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FuDDx, Jun 18 2008
For those in Spain(Basque represent) or portugal the man will be in your neck of the woods.Go check em out or get a book signed.He also has a new chapter up for ice and fire(i think its new)I wont read it,Im waiting for the book and dont want to read anything until it comes out.
Some office workergoes nuts smashing things and causing damage.Is it real?Seems pretty real to me though was the guy really nuts or just trying to get fired lol.http://www.breitbart.tv/html/108653.html
Old Tucson Studios was originally built in 1939 by Columbia Pictures on a Pima County-owned site as a replica of 1860s Tucson for the movie Arizona, starring William Holden and Jean Arthur. Workers built more than 50 buildings in 40 days. Many of those structures are still standing.
After Arizona completed filming, the location lay dormant for several years, until the filming of The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. Other early movies filmed on this set included The Last Round-Up (1947) with Gene Autry and Winchester '73 (1950) with Jimmy Stewart and The Last Outpost with Ronald Reagan. The 1950s saw the filming of Gunfight at the OK Corral (1956), The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1957), and Cimarron (1959) among others. 1940: Arizona 1945: The Bells of St. Mary's 1947: The Last Round-up 1950: Broken Arrow 1951: The Last Outpost 1955: Strange Lady in Town 1955: Ten Wanted Men 1955: The Violent Men 1956: The Broken Star 1956: Walk the Proud Land 1957: 3:10 to Yuma 1957: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957: The Guns of Fort Petticoat 1958: Buchanan Rides Alone 1958: The Badlanders 1958: The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold 1959: Last Train from Gun Hill 1959: Rio Bravo 1959: The Hangman 1961: The Deadly Companions 1962: Young Guns of Texas 1963: McLintock! 1964: The Outrage 1965: Arizona Raiders 1965: The Great Sioux Massacre 1966: El Dorado 1967: Hombre 1967: Return of the Gunfighter 1967: The Last Challenge 1967: The Way West 1967: A Time for Killing 1968: The Mini-Skirt Mob 1969: Heaven with a Gun 1969: Lonesome Cowboys 1969: Young Billy Young 1970: Dirty Dingus Magee 1970: Monte Walsh 1970: Rio Lobo 1971: Wild Rovers 1972: Joe Kidd 1972: Night of the Lepus 1972: Pocket Money 1972: The Legend of Nigger Charley 1972: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1973: Guns of a Stranger 1974: Death Wish 1974: A Knife for the Ladies 1974: The Trial of Billy Jack 1975: Posse 1976: The Outlaw Josey Wales 1979: The Villain 1980: Tom Horn 1981: The Cannonball Run 1986: ¡Three Amigos! 1990: Young Guns II 1993: Geronimo: An American Legend 1993: Nemesis 1993: Tombstone 1994: Lightning Jack 1995: Hard Bounty 1995: The Quick and the Dead 2005: Seven Mummies 2007: Legend of Pearl Hart
Taken from wiki
Heres some pics from our day there today.
My daughter and I
Medicine show wagon
Jennifer being locked up
Leo getting locked up
Shoot out at the bank
Rebuilt facade(after the 95 fire) used in the Three Amigos(original building was used in three amigos)
Well I just learned how to upload videos, I know its not hard but I'd not tried before.So to celebrate and to show off my son heres the video (id posted it in the hoe to BD thread but Im not sure if anyone watched it)If you did watch it ill give you some scenic pictures of Tucson Mountains I took on the way to a private catering gig I did.
P.s. this video was shot after my son had watched some Junior videos.
So on the 17th my little sister got married.My family(wife myson leo,and my daughter ayanna)all went a hour and a half south of tucson to Sierra Vista where my parent s little brother and sister all live. My sister is getting married to a tattoo artist that works for my dad hes a good guy.It was a short affair one my dad was minister for and then we had a good ole fashioned biker reception with bands and much drink food and alot of bikers.heres some random pics from the event.
O yes the blues part is because my son threw up on me after we booth got ready and then he contunied to throw up every so often then my daughter got sick and then my wife did as well i got sick the day after wtf no fun.Now my family up there is getting sick T_T
My brother before getting ready
My dad and bro after getting ready
My sister and her husbad with there kids eatch with one from another marraige and one togeter talso pictuered best "man" shortie a lesbian tattoo artist for my dadand brides maid in back is my dad looking like the preacher from the exiorsist!
My mom laughing my sister and nephew
the wife and my daughter
My dad my brother and my nephews and niece wife in background
Myself and my son on one of his feeling better parts of the day before dry heaving some more poor guy T_T
Thats about it ive got a few from the reception i may post them later who knows hope you enjioy.
Hello agian ive been blogging it up latley mostly because I just entered the digital age with cameras.No more film for me, how cool is that.So since im picture happy,Id like to share some pictures i took today.
