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If you look close you can see little buggers in there Good bye my sweet blue eyed prince. Go and join your other headless brothers which mysteriously disappear from me every few months or so...You will be missed.

This color of the water is the color I would be if I could be a color. Color.

Good news - Bad News Good News: the experiment worked! Success!!! Bad News: the experiment worked really, really well!!! In fact, much too well! It was coming along really well, and i could see the bone starting to peek through about two weeks into the experiment. Then there was a particularly high tide after the moon & sun conspired against me. There was a period of two or three days where even at low tide you couldn't see it, so I just left it down there. At some point the fishing line disappeared from my tie-up spot in the window. The next week, tide was low enough to go rooting around in the mud for it, and much to my chagrin, fate would have it that YET ANOTHER HEAD HAS GONE MISSING FROM MY POSSESSION! Either that, or it has completely dis-integrated, proving that salt water maceration is far too effective and powerful for ordinary lay-men like me. I'm assuming a shark tore it off the line, considering that I had it pretty well tied up to my window. Tiger sharks are pretty common to see outside the window. So, my friends, our adventure ends here. Please enjoy the departing pics.

Yeah it ended up being not a hustle, but your thoughts made me chuckle. You did make me pretty wary so it made me a little more cautious. Thanks. See below for story Hahaha... No I did not go to Further, my girl used to work at this place in Sausalito which Further played at countless times. I could get in free to any of the shows, so I got my fill of Further & the "Twirlers". Good stuff, but I'm not much of a live music kind of guy, unless it's like an orchestra or some old, sad country music. Long story short, I got it back! The trans-dude-girl who sold it to me apparently never got the title in hersis name, so i had to forge some signatures, do a lot of paperwork, and pay about $130 to title it in my name and register it to 2015. So I was pretty stoked to get the title today in the mail with my name on it. I might have mentioned that the guy had said "I can't let the boat out of here without current registration." Which meant to me, "I really, really want you to pay me for the ad & docking fees, but I can't actually hold onto your boat, unless it's unregistered." Hence, I took that bitch back. It's been about a week and no sign of foul play. I do have a kind of funny story about what I just did two days ago involving another boat tied up there, if anyone wants to hear. But I might just tack that onto the actual travel thread, which i've been neglecting... Now, back to the DECAPITATED COYOTE DOGFISH HEAD LAGER!

"Happy" Veterans Day? How are you supposed to say that? Anyway, thanks for serving dude. Paper Mache Airplane?? What's up with this coke wall? Just sitting in the sun like that, was there ever any cold drinks or AC for the regular soldiers or just for the brass? Any interesting mosques? I know Islam has some incredible artwork to its name, especially the tile work. Did you get to ride in a whirly bird?! It seems like shade is as valuable as wood out there.

Electronically email my user name on a Google basis, mi amigos.

Apparently I've fucked up my SD card. So lame update. It looks so good though! I can't find the most recent ones of the progress. Tomorrow I'll dredge it up and take some good macro shots. My old camera, the one I had for the travel thread, was stolen in Mexico, but I'm working on finding a used one to fuck with. Anyway, for now I can use my girl's camera, which is lame-ish for close ups, but will still serve purpose.

Update! Shit has been crazy lately, a big blow from the northeast skuffed my sailboat into oblivion. It was anchored out just outside of where my houseboat is, but dissapeared a month ago. I thought it was stolen, but just a couple days ago I found it tied up in a marina not far away. Long story short I need $700 to get it out and back to the anchor spot. Apparently the harbormaster, which I called incessantly the day after, and continuously for weeks, but never got a return call, has had it since it drifted. He said he dropped his phone in the water and lost all his messages and missed calls.... as a result, I have to pay the fucking shitassholefuckbungle all this money for fees and storing the boat which I should have had a month ago. Anyway, I think I can get it out of the spot it's tied up to with a little bit of $chmoozing the guys who have boats there. let me in at night kind of thing. They said I could probably get out with a little more than half what he's asking, so we'll see. HEAD: Progression! The fishing line I had tied to it somehow disengaged itself from my barge, which amounted to a not so small bit of alarm, but upon inspection, has not been an issue. The nuts I tied to it are still attached, so it is staying where it is, beneath my bathroom window - pending dog shark fish heads attacks. It seems to be eroding quite well. The crabs, which are hard to capture on film, are doing their job well. I've seen a few small fish when the tide is out, pecking at the flesh. I will lose the jaw, I figure, but that's to be assumed. Here's some flicks of the situation.

Fourth or fifth day? More crabs, but the line fell off. I had to anchor it down with some lug nuts. No sign of a struggle! The geese found it interesting... This is it right here ^^^^^ Luckily yesterday was one of the lowest tides we've had in a long time.

Wait... is this page 5 and still there are no pictures of this female>>>???? Once I banged my best friend's cousin. She has two kids and was 10 yrs older than me at the time (32). The one on the right.

And I just saw this.... HAH! If we ever meet up I'm buying you a six of that mister. We'll toast over a coyote skull bong rip, to be sure.

