Times are tough. We went to the 99 Cent Only store today. They advertise that everything in the store is 99 cents. Inflation takes its toll though because over the loudspeaker they were announcing special items for 99.99 cents! That’s a 10% price increase! But I ask you: Who would pay $0.99 for this hideous … Read more
Here it is. Ghost House… a short video we did for Fusion Patrol some years ago. Back then, we were making fun of Taiwanese and Japanese ghost shows, which usually ran a couple hours and consisted of placing two girls in an abandoned house in the dark and waiting for them to get scared of … Read more
…except that I found this video both nostalgic and funny with the new lyrics. And this one is not as good, but…
Here’s a few pictures of the new Mekong Plaza in Mesa, AZ.
The new Meikong Plaza (an indoor Asian mall) opened today in the hinterland of the Mesa/Tempe border just a couple blocks from the terminal Phoenix Light Rail station. Inside the mall is Taiwan Food Express and new Taiwanese restaurant with an impressively large menu. It’s a pity the menu isn’t edible as there wasn’t much … Read more
Sonic Drive-ins are an interesting bit of Americana. Emulating old episodes of Happy Days, these restaurants are designed fir you to drive up, park, order through a speaker next to your car and then your food us delivered right to the car where you proceed to eat it. Personally, apart from the novelty, I hate … Read more
Why on earth would the city of Phoenix send out a work crew to start work replacing a perfectly good fire hydrant with another fire hydrant at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon? Like how they mostly block off my driveway? Update: 6:30, it’s getting dark and they’re still sitting around in the hole. At least … Read more
Some 15 years ago we used to have a little thing called “Public Access TV”, now largely defunct. For those not familiar with the concept, Public Access was supposed to be a way that local community members could use the medium of television to reach out to their community. In one of the brighter, more … Read more
A lot has been said about the problem with illegal immigrants coming up from Mexico and there’s a lot of mindless polemic on both sides, which I shall not address here. If you live somewhere like Phoenix where the numbers of immigrants (both legal and illegal) is high, you may have noticed that the recent … Read more
Yes… I think that is fair to say.