Archive for March, 2008
This American Life #353, and Horton Hears A Who
There’s a lot of things to discuss with TAL lately. Even though TSOTAL only yielded a couple dozen episodes, I remain an ardent fan. I’m preparing for the second TAL Austin Brunch Club, and just as I return from a vacation in The Big Apple, a live TAL theater event will be broadcast around the […]
Northeast Garden Update
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Sorry, Brian, Free Is Not Always Better
Consider this a public (in so many ways) bookmark. I heard the tail end of this story on NPR a while back. I was suddenly reminded to go look it up by today’s Dilbert. The interesting thing is that many times, free things are good but the question is, what happens when free actually has […]
As Tribute To Mike Hoke, On The Occasion of His New Home
At work today my co-worker asked “guess what?”, so I gave him the apropriate response…then I could only, also, remeber the response to “guess why”. Thank goodness we have the internet. Guess who? Chicken poo or Chicken coo(p). Guess what? Chicken butt. Guess when? Chicken pen. Guess where? Chicken underwear. Guess why? Chicken pie. Chicken […]
Hope ain’t a 4 letter word
And Change isn’t something that you get from the gas station. I’ve buried most of this below the jump – it’s a bit out there, and I’d like to spend a moment thanking the good people of Wyoming and Mississippi for a bit of sense over the last few weeks. After years of dealing with recovering right-wing idealogue […]
The Wackness
During the summer between my senior year of high school and freshman year at college I worked at Watertown, USA. Late on Saturday nights as the park was approaching closing time, someone would volunteer to drive to the nearest liquor store and grab a box full of bottles. We would bury them in the ice […]
SXSW and Friends
Yeah, I’m one of those Austinites who came here ¡ all the way back in 1992 ¡ and I was sick of “SouthBy” before it even started last week. You wouldn’t believe how many skinny boys in pencil jeans with 80’s hairdos were wandering around downtown yesterday evening looking so much cooler than me. Still, […]
you know what i’m saying
You know you’‘re eavesdropping on Yankees when someone has to ask “Are you a fan of Smokey and the Bandit?” …and the answer is “Not really.”
Garfield Minus Garfield
Speaking of more ironic/funny/hipster websites that are making the rounds, I couldn’t pass up posting the most recent strip from Garfield Minus Garfield: due to Jon’s fourth-wall glance. That is some really eerie kismet joke-inside-a-joke shiznit going on there.
That’s My Congressman!
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It’s funny cuz it’s true…
I apologize if some are already familiar with the genius that is this blog, but it’s too good (i.e. scarily accurate) not to pass on. Enjoy… http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/
Baghead
Baghead has been making the festival rounds since Sundance and it may be the perfect festival film. There are a few brief moments where things don’t work quite right, but overwhelmingly this simple independent film works perfectly. It is one of those movies that you will be glad you saw “cold” (without any ideas about […]
CJ7
Stephen Chow is one of my top 5 favorite directors (and actors), as much for his effervescent delivery as the diversity of stories he has overlaid with his kung-fu parody base. From celebrity chefs and wanna-be actors to soccer training and twisted 1940s dance-sequence versions of Seven Samurai, his consistency of laugh-out-loud frivolity and heart-warming […]
Did the GOP Pick Democratic Candidate For Texas?
I think the professional analysts will get into this statistical morass eventually, but I have to consider whether some GOP voters in Texas were casting Hillary ballots as Dems since McCain has a much better chance against her. This is the turnout for the 2004 primary. 2004 d r total registered total 839231 687615 1526846 […]
Iron Man Election Year
Is Iron Man the movie that the Conservative Hawks were trying to force Hollywood to make? Maybe, but it certainly looks like it kicks ass.