix since 2003, when I flew to Texas to beg my ex-wife not to divorce me. And boy were my arms tired!
Stacey Kent sings
"I Wish I Could Go Traveling Again"
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December 2009
Merry
Christmas !
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MB Beast
I saw this beast of a Mercedes truck westbound on Greenway Parkway and 64th Street. Apparently, he saw me taking the photo because he set off his locomotive-sounding horn array. Ouch!
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December 2009
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Juan in the Lane
Tuesday evening, I went by the Jack in the Box on 32nd Street & Cactus Roads to pick up 16 tacos and a couple of chicken sandwiches.
We found this gentlemen in line behind us in the drive-thru lane. On a bike. In the rain. With a dog. Never mind that all the restaurants have a notice at the window stating they will not serve walk-up customers.
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December 2009
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Nuther Crash
Big surprise, another crash on Greenway Parkway just east of 64th Street. I'm seeing only one vehicle, so I'm assuming the other one took off. Driven, most likely, by one of our few remaining illegal aliens working at the bankrupt Food City for the Bashas' boys.
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December 2009
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Flying Orange
Looking like a poorly designed children's toy, this Robinson 40 flies over my workplace.
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December 2009
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Street Light Primer
I am so tired of writers and others not knowing the difference between metal halide light, light from high pressure sodium and the light from low pressure sodium. Metal halide light is bluish-white, while high pressure sodium light is slightly orange, with low pressure sodium lamps, always housed in long rectangle-shaped fixtures, emitting a rich orange light that renders all colors beneath them either gray or black.
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December 2009
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Hamster Spell
The other day, when I thought I was alone, I cursed the Cult of Global Warming and Algore changed me into a gawdamned Syrian hamster.
Son of a bitch! I spent the day burrowing into my sawdust, scoring un-salted sunflower seeds from a huge hand that descended from the sky, and running and running and running in my purple treadmill. However, I did finally get down to my fighting weight.
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December 2009
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Arnold's Hummer
Here's an H1 Hummer (the Arnold inspired one) pulling what looks to be an ex-military wood-slatted trailer. How Hummers have fallen, hell, even the company was bought by the Chinamen and is soon to be moved to the land dog-meat miso , Mandarin, and Mao.
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December 2009
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Breathing Battery
This driver was apparently told that, for better performance from his rented Altima Hybrid, he should leave the trunk open. In the left hand lane note the child's-carved-bar-of-soap-shaped-looking Prius.
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December 2009
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