Running around like your 12.....

So Shanks calls me up and asks if I want to get a cup of joe. As were flipping through the weeklies and shooting the shizz he gets the great urge to go to theDel Mar San Diego County Fair (fyi, locals still call it Del Mar Fair) because he hadn't been in 12 years. Now I can go about one day a year. Eat too much food, look at some local art, see some animals and thats all the fair I need until the next year. He scored me a free ticket and we were off on a fair adventure.

We walk around and took everything in. The smells, the people, the carnies, everything. We looked at some art. This was my favorite picture of a cook in China. All the award winning pictures were all sappy and cheesy. If I had my own place, I would seriously consider buying this picture.

Deep Fried Snickers bar. Oh yes...so worth the stomach pains 15 minutes later.

Kelly Clarkston next too Bo Diddly? Hmmm. That's blasphemy.

Later that night it was The Bloody Hollies/Scarlet Symphony at the Ken Club and getting irie with an old punk rocker.

Then it was home to sleep because I've been on my feet the last few days and I'm old n sore. Next year...Deep Fried Twinkies on me!

WEED......man....

One thing that I'm really interested in is drugs. Let me rephrase that. Having a good knowledge of drug and drug culture is good. That doesn't mean that I do whatever drug I can get my hands on. But its a good way to learn about culture and the effects it has on society. Before we invaded Afghanistan the Taliban regime had almost completely eliminated all the poppy fields around the country. After we invaded we thought that drug enforcement was a non-issue. It was England that suggested we do something about it. But we just gave them the brush off and continued hunting the Taliban. Well 2 years later and the poppy production was as high as ever. We finally came around and started to listen to the UK.

Earlier this year the Northern region of Afghanistan (Balkh Province) was declared poppy-free. So what have the farmers started growing to make money? Weed man. While it doesn't make as much money as poppy's, it does make more than most legal crops. If we could of started some sort of counteraction to the exploding poppy crops a few years back, we might of been able to figure are way to help these farmers out with out them having to grow illegal crops. It might have also greatly hurt the return of the Taliban who is making a strong comeback. It would have also taken a lot of money out of terrorists hands. But what do I know. I just like to get lit and watch 30 Rock.