Monday, March 28, 2005
home from palm springs to catch the eric himan concert...
i'm reading at international poetry fest tuesday, march 29th at 8:00pm.
hey guys!! sorry i haven't updated in a while... but ya know what? your lack of emails have sucked for me lately!! i have over 2700 unique users visiting my site with over 75.000 hits and a mere 30some emails. you make me soooo sad. let me know what you're doing... send me your poetry etc etc. i get lonely on the road!!
anyway, here are some of the pictures from coffee before the eric himan show, shots from the eric himan show, and a few sips of suds afterwards.
the next update will be my los angeles pictures.
let's see... hair up or down? what's a boy to do?
brandon (from the scattered pages) made the sign at empire cafe here in houston.
morgan stretches...
and finds out that santa claus does not exist.
toddicus and the pin-up girl.
star lamp at the empire cafe.
ok- off to the naomi/eric himan/the butchies concert...
naomi and brandon (different one!!) are opening for the show. i got to the show
early and hung out with some friends.
toddicus, eric himan, and amber (naomi's girlfriend).
eric, amber, brandon, and naomi talk before the show.
eric shows lesbians who's boss!!
naomi starts the show...
eric starts his set...
"a good, good cry."
eric's on fire after playing "white horse" from his new album "dark horse".
the butchies take the stage and kick some ass!!! go lesbo rockers!!
i discovered them when they played with amy ray from the indigo girls.
after the show we hung out with some friends and had a few drinks...
toddicus and lindsay
toddicus and beth
beth looks like sarah brightman in this picture!!
toddicus and mitch...
have a great few days- i'll try to get the LA pictures up before i get too wrapped up in chicago...
- Monday, March 28, 2005
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
snake in the grass - another trip to the houston zoo
it's time again to work in the yard. but before i get started it's certainly time for a bloody mary.
and just when i was clearing leaves away...
yikes!!!!!
i pulled my hand back and i was like, "a snake!" and he looked at me and was like, "a human!"
cute little bugger.
then he (or she perhaps) smelled me and i let it go.
glad to not be bitten.
honey bee in the clover.
someone's having a meal on my front porch.
my kick ass azalea bush in the back yard.
and then it was time to go to the houston zoo.
the trip was fantastic because it started raining minutes after we arrived and everyone left. we had the whole zoo to ourselves.
toddicus gets attacked by a lion.
poor little dik dik gets caught in the rain. so cute!!!
warped seal.
albino alligator. he's kept indoors so the sun doesn't kill him.
yoda's older brother.
i looooove turtles!!
there's a new indoor exhibit with vampire bats and pirhanas. it's really amazing. it's just been open one week. there's other kinds of animals in there too like hissing cockroaches and cute little rodents.
i ran over one of these guys in arizona after i saw that awful accident in the last update. : (((((
this bird loved david and followed him everywhere.
in fact, david's like mary freakin' poppins.
i'm not so lucky.
koi and a duck. i've got koi tattooed on my back.
monkey see...
monkey pee.
i think he got 'pissed' when we stopped throwing pumpkin seeds to him.
o my god i love goats!!
lazy sunbather
smile!
there was some hay sticking out of his mouth and...
...i had to pull my hand back when he snapped at me!!
staring contest with the brown goat.
too funny.
david is gonna kiss the goat? smell the goat?
the goat is not pleased!!! don't bite the goats please!
toddicus has another deep conversation with a goat.
don't we look alike??
his mother loves this face.
leap frog used to be so innocent.
the symbol of america. in a cage.
the big daddy giraffe was licking the moisture out of the wood after the rain.
momma giraffe had a baby and she kept following me with her eyes.
still watching...
momma orangutan stuffs her face.
and here's the little baby from the update last year- six months older now!!
toddicus rides a dolphin!! no comments please.
i love blowholes!!!
momma duck makes a nest and daddy tells me to "get away from ma biatch!"
big bamboo.
yeah, it's like that.
how the owl sees...
warthogs always kneel when they eat.
and it's off to the bar...
i'm off to los angeles tomorrow, so no updates until next week- i promise great pictures and such- but before that i'll be doing my update on eric himan's new cd and pictures from the concert as well...
xoxoxo all my love xoxoxo
toddicus
- Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Monday, March 07, 2005
palm springs california and beyond...
hi y'all. here's part three of the palm springs trip. let's get started.
palm springs is a gorgeous desert town. it's down in the valley and surrounded by
fantastic mountains.
they're a lot taller than they look.
palm trees everywhere... thus the name.
time to head out and see my friends in from los angeles... i look drunk already.
ahhh... back together again a year later...
toddicus and dana
toddicus and gilbert (and siouxsie and the missing persons)
sioux kerns gets fed.
and... the party gets started.
we decided not to bleed.
the view from my hotel room.
no one in palm springs had seen the mountains this green in years. the heavy
southern california rainstorms really did a number.
and the clouds roll in...
downtown palm springs
and now it's time to go home.
the rain was so heavy that it created streams across the roads... see in the rearview?
the desert came alive.
don't forget to stop at the exciting general patton museum...
thrills and excitement!!
hello phoenix...
phoenix I-10 tunnel
and just outside of phoenix on I-10, it happened.
the accident.
i'm barrelling down the highway at a good 90 mph when all of a sudden this white suv crosses the median and clips the trailer of a tour bus and is rolling like a juggernaut towards me at an incredible speed. it must have flipped 30 times.
this is when i came to a stop. i noticed an excessive amount of debris scattered on the road...i jumped out of the van to see if i could help but it seemed the guy wasn't wearing a seat belt.
there were three other guys there trying to help so i stayed back- as my mom says, "too many hands in the kitchen." he was already gone.
the guy driving was carrying blood and urine samples and they spilled all over the highway.
a man running to help.
notice the biohazard bags all over. up the road a bit when i went to see if the people in the bus were ok (it was some rock band from california) i saw tiny viles of blood and urine all over the road (not to mention other questionable bodily fluids). so i got away from all of the human products as fast as possible.
driving away.
there are other hazards to driving in the desert as well.
and then there's me. i can be hazardous at times as well.
alright, if you say so.
and the next day in el paso i bought the new tori amos album, the beekeeper, which i think is her best work to date. must have listened to it nine times in a row until i switched to npr radio.
well, i hope you enjoyed the update. another is coming soon. if you missed the first two installments of the palm springs update, just keep scrolling down and hit "news archives" at the bottom and have a good search.
xoxo
toddicus
- Monday, March 07, 2005