Five Oh Five（他妈/他妈的）

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Hi, I'm KMK—an avid micro-autobiographer, but overdue for a nap. Will update! 📍Santa Barbara. Formerly of SFO, PEK, BKK, LAX, et alibi. Eternal student. Dad to a trilingual (ES/EN/ZH) kid. linktr.ee/diezletras

My kid w/ the item I'd most recently bought, an inflatable frog balloon acquired at Tiger Kingdom Copenhagen in the Aqua City Mall. My wallet,meanwhile, turned up at the lost and found of Joypolis, despite my having not pulled it out at any point there aside from apparently dropping it there somehow
Same-day reservations terminal showing a 173-minute wait at the DiverCity Mall's sporting complex / arcade around 3pm yesterday, just before I discovered my wallet was missing
Lots of shit, on a luggage cart
A video shot like 3 minutes after the originally estimated time of arrival for the CAA emergency roadside service in Guelph. So the Canadian Automobile Association does compare very favorablly w/ the US version
There's a parquette floor visible once the crowd parts; who knew?
Yes, a AAA card is useful in Canada for US members through a reciprocal agreement with the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA), providing benefits like roadside assistance and discounts on hotels and attractions.
《KEEP GUELPH BEAUTIFUL Enjoy a Picnic at Riverside Park... We've got you covered! Free Drink Cups & Paper Plates with every Pizza Pickup Order! Whether you're heading to Riverside Park or just love eating outdoors, we'll make it easy and clean. Just ask at pickup No extra charge But Please Don't Leave a Mess!》
The outside window of Halibut House Fish & Chips in Guelph advertises a breakfast special. This is served from 8am-2pm, FYI. In the background, the Ontarian institution that is The Beer Store
A boxed Nintendo Alarmo being sold by a kid through his dad to support a summer camp fund. Or so goes the plausible story; only met the dad, in a Tim Horton's parking lot in Guelph.
The farmhouse fry skillet, after a bite or two has been taken. I sat at the bar, since solo dining. Salt & pepper shaker have the word PARIS emblazoned on them. Utensils extremely satisfying in their grip & weight distribution, among the best I've ever encountered! The menu describes this dish as 《A twist on poutine! House made mixed potato hash with sautéed onions, Quebec cheese curds, bell peppers, chorizo sausage, crisp bacon, jalapenos, and house made peppercorn gravy (individual or family style). Sub hollandaise for gravy $2 Add an egg on top $4》
My newest folding bike is not especially lightweight or even as comfortable a ride as those I've gotten previously procured in Toronto—both more than a decade ago, and both long since disappeared first in Beijing & then in L.A—but its looks are up there w/ the much-missed previous bikes… shown is a gold & chrome folding bike w/ whitewall tires, reflectors in the spokes, & a black seat & handlebars
Bootleg labubus hanging on a tree
Bobby Gimby—playing an exceedingly long trumpet—leading children in a Canadian centennial parade.
Someone whose X account was called The Colonel when I screenshot this off Nitter recently enough, replying to @edgarwright [for some reason saying] gotta be The Running Man, right? #StephenKing [the image is an old conception of a future-font in white, against a cranberry background. The words read］ 《BY 2017 THE WORLD ECONOMY HAS COLLAPSED. FOOD, NATURAL RESOURCES AND OIL ARE IN SHIRT SUPPLY. A POLICE STATE, DIVIDED INTO PARAMILITARY ZONES, RULES WITH AN IRON HAND.》
A photo of Massey Hall on Shuter Street near Eaton Centre
At least 2 of these are prints by Gabby Kash, & the one on the left—it reads IT WON'T BE EAST BUT YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOING, & features a dayglo memento morí skull meets animated cat meets burning heart motif—has been purchased for my kid who actually has a v similar full name, & who has her 8th birthday soon. At center, another print features 2 different cute cartoon cats in a symmetrical composition, its words reading EVERY CAT IS MY BEST FRIEND At right, many images of various dayglo cat poses, in what could plausibly be (but isn't) an illustration by Saul Bass
Kid works on a lamb kebab while wife brandishes a grilled fish on a stick
"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on." Robert Kennedy
Charcoal Kebab House 正宗维吾尔族餐厅 — Uyghur Cuisine on Mutual Street
A modified Gadsen flag (awaiting animation!) by cartoonist Jesse Duquette. There is no good gif representing "bootlicker", and my dream is for an army of bots to just spam the shit out of MAGA commenters in a mass demonstration of turnabout being fair play, rendering Meta social networks even shittier & closer to the hypothetical breaking point. The caption here reads OMG YOUR TREAD TWSTES GREAT [and he has lots of other variations as well]
In place of filling out a form, many of these machines. Consequently no line as seen at customs in so many other places. These machines in place at international Canadian airports for some 5 years now, according to an affable uniformed dude hanging in the customs area (an agent and/or there to assist with the new tech)
Weather report
Kind of a classic local look to a main entryway at the Santa Barbara airport.
