Showing posts with label ruins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ruins. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

EDM clubbers and the pirate who can't spell

I went down into the woods near our old townhouse, entering down the hillside path near Bob's house. At the bottom of the slope, where the creek passes by, a large group of guys were having out, listening to electronic dance music. They were dressed for clubbing, I suppose.

At first I approached timidly, expecting for some reason that they would be hostile upon my intrusion. I sort of passed through, down to the left, then set about climbing some rocks over the creek to get a better perspective. A guy with short blond hair, pretty Scandinavian-looking, saw me and helped guide me in getting the right footholds to get up.

At the top of the rocks, maybe ten feet above the ground, I found what looked like a sliced-off section of a metal boat, with seating, so I sat there and watched the gathering. Somebody mentioned to me that this hunk of boat belonged to a guy nearby (sitting higher up on another raised hunk of something) who was kind of dressed for yachting -- I think he had a skipper hat and maybe an eyepatch. They noted that he lamented his inability to spell, due to being a pirate.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

The crispy ceiling

Harry Potter 6 was just about to come out in theaters, but the plot had nothing to do with the real movie. The protagonist was some other boy Harry's age. Can't remember much more than that. I was thinking about the movie while lying in bed (possibly a top bunk or loft bed) in a bedroom whose ceiling resembled that of the upstairs bedroom (on the right) at my grandma's house in New York — the ceiling was tiled, and it slanted down at a 45° angle on the side above my bed. The lights were off and there was only dim ambient light in the room.

While lying there in bed, I was poking at the diagonal ceiling with my foot. The first time I poked it, it made a satisfyingly crispy sound as the fiberboard tiles cracked slightly. I noticed at this time that much of the rest of the ceiling further away was in disrepair, with many of the tiles mostly destroyed. Being slightly OCD, I kept poking at the ceiling with my foot for a little while.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Cavern + ancient ruins

We were exploring a huge cavern with a tour guide. At first, it was all natural cavern stuff, but as we got further in, we started to see the ruins of Greco-Roman style columns and related structures. As the tour guide showed us one spot, which was mostly natural rock, he showed how, if you climbed a few feet up, you could see more ruins. In fact, a square window in the back wall, which had previously been sealed with rock or cement, was somehow now open, and from the perspective a few feet up, I could see through the window and down into another huge chamber that continued downhill for quite a ways. I could see tons more columns and other ruins, all colorful with paint that I wasn't used to seeing on old, weatherworn ruins.