The View From Dayton and Cincinnati and Phoenix and Dallas
I’ve been a traveling mofo the last couple of weeks and I’ve been remiss in posting my View From Here pix, so here’s a whole bunch of them all at once.
First I was in Dayton, Ohio. My favorite part about Dayton was the Hooters restaurant you can see in the view from my room. Unfortunately, I never got to enjoy the waitresses wings there — instead, I had wings at Frickers, which were pretty frickin’ good.
Then I drove an hour south to Cincinnati where I had neither wings nor Hooters, but I did go see Miami Vice while I was there — and slept through half of it.
I came home for the weekend, then turned right back around and spent one day in Phoenix. Phoenix offered me only the hot, not the wings, so their equation of finger food excellence was seriously flawed.
Finally, I jetted off to Dallas to stay at my favorite Hampton Inn hotel in Richardson. I’ve been here twice before; it’s notable for me being the creepy lurking photographer of bikini-clad blonde poolside hotties. This time I’m looking directly down at the pool, which is sadly hottie free this trip.
I get to come home tomorrow — assuming, of course, that I can fight my way through the massive clot of stupidity that the air travel industry has become in the last two days. It’s going to be wall-to-wall idiocy as minimum-wage TSA employees — with absolutely no manners, brains, or common sense, and only the most rudimentary command of the spoken word — will try to interpret and “enforce” a collection of “security measures” that will keep no-one safe and serve only to inconvenience everyone and bring smiles to the faces of the “terrorists” who enjoy making us jump through stupid hoops. It’s important that we all be forced to throw away our deodorant and sunscreen before boarding a flight — the planes must be kept safe from the threat of passengers who don’t stink and have nice suntans.
I’m reminded of a comedian who joked that one terrorist bet another that “I bet I can make them all take their shoes off” and then paid a mental defective to try to light his shoes on fire while on a plane. And now here we are a few years later, all of us taking our shoes off as we go through “security screening” for absolutely no good reason. Pretty soon, they’re going to restrict travel so much that they’re going to ban passengers on the planes — maybe then we’ll be “safe.” Or maybe all the unscreened mail and shipping cargo sitting in the belly of the plane will finally get some attention.
But I’ll just keep my feelings about the TSA to myself. I don’t really have all that much experience with them, after all…
A) security codes to post comments suck and are annoying. will i have to hold my shoe up to the screen soon?
B) I thought with this new job you weren’t going to be traveling AS MUCH??? WTF?
C) Ahem. Fricking call me already. Or something.
D) Love to Beth!
E) I sorta got bloggy with it on myspace. Check out californiaflame baby!
F) That is all.
I’m anxious to fly next week (NOT). A one day trip. Will I be required to check my extremely small bag or do they still allow plane side check in? And will I get lucky enough on this flight to actually have my luggage arrive on the same flight, even the same DAY, as I do? Oh wait, I’m not flying Delta (Don’t Expect Luggage To Arrive) so I should be OK, I guess….
Yes, the terrorists are winning.
Ha Delta. I thought it was just me. I flew Delta to Altanta two times. My luggage didn’t make it…either time.
I’m hoping the latest wave of airport security insanity (funny how these incidents always seem to happen right near election time, or when W’s ratings plummet even further than previously thought) will return to something near normalcy by the time I have to fly next month.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but I don’t feel like going through all your comments. There is going to be a Mojave Phone Booth movie. On one hand I am super excited because I started reading you back then when you wrote about it, you were the reason I started keeping my first journal and my best friend and I did a road trip to the booth also. On the other hand it has Steve Guttenburg in it which pretty much guarantees that it is going to go straight to DVD.
P.S. I agree about the security thing. I can’t get the damn thing right and had to rewrite my post because it said I had it wrong and then I had to hit my back button which erased it.
Straight to DVD is way better than seeing an independent movie go unappreciated at a megaplex. Mr. Guttenberg has no bearing on the distribution anyway. Besides, what planet have you been on? DVD accounts for more revenue for the studios and film makers than any title put into the theater exhibition system. Times have changed, so should your attitude.