Fuddland

In lieu of anything to say, here are a few more snaps from my recent holiday.

The university campus and town centre both had what I thought was a large number of modern sculptures; there were several bicycling-themed ones at various roadsides, some abstract figures, and this rather large metal one of a notepad with its pages flapping in the wind. [I forget what the text stenciled on the visible pages said.]

The college football team’s stadium was pretty impressive; as you can see they take their college football seriously — I can’t imagine even the first team at my university getting anything so grand. Me, I’m more impressed that I managed to get the handrail of the bridge I was standing on to run straight down the right hand side of the photo.

As I saw to a much greater degree on the flight home, passing over Chicago in particular, snow doesn’t present anything of a problem to these well-equipped towns and cities. I could see gardens and parks still entirely covered with freshly-fallen snow, yet all the roads [and thankfully, the airport runways] were clear and traffic was running smoothly.

I had to take a photo of this guy as he waffled on about the importance of something or other — he had the most amazing comb-over I’ve ever seen. It was entirely apparent that he had classic male pattern baldness, yet had somehow managed to grow thick, wavy hair up from the sides of his head that, at first glance, resembled a full head of hair.

#1

RanK | 2004 / 01 / 20 – 03:00

if only he’d been outside in the wind, now that would’ve made a good photo

#2

Lyle | 2004 / 01 / 20 – 09:32

Now that’s one impressive combover. Yes, it would’ve been more fun in wind - or even snow - but regardless, that’s quite something.

Even more impressive is the conviction that no-one will notice…

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