$15B narcoterrorism war to be outsourced
Can a Drunk Person Fly the Space