A photo of the kid's goldfish in a tank since acquired (though I thought it was a loan, we've had it for over a year) from someone my wife had in her cohort.
Adelante Charter School PTSO 1111 E. Mason St November 2nd/ 2 de Noviembre 11AM-4PM Art by: Noe Lara Anguiano Día de los Muertos ¡Los invita a una celebración cultural llena de música, bailarines, comida, juegos, brincolines, manualidades y mucho más! Invites you to a cultural celebration, full of music. performers, food, games, jumpers, arts and crafts and much more!!
The band Crystal Tears performs a song about La Llorona at evening one of a weekend-long Dia de los Muertos event at Bell Arts Factory in Northern Ventura
Random and quite possibly accidental photo of my hand in a fingerless skeleton glove, out at a thing
A nice fellow whose name I did catch but see no reason to post here, wearing a unique pair of fingerless gloves.
A mannequin wearing pink thermal shirt & leggings, black shorts, & a World Series LA Dodgers shirt, Nike-branded (and currently on sale!)
A plush doll that apparently exists, since I found this image well before A.I. imagery was a thing, representing Hello Kitty in a Cookie Monster costume. Or Hello Kitty being consumed by Cookie Monster. Or Hello Kitty wearing the skin of Cookie Monster, a la SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Image of Daredevil swinging above a somewhat Brutalist New York cityscape's rooftops. The calendar text is laid out below; all uses of colon punctuation is mine, & obviously used for organizational purposes. 《NOVEMBER: A TIME TO REMEMBER DAREDEVIL "None are so blind... as those who will not see!" —Matt Murdock's favorite quote. And give yourself a color-coordinated No-Prize if you know who said it when, and to whom! November 2nd: This day dedicated to FOGGY NELSON, Our Fearless Fightin' D.A. November 4th: MR HYDE and THE COBRA, The World's Baddest Bookends November 5th: Happy Birthday, JIM STERANKO, Svengali of the Superhero Set November 6th: The BEETLE'S back, and we don't mean Ringo! November 8th: Karen Page, The First Girl in Matt Murdock's Life. November 9th: THE STILTMAN COMETH November 11th: DD always uses his lie-detector sense… Except when he asks Natasha her age November 12th: IVAN He wasn't really so terrible November 13th: Nobody'd let us use his picture for today! November 14th: Here's to DD's Billy Club, The World's Swingin'est Wonder-Weapon… November 15th: Easily disguised as a walking cane… or is it a peppermint stick?
A pic from yesterday, actually, as we got home from a Trunk or Treat dealio & the kid didn't want to get out of the car (she'll stay there & read sometimes.) So we went out again, with me dressed as Thing 1 (pictured; I'm like this again today, only without the guayabera.)
Kit Kat the bodega cat on 16th Street in San Francisco, in front of Randa's Market where he lived
Opening credits and part of the first scene in THE ARISTOCATS (1970), in Mandarin Chinese w/ simplified Chinese subtitles that actually match word-for-word what's being said in the dub—definitely not always the case with these things
Kid during the first scene to have a Harry Belafonte soundtrack
Da Vien signage
The old lettered sign, sans mascot that was on a separate sign
A photo I took one January in Santa Barbara, actually. That's the best month for colorful skies in these parts, in my estimation.
