UK TRIP - Post 3 (PiLe O pICs #2)
Sat Aug 23, 2003 7:58 pm
It's Saturday night - 5 days after our return. As many of you know, we
returned home, lived in a stupor for one day and headed to Austin the
next for activities there before driving home Thurs. night - arriving home
at 3:30am... (see "Finding Eisley"...where all home base activies that
don't merit their own new topic go) and began recording (I didn't actually
record...though my polka and moose head marimba band could certainly
give eisley a run off the deepest moat.)
Let's me pick back up on FRIDAY AUGUST 15th (was it?) - the day before
the festival - the day we went SIGHTSEEING: (for those tuning in on the
fly, it takes a while...but images will begin to slowly appear)
Snuck this on in...leaving DFW on Thursday morn. (train thing)
Somewhere between the last train in DFW and this one in
London, there was a whole lot of air. I still have to find
those images on Sherri's camera. Soon.
Special Agent: Lady Dag-dag. See how how she runs...
(this is just bringing closure to a series on the first batch)
And after a brief nap at Sherlock hotel, we were off for Coffee.
Just in case you Americans wanted to know what all the concrete
chunks and scenes were from the first round of pics came from.
final shot - corner of that church with British lady flashing by.
K-marts are just pre-fab, metal warehouses... this building seems
to have some centuries under it's belt.
Buy you can buy noodles right next to where you buy a "TAT".
whisking by at bus speed... I captured my bevy.
I think this is my favorite street shot.
This is at that big public place where the giant lion is. A nice place
for people to hang out.
Keep in mind, we're still dazed and confused with no sleep in us.
A Tower Records! But, unlike in the US, there are NO eisley ep's. 
This is Chauntelle, calling her mom (my first wife) to ask if she can
cancel her credit card on-line. (she's still my first wife)
Rock and Chauntelle are hi/lo fiving it so they can look like dorks.
Some Triumphant Arch. They'd build these just to receive their
army after battle. This one is at the Parliment...the government.
This guy hates his job. Agree'd? or at the least, he's bored.
The guard surely smirked and motioned and spoke. Well, there
were these 2 boys before us wanting to punch him...so...
These two were the fiercest. but they were out of uniform and...
they surely smiled and laughed.
I call him "Eisgor" (the "s" is silent)
i dunno....25 yards of this propaganda.
This one was leaning...or it could be my camera. Nahhh..
Look, I know this is boring for you British peeps, but honestly,
this stuff freaks us out. I'm not joking.
Maybe in some really old New England towns, there are relics that
approach such splendor, but....Nahhh....
I drool over this stuff. Remember...I can' post whatever I want.
because, "THIs.....is my Xanga....."
sheesh. I guffah...I spleek, I spew...I golly-sputter.
And here...enshrined in stone forever - are the holy monks of
magumba...yes. I see them now. Mo (nk), Lar' and Curlie.
I'm not comparing Eisley to to either world so don't draw your'
own confusions. The modern world is steeped in consumerism
and commercialism... harder and harder to escape the cultural
vices - and be free enough to produce original art. Don't conform.
I'm sure the guys that built these fine edifices were conformists -
it's been too long since Art History. And, I was just going for the grade.
Another rich street scene.
We're over looking the Thames (?) River. That big feris wheel
is out there. But I've got to limit the images from here on out.
Maybe it's just the evening light that I'm fascentated with...the colors
are fading, but the cool palette makes me happy.
Jon Won could eat no porridge and his wife could eat no pie.
I've never spelled poredge, poridge... Jon's not married.
Sherri is shooting something. She's always shooting something.
She's seeing me seeing her. Look at the crowds we're passing.
Blurries.
Every once in a while, you capture something special. Some moment
where the conversation has lapsed; brain waves are reacting to new
stimulous, but the expression hasn't moved on yet...it's still on pause.
...and held there long enough to freeze it forever. Make it go away.
I'm not joking. This is a grade A English Dark Alley - the kind that
Jack the Ripper might have taken advantage of. But we won't go there.
We won't go IN there.
Don't you just love these corner lots...like, on a sharp tip of a block.We
don't have those in Texas...I really like these but don't understand the
civil engineering.
Where's the horses? What about horses? Don't people ride horses?
In Texas we all have horses and ride them to school, to work and
to the Hydrochloride Clinique where we all work (in a factory).
We ate chinese food that night, but were so tired...oh so tired.
You can see how tired Chauntelle is...she's oh so tired.
I didn't photoshop this. It's just the way it was.
Same here.
a nice green London sign.
Heading back underground to find our way to the hotel.
self-explanatory
This was in the underground - tiles. Nice detail. I don't know what
it means, actually.
There are many more images to come. We are just now getting to
the actual festival. Thanks for your patience. Hope to have them up
before Monday. (our monday) bd
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