Karin Michele Dailey

omg. if i don’t post about my trip out west, my father will shoot me. he has become a facebook stalker. “where are the pics?”  “waiting patiently.” HERE THEY ARE PA DUKES! 

ok. so my father-father moved out to AZ at the end of october. i tried to plan a trip out there around the WPPI las vegas weekend to do both in a week.  boston has had a pretty mild winter in terms of snow, but it was great to get out of the cold and get some sun!

why not check out a video of the entire trip here.  the song makes you want to dance with glow sticks, right? this is 7 LONG minutes. sorry. the first one i made was 2 minutes and waay too fast. my father is probably the only one who will watch. stalker.

it almost never rains in arizona. it’s the desert. my first day there…it poured.  so i helped my father with some construction on his home theatre project. when i say help, i mean watch him do most of the work. the image below is a smudge of adhesive that marred his masterpiece. 

i got to use a power saw thingy and a caulking gun. and a nail gun.  w00t!  my father has been smoking since…FOREVER.  why not send him an email, reminding him of the dangers.  md1953 at yahoo dot com. 

reppin’ the patriots in AZ. i sent this to him for christmas.

and now you get to meet BETO, my stepmother’s father’s ancient pet. he likes peanut butter and he waddles. he has a very strict daily routine and mr. bob’s voice goes up really high when he talks to beto.

we drove over to sedona to check out the red rocks. BEAUTIFUL. nothing like massachusetts. ended up in flagstaff.  it seemed like a good idea.  DO NOT GO TO FLAGSTAFF.  THERE IS NOTHING THERE.  amen.

i spent the whole trip looking for spiders. well, avoiding them. and i didn’t see one. except for this guy…

mr. bob wanted a picture with berto and the fountain in the back yard. the other picture is of some john wayne character who tried to scare us into buying his book. we ran.

oh. here is a picture of the theatre all done. when i was there, it was lawn chairs and exposed wires. we still played call of duty with my brother online and i got like 4 kills in. i’m bad playing against other people.

there will be a lot of posts coming up.  i know you are excited.  i am.  i spent some time with my father out in AZ, then hit up the WPPI photography convention in las vegas.  they convinced me to usetwittermore.  from there, i photographed amadeus (drummer, producer, best friend – lol) at thejay-z/trey songz/young jeezy show the td garden.  the dropkicks played a matinee show on saturday afternoon at the house of blues.  it poured for three+ days straight and i spent most of the weekend helping my parents pump water out of their basement.  had a deep conversation with my (step) father about life/death.  well, he did most of the talking.  he usually does.  stupid cancer.  sunday night was thealice in chainsshow at the orpheum – and i stayed JUST to hear ‘man in a box’.  i am waiting on their management to approve the review/photos.  divas!  phew.  whirlwind.  oh!  i broke down and purchased final fantasy xiii for xbox.  it’s still in the wrapper.  i don’t know if i’ll ever have time to sit and play the game.  but at least it’s here.  i’ve only been waiting…..six years!

i took ONE blurry/terrible photograph ofjay-zlast thursday night before being yanked from the pit by security.  smh.  more on that later….