A CHILE LOOMS

a mosaic hello to all of you!

hey, did you know that if you take the letters from 'Micheal Solo' and mix them up, you can make names of totally different people?! has anyone ever met Mollie Chaos or Chloe Somali? next time you see them you can tell them that they have the same letters as me.

LOCALISM HOE! why, just last week i was driving my alcohol semi when Lame Coolish and the Coma Hollies came on the radio. then i pulled out my moola chisel - for which to get you a moolah slice.

HALE LOCOISM! the possibilities are limited!

you can make groovie anagrams of your name here: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

That da Vinci Book

after finally purchasing an edible version of The da Vinci Code (hardback, of course), i thought i had them all. but it seems that recently there is an inexhaustible supply of new da Vinci related media. i can't seem to keep up! i've read all the supplemental guides to the da Vinci Code, all the decoders, un-coders, and re-coders. i've read all the rebuttals, arguments, and epitaphs. i've even studied the master himself - his life, his work - copies of his notebooks, drawings, even a guide on how to think like him.. Dan Brown, that is. i've read everything he's ever writen (and everything by Dale Brown just to be safe). it seems that this is just as essential to life in my work-a-day world as is starbucks and the O.C.

i've taken to writing backwards just to fit in. i habitually throw my soap out of my 4th floor apartment after showering. i eat an apple a day. grail lore fills my nights, my house, my mind. i sit up, reading and re-reading the code searching for answers. e-versions, audio versions, first editions, home games - still it alludes me, WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!

"you mean you don't get it?"

NO! quite frankly i don't! what the hell is all this da Vinci fuss about?! is there some deep underlying message? what happens when you solve the code? does the fabric of the very universe unravel before your eyes revealing some kind of bright shining truth?! i may never know.

beautiful fiji - overlooking the blue lagoon
 

home - in michigan, my computer (survived shipping). roxy's sleeping.

man, fiji was AWESOME! i didn't know what to expect, so i was expecting hawaii - tourists, shopping, beaches, cocktails in coconuts, etc. but the tour deborah booked was out to the yasawa islands, nearly untouched by tourists until about 10 years ago. the little island backpacker places we stayed at were run by locals and everyone was extremely friendly and easygoing. we had great weather for the most part and the food was amazing. i saw some pristine beaches and the best snorkeling of my lifetime! the "resorts" were out of the way in pretty undeveloped areas, most without any phones and only generator power. we lived much like the locals, even shared their facilities - pretty rustic by hawaii standards. some of the american girls we met complained themselves to exhaustion about the cold showers and having 'nothing to do'.

our trip included snorkeling, hermit crab races, and swimming in some cool caves. with the help of a guide we got to dive under rocks to surface in a dark underground cave with some incredible high ceilings. it was wild! we stayed on one island that was used in the filming of 'the blue lagoon' and 'swiss family robinson'. so when we got to LA we rented these and watched them with granny and my cousin becky. both of the movies were seriously dated and amusing to watch - both had some great scenery. that was fun, seeing granny in LA and eating some much needed mexican food. now i'm home-home, at my parents place in michigan. i'm making plans to get together with all my college buddies next weekend and get up to the lake~

we stayed on this tiny island on our first night out in the yasawa islands. you could stand in the middle and see water on all sides! nice place - great food, amazing snorkling!! world-class. we stayed up late drinking cava with the staff and learning the bula dance.  

look at those rocks! don't forget that there used to be cannibals in fiji - imagine smoke rising from these skull-like rock formations~