Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The danger that walks among us

Thank you for that musical enlightenment, HJ1. The dulcet electronic tones of one man's insane theme will now haunt my dreams...forever.

But there is one thing that has me sleeping peacefully at night, and that is the knowledge that our MonkeyMan Commander-in-Chief is vigilantly protecting this glorious nation of ours against the true threat from within: zombies.

In RL news, this week was an insane one in Monterey. Classic Car week brought thousands of crazy car enthusiasts to the peninsula, and lo the streets were flooded with sports cars and antique cars and cars once owned by Elvis and Steve McQueen. We went to the Pacific Grove auto rally, where my favorite sight was a man wearing screaming yellow pants that matched his screaming yellow car. We also hit the main auction Saturday night, where we watched cars going for over $600,000. The day before one of Steve McQueen's old cars fetched over 2 million dollars. Madness!

After all that I needed a break, so I fled into the hills and spent a day at my favorite Zen hot springs retreat, Tassajara. Of course, the drought out here is so severe that the river is almost dry, so there's no refreshing cold plunge at the baths. But who's complaining when you have hot springs to soak in?

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