Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around the World

birdmen

howard hughes h-1

howard hughes

four leaf clover

I was walking near the shores of mille lacs lake

when i noticed a bunch of clover...

looking closer i saw all the clover was four leaf clover...

a treasure, fortune in nature...good luck !!!

Whirlo - Way

Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison (January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, best known as the inventor of the Frisbee. He was born in Richfield, Utah.

Morrison claimed that the original idea for a flying disc toy came to him in 1937, while throwing a popcorn can lid with his girlfriend, Lu, whom he later married. The popcorn lid soon dented which led to the discovery that cake pans flew better and were more common. Morrison and Lu developed a little business selling "Flyin' Cake Pans" on the beaches of Santa Monica, California.

During World War II he learned something of aerodynamics flying his P-47 Thunderbolt in Italy. He was shot down and was a prisoner of war for 48 days. (read more)

friday the 13th

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was successfully launched toward the Moon, but the landing had to be aborted after an oxygen tank ruptured, severely damaging the spacecraft's electrical system. The flight was commanded by James A. Lovell with John L. "Jack" Swigert as Command Module pilot and Fred W. Haise as Lunar Module pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for the original CM pilot Ken Mattingly, who was grounded by the flight surgeon after exposure to German measles.

The mission was launched on April 11, 1970 at 13:13 CST. Two days later an explosion crippled the service module upon which the Command Module depended. To conserve its batteries and the oxygen needed for the last hours of flight, the crew instead used the Lunar Module's resources as a "lifeboat" during the return trip to Earth. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water and the critical need to jury-rig the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17. NASA called the mission a "successful failure". (read more)

Apollo 13

Houdini

Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts. Harry Houdini died on Halloween. (read more)

your choice

You have two choices in your life...

you can choose to be happy...

or you can choose to be un-happy...

which will you choose?

Slave To Love

Roy Orbison

They've given you a number

(tv show intro)

Dennis Hopper

"You want to hear about insanity?
I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico"
...Dennis Hopper...

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Over the next ten years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper." (read more)

(watch original trailer)

Little Did He Know

(photograph by Oberon)


Stranger than fiction

that's what the truth is

she remembered me

she found me

she healed me

she loved me

i'm a lucky, lucky man

stranger than fiction

I Will Always Love You

(watch Whitney Houston version)

Sin City

Heaven And Earth

(photograph by Oberon)

NOW is the time!

Oberon is now on island time.

I just arrived in la la land

a.k.a. St.Croix, Virgin Islands.

Yowzaah! Daddy needs a vacation!

Rock-A-Billy

I'm A Lucky, Lucky Man