Spectacular Consumption
My nephew Sean went to Lindy's on 4th Avenue in Tucson, AZ and he performed a feat of spectacular consumption. He ate a 1.5 pound hamburger. The burger consisted of six quarter-pound hamburger patties, six slices of cheese, and a big bun. It was pretty impressive to see him do it. You can judge for yourself.
If you eat the hamburger, they take your picture and put it up on their wall.
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Willy Wonka
I watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Then I watched it again. Then I watched it again. Then I watched it again, an average of about five times every seven days. I made these two commemorative illustrations on my Magna-Doodle which I think look a lot like Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. Which one do you think looks more like him? Please fill out my
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Figure 2: This is an illustration of Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.
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Monsoon 4 -- Movie!
This is the highest I've ever seen the river. That makes sense since it's the most water ever to have flown through the Rillito River in Tucson, AZ.
This has been a pretty good monsoon season this year, even though it kind of dropped off in the middle for a while.
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Monsoon 3 -- Movie!
Here it is. The long-awaited grand opening of the Purple Monkey Cinema. Make sure you click the words that say "Go to the Movie" below.
Movie 1: See the water in the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona between First Avenue and Campbell in the grand opening of the Purple Monkey Cinema.
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Monsoon 2
This morning on the public radio station they cleared up the issue about this being the most water to ever flow through the Rillito in recorded history.
Yesterday I heard on television that this was the most water ever, but I wondered how that could be since the river has flooded before.
On the public radio station they explained that this is, in fact the most water ever, and the reason it didn't spill out of its banks is that the river was widened in key locations since the floods of 1993 and 1983.
Figure 1: This is a better view of the Under the City at First Avenue on the Rillito River. The concrete corner sticking out to the left of the railing at the center of this photo is the top right corner of the entrance to the Under the City.
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Monsoon
Expatriate Tucsonans and even current Tucsonans will appreciate this one. On the news they said that this was the most water flowing through the Rillito in recorded history. I don't know if that's true, and it sounds odd since it's flooded before, but that's what they said on the local NBC affiliate today at 5:00 pm.
First Avenue and the Rillito River. Notice in the satellite photo the river is usually dry.
Figure 1: This photo was taken from the south side of the Rillito River on the west side of First Avenue looking Northeast at the First Avenue bridge. The Under the City, not shown, would be below and to the right of this view. It is submerged.
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