Shambala Preserve
Can we get a chain put on this or something? Yeah, it’s all nice n’ purdy until the thing starts claiming ownership of your camera bag, bracelet, pant leg, etc. The Shambala Preserve [LINK] is a way station for abused and unwanted big cats set up by the actress Tippi Hedron. Otherwise known as Melanie Griffith’s mother. Orcas no.1, Tigers no.2, and Toucans are no.3 on my favorite animals list. Factoids: If you shave the hair off of a tiger, it still has it’s stripes. A three legged cheetah (pictured) can still run 35 miles an hour. Don’t squat down to the ground to take a picture. If you run from a cougar it’ll chase you. Elephant keepers have the highest insurance premiums. You don’t nueter a male lion because it will lose its mane. It’s hormonally driven by testosterone. I’m armed with all sorts of new random information after this visit.
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The smog must be rolling in. Ok, it’s smoke from a fire. I was driving through the Kenneth Hahn Recreation area. Lucky him, he gets oil pumps in his park. Other than the smoke it was a nice day. See the big dark blotch in the blue sky. I just discovered I have a cracked lens. #$%@!!! Time for a new camera. When did that happen? Update: It was just a little piece of plastic that got stuck on the inside of the lens and looked exactly like a crack. Odd.)
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I had my taxes done this morning and then had lunch with my parents and sister after that. Got a load of money back, oh my. The last three months have been very green. After that I called up Riz to see if he was around. He just got back from Anyone’s first tour ’round the States. We talked about his recent visit with Ozzy and the various european festivals they’ll be playing this summer. As we were hanging out he had to decorate his new “Fernandes” guitar. See the problem is… he has an endorsement deal with “Fernandes” guitars. They just got word that he didn’t pose with their guitar during the photoshoot for “Guitar One” magazine. So they called and bitched him out about it and said how disappointed they were. He told them the photographer wanted him to pose with his “decorated” guitar. Eh hem… ok, so he stretched the truth about that a bit. The decorated one happens to be a Fender Strat that he uses live. That’s the part they weren’t too happy about. He likes the Fernandes guitars better, but they aren’t decorated, so he explained to them that he has to be able to decorate the guitars so he can use them live and for photos. So here we have the beginnings of the guitar being decorated. Everytime he added a new decoration he would pick it up and play it to make sure nothing was in the way. This guitar should start showing up in magazines and concerts, probably much to Fernandes’ relief. Forget his guitar playing, he’s a master with a glue gun. Click here [