Dennis and Maya Take a Somewhat Long Ass Trip

We went up to visit family in DE and PA and on the way we saw a few things.

Big Ass Moth.  BIG ASS  - and seriously pink and yellow.  

At a truck stop we found a rotating, four sided, five "storied" display of Jesus t-shirts.  Had I found this before I made all of the work for the HeavenHell show, I might have reconsidered my idea.  These people beat me to some really good shit.  "Pick Jesus"?  Come on, that's some excellence right there - more than one image comes to mind to ponder, however blasphemous.  

The truck stop also had one of those quarter pushing machines where you drop your quarter in and hope it will be the one that knocks all the other quarters off the edge into your sweating greedy palms.  On my third quarter I actually got about $2.50 and then fell into the gambling trap and lost it all plus some.  In the end I think I spent about $2 of our money on it and got mad.  If I ever go to a casino, someone better be floating me with no strings attached.  I'm sure to lose it all and would be totally pissed if it were my own money or someone else's who cared. Either way I would probably end up in Gamblers Anonymous.  Maybe I just should just stay away.

Happy oblivious elders in back, freak show up front.  I can't get enough.

We went to a car wash the kind of which I had no idea existed.   

Wash your car....

Buy baskets and other random completely non-car-related stuff from the car wash gift shop.  Whah?  Into it.

Near the check out and exit, actual car related things may be purchased - like EVERY imaginable scent of car-hangy-smelly-thing and other scented thingies.  Beautiful and stinky.

After the car wash adventure the family went to dinner at P.F. Changs.  After dinner we were presented with an assortment of desserts to contemplate consuming - plastic style - which, of course, is most appetizing.  In the restaurant's lighting they did actually look real, but once the camera flash went off, their true plastic nature was obvious.  I have decided I want to go into food art. How do they do that?  And look at that gut wrenchingly huge "chocolate cake."  Gimme a bite o' that scrumptiousness! Mmm - chewy.

A dog on the last leg of the journey.  Can you say trooper?  12 hours driving each way.  I love Manny.

I, on the other hand, am not as docile a traveler as Manny.  In my fidgety turns as passenger I am always on the lookout for something to hold my attention and interest even for a few moments.  This can take the form of shouting obscenities at drivers of other cars for minor driving infractions, or quietly searching the sky for heaven clouds.  Mostly I just shout obscenities.

For the last couple of weeks I have been a manufacturing machine for an art show called HeavenHell that I am in with CAFfeine South.  I am making a Heaven souvenir shop.  These are the types of items I will be offering for sale:

The t-shirts are the only things not finished.  I think the Heaven part of the shirt is going to be monochromatic instead of the two color.

I have been working and thinking about logistics for the show and working some more.  Now I will think for a bit about "badonkadonks."  The Urban Dictionary says that badonkadonks are voluptuous women's behinds.  What I am referring to, though, are actually called "donks," old cars that have been given new life and pizzazz.  I, however, will always lovingly refer to them as "badonkadonks."  

The following images are of future badonkadonks, I hope.  The South, and its lack of salted roads in the winter, has a lot of old cars in really good condition, so there are a lot to choose from for badonkadonk purposes.

The little yellow car on the right might be a badonkadonk wanna be, but the one on the left holds true donk potential.

Another interesting donk option.  Maybe some 24in. orange metallic wheels with a two-tone metallic gold and orange body - or maybe sticking with the blue theme but going two-tone with bright chrome wheels - again 24in.

I am working on a "badonkadonk" photo of the day for the blog.  I keep forgetting to have the camera on the ready.  When I do, I get worried that people will take offense at me ogling them and taking pictures, but there are definitely some jewels out there and I am determined to find and document them!