Planking Across America: Tea Party Dog Protests Obama's Support of Debt Ceiling Bill

Noni the Dog foamed at the mouth at the news that President Obama had decided to support the compromise on the debt ceiling.

"Where's the birth cert... I mean... hold on, let me think for a second... NObama! Does that still work? Ok, great.", the ardent Tea-Party supporter and likely 2012 republican primary candidate was quoted as barking on Sunday evening.

In protest, Noni has pledged to maintain this 3/4 planking position until Obama removes his support from the ongoing legislation:

I'm convinced this is where the downward dog pose came from.

Noni's fellow party members haven't yet built up the courage to ask if she's familiar with conventional planking form, instead opting to assume she's taking the Tea Party's status quo challenging ways to their logical evolution and applying them to planking (she knows that that owling junk is just nonsense).

To a Friend in Amsterdam...

... who hasn't had the best luck with summer weather the past couple of years,

please,

let us share a little bit with you:

It's not quite as nice as the real think, but we hope you enjoy.

Planking Across America: Planking Reaches the Top of Texas

Two unexplained phenomena you can find in West Texas: The Marfa Lights and a rabid appetite for world-class planking.

Planking Across America

Planking the Curvature of the Earth or Collapsed?, Self-Portrait

Such plank heights, Self Portrait

I dedicate these inaugural Lone Star plankings to three of my oldest and dearest friends: Taylor, Kivett, and Chris. The four of us made a visit to this same planking location six years back, and while some things have changed since then, my love for the absurd has only deepened. This plankings for you, guys.

One or More Things I Did Today (El Paso! Edition)

And Let It Be Known, that on July 21st, in the year of 2 thousands and 11, I was up to this:

• In the interest of managing content on WIDWINW (learning these editorial tricks as I go along), I shelved mentioning where I stayed on July 19th for this post. It's all about content management.
• The previous evening found me as a guest of Stuart and Shari Schwartz of El Paso, Texas.
• Wonderfully warm hosts, the Schwartzes put me up on my visit to El Paso, fed me, and perhaps most importantly, provided me with a bag of Double Stuffed Oreos to ease my travels. Thanks, guys!

Thank you, Schwartz Family

• Got on the road early today. The goal: Guadalupe Mountains.
• Hitting the road, I reach the park bearing the "Top of Texas" in about 3 hours.
  
• This is something of a return to this area* - back in August 2005, three dear friends and I wanted to plan a trip. Came down to New Orleans and Guadalupe Mountains National Park. For reasons I don't recall, we opted to head west rather than east, and were out in the desert for several days. Within minutes of resurfacing in civilization in Van Horn, Texas, we saw on the TV at the Mexican place we were eating news that Katrina had consumed New Orleans. I'm glad we went west.
  
• This time I've no friends with me - just myself and the desert. I encountered a total of one other party on my hike. Nothing like hours of hiking with just yourself, the mesquite, and the rattlesnakes.
• The view from on high:

Crap, left my camera down there!

• Not the most sexy view in the world, but a view nonetheless.
  
• After planking the summit and battling flying ants for the visitor's registry that sits in a crack in the rocks, I high-tailed it down the mountain and made a line for Marfa, where I'd lay may head for the evening.
• Wow, just now realizing there was more to this day than I'd originally thought...
  
• Super-jumbo One or More Things I Did Today Edition!!!

• Welcome to the second half of my July 20th, 2011.
• Hm... that boast above miiight have been a bit premature.
  
• And let me tell you why: I don't want to do a disservice to these next two tidbits, so I'm saving them both for separate posts.
• I'm sorry! But it's for your own good, being a supporting partner and angel investor in WIDWINW. We're all about monetization of this blog here at this blog, and content management (see first bullet) is key to maximizing our impending IPO.
• You understand, right?
• Picture of the Day:

Top o' Texas, Y'all. Whataburger scheduled for 2013 opening.

As they say, "It was a Day".

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*Literary indulgence - it's every bit a return, since I haven't been here since the last (which was also the first) time I was here. Hm, this point seems rife with stating the obvious. Better move on...

Grabbing the Reins

4 days since my last post?

Unacceptable!

Haven't had a chance since Thursday, though.

The short of it is: back in San Francisco, and back on the computer.

Let the blogging resume.