The Kalama Park whale got its feet wet
11 Mar 2011 2 Comments
Last night, Coco, Aaron and I all stayed up late downing beers and watching the coverage of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan. Then I learned that it was expected to hit Hawaii as well! So I called my parents and gave them the news. They went to my cousin’s home, which is well out of the danger zone and stayed there for the night.
This morning I’m getting photo after photo from my mother of the changes in the landscape from the (compared to Japan) small tsunami that hit last night…
The water receding WAY back and exposing the shore bed.
The water came all the way up past S Kihei Rd. This is the street you turn on to get to the house.
But by far my favorite photo that put things in perspective was the Kalama Park whale statue that now looks like the Maui version of the La Brea tar pits!
Click on the photo to see it bigger.
Crazy, huh!?
The good thing is that Coco, Aaron and I got to discussing a plan of action should LA get hit with an emergency on this level. It entails rounding up all our Norton apartment building family: Aaron and me, Amy and Ari and Coco and Tristan plus four dogs and two cats, and all meeting up in the Pleasure Chest parking lot.
Now that’s even crazier.
I love when shit like this happens…
09 Oct 2009 Leave a Comment
in freaky Tags: coco, interior design, oliver, plants, psychic hits
- Aaron and I went to Balboa Island just so we could be near the ocean for a little while. Needed a little beach therapy. Unfortunately the beach stunk like garbage so we cut our trip short. As we drove home through Newport Beach, I had the a feeling that my brother was nearby. I started looking at all the restaurants and bars that we drove by for him to be on the patio, but I didn’t see him. Then two blocks later I saw his car parked on the sidewalk.Turns out he had just moved to that Newport Beach neighborhood, and I had no idea until I mentioned this to my dad.
- Went to a Dodger game on Star Wars night with CoCo (my amazing neighbor) and Oliver (one of my longest and bestest frinds). Ollie and I went on a hunt for snacks and beer together, and as we were leaving our section and entered the throng of people in the hallway, I had a feeling that Oliver was going to run into someone he knew right then and there. But… it didn’t happen. So we got our pretzels, hotdogs and beer unimpeded. And I didn’t make mention of it, because who cares about things that didn’t happen, right?
Then the second time we went to get MORE beer, we stepped into the hallway and right then and there Oliver ran into someone he knew.
Also, on a side note, I was really disappointed by the lack of Star Wars on Star Wars night. So I just started substituting “Star Wars” instead of “Dodgers” any chance I got. “Here we go STAR WARS, here we go!”
- A couple days ago I came into ownership of a really cool houseplant. I won’t tell you how I came into ownership as it involves a little b&e, but I’d rather call it “adopting” than “stealing,” Aaaaaanyway. The problem is, I have no idea what this tree is!
I wanted to know what I was getting myself into and how I could properly care for it, because it’s SUPER cool! But Googling things like “Dr Seuss tree” or “squiggly tree” brought me no good results. I thought about Twittering it, or blogging it, but I don’t have enough followers to hope for positive results.
On a slightly related note, I’ve been getting really into interior design mode lately. Been adding more and more interior design blogs to my Google Reader. And the night before I had found a new design blog called The Brick House to add to my design blogs. And the next morning the first post I see from that blog is this: Question. And the question just happened to be about identifying that exact kind of tree!It’s a Dracaena Marginata. And I love when this kind of shit happens.
no thanks…
14 May 2009 Leave a Comment
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…and don’t want to.
These are as disturbing as I think they are, right?…
30 Apr 2009 1 Comment
Could you imagine these creepy photo cupcakes at a wedding? I bet someone’s using ‘em. Oh lordy are these baaaaaad. No wantey eat my friend’s facey.
I think the guy in the couple on the bottom left is whispering “can you believe someone thinks this is a good idea?”