Unfortunately it's begun to float, to which I was alerted to by one of my neighbors who kindly pointed out that it "har har looks like ya caught a dog fish head HAR HARHAHRAHAR!!!"

It looks like it's already starting to get eaten up a bit... AhhH! Right here you can see a crab that fell off when I pulled it up, just the legs -----------------------------------^^^

Hell yes...Fister! Already all about that stone lake, for sure. I haven't a crab pot, but I think I can scavenge one around here somewhere. This neighborhood is rife with folks throwing out shit for reuse. Just within a half mile radius there is four or five "free spots" where rich folk put stuff out for us. I scored a really nice '11 Specialized Hardrock from some dude who said he was upgrading. I'll check around for some crab cages this weekend. Yeah I'm thinking the amount of little critters will out-do any sort of preservation. These are flicks from yesterday, fast progress so far!

Where I'm at is near land, so the tidal range is thus: when it's low tide, it's about 4-10 inches, when it's high, it's near 4 feet. I'm thinking it's too close to shore for sharks. But my girl did spot one about a couple months ago out the window so who knows. Hahahhaa, good to see you're here!!! Always make me chuckle. Realism, Gat, & Cilone - the smell is... powerful. It is only bad, however, when I bring it up to inspect it. The water keeps it contained. Oooh, I like the idea of a citrus mix. I will try that on the next one. I saw a raccoon on the way home today, but I was doing something time sensitive so stopping wasn't an option. More flicks tomorrow, there is progress already.

I haven't found any major ant hills nearby, but I haven't searched too hard. You're in Beirut? That's awesome. I am thinking my next excursion will definately be West Africa, and hopefully over the Mediterranean. Regarding the other, I have plenty of time - well, a few months at least - but I was more interested in the experiment, and an ant hill in the area I'm in would invite bobcats or raccoons, which would either destroy the skull or carry it off.

The house cat seemed intrigued... But ultimately was dismayed. Casting her out, let's see how she does!

Success! Lt. Dangle

With the tides, it would be important to keep it tethered to my boat. A fresh animal head is rather tough, so I knew I'd have to "thread" something through it, but I didn't have anything on hand suitable. I found a paintbrush and cut a notch into the end of the handle, and threaded some fishing line on it. Using this as a needle, I poked through the eye socket and came out the neck, untying the fishing line after it came through. eyeball

I put it on top of the car and tied it down, in a bag, and drove back to my house boat. I was surprised to only have one strange encounter on the way back, with an Alabamian ex meth-head. On my bathroom window sill

I found the coyote (which I really hope is not a lost dog) laying on the side of the 101 heading South towards the Golden Gate Bridge. I pulled off at the next exit, flipped a bitch, and drove back near to where I thought it was. It took a bit of dragging, maybe a half mile, to get it off the side of the interstate, but eventually I got back to my car. Unfortunately I only had my fishing filet knife on me at the time, and after a few minutes of sawing the head, it broke in half. After a good bit of twisting and ripping, and a little bit of my keychain knife, it came off. I threw the carcass into the woods next to the Buckeye restaurant.

I just cut off a coyotes head and I wanna see what happens Good to see you all again. I've just come across a dead coyote and I'm rather inclined to see what it's skull looks like. Normally I would boil it in a large pot for several hours, but the living situation I find myself in at this moment would make for a rather uncomfortable confrontation with neighbors, according to the precipitous and virus like amounts of rancid brain-fog that it produces. I decided to try an experiment. I've done a bit of research on methods of skull cleaning in the past, and as I combed my brain for techniques, the word "maceration" kept creeping into -my own- skull... As I recall, it is essentially soaking the head in water for a long period of time, letting the cells soak up water and become loose - after which you can shuck the skull like so much corn. While I have read of both cold and warm water maceration, I have yet to come across sea-water maceration. This will be the main derivation that I will be experimenting with. It is essentially a combination of the maceration and burying techniques, utilizing crabs and fish and sea snails and seahorses and baby sharks and algae and whatever else comes along to aid in the decomposition of our late friend Mr. (Not-so) Wile E Coyote. The main problem I foresee is that the preservative nature of salt will inhibit the decay of the tissue. The maceration techniques I have looked at have never used seawater, and as such, tend to promote bacteria growth. I'm not sure on this, it's just my theory (based on little to no research). Pickling, for example, uses salt to preserve (almost indefinitely) pretty much anything you put in with it. Also Titanic. I'll be updating this thread with pictures, day by day, as the head (hopefully) decays. Feel free to come along for the journey, make preliminary predictions, and talk dead head stuff. tldr: Cut off a coyote head, and I wanna put that bitch in the ocean with a string on it.

These guys are super cool. They run a little office down in south Mission. They gave me one of these and some dough for doing a little 3 hour painting gig for their opening. It survived burning man, so...props. They're pretty fucking good. Loud, clear, and wireless. Can't hate on a lifetime warranty no questions return policy either....!