BREAKING NEWS: Intertubes clogged

Due to some undisclosed blockage on the internets I have been unable to post until now. Unfortunately, I'm super busy with work and can't really put up anything until at least late tonight. I suggest coming back tomorrow morning and I should have something for y'all. In the meantime enjoy the bowl below. I found it, along with two other bowls, buried in a little subfloor cache in the corner of a patio at Conchopata. The bowls are typically dated to 500-750 AD. The cache was filled in with pink sand of some unknown origin.

RANDOM CRAP with GREGGY

I have no idea where I got this Fat Boys 8x10 glossy or why I kept it.

RANDOM CRAP with GREGGY


No bulls are killed - they're working bulls, not big-time fighters - just taunted by drunks. Examples are above.

RANDOM CRAP with GREGGY

I kept this score sheet from what I thought was my best game of bowling ever. This particular game took place at the Laural Bowl in Binghamton, circa 1998-1999. With a turkey in frames #3-6 and closing out the game with 4 consecutive spares, I racked up a 179. Please note that I crushed all opponents, beating the second highest scorer by 74 pins and more than doubled the scores of the rest of those chumps. I think I've bowled a 188 since, and honestly thought it was this game, so I can't say for sure that this is my best game. And almost 10 years later I am still kicking ass and taking names daily on the lanes.

RANDOM STUFF with GREGGY

The absolute worst job I've ever had was renting cars at the Austin airport for Alamo. I've had a lot of shitty jobs, but for years after I quit Alamo I couldn't even think about the job without getting angry and really stressed out. I will never wear a blue oxford shirt because that's what I had to wear at Alamo (and because it looks trashy). One of the only good things that happened there was renting a car to Bob Mould from Husker Du and Sugar. He was shy but pretty cool, even lthough he didn't invite me to hang out with him while he was recording an album in town or to be bff.

RANDOM CRAP with GREGGY

This picture was taken at a family reunion on my mom's side of the family, The Moon's, at a beach house in South Carolina, maybe at Edisto Beach. This photo provides clear evidence of one of the many sacrifices our nation made in the face of economic stagnation in the 1970's - drastic rationing in the amount of material allotted for shorts.

RANDOM CRAP with GREGGY

I found this picture several years ago at some junk store (the back says it was taken the week of Sept. 13, 1954). When I found it Adale said that she didn't want it in our house because she found it disturbing, and she's been trying to get me to throw it away ever since. It is easy to imagine that this was the last thing several unfortunate people saw before being dismembered.

RANDOM CRAP with GREGGY

I would like to introduce what I hope will be a regular feature on Business n'at called Random Crap. It may come as a shock to many of you, but yours truly has a bit of a collection of bits of paper. Receipts, flyers, stickers, newspaper articles - all sorts of little things that for me act as mnemonic devices for my past, and for Adale aid in ruining her life because I have innumerable boxes and tubs of these papers. I finally got around to setting up my scanner and every once in a while I'm going to post some of the crap I've been lugging around with me for years. Maybe I'll realize that I can get rid of some of it because I'll have digital copies, or maybe I'll start keeping every bit of paper that I ever touch for the rest of my life.

For example, I tore this ad out of a Dallas paper, meaning I've been lugging it around with me since at least 1995. I probably grabbed it because Don "The Lawman" Slatton endorsed their services - while living in Dallas I loved to go see professional wrestling at the Sportatorium & The Lawman was a somewhat popular "face" at the matches.



I grabbed the ad below while in Merida, Mexico in 2000. I got airline credit for agreeing to be bumped from a flight back home from Peru, and Adale & I later used it for a vacation in Mexico. We spent most of our time on Isla de Mujeres but also stayed in Merida, on the mainland, because we wanted to see the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza. Unfortunately we weren't there for the lucha matches.