so, at around 9pm, we head out of the e-crap-o-lodge to drive through the desert roads of new mexico and arizona. since i have had the night shift during this trip, i start the driving for the day. our plan is to quickly check out the grand canyon as we pass near it, then possibly hit sedona for sunrise, which puts us not too far from LA, hopefully ( Read more... )

so, the other book that we're travelling with, thanks to joanna's roommate, is called "eccentric america", all of the weirdest shit across the country. after leaving a fantastic dinner in el reno, we decided to head about 35 miles south out of our way to chickasha, on the recommendation of this book. in chickasha, there is purported to be a muscle ( Read more... )

so around 7pm we reach oklahoma city and decide (thanks again to "roadfood") that we're going to stop for dinner in a citry just outside ok city, that would be the city of el reno, oklahoma. el reno is home to the "onion-fried burger". what this is, exactly, is a mound of hamburger meat thrown on the grill, a handful of paper-thinly sliced onions ( Read more... )

so graceland... with only two hours sleep in the past 30 hours, having driven 25 hours (hey, eric, sound familiar? ah, peoria...), and now having gotten lunch and left the cat in the motel room, leah and i shove off to graceland. ok, the house is cool. very extravagantly decorated, but the house itself is rather small for who he was and how much ( Read more... )

I'm currently sitting in the apartment of two very good friends of mine, snappy and amy, who live in eagle rock, in east LA. It's so nice to not be driving for a day. leah and i got here last night around 7 and were greeted with a phenomenal homecooked meal, courtesy of mr. snappy (a professional chef out here on the left coast ( Read more... )

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so, yeah, i've been a total slacker in terms of updating this, but my life hasn't really been all that entertaining to write about lately. working when i can, both with pool tables and back at my old theater. still looking for a permanant (what's ever permanant in my life?) job, probably bartending, but again, still looking. hate job searching. it' ( Read more... )