Category Archives: musings

Oct
06
2008

Day 10: Spammer’s Closing Thoughts, Part 1

Social spamming was hella fun.
Taking – no – MAKING time to have a road trip with Zoo Broker was one of the best decisions I have made this year, and let me tell you folks, it’s been a year for decisions. I so very enjoyed myself that it is hard to clearly explain. Perhaps all [...]

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Oct
06
2008

Day 10: Zoo’s Closing Thoughts, Part 1 (Almost Banal)

We’re only a few hours from boarding planes back to our respective homes, and I am wiped out– physically, that is. Mentally, I’m energized. This was the trip that I needed, — I probably needed it months ago — to help me refocus on the things that are important. When I wrote this 10 [...]

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Oct
02
2008

Juxtaposition

I’m sure there are two destinations within a few hundred miles that are more different than Elko, Nevada and Salt Lake City, but I’m hard pressed to think of another so polarized pair.
Elko: Whores, 24-hour access to alcohol and gambling, all-you-can-eat steakhouses.SLC: Mormans, 24-hour access to group prayer, and all-you-can-marry churches.
We’ll give you some [...]

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Sep
30
2008

Sometimes a road trip is just a road trip …

… but folks, have you checked out the pictures that Spamzalot has taken? Every day this man produces something astounding.
“Produced Something Astounding”.
Not bad words for my tombstone, now if I could only get someone to say it about me! For sure, this is a wake-up call. This morning I [...]

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Sep
30
2008

Day 4 Musings: America the Large

I remember this feeling. Last time we covered a lot of ground, I felt like, “Why the hell didn’t I know there was so much OF America and it’s variety was so great?”
It’s a wonderful feeling, especially when you have no plan as to destination, except for where you might want to be when you [...]

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Sep
26
2008

I Am The Kindling

In the summer of 1993, I felt like a minority for the first time. At that point, I’d been a minority for all of my life, “the only brown around”, but it didn’t occur to me that people thought or acted any different based on that. To me, racism was something confined to [...]

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Sep
26
2008

Destination Unknown: Pre-Roadtrip Musings of Sir Arthur SpamZalot

For me, it’s the eve of the road trip. My flight is in two hours, and I am so excited I can taste it. Zoo Broker and I have taken two legendary road trips before, and I’m certain this one will contain most of the usual elements that I remember fondly:

Uncertain destinations (check!)
Lots of photo-ops
Some [...]

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Feb
26
2007

Zoo Broker’s RT1 Memories …

God, that was a good time, that’s what got us started on this crazy passion. I don’t have a ton of pictures from the trip, I will have to rely on Spammer to put some up.
Some of the fragments that I remember right now …
… Spammer standing outside Barney’s Beanery (after rocking the house, [...]

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