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On January 4th, 1952, a well-to-do 23 year old Argentinean man set out on a motorcycle trip across Latin America. It was to be his last rake’s adventure before returning to Buenos Aires and his aristocratic family to begin his medical practice. He set off on his journey with thoughts of wine, women, and debauchery, but when he returned eight months later, the young Che Guevara’s only thoughts were of the rights of the working class — even if that meant revolution!

He was instrumental in overthrowing the Batista government in Cuba and served for several years as one of Castro’s principal lieutenants and a leading figure in his government. Then, in the late sixties, he left Cuba, resurfacing in Bolivia, training guerrilla troops for revolution. And while Che Guevara was leading his men through the Santa Cruz region in 1967, unbeknownst to him thousands of miles away in Dallas, Texas, a boy was born. A boy who would one day grow up to copy a few facts about Guevara from an encyclopedia, and then use these facts as material in a blog post, even though the boy himself didn’t really care much about Che Guevara’s life or accomplishments.

That boy, ladies and gentleman, was me.

Small world, huh?

Kime Buzzelli has a show opening at New Image Art on 7908 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. The extra special gala premier is March 24, 7-10 pm (and her show is there through April 15). There’ll be Kime’s gorgeous new works on wood and paper, not to mention musical guests Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond & Heather Porcaro of Heartstring Symphony AND (as if that weren’t enough already, you greedy louse) PRS HLTN MTHRFCKRS!! If you’re in LA, you’d have to be flat out retarded to skip this.

New Image Art can be reached at 323•654•2192 or visited upon the interweb at newimageartgallery.com.

I’ve been a fan of the show “South Park” since the very first episode! So when my pal Lenny suggested we take a road trip out to South Park last weekend, I was all for it! I mean, it’s a long drive from Los Angeles, but with two people to share the driving, it’s not so bad. We left Thursday evening and drove through the night, arriving around noon on Friday.

First we took pictures at a famous local landmark.

Turns out, Lenny had dated Principal Victoria in college, so we were able to visit South Park Elementary and even take a picture in Mr. Garrison’s classroom.

We went for a hike later in the afternoon, but it gets dark very quickly in the mountains.

With the show being such a huge success, we should have expected that the town would become a bit “touristy.” But still, we had a great time at Cartmanland.

We did some evening cross-country skiing out by Starks Pond. Much fun!

Until Lenny got attacked by a mountain lion.

That really put a damper on things.
(I’m not going to say it.)
Take your own South Park photos here.