NEIL GAVIGAN

Our awesome costumes for this year’s Halloween festivities!

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Great pics of Archie and Zep chasing around the yard at last Saturday’s BBQ. Thanks for joining us in the Tri Tip goodness!

…and here’s why.

We went camping at Leo Carrillo State Beach this weekend and it was great. I took a few pictures and they’re up on Flickr.

Camping season has officially begun, and were planning at east four more trip this year! Next up..El Capitan in April!

Ok I know it’s a little late but here it is anyway…HAPPY NEW YEAR! I have put up images from Santa Barbara, Lake Arrowhead and our recent cruise to Ensenada. Check em out!

These had me laughing out loud today. Read them all…

New pics up on Flickr. Taken on our trip to the Murikami show at the Geffen Contemporary (it was great, I want to go again). Also up is a nice panorama of the view from my cousin’s house in Laguna and anothershot of there ultra tiny dog Tini (Teeni?)

This billboard was spotted outside the Australian town of YASS. No explanation required…

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This one has been on all the blogs but just in case you missed it . . .

Quoting from ‘best of craigslist’ Tampa Bay:

Survival of the Fittest

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.

Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.

I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.

Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.

When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3×5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.”

This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this “grant money.” I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion.

There can be only one.

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It’s fire time again. blogging.la has some good links to live coverage and a local view on the situation. Hopefully the wind will slow down and the weather get cooler soon. I’m glad I live in the concrete jungle. It’s pretty hard to burn asphalt…