Still in the political zeitgeist is talk of former Hillary Clinton supporters who plan on backing John McCain.

In fact, one wignut from (where else) Texas, ran this nonsensical and poorly edited screed in the Chicago Sun-Times recently. In the full-page ad, the "Hillary Clinton Supporters for John McCain" make no real case for why someone who ( Read more... )

I thought I was King Shit of the Poetry Slam until Shannon showed up one night. She recalibrated a lot of egos in her time at Ego's ( Read more... )

1. Heavily tattooed people in swimming pools.

2. That John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston. John, baby, you can do better.

3. Almost every homeless person on the corner of Riverside and I-35.

4. The movie "Funny Games" (now out on DVD). The longer it's been since I've seen it, the more it disturbs and pisses me off.

5. Water chestnuts.

We all know there is only one fair way to judge our potential Presidents: the beer-havin’ test. It suggests that we should vote for someone we’d choose to have a social drink with, i.e., someone “like us.” Only thing is, I’d make a terrible President, so I’d prefer someone better than me. (That said, I believe as surely as I believe anything that I ( Read more... )

Instructions:

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).

4. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

A few thoughts about Obama's nomination ( Read more... )

You must, must, must see this.

Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton Split on FunnyOrDie.com

When I walked out the front door today, I saw a peacock standing 10 feet away in the small parking lot of my apartment complex. She (it had the ugly brown feathers, not the resplendant ones of the males) was just standing there between my car and my neighbors ( Read more... )

I finished Chuck Klosterman's book Killing Yourself to Live last night. I knocked the entire book out in two days, easy. Klosterman's a quick read. Like Chucky Palhaniukaluckanuckle. (Hey! They're both named CHUCK ( Read more... )

1. David Hendler is a very, very, very good slam poet. When he started in Austin years ago, he was a very, very, very bad slam poet. Then he got better. Then he got good. Then he moved to San Antonio, drank some sort of radioactive spiderjuice (or somethin'), and now he's excellent. His feature at the Ausin Poetry Slam last night was refreshing. He ( Read more... )