If You Open Your Door
So, I am back in Los Angeles after a whirlwind trip to Phoenix/Mesa, El Paso, and the Dallas/Ft.Worth/Arlington area before a quick 20 hour stint back in Seattle. Amazing. Driving part way across the country for the first time is a strange feeling. It seemed as though I had been to these places before, but knew that I had never been close. I got to see such fantastic things as: Ridiculous amounts of wind turbines outside of Palm Springs, fields of oil donkeys outside of Odessa(TX), and one of the cleanest, least lively downtown core I have ever experienced(Dallas). Seriously though, it was soo clean and looked amazing, however there wasn't anything to do, and if there was we couldn't find it. We drove around downtown for probably 30 minutes and passed maybe 2 restaurant/bistros. Kinda disappointing. Nevertheless, it was a cool city.
Let me see, let me see...YES! I walked the building where JFK was supposedly shot from(I say supposedly because of the whole conspiracy thing), and here's what I have to say about that- The shot was made from only about 50, maybe 75 yards, from up on the 6th floor. Now, I'm not a marksman by any means, but looking out the same window where he was supposedly shot from it looked like I could have made the shot with my eyes closed. Here are the other things that make me skeptical though- 1) Apparently there were only 3 shots fired from the rifle, only 2 hit JFK; one hit him in the head, the other supposedly entered his neck, traveled down through his abdominal section, shattered one of his ribs, exited, then passed through his forearm, exited, and finally passed and exited his thigh area. OK, that just sounds ridiculous to me. Oh yeah, and the bullet they claim that they found that did the damage, was completely unscathed. How the fuck can a bullet shatter somebody's rib, and still remain unscathed...not to mention passing through quite a bit of flesh. 2) The timing of the whole thing was absurd. Here's a quick time line: about noon, his plane hit the ground and he go into the car and headed towards Dallas. around 1230, his car makes the turn in front of the school book depository(where he was shot from). About 1232, he is shot. 100, he is pronounced dead at a local hospital. by 130, Lee Harvey Oswald is in pulled from a theater across town and arrested. by 200, the vice president has been sworn into office on airforce one, JFK's body is also loaded onto AF1, and the plane is going back to DC. correct me if I'm wrong, but that just seems a bit too convenient for all of those things to happen so quickly and easily. Anyways, I could go on all day about this, but I wont.
hmmm. other things, list-style-
-I got a baseball from the Ballpark at Arlington that was from the batting cages that professional players had earlier been hitting in. Pretty exciting.
-Confronted by a homeless man who expected me to give him money because that particular day he wanted to commit a crime, but "decided he wasnt going to steal today"
-peered across the Rio Grande in El Paso towards Ciudad Juarez, and a disgusting hill covered in makeshift huts with a lingering cloud of smog overhead.
-saw many different kinds of cacti hanging out in the desert
-completed a auto check of illegal immigrants on highway 10 outside of el paso.
-had lots of fun. YES>!
Let me see, let me see...YES! I walked the building where JFK was supposedly shot from(I say supposedly because of the whole conspiracy thing), and here's what I have to say about that- The shot was made from only about 50, maybe 75 yards, from up on the 6th floor. Now, I'm not a marksman by any means, but looking out the same window where he was supposedly shot from it looked like I could have made the shot with my eyes closed. Here are the other things that make me skeptical though- 1) Apparently there were only 3 shots fired from the rifle, only 2 hit JFK; one hit him in the head, the other supposedly entered his neck, traveled down through his abdominal section, shattered one of his ribs, exited, then passed through his forearm, exited, and finally passed and exited his thigh area. OK, that just sounds ridiculous to me. Oh yeah, and the bullet they claim that they found that did the damage, was completely unscathed. How the fuck can a bullet shatter somebody's rib, and still remain unscathed...not to mention passing through quite a bit of flesh. 2) The timing of the whole thing was absurd. Here's a quick time line: about noon, his plane hit the ground and he go into the car and headed towards Dallas. around 1230, his car makes the turn in front of the school book depository(where he was shot from). About 1232, he is shot. 100, he is pronounced dead at a local hospital. by 130, Lee Harvey Oswald is in pulled from a theater across town and arrested. by 200, the vice president has been sworn into office on airforce one, JFK's body is also loaded onto AF1, and the plane is going back to DC. correct me if I'm wrong, but that just seems a bit too convenient for all of those things to happen so quickly and easily. Anyways, I could go on all day about this, but I wont.
hmmm. other things, list-style-
-I got a baseball from the Ballpark at Arlington that was from the batting cages that professional players had earlier been hitting in. Pretty exciting.
-Confronted by a homeless man who expected me to give him money because that particular day he wanted to commit a crime, but "decided he wasnt going to steal today"
-peered across the Rio Grande in El Paso towards Ciudad Juarez, and a disgusting hill covered in makeshift huts with a lingering cloud of smog overhead.
-saw many different kinds of cacti hanging out in the desert
-completed a auto check of illegal immigrants on highway 10 outside of el paso.
-had lots of fun. YES>!