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Agent Ackme snaps his Autumn drive to the supermarket. Gets out of the car even!
Look out for snakes though.

Drive to the Supermarket

So the other day I’m in my local Circle K buying beverages and smokes. Circle K in Phoenix in the summer typically has an assortment of beer in small coolers near the checkout, and this one is no exception. Typically 24oz cans of Bud, Bud Light, maybe some Steel Reserve High Gravity Lager or Mickey’s Bigmouth. But on this fateful day, there was a new cerveza en la ciudad: Chelada!

Bud Light and Clamato! How could I resist that magical combination of thin beer, tomato juice, and clam broth? More pictures after the jump…

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Jeemy’s Equinox Day 2007
Our east coast agent, Jeemy, snapped the local seasonal changes.

The traditional celebratory food of the godz: cupcakes. Spectacular this year.

Shoes for Fall and Falling

The first photos of anticipatory Fall. “Fall” being the keyword here.

From the back 40:

A bit more stylish than the Russian doomsday truck, Japan’s tractor-trailers really give off a Transformer vibe. There was a series of movies in the 1970’s featuring decorated trucks, and I guess it just spiralled out of control from there. Pink Tentacle has a bunch more pictures, and links to more galleries of “Dekotora” trucks.

More pics at English Russia. Chock full of post-Soviet madness!

Happy July 4!

Here’s the full gallery of fireworks pics from the Deer Valley show. All were shot handheld with a Nikon Coolpix P5000 in fireworks scene mode. The results are arguably better than what my old Coolpix 5700 can do on a tripod in full manual mode. There’s a little bit of a learning curve with it, but the P5000 seems to do a great job with anything I throw at it. Wish the wide angle was 28mm equivalent instead of 36mm, but that’s a minor quibble. If you’re in the market for a pocket point and shoot, this is a camera you should be looking at. More pics I’ve shot with it can be seen here.

Deer Valley Community Center Fireworks Show

The firework display this year at Deer Valley Communities Center’s 4th of July celebration was fantastic. New designs in pyrotechnics I’ve never seen before.

On arrival, we could see this was a well attended event but driving around for less than five minutes we found a spot that wasn’t too far from the park. In 103 degrees, you consider distance more keenly.

Plenty of elbow room for everyone which I’m sure led to the continuing festive feel and didn’t turn the place into a broken bottle battlefield o’ grass-claiming warriors.
103 degrees will also make you keenly aware of personal space.

Many people had the glow sticks and other forms of wearable light. Sparkling, flashing, day-glo, rainbow, all bouncing through the crowd.

The band playing gave it their all. They still aren’t quite there for the 2am lounge act in Vegas but they did the job tonight. It’s too bad they didn’t have them do the patriotic numbers that played throughout the fireworks.

I know for a family event you aren’t going to play “America, Fuck Yeah” from the South Park boys but for Uncle Sam’s sake, why would you play the Pat Boone version of “Proud to be an American” instead of Lee Greenwood?
I want that patriotic, psychotic growl of Greenwood’s, clenching my nads with national pride!

Aside from that, the evening got my flag waving. Well Done Deer Valley!