I sometimes get curious and find out what people are doing today who I remember from my childhood. Can any of you remember the movie “The Wizard”. I can remember loving this movie at the time because it had Super Mario Bros 3, a huge gaming screen, and a Nintendo Powerglove. Mind you, I haven’t watched it since then… I didn’t want to ruin the childhood memory of it being a great movie. Anyway, there was a girl in the movie, Jenny Lewis, who apart from the guy with the powerglove is one of the people who I remember most from the movie. I even forgot the movie had Fred Savage in it, but I only associate him with “The Wonder Years” and facial moles these days.

I digress. These days Jenny Lewis is actually the lead singer for a band called “Rilo Kiley”. They’re an indie rock band from California and after listening to some of the tunes on their website I thought they weren’t too bad at all. I think their latest CD would be quite appropriate for cruising around on 2-lane American highways.

Allow me to introduce the hero in a half shell in my car today:

As I was turning into my apartment a guy was crossing the road with turtle in hand saying to me “dude, do you know where there are any sewers ponds around this area?” I did in fact, so I took the little charger under my wing and transported it to the closest one I knew of. As I was releasing him back into the “wild” I was able to take one final farewell shot:

I don’t know why my arm was turning purple. Someone told me it may have to do with radioactive ooze in the area, although I was supposed to keep that a secret.

OMG this was the most non-funny lame-arse post ever. For real though, I did for about 5 minutes today have a turtle for a passenger. I hope your day was just as interesting.

- SplinterKristian

I found out from this article that Karma lounge in Fort Lauderdale has shut down because I was thinking of going out to it last night. I haven’t actually been there for a while but it was probably the coolest place to hang out at in Fort Lauderdale. It played pretty good music and on Wednesday nights even played Drum and Bass, which in Lauderdale made it stick out like a sore thumb. I’ve posted previously though that it couldn’t work out what it wanted to be - with the volume the music played at you’d think you were supposed to be dancing, but there was nowhere to dance. So you had to stand around instead which led to talking, but you had to shout because the music was so loud. Good idea, a nice refreshing vibe which set it apart from the normal Ft Lauderdale commercial crap, but very poorly executed. I guess I’m not really surprised that it shut down.