Paint’s Blog

so we had and interesting train ride on saturday.

ben and ihopped a train to long beach just to kill some time and see the area .

it was a mostly uneventfull ride down… justa few pan handlers typical stuff.

we sawa supposedly homless pipper.. playing a catchy tune. i grabbed my flute out of matts car just for fun. and we played with it on the ride down showing ben the notes and stuff.

in long beach we walked around the touristy area i took a few pictures with my digicam of artsy stuff like long exsposured of lighted water fountains and the sky line at pacific park.

on the way back ther were some rabble rousers on the train platform.

but we sorta just kept to our selves.

our car was pretty quite unill we got to the station just before compton.

ther the engineer got on the PA , and anouced that the people in the car ahead of us needed to stop being so rambucious.,

or he would call the cops..

well he did..

we were stopped at the platform for a good 20 minutes , after he tossed them out of the first car m, about , 6 young black males entered out car. heads down ,. tring to play it cool.

with in about 5 minutes the cops howed up and did a sweep and removed the offending individuals .. unfortunately they moved all them plus 1.

by now a helichopter.. affecionatly called a ghetto bird by the locals,, had it’s flood lights tuned on our train and 7 men were hancuffed on the platform.

the extras borther and sister who had all been in our car the intire time ,. were sure what to do.

eventually his brother hoppeda train back to the other platform while the sister on her sidkick informed ther mom, and headed home.

i hope he was clearded .

but just for the recored , that last young black male(19-22) that LA PD removed from the blue line between , 10:30 and 11:00pm on saturday night was innocent.

he was wearing a black collared shirt with thin white horozontal stripps and black jeans, his head was shaved close .

he was pleading with you.

while all the others had already quitely accepted to there fate.

he was in the second car the intire time , and our car was well behaved .

latter on the same trip we were stopped again by a car stuck on the tracks.

and we had to go back a stop and board another train.

eventually we made it back to hollywood on the last train.

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but that was the excitment of the evening.

on mothers day .

Matt called mom to wish her well.

and then i got up sliced my hand open pretty bad on another of my blue glass bowls .

that sink is eating them i’ll have to buy more .

poor pretty bowls .

any way once that was cleanned up

and i found my surgical gloves i made enough bella fried chicken to feed a small army . mac and cheese from scratch and a reallly awsome spinch spring greens and walnut salad .

we picked up Kristine and had a picknic at Griffith park.

the left overs when to our neighbor and his posse…

over all it was a good day.