Remember this post? Of course you do!
Well, you see, Jimmy Kimmel retaliated with a bigger video, with more star power than you can shake a Matt Damon at! Check it out, you’ll be glad you did!
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Mark Liebrecht
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Chinky
This is what I get for trying to figure out a better “filing system” for all my old art shit, academic work, required readings and whatnot. How the heck did this end up in a folder called “FFF”? I don’t even remember what FFF stands for anymore. Nor can I explain how the following video ended up right below a bunch of videos featuring Beaker from the Muppets.
If you know a good filing system for someone who’s reading into economics, psychology and philosophy (and everything in between, like sociology and political theory… you can imagine), and literature/music/art history, please please please tell me! I can sort my old stuff by course and year, but this new shit has too many connections to each other.
Yeppers… and if you are/know the creator of this video, let me know so I can give proper credit.
P.S. I can’t comment on your blogs for some stupid reason. Pardonez my muteness, if it matters to you.
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saysmark
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mayhemgolgotha
My gf, Merlynn, and I decided on a whim to go to the border town of Nogales, Mexico, about an hour and a half drive, south of Tucson. She doesn’t have medical insurance for some odd reason; she says she hates paying taxes. Who doesn’t? Anyway, both she and I have the flu, but I’m recovering from mine.
The pharmacies in Mexico sell cheap meds. Meds are cheap cuz they’re not heavily regulated as they are here in the states. Plus, pharmacy companies charge out the ass for their products due to “research and development” and insurance and regulation by the Federal government and other hoohah. We were joined by a friend, Enrique (Kiko for short) who needed meds of his own.
Merlynn needed blood pressure meds and antibiotics. Me, I was along for the ride and driving the Beast; her ‘light duty’ Chevy 2500 pick up truck. That’s one smooth riding road cruiser there.
At a Rest Area outside Tubac
800 mg of Ibuprofen?! “Buy one, get one free”! The touts (people who ushered us in to their stores) were telling us, “Cheaper than K-Mart”, “I give you good deal, amigo”. One store tried to sell us a gram of morphine, a bottle of Soma and some oxycontin. Going rate on the street for one pill — $40.
as compared to Walgreens’ brand on ibuprofen 200 mg ….
And YES. You need a PASSPORT to get in and out of Mexico or else you’ll get lectured by the Border Patrol. The government will be enforcing the passport requirement within the year. We bought two blankets for $20 besides some bottles of liquor and bottles of Zithromax, Clonadine, Amitryptaline, Amoxicillin, and Zyprexa. The meds totalled out to 80 USD which would normally cost up to a couple hundred bucks at any US pharmacy. Shopping for anything there is GREAT since you can usually make a deal with the store owners cuz they REALLY want your business.
As we were looking at the currency exchange rate, the Mexican peso is climbing up along with other countries’ rates against the US dollar: current rate is 1 dollar = 10.77 pesos. I remember the last time I went to another bordertown, Juarez City by Texas in 2001, the exchange rate was 1 dollar = 100 pesos. How time flies …
At the end of the day, we went to Desert Diamond Casino, ate at the buffet there, spent five bucks on poker games and slot machines, but didn’t win anything.
Then we got baked with natural herb, the BEST kind of meds!
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Chinky
Yes, this is a normal ice-cream truck in Hong Kong. The reason my brother took this picture is because of the “Octopus” (lower right). Octopus is stored-value card whose original intention was to make public transportation more convenient. All you had to do was bring the card close to the sensor (similar to what you see on the lower left with the bright numbers “7.0″) and it would deduct money. It has now expanded to a point where you could buy from ice-cream trucks as shown here, local convenience stores, McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants, and even major clothes stores in Hong Kong.
To your left is a tram. To your right is Causeway Bay. The reason the photo looks so blurry even in daytime is that I’m taking this photo from inside a tram.
Tram entrance. It’s a stupid and ancient method of deterring people from getting free rides. Most of us are honest anyway.
The entrance to the Chinese Opera theatre in North Point, Hong Kong. It looks like this pretty much every night. Practically all of the people who go to these shows are 40-something and up housewives or the elderly. My mother and I were an odd pair. She wanted to fall asleep in the show but I was entranced. (Note: I hate my cell phone camera in the dark)
Alighting the ferry from Central, Hong Kong to Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. Like almost all our public transportation, it has two floors.
I took this picture because of the face in the background. This is the market in Central. It’s one of the older regions of Hong Kong. Some places still have old stone steps. They’re eroded though, and make me a bit paranoid whenever I see a wobbly old person climbing them.