Casper the Friendly Ghost bonds with a mostly black cat, & decides to name her Lucky
Me, wife, & kid waiting on takeout at Saigon Brothers in the valley on way home
A few slides from my presentation, which was titled "AN ELECTRIC SMILE?" I had a heads-up that extra pandemic checks would go out to anyone enrolled in a city college class that semester, so I took a late-start accelerated (shortened semester) class that was the only business class I've ever taken, and I treated it like a creative writing / performance art class, with better results than I think I'd get taking classes more directly soliciting output in either of these veins…
Santa-capped folks on a dock in a harbor
Edited footage from the festivities at the Channel Islands Harbor in Ventura last year
Kid reading one of the MAD Magazine paperbacks I recently bought, titled MAD'S AL JAFFEE SPEWS OUT STILL MORE SNAPPY ANSWERS TO STUPID QUESTIONS
Video ripped from a @HiFructoseMag post on Instagram, featuring a compilation of moving & still images taken from Chinese social media about the weird but very eye-catching art that had caused a sensation in a theme park near Lijiang, Yunnan Province
Weirdly great karaoke by a pair of young girls at all-ages karaoke at the Sunday night market in Los Angeles Chinatown, near the Bruce Lee statue
Not the ideal conditions for watching anything: in a bright room, a screen displays a frame from the post-credits scene of episode one. It's almost like a cuts of meat diagram, but the idea is which parts of a cat are safe to touch, and which are kinda taboo by cat standards ie risk injury / death. The subtitle reads "Hey, don't sound so scary."
A screenshot of a captioned link to the Variety article in a social media feed mere minutes ago. The caption reads 《Kenny Loggins slams Donald Trump for using "Danger Zone" in an Al video: "This is an unauthorized use of my performance. Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately."》
This is probably a party foul, but I am a big fan of this person & feel I have to substantiate some claims made. But also this pic is just too fundamentally great to not pass along in some form. I anonymized some aspects by blocking out the windows to the soul, but may come to my senses & have to take this down later anyway. I do also know the photographer, so I'm probably due to reach out there. Anyway, too cute; my friend is Pee Wee Herman here (and I had another good friend whom I believe I met while he was working the door at the Noc Noc on Haight dressed as Pee Wee on the Saturday night coming into Easter, 1996; we became short-term flatmates soon after, after I helped him get his security deposit back via cleaning his expired-lease apartment, & he moved into a vacant room in my Cole Valley flat for my remaining months there.)
《YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SPEND AN EVENING WITH ROGER COBB AND HIS FRIENDS. DON'T COME ALONE! ·HOUSE· [log line] HORROR HAS FOUND A NEW HOME.》 Hmm, looks like there's at least one other highly notable 80s sitcom in this Steve Miner film: Richard Moll (of NIGHT COURT fame, of course, where he played the bailiff named Bull.
Google search results for《Common Sense Media HAUSU》 = due diligence complete without even having to click through! If someone got shit extremely wrong, I guess we'll find out soon enough, but allowing for that possibility is also one function of this post
My kid covering her eyes but peeking through her fingers while watching RETURN TO OZ (1985), almost as if finding the content scary. I will say that the content is definitely Halloween-appropriate, and that the film probably would have performed better if released around Halloween rather than on June 21st, 1985. Early in the film there is even a reference to how Halloween is fast approaching.
Originally on the stories of @leithclark on Instagram (but I just checked and it's no longer there), Laufey using a nebulizer, pretty clearly before taking the stage (she's wearing a beautiful yellow dress, and if she weren't already destined for a stage someone would have to arrange for her to be on one.) The caption reads 《A vocal nebulizer is a portable device, often used by singers and public speakers, that turns a saline solution into a cool mist to hydrate vocal cords... @laufey 》
From our Plex server, the two most recent films added may be the one I requested this evening and one I might have requested literal years ago: RETURN TO OZ (1985) is the one feature film ever directed by legendary film editor Walter Murch, while TALES OF BEATRIX POTTER (1971) is the only feature film directed by another noted film editor, Reginald Mills. It's a live-action ballet featuring animals, and I've never seen it before, nor do I remember the specifics of what led me to request it —it's an example of how a request might take literal years to come through.
Chopped-up plantain discs at different stages of browning in coconut oil over high heat, in a ceramic pan that had just been used to make a quesadilla
Cindy Lee LIVE at Massey Hall Nov 6 2025 w/ [opening band] Blue Light
A screenshot from the 1:53 mark of a CBC news report posted 6 days ago, titled "Incredibly rare white beaver spotted in Ontario"; text on screen reads "Rare white beaver spotted in marsh near Perth" The chyron reads 《Rare beaver wows Ottawa wildlife enthusiasts》
Google A.I now the first result seen when looking st images via Google Lens, and looking at this pic it says 《The image shows a dish of sausages with lentil puree. This is a classic Italian dish, often served on New Year's Eve for good luck and prosperity. Lentils are considered a symbol of good fortune and wealth because they resemble small coins. The dish is traditionally made with a large pork sausage called cotechino.》