Today all that needed to be done was pull blocks of ice,mill them and either box them ( to sell to chefs) or leave them in the bag for carving.The process is fairly simple you have a cherry picker,tilt carts,a contraption with a chain saw on it chef made for milling, and some dollys or carts as we refer to them for moving the blocks around.
Heres a pic of the cherry picker,tilt carts,and milling chainsaw.The freezers for making blocks are in the background.
So when the ice has fully formed its a simple thing to vacum excess water then dry the blocks,(any water driping down the sides is liable to crack the block),with a sponge and towel.then push on the plates that hold the bag in place (think along the lines of twisting an ice cube tray)unclip the bag from some holders lower the cherry picker and hook the ice hooks pull it out and lower onto tilt carts.Chef is doing this.
Then you wheel the tilt cart over to the milling saw and lock the wheels in place so the tilt cart with ice can not move.And saw off the top layer of ice, giving you a even sized block that is smooth on all sides.Also it allows the ice to fit perfectly into our boxes.
Unfortunetly I did not get as many pics as I wanted, to show all the steps, but after you mill the ice it either gets boxed from the tilt cart or stood up and dollyed into the freezer.
The freezer and some blocks in it we dont have any carvings to do after doing many for mothers day unfortunely I didnt have a camera then.
I was talking to Soyu in Tl-west about my trip to the zoo,and how i had been pulled over for expired tags, which I knew nothing about at the time.The cop let me go and said to take care of it, nice of the cop.Plus Im sure having my son in the back seat helped.Im heading to emmisions later.
So Soyu had a mean johnny law get him and towed his car etc.And it got me to think about the time I went to jail because of similar happings.And then i relized that i never did update everyone about my jail time not really anyway.I figured with the blogs now i can do it without feeling foolish.Heres the link to the Og thread back on Jan 24 2003.http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=1782
A little background
So id gotten myself into trouble at the time because I had continued to drive my 3 cars even though none were insured/tagged or legal in anyway other than all being legally mine.I got busted and ticketed a total of 3 times for no insurance/expired tags/and the big one driving on a suspended license.The reason was I had recently been divorced was paying child support/bills /rent/and little food mostly for my daughter, and had none left for insurance.But i continued driving even after my first 2 warnings before they suspended my lic.
Fast forward to one court date
So my first court date for ONE of the tickets, the judge gave me the option pay 1400 dollars or go to jail for 48 hours.48 hours it was and we set a time and date sometime in the future.The judge explaind id be going to the Mission a work releass faciluty where i could bring my own clothes(plain white/grey,tighty whiteys no boxers wtf!!)some money for vending machines id be staying there the full 48 but there were others who were able to go to work.So i wasnt to scared I thought neat ill have some stories for my bros.Boy after it was all said and down i did have a story for them.
Getting to jail
So i get dropped off,kindly enough by my ex-wife,Id stopped driving finally and had sold/given my 3 crs away.I entered the processing area and was told to wait by a lady bejhind a glass window.I watied and waited and then I guess just for fun I waited some more.After a few hours a gentlemn comes to me and says. "It appears you have a warrant out for your arrest.Youll be staying with us here." I had no idea what was in store for me I was starting to get a litlle scared.Apperently with all the court dates/tickets Id missed one and had gotten a warrant for a faluire to appear.
They finally take me in and start booking me fingerprints and what not.They sent me to a romm and told em to strip, I did down to my boxers.A gaurd came in and asked me to show my feet mouth etc,but they never did strip me all the way and peer in my but crack, i was shocked and very happy.
I soon found out that when the first gaurd said " youre staying here" meant I was going to block A-1 its the intake outtake block that also serves as the block for anyone being punished for misbehaving in the other blocks.The reason is A-1 is 23 hour lock down, now im gettin even more scared.
They finally get me in to the block its a circular area two stories high with a gaurd station at the base of stair that lead to the second floor.They put me in a two man cell with a bunkbed a metal toliet /sink combo job and a small fold out desk and two cellmates.One guy a younger mexican guy wasnt intemidating but the huge prison tattoed white guy did.Not knowing what to say I just sat down after the gaurd brought in a cot for me seeing as it was a two man cell with 3 pepole in it.
Not much happend I was asked why I was there buy the younger hispanic guy and the huge white guy was shortly taken away to where i have no clue.I was scared now no clue what was going on hadnt been told anything.Apeerntly i missed dinner because I got nothing to eat that day and never left that cell.
WTF is going on
Somehow during the evning I had fallen asleep.I awoke it was dark and the gaurd was just leaving the door after shouting to get up.I got up and soon relized its 5:30 am and its breakfast time.Going down stairs we got our breackfast handed out by other inmates from a portable food tray thingy.I dont rember exactly what it was but I know I had gotten a still frozen pint of orange juice that my inmate showed me to set on our light in the cell and it would melt faster.We had 30 minutes to get a book or make a collect call and then back to the cells.I tried using the phone to reach someone telling them I had no clue now when id get out only that I had to wait for a tv court thing.So I dialed my inmate #(you must use it to call out) and found out my number hadnt been processed yet so no call got me. The gaurds gave me no info on how I could tell someone whats going on they treated us all like shit and I hadnt even done anything wrong in comparison to some in here.
