Defending Johnny Depp

There have been some photos floating around showing our hero Johnny Depp giving paparazzi the finger. Lots of people are saying "YEA - way to go, you tell'm Johnny" And then they print the photo.

Seems to me that people getting all excited and seeing the photo in print and online is counter productive. Score one for the paparazzi - they win. My feeling is that this is an insult to Johnny. Seeing this kind of photo showing Johnny in a manner I'm sure HE is not comfortable with makes ME feel uncomfortable.

Showing a person that is kind, gentle an caring in a moment of anger is just playing into a paparazzi plan. They WANT him to get angry so they can sell photos! They WANT him rubbing his crotch so it will get on the internet and news. I have seen several photos and videos of JD on Johnny Depp fan sites showing him in a a negative photos. Why ???

Would you guys want YOUR photos on the net in this manner?

Just MY opinion but I know I wouldn't.

I will now climb down from my soap box - this is NOT aimed at anyone in particular as it is happening in many places.
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Are we in the beginning of a plague of biblical proportions?? Grasshoppers and toads! Everywhere.

Our front door area was covered with tiny grasshoppers and toads clinging to our house. WHAT UP!!! Is this normal? I was mowing the lawn yesterday and I had to keep stopping as a toad would jump out of the way!!

And speaking of mowing - good thing I mowed the yard yesterday - I only had a total of 10,125 steps. Perhaps it's harder to get 10,000 then I thought.
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Columbus Train Station

Meeting about the train station art Saturday at the Visitor Center 9:00. If you have something you want to have hung up now is the time to go to a meeting.

Any art on the Station walls will get a LOT of people looking at it. We drove past last week and the place was packed with people.

It looks like Columbus is trying to get a second Chicago - Minneapolis train stopping in Columbus. One train twice a day is just not doing it with traffic.

Also in the works by our econo-visor Steve Sobiek is some sort of free bike deal (like Madison's "red bike" program I suppose) where bikes will be available for a quick jaunt to town. AND some sort of van service to and from Madison (I personally have been contacted about ways to get to and from Madison).
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I saw a hitchhiker yesterday. Don't see that many anymore. I hitch hiked to California once. Never made it. I got to the Rockies and stopped there to was so beautiful. IF you ever want a REAL adventure - hitch hike across the U.S.

My parents drove me to the interstate in Janesville (what were they thinking) and let me off . . . now that I think of it it was sort of like taking your pet into the country to go wild!!

Anyway - I had NEVER hitched before but knew I had to use my thumb. I spent 12 hours in ONE place - I was never picked up! So I pitched my tent and woke up early, put my thumb out and stood for 3 hours. HELL - I then decided to go to another spot so I walked up to the interstate and a cop picked me up. My first ride ever was from the police LOL

He gave me a lift to the next exit where a family coming from church picked me up (what were they thinking).

I got to Rockford where two guys picked me up - they were heading to California to sell drugs on the beach. They were hoping I had some. I said no, so we drove. They also only had $50 in cash so they were hoping to borrow some. I said probably not a good idea and they agreed.

So we drove and drove. Since THEY had no drugs and I had no drugs they had to go with the next best thing.

Big sticks of incense! Yea - here are two guys in the front seat snorting big sticks on incense. I pretty much decided to dump these guys as soon as I could. BUT . . . . . the freakiest thing I have ever seen in a car was about to happen.

It's pitch dark on the highway goign through South Dakota. The car is ripe with strawberry and evergreen smoke and in the distance are two lights dead ahead on the road. They are where tail lights should be but both are drawing circles going the opposite direction. LIKE SOME SPACE ALIEN!!! WTF???

The two incense guys are FREAKING OUT.

After about 5 minutes we close the gap, CAREFULLY, and it's two bicycles with reflectors on the wheel spinning in opposite directions. The frames of the bikes completely over up the real tail lights!

I left those two the next day. Tomorrow I'll talk about getting picked up by a guy that was AWOL from the Navy and racing to San Diego. mmmmm K-rations. Love them!

Rod