Knitsheady’s Neighborhood

At the drive in watching "This Is It"
-Michelle-

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This post goes out to a wonderful person whom I respect very, very much. This is for country_cinderella...

For country_cinderella, A Rose Called Yellow

Thought I would post a few street photos for everyone. More on flickr...

The Lottery Player

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This dapper gentleman was sitting at the Plaza intent on really examining his lottery card. Don't think he won...

San Antonio Founder's Day

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At the Alamo, (I'm sure you'll recognize the huge white-d out area?),[just joking, done for effect] during San Antonio's founders day. A day they set aside for  re-enactment (and remembering) the founding of our city.

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Caught along the Riverwalk, just boys and beer and big hats waiting for the college game...

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Caught by surprise...

Prize in every box...

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Waiting to surprise...

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And finally, an abstract...peeling paint and layered literature.

Have a good week everyone :-)

-Michelle-

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Sometimes, when I watch my son, it's like looking into a mirror of my past.  He is very withdrawn at times, very solitary.  It make me sad to see it in him.  I don't want him to feel the way I did as a kid.  I thought we were doing things right, or at least differently than my parents.  When I was his age I was already on my third or fourth elementary school.  It's hard for a kid that young to have to make new friends every year.  But we still live in the same house, in the same neighborhood with the same kids as we did when he started kindergarten.  He is at a new school this year, but with a lot of the same kids he knows already.  So why does he seem so alone?  Why am I alone?

Maybe it wasn't all the moving, after all.  I had kind of blamed my attitude on switching schools so often and leaving friends behind.  But that wouldn't explain the way I feel now.  I'm an adult and don't have that problem anymore.  So, what's my problem?  What have I passed on to my son?  Is he just picking up on my behavior, or is it in us?  He is too sweet a boy to keep it all in.  I have to find a way to help him, before he ends up old and bitter like his mom.

I had to go downtown to get a picture for Nikki...Nikki, hope you like this one, miss you...

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Emjay, no, can't forget you...this is for you:

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Varigated Meadowhawk (male)

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butterflyeffect-I still read your blog, still feel your pain, and still my heart becomes when I share with you the moment of your pictures. Missing you, sending a dragonfly your way....

unedited on the riverwalk

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magnifika-missing you. Enjoyed the Kobe pictures and the night time jazz...a flower for you. Be of good cheer :-)

Couture

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Goddess-hard to find a pic you haven't commented over on flickr, thought you might get a kick out of this one :-)

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Apolline-this picture needs a person, reminding me that I miss my friends. For you...

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And to all my friends on Vox, from a lonely butterfly...

Raymond

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Chalk it Up - the Artist

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Downtown

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Hope everyone's doing well...missing you :-)

Yes, I saw a Trailer Park Boys film.  And to add to the shame: I enjoyed it.  I don't watch the show; however, the trailer for this film cracked me up so I had to see it.  The hilarity for me was mostly due to the use of Independent Armored Transport in the film. I work for the government licensing private security guards, so I was really getting a kick out of this.

Sooo, how to review a film like Trailer Park Boys?  I guess the "plot" is a cat-loving guy who was in jail comes home to discover his kitties have been picked up by the SPCA.  His friends try to help him raise the money to basically buy his cats back.  Of course, we're talking about drinking, pot-smoking (and growing in the series), cussing-up-a-storm losers, so naturally it makes more sense to them to try to bust the kitties out of the SPCA.  Keyword is "try".  The other "plot" is the owner (?) of the trailer park is now managing a newer, nicer park and needs to run their septic line through the trailer of one of the boys.  Unfortunately he refuses to sell his trailer to allow the septic line.  The manager (Mr. Lahey) used to be an alcoholic and eventually returns to his evil ways less than half-way through the film.  Yes, it was funny, but so outrageous that I spent a lot of time staring at the screen in disbelief.

The main problem with the franchise is that there is zero change.  No one grows. No one learns anything. All characters are static.  In a good, thoughtful film, people change, grow and learn. At least someone, somewhere does.  At the end of this film, all of the characters are right back where they started, doing the same things, holding the same beliefs, no better or worse off than before.  I did sit through part of an episode after seeing the movie, and it's the same characters in the same clothes doing the same stupid things.  It gets old fast.