chemical billy unmasked

today I had the opportunity to take a few shots of Chemical Billy in her Halloween get-up.


also present was her cat, Blanche.

never kiss a girl with bat wings

monkey 0 found out the hard way.

[udpate - for those of you with low-contrast monitors, click here for a detail. I woke up with a hell of a hangover, and one of those little bracelets that says "I gave blood!" and warns you not to operate heavy machinery...]

mexico: playa del carmen, quintana roo

when I was there, Playa del Carmen was an extremely pleasant place

where I did not take many pictures because I was wandering around sampling the invariably-superb margaritas and eating the world's best tacos at the Taqueria Gomez

(and yes I said "world's best" and yes I mean it and yes I'll go to the mat for that one, so if you have a problem with that I suggest you step up and say something).


the sea was a little ominous for much of the time we were there, what with tropical storm Stan blowing overhead (it wasn't a hurricane yet)

I'm afraid things are a little different now (AP photo, not mine):

vaya con dios, yucatan...

good luck everybody.

mexico: merida, yucatan - hotel trinidad galeria

the Hotel Trinidad Galeria in Merida:

mexico: merida, yucatan

best of

[here or elsewhere, please nominate pictures you feel belong in the best-of gallery, so visitors just wandering by for the first time can see a little bit of our history at a glance.]

Anne's favorites are:
from the trail to Manoa Falls in Oahu.
from the Jigokudani monkey onsen
from Isla Mujeres
  from Osaka
from Takayama
from Harajuku revisited
from Costa Rica
from the trumpets of gayness
from Monroe, Wisconsin (she even wrote a story)
from the price of freedm
  from the Tokyo subway

Dee likes:
from the Oakland zoo
the fish at the Osaka aquarium (luckier and happier than the fish at the tokyo fish market.)

Suzanna's favorites:
from kyoto
taken here at home in El Cerrito.

shiny. so shiny.

help me choose.



I want to create a page with the viewer favorites from this site. If you can think of any pictures from the past that you feel should be included, please say so. You don't need to find them, just describe them, and I'll dig them out of the archives.

And, now and forevermore, when you see a picture you think belongs in the most-shiny page, please indicate as much.

Yours faithfully, in simian compulsion to take your stuff and eat it or break it,
-monkey 0

mexico: valladolid

mexico: isla mujeres day 2

mexico: isla mujeres

you will, I hope, forgive me if I go a bit overboard on this post.