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Me.
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A bizarre sight from St. Patrick's Day: "FRENCH GOURMET BAKERY - Kiss Me I'm Irish." Umm, make up your mind!
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"WARNING - Protected by" ...protected by WHAT?
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Yakko, Wakko and Dot. But something is odd; Wakko and Dot have swapped clothes!
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An Animaniacs shower curtain that Dot gave me as a birthday present!
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Once the curtain was hung up, it was hard to take a good photo of it because there just isn't enough room to get a good angle.
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At the dentist's office, after the dentist's assistant cleaned my teeth, I became bored waiting for the dentist to come in and examine me, so I started playing with the suction hose by sticking it on my nose, letting it hang there just by suction, and then pulling it off with a POP. In the car on the way home, my mom noticed a strange reddish spot on the tip of my nose. That's right, I gave myself a hickey!
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Dad and I went to a party at a Galveston beach house. It was a very windy day, and the wind kicked up a lot of mist from the ocean. As we approached Seawall Blvd., it looked as though there were nothing beyond it!
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Buildings in Galveston emerge slowly from the mist as we approach them.
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My dad riding his boss's scooter on the beach in Galveston.
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McGonigel's Mucky Duck, a bar and grill on Norfolk St. in Houston. Once I saw the Austin Lounge Lizards perform there.
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My friend from HSPVA, Chuck Ivy, seen here at the job he used to have at Kinko's.
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Jay Maynard poses in his office with two of his Animaniacs cels hanging on the wall. They're from the cartoons "The Monkey Song" and "Taming of the Screwy".
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Jay Maynard in his office at a company he used to work for.
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Jay Maynard's former vehicle, a green RAV4.
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At the height of Animaniacs-mania, I thought it was hilarious that there was a diner in town named "Dot". [The building, on Westheimer Rd, no longer exists.]
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A quirky jewelry store on Shepherd Dr called "Fly High Little Bunny".
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A Japanese restaurant & sushi bar on Kirby Dr. called Miyako.
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One of my first Photoshops (although I didn't have Photoshop at the time; I used Corel Paint). Miyako becomes Yakko.
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Herb's Acupuncture? That doesn't sound very authentic! Has Herb even been to China? Not to mention the bizarre concept that is the "Texas Institute of Oriental Medicine". Well, actually, there is quite a large Asian population here.
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Signs seen at Nan's Games & Comics Too: "This sign is not here." "WARNING: These premises patrolled by an attack turtle."
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Cool toy I got from a science museum gift shop: the Levitron! See, the base has a strong magnet in it, pointing up, and there's another magnet in the top, pointing down. The magnet in the top wants to flip over, but the gyroscopic action of the spinning top prevents it, so it hovers!
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I think this is the longest I've ever let my hair get.
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Worst non-smoking-area sign EVER! Its smoking-area counterpart looked exactly the same, except for the word "NON". Very hard to tell apart at a glance! Fortunately, this was in a Whataburger, one of the first restaurants in Houston to go smoke-free, and the badly designed signs were soon removed.
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Captain came to Houston and visited me. Here he is wearing his Felix the Cat shirt.
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Captain and I visited the fountain across from the Transco Tower (now called the Williams Tower).
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Captain at the Transco Fountain.
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Captain at the Transco Fountain. This picture is actually altered; there were some dudes in jock clothing in the background, and I didn't like them, so I rubber-stamp-brushed them out.
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Captain holds a Lisa Simpson doll.
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Captain, Jay, Mom and I went to one of Jay's favorite restaurants, a steak house somewhere on the Gulf Freeway. These "LS" brands on the wall made me wonder: Lisa Simpson?
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Captain and me at my house.
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One of the huge UFO-like chrome rings that hang over street intersections around the Galleria with the names of the streets on it.
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The previous picture, altered to make it look like the ring really is a UFO.
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All of my Animaniacs plushies (two of each regular size, one of each small size) and my Animaniacs pillows laid out neatly on my bed.
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A T-shirt I saw someone wearing at a bus stop: Gecko Gym, a parody of Gold's Gym, featuring a gecko that bears a striking resemblance to Bart Simpson.
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Claes Oldenburg's red metal sculpture based on Mickey Mouse, which stands outside the Houston Public Library.
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Once in a Disney Store, I saw a Mickey Mouse T-shirt with the fabric curved in such a way as to look like "Mikey" from my vantage point.
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Mom shows off her Dot Warner hair clip.
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"Turtle's need not apply"?! Discrimination AND poor usage of punctuation!
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This Bugs Bunny statue used to stand in the Galleria. Some vandal knocked Bugs's front teeth out. So I made a replacement set of teeth out of white cardboard and surreptitiously taped them in place in a calculated act of anti-vandalism. In this photo, Bugs has my replacement teeth.
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Some woman on the bus had this bag plastered all over with a 4-letter word printed upside-down, no doubt taking advantage of the fact that most people don't know how to read upside-down.