I ate my breakfast in the cell and read a fantasy book id found while out and also got to know Jose more turns out hed gotten busted down to A-1 for fighting while on kitchen duty, he was a pretty cool cat sent most of his life in juvy and when he turned 18 he went to jail for the remander of his sentence. I dont remeber if he told me or not what hed down in the first place.Lunch was served some sandwich with bolgna and chesse some mustard packets a milk and Im not sure what else( heaven for a vegitarian).I also dont rember how many diffrent people came in and out of our cell that day but by dinner we had 4 people in the cell.
Dinner was served at 5:30 pm served,like nreakfast, downstairs and we were given another half hour to make calls what not.Agian I was unable to get through to the outside world.I was able to find out that they still had no clue when my tv court was and that my inmate number could take 2-4 weeks to process and for me to be able to use it.O shit now im scared and have no clue how long im in for but not for 48 hours it seems.
Before Lights out Jose had me proff reading his letter to his woman ( imagine that lol me proff reading lol)But for me having done that he allowed me to use his inmate number the next day. I couldnt wait to call someone and see if they could get me out.Sleep came slow to me but I did fall asleep,i relized, after being woken to a really abd smell and some noises.I hear some god aufawl gas being explled at the same time as liquid poo hitting water sounds.I hear the guy on the bottom bunk( by now i had the top bunk)another scary big ugly white dude say."You know if your quick on the trigger, we wont have to smell that shit" And for the nest 15 minutes or so all i could hear were grunts, liquid poo hiting water,loud long farts and the sound of a high powerd toliet flushing like every 30 seconds.I didnt sleep anymore that night.
Breakfast agian, I try calling with Jose's number and no one picks up.I head back to the cell and read/visit with Jose.I never really talked to anyone else inthere.Just after my second lunch in jail my self and around 20 others were led to a video court room and we eatch ahd a time at the desk talking to a judge miles away.He was letting many ppl go many of wich had done things way worse in my mind than I had.Well long story short im staying in jail till my in person court date 2 weeks away unless i can get bail posted a mere 500 buck but its not like I had it on me right.
I make it back to good ole A-1 before dinner is served and agian while out for the half of an hour we get eatch day i try the phone agian.I call my mom first shurley shell bail me out.The phone rinfs it picks up I try talking but its ovious she cant hear me then a attomated voice comes on saying" this is a collect call from pima county jail from Jose Rivera do you accept".Well my mom said "no" and hung up, wtf. I tried then my work they know im in jail maybe theyll pick-up for jose i relize thats probally not happening but maybe someone will put 2and 2 together they did after all know im in jail.Nope they hang up,as does booth my grandmas,my real dad.In desperation I try my ex-wifeshe answers "do you accept?" seconds slow, tears are begging to form and I dont want to be seen crying in A-1or be here for that matter ive served my 48 hour by now and more, the gaurds are treating me like a low life thug and as much as jose and smelling poop is I want my home.She says ".............Yes".O god glory hallilujah rejoice.I am able to expain i need bailed out because ive got work and also I have to care for my daughter while Mom is at work/school.She agrees but its to late today... one more night.
I slept good that night Jose left that morning after breakfast his time in A-1 served back to what ever other block he had been in.I was pulled out sometime after lunch and finally after waiting for a few hours in a holding tank i was issued my papers and my personal effects.Exept for my cash it now was in check form.
The light of day was so nice I was free but I also had no money and no way home.I was very far from my house and jennifer had had to leave somewhere since it was taking so long to process me out.I found out there was a cirlce k that would cash the check,I was able to get bus fare and get home. The end
There i finally told the story theres alot ive fogoten details and what not like I was convinced I was going to use this time to quit smoking cigs but the first thing i bought when i went to circle k was cigs.
Today I had the day off so i decided to take my son to the Reid Park Zoo here in sunny Tucson,Az. weve gone many times weve had a member ship for the last 9 years.I really like our zoo I think they try very hard to give the animals room/space/enviorment.here are some pics. My son ready for our zoo trip
Hello there tiger
A bear swiming (sun bear)
A white peacock
Zebras and an ostrich
Ever smell a Rhino... no good
Wheres a giraffe dad?
Ok I never understood what a Polar Bear is doing in Tucson
These guys are huge
I tried getting him in there he did not like it one bit
Ring tail
Spittin frog
Pink flamingos
Flesh eater
Caimin his eyes are just out of the water
Ant eater
ever seen a tapir
here kitty kitty kitty
Elephant there are many more animals but these are the pics i had taken I figure ill shot some more photos of other Tucson spots such as the Desert Meusem, Old Tucson etc untill next time ^_^/")
