Today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #101 is:

I saw this while walking around an area near Clearwater Beach. Here’s what I wrote on flickr:

Coco Peli is a Mexican legendary character. My fascination with him began when my mom got me a lamp where Coco Peli was the base of the lamp. She said it was free spirited like me, but more importantly it had a denim top and I was really into demin at the time.

Another self-portrait for this Top 200 Photo.

photo #102 is:

I came up with this photo while exploring with taking reflective photos where I’m in the shot without having the camera obscuring my face. This one ended up being my favorite and it’s even featured (as of the time of this writing) in the header of this blog.

Back to the National Zoo for this Top 200 Photo.

photo #103 is:

Tai Shan’s birth at the National Zoo attracted lots of people. Many of them became regulars and I got to know a lot of them over a few weeks and months.

I forgot to check for the May video game play times before it was too deep into June, so I lost my FFX playtime.  The others are pretty accurate.

Final Fantasy X - finished the game.  Review here.

Portal 2 (3 hrs) - finished multi-player game with Dan.  That game is AWESOME.  I was only bummed that the puzzles never truly got hard.  There were only 3 (max!) that left Dan and I scratching out heads for a long time.  Perhaps they wanted to make sure everyone finished the story events and so they didn’t make it hard.  Or maybe they had as hard a thinking with four portals as we did when we were first getting used to it.  I can’t wait for the DLC as I hope we get some more challenges.  Heck, we didn’t even have any white gel in the multi-player games.

Entirely separately from my recent reintroduction into the traditional comic world, I’ve been into graphic novels, as you’ve probably read on this blog.  An article I read on Cracked brought The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LoEG) back into my consciousness and then I read the [non-comic] books The Map of Time and Dracula.  So I was primed for another story that takes its literary cues from the Victorian Age.  The only other Moore books I’d read are Watchmen and The Killing Joke.  I enjoyed them both and so I looked forward to this one.

Start s off with Towel Day, in memory of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and ends with a bike ride on the BWI trail.

note: this was written on 1 June then put into my blog queue

I don’t remember exactly what made me decide to check out some new comics, but I think it was a mix of inventorying my comics and clicking over to the Whiskey Media site, Comic Vine.  In the reviews for May’s comics, two books sounded interesting: FF and Gotham City Sirens.  I went to my local comic book shop, Comics to Astonish, and also ended up picking up a bunch of issues from the old Harley Quinn book.  As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I was always into Marvel so I surprisingly chose to read Gotham City Sirens (GCS) as my first super hero comic since 1997.

Here’s today’ Top 200 Photo.

photo #104 is:

Of all the children born in the Year of the Pig, I’ve seen Nam the most. He only lives two houses over and, until he was old enough for daycare, Danielle’s mom took care of him every day. This photo is from before he was old enough to be scared of me and my photography. It’s one of my favorite photos in which he is the subject. I think it’s because we always see babies as innocent and he looks so sly in this photo.

Conceptual photo for today’s Top 200 Photos.

photo #105 is:

In October of 2005 I was a on real surrealist bent. This photo is one of the results. I know some of the others will also appear on this list.

A car-related Top 200 Photo

photo #106 is:

My parents’ neighbor likes to build cars from the scratch. Of course, he doesn’t build the frame, but he buys it separate from the engine, seats, etc. He explained it to me once but I think it stems from some US regulations on what your car can be capable of and how emissions regulations are affected by custom-built cars vs dealer-bought cars.