Photo Index
is an easy to use, index web page listing links to hundreds of my original photos. Clicking the link
will send you to a page of photos decorated by unique captioning that has been capturing the attention
of the entire WWW .
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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 frank 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 reviewer you can believe.
Every weekend morning I see these never-been-washed hot-air balloons lift off from west of the I-17 freeway. Can you imagine the UFO calls that would be placed if these guys flew at night?
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0419_I17_four_balloons.jpg
Yes, we've heard all about the Maricopa County Sheriff's profiling of minorities. Here an MCSO deputy arrives to help push a stranded, and very Black county resident, out of the street, after she ignored the red light on her gas gauge for three days. Hey! Who knew cars run out of gas?
In an effort to shave their employee's fuel costs, some employers let their workers drive the company vehicle to and from work. Here we see a construction worker driving to work in the morning rush hour traffic.
I wasn't even going to post this, but with all the hub-bub about the recent Phoenix Lights circa 2008, I decided to put this up. Since I was within a mile of the Deer Valley Airport, this could have been a landing plane with very bright lights. All I know is that for three nights afterwards, James Woods was in my dreams.
Well, a first for me, a sighting of Maricopa County Sheriff's infamous chain gang laboring near the University of Phoenix Stadium. If you look closely, you can see a deputy taking a photo. Apparently nowadays, the back of the pink t-shirts are printed with the crime of the wearer.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0417_chain_gang_peoria.jpg
The further one goes west in Phoenix, Arizona or west of Phoenix, Arizona, the more 'colorful' the residents become. That's why all us dullards live east of Central Avenue. Here we see Chevron gas pump art. You can even witness some lame attempts by the few Caucasians who inhabit this dangerous area.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0410_marcocrane_18whlr.jpg
Ever wonder how those huge freeway accidents occur? Here we have one in the making: with the I-17 (Black Canyon) under construction, with a huge oversize-load crane in the curb lane, with an 18-wheeler passing using the inside lane, while traveling under a bridge. If the swerving of both vehicles towards each other have coincided, fun times would have ensued.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0410_marcocrane_18whlr.jpg
With Phoenix, Arizona temperatures headed towards 100F degrees, this VW driver, to save gas (while not running his air conditioner) and still remain cool, has busted out his rear window for good airflow.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/008_0417_bluevw_nowindow.jpg
An idyllic night spoiled by the 'red and blues' of a Maricopa County deputy's SUV. Turns out I knew the driver of the truck, who was not cited. I know him as 'Webster'. Nice enough kid. Iraq war vet. And, for you racists out there, he's as white as a piece of Staples' Xerox paper.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0414_mcso_controversy_trk.jpg
I bought my last new vehicle from these fine people at the Big Bell Road Auto Mall--now under new ownership and name.
I fell for the phony dealership generated and computer printed 'sale' price and felt good like the typical sap should, until I talked to a client who, one month later purchased the same used make and model as mine, the only difference being his was the latest model, one year newer, with lower mileage and cost him $1,000 less.
You can see from the license plate that this poor sod probably believes he owns a BMW Seven Series
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0409_false_advertising.jpg
Ever since the Mrs.Wonderful divorced me (entirely due to the fact that she could no longer ignore the constant and unrestrained lascivious looks of other women at your Mr.Wonderful) I've been strangely off-balance.
Here is the demon-cat that I believe has been destroying my life! One can easily discern it is possessed by Satanic powers by noting the yellow-green glow of its eyes. Just ask George Noory. And to top it off, the date/time stamp on the image indicates I was sitting at my William F. Buckley, Jr. replica desk at the time the photo was taken, but I have not a single memory of the cat being there, or snapping the photo, or of swilling six shots of tequila before awakening six hours and six minutes later. The dreaded 666.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0412_demoncat_kitchen.jpg
Your Mr.Wonderful was formerly employed by several U.S. government agencies. Sensitive U.S. government agencies. And they aren't 'sensitive' because of their emotions. In any case, I am often followed where ever I journey. This vehicle in my rear view mirror is one of those tales. The reason I know, is that I was in on designing this 'rig', and since I enjoy my monthly stipend from said agencies, I cannot even hint at this machines's purpose.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0410_oddvehicle_I17.jpg
This is one reason I tend not to check my rear-view mirror, especially when driving in the congested southbound morning rush hour traffic on the I-17 (Black Canyon) in north Phoenix, Arizona.
From this angle, the gasoline tanker truck (traveling at 70 mph, in a 55 mph construction zone) appears to be at least ten feet behind the BMW convertible in front of him. However when the stainless steel gasoline transport rocketed by me, he was about six feet behind the German-made (and I trust, fireproof) machine.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0409_tanker_tailgate.jpg
So I'm driving down the road and knowing that there is sheriff radar set up further down the road, I'm proceeding at a quite legal speed. I see the olive green Ford Expedition in the left turn lane facing me stop at the intersection to let me go through, since I have the right of way. She looks at me, I look at her, and she turns left immediately before I get to the intersection causing me to lock up my brakes and skid through to avoid missing her. The byatch! For once, I'm glad there is no accident photo to post here.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0405_daisymtn_skid.jpg
In the morning's rush hours, east bound on Deer Valley Road, here in north Phoenix, I noted this truck full of Illegals, with a mere six, forty-pound wheel barrows stacked one on top of another and the truck riding low enough to catch Circle K drink cups under its kickpanel. (Noah could've used these guys when he loaded up the Ark.) And of course they were pulling an un-licensed cement-mixer trailer.
What do you imagine would happen should this same truck have to stop quickly or if it slammed into the vehicle in front of it? Where would those same wheel barrows end up? 1) At the jobsite or 2) Injuring or killing other drivers?
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0402_drvlyroad_ovrld_truck.jpg
There is not one good, gawdamned thing in this photo. First the gas tank is almost empty. The odometer is closing in on 98,000 miles, the most miles I've ever put on a single vehicle I have owned, the trip odometer is reading 666.6 and the MPH is at zero, yet I'm in the fast lane of the 202 freeway.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0320_hyundai_odo.jpg
For some weird reason, I love my annual Ken Akamatsu Manga calendar. And no, I am not a child molester. Or Japanese. But this photo from the April 2008 calendar has me totally befuddled.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/manga_calendar_april.jpg
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but with all the hub-bub about the recent 
