Santa Monic-odd
August 27th, 2007 by Kelson. Posted in Strange World, Travel and tagged for beach, California, Santa Monica, SoCal, weirdIn early August, we went up to Santa Monica to visit my brother and his colleagues as they returned to Florida from Wikimania 2007 in Taipei… with a 10-hour layover at LAX.
We carpooled with my parents, and arrived while the group was still stuck in customs. So we wandered around the Santa Monica Promenade and pier for a bit. Not surprisingly, there were some strange things about, like this turtle-themed drinking fountain.
Then there was this sign, on the Johannes van Tilburg Building, which I couldn’t quite decide how to take. “Free Will?” “Free Willy?”
The most disturbing was probably this mash-up of two movies on one of the many theaters on the promenade:
Is the American public ready for that film?
There are topiaries sculpted into the forms of dinosaurs scattered along the promenade. This stegosaurus came out the best:
As I mentioned, we did wander out to the Santa Monica Pier after a bit. Nothing terribly odd, just a couple of photos to set the scene:
My Amazon Wishlist
LOL. The Theatre O’ Pregnant Teens is my (as of next week) ex-place of employment. Too bad I didn’t know you were around.
We were there on a Monday afternoon, August 6. Just after 4:15, going by the tag on the photo.
No, I was very careful not to say where I was actually working so as to not get in trouble with some of the things I used to post about. But then I took it all down anyways.
And then after this weekend, I get to go crazy with stuff I’ve wanted to say for 7 years.
(And I wasn’t there that Monday)
Love those photos. I recently got a digital slr camera and am looking forward to bringing my photography game up to somewhere near your level.
I hope.
Digital SLR! *drool*
Hey cool photos Id see a movie with pregnant bratz in it.