Tuesday, August 18, 2009

riding nowhere and cones o' plenty


Every once in a while you/I get a sign that people may be operating on less than a full tank of gas – and let me say right out, I’m no genius and do all sorts of stupid shit but nothing compared to yesterday’s downtown sky train action.

There I was out driving around, wasting fossil fuels (for work not pleasure..) and listening to the radio as they reported how the new sky train line that connects the downtown to the airport was now open. Not only open but free until 9 p.m. last night. Yes, you could ride to the airport and back – for free. This proved so popular that there were line-ups to get on the sky train that were upwards of two hours long. Two hours to get on the sky train. To ride it for free. To say you were the first. And that you rode it for free. I don’t know about you but a: I’m not lining up for any bus or sky train or lining up for anything for that matter (unless it’s an el presidente grilled pork burrito or something like that….) b: not lining up to ride a bus…call it the sky train if you want…it’s a bus. And I have nothing against the bus, I do ride one from time to time but I’m not lining up for two hours to ride the bus to the airport and back.

So two plus hour line-ups to ride the sky bus plus, they had to tell people to get off at the end because people were driving it back and forth, over and over. They had a band outside the seabus terminal, people dancing, etc…ladies and gentlemen, it’s a bus to the airport, start your cheering now.

In other news.

the garbs made a sculpt, recently, of his angry ice cream cone, then gave it to corie and he made a cast of it…next…who knows…? Maybe cone vinyl toys? Hand painted one-offs…? Only the garbs knows for sure…

over and out.

g. xo

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