This may sound crazy but…
23 Feb 2009 1 Comment
I had a totally bizarre dream that turned out wasn’t so bizarre, it turned out to be pretty much true!… in a bizarre way…
I dreamed about the child of the youngest mother in the world. The unbelievable part of the dream was that the mom was about 5 or 6 from my guess! Her child came to me as a man with an hispanic accent of some kind. And he was dead. I was communicating with his ghost.
Turns out that the youngest mom in the world was actually 5 and a half years old! Lina Medina was from a small village in Peru and she gave birth to a son, Gerardo in 1939. Being born in Peru would explain the ghost-son’s accent in my dream. Also, that son is now dead, he died in 1979 when he was 40 years old.
The youngest mom in the world, her son and her doctor.
This is actually first time that I’ve decided to document and then research a dream, it’s kind of exciting though, even if it sounds crazy.
But Baby it’s COLD outside!
18 Dec 2008 9 Comments
in freaky, los angeles Tags: christmas, pleasure chest, west hollywood
The pouring rain in Los Angeles was weird enough. Seeing people dressed in winter clothes was also weird enough. But even weirder to see yesterday was the cross-dressing Santa Claus in the Pleasure Chest parking lot (aka. my backyard)…
you can just barely see his beard in this pic
LOL Shark
26 Nov 2008 Leave a Comment
in freaky, the internets Tags: aaron, shark attack, shark bite
My hero!
24 Jun 2008 Leave a Comment
in animals, freaky Tags: dogs, jackson, pitbull
Now anyone who reads this blog knows that I’m a die-hard pit bull fan. One of the reasons I love pits so much is their gentle and intuitive nature. And it kills me that they have such a bad reputation, but sometimes, sometimes, that bad rap comes in quite handy…
A couple months ago I was walking my dogs (Jackson, the pit & Rza, the terrier) late at night on their before dinner constitutional. On a dark corner near a busy-ish street Jackson stopped to be behind a bush. I was standing on the corner with the little dog waiting for Jackson to finish his business when I looked up and saw two enormous dudes rushing diagonally across the street towards me. I thought it seemed odd, but it was all happening so fast and out of the blue that I didn’t even have a second to process the fact that this could mean danger. About the same time as the dudes got to the corner Jackson finished peeing and trotted up to my side. The dudes took one look at Jackson and they both jumped backwards, threw their hands up in the air in an “i surrender” motion and went “whoa whoa whoa” as they slowly backed away, arms still in the air. Jackson just sat there, he didn’t bare his teeth, he didn’t bark, the hairs on his back didn’t raise up like they usually do when he’s freaked out. He just sat there being a good boy the whole time. These dudes just panicked at the mere sight of a pit bull. And before they took off running in the other direction one of the dudes looked back at me and said, “That’s a good friend to have.”
Jackson proved the veracity of that statement once again last night…
I took the dogs out for their evening walk when I got home from band rehearsal. I normally dont do take them late at night anymore since I had that freaky run in with the two dudes. But i thought, eh, no big deal if I only do it every once in a while.
So i make it as far as one block away from the apt when I see this guy running FLAT OUT as FAST as he could, rounding the corner and running down the street ahead of me. And i thought, yikes, that’s like “running from the cops” fast! And, sure enough, a cop car slowly came around the corner with it’s search lights on. They were too far away from me to hear me tell them where he went so I just pointed and they drove off looking for him. But the cops passed right by him! So i ran ahead trying to flag them down, but they had already disappeared, and so i went around the block in an attempt to get far away from the running guy.
After a brisk walk I came back around to our street and headed towards home. That’s when I heard someone yelling at me, and when I looked over it was the running guy who was coming right towards me! I couldn’t understand what he was yelling, I had my ipod on plus he wasn’t making much sense anyway all I knew was that he wasn’t happy and he wasn’t nice. I started walking faster and noticed that he was following me, so I stopped and mentally signaled to Jackson that i was afraid of this guy. I was worried that Jackson wouldn’t do anything and just sit there like he did the first time I was approached by the two dudes. But Jackson responded immediately! And right before the running guy got close enough to touch me Jackson lunged at him- barking, snarling and snapping like a, well, like a pit bull!
