Just another all nighter.
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Walking from the party to McDonald’s for a McDollar menu Who-Ride.
Was an awesome sunrise.

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And here you have it. Sure is good when you’ve been drinking and dancing all night.

 

Well this is my favorite Taco Truck. Check it out and you’ll know why.
tacos mi rancho lake merritt taco truck

burrito truck international 1st lake merritt

 

international blvd bench oakland ca
Well this bear was on the ground so I figured it would make for a good cell phone photo.
But since we’re here…. Oakland spent a lot of money installing these new benches and putting palm trees in place of parking spots over here in the East Lake District.
My question is why do all the benches face inwards like this one? It’s facing an old beat up shack(which has sense been run over by a car).
It could have faced out but they put a palm tree right smack where a parking spot used to be.
I don’t think people in Oakland like sitting with their backs towards everyone.
I have seen one person using this bench though and they were a local crazy I used to see walking around.

Unfortunately the only info I can find on this project is here. Nothing about cost, inward facing benches no o0ne uses, palm trees in place of parking spots or anything.
“5th Avenue – Pedestrian-oriented street lights, furniture, and street trees from East 18th Street to Embarcadero, East 12th Street: from 2nd to 5th avenues, and International Boulevard: from 2nd to 5th avenues”

street art graffiti oakland
And while we’re at benches here is an awesome picture I took of graffiti art or more like a mural at a bus bench on Park Blvd. near what used to be the Parkway Theater.

 

foo dragons and money chinese new year
Chinese New Year was on Monday, January 23, 2012.
This picture reminds me of Chinese New Year.
Foo Dragons also known as Chinese Lions are used to guard wealth or something?
Commonly seen at entrances to places, banks, fancy hotels and so on.

 

Oh these just cracked me up. Try it out.
Especially if you’re a fan of Ron Paul.


Wow these are great, accurate and funny. They so sound like them too.

May 182012
 

Yosemite – Range Of Light.
This is amazing!
Am I right?
The song is not bad either. Very mellow.

Anyways, it reminds me of my Dad because he used to always take me and my friends there when we were kids. No other parents in the hood were doing things like that for us.

Yosemite National Park, California.

 May 18, 2012
 

This is the Oakland Alameda County Courthouse Rene C Davidson Division located at the bottom of Lake Merritt.
oakland alameda county courthouse building
oakland courthouse building
courthouse oakland lake merritt
alameda county courthouse

 May 18, 2012
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