The weird part is that the running guy was was so out of whack that he didn’t back away, he just stared at Jackson and said “what is that!?” So I let out a little slack on his leash and Jackson lunged at him again, this time a lot closer, and that’s when running guy finally got scared enough and took off the other way, into someone’s backyard!
And then i started RUNNING towards home, and ran into the cops who were questioning some girl, and had a random guy in the back seat of their cruiser.
I ran up to them with my two dogs in tow and said, “Are you the ones looking for that guy?”
They said “Yes, we’ve been looking for him all night.”
And i said, “Did you just hear my dog barking? That guy was coming right for me. I saw where he went if you want to check it out.”
They immediatly let the other guy out of their car and took off to find the guy again.
I don’t know if they found him or not because I ran home, letting Jackson pull me faster and faster towards our apartment.
kinky giraffes
18 Apr 2008 13 Comments
in animals, freaky Tags: giraffes, los angeles
Aaron and I went to the Los Angeles Zoo yesterday. I was surprised to find that it’s only $10 to get in! I was also a little more surprised to find that it’s also $10 for a salad. A gross salad. That you have to eat next to the giraffe pen. That smells like giraffe poop.
But it’s the giraffe PEE that concerns this particular blog writer…
I got to bear witness yesterday to the freakiest animal behavior I have ever seen. Even freakier than the gorilla pooping into it’s hand and then wiping it on the wall. And it came from an animal that I’ve had a lot of respect for. A very reverent animal in my eyes.. until now.
The giraffe.
There were 4 giraffes in the enclosure, including one baby one. The cute little baby one stepped away from one of the bigs ones and immidiatly one of the big one’s followed it. ‘Aw how cute- the momma doesn’t want to be away from the baby.’ Is what I was thinking. I thought it was even more cute when “the momma” dropped her head down to nuzzle the baby.
‘Aaaaw- wait- WTF!?’
The baby started peeing and “the momma” started to drink the pee!
and then, as if that wasn’t weird enough, “the momma” then lifted her head up and… I don’t even KNOW what that was about…
It was like gurgling with the pee- I swear I thought i saw it blow a bubble, and then sticking it’s tongue out and wiggling it around.
That was some freaky ass shit giraffes. freaky. ass. shit.
Random giraffe facts from my Australian friend:
“I have some random Giraffe facts that I bust out every now and then …
* Did you know Giraffes can lick their own eyeballs !
* Did you know, like turkeys, 80% of Giraffes are homosexual !
Seriously !”
Seriously kinky!!!
Aaron’s Shark Attack!
15 Nov 2007 53 Comments
in freaky, sharks, travel Tags: aaron, hawaii, maui, ocean, shark attack, shark bite, vacation
Okay everyone, here it is in all it’s gory goodness… THE SHARK ATTACK BLOG!!!!
But before I get to all the bloody stuff, I’m going to bore you with some vacation photos…
Day 1: Arrive in Maui and party!
This picture is scary because of the foreshadowing, Here we are at the Four Seasons on our first day in Hawaii. We decided to have drinks at the Four Seasons while we were waiting to check into our condo…
Look how happy and drunk and bipedal we both were!
Crazy foreshadowing… right behind my right shoulder (your left) is where Aaron would be attacked by a shark two days later!
Day 2: My cousins took us out on their boat to swim with the turtles.
A view of my cousin's boat from the water.
Later on Aaron would say that this day made his shark bite all worth it. He would have gotten attacked all over again just to be able to have the amazing experiences we did this day.
A self portrait.
Aaron skin diving down to the coral reef.
A honu from far away
my favorite picture of the trip!
That evening Aaron and I drove around the island and visited several beaches…
This is one of the last pictures I have of Aaron on two legs.
DAY 3: the day that changed our lives.
Aloha there, I'm Megan Finley. I'm a 30-something girl, living in Los Angeles with that guy I married and our rescued pets. I work online (a LOT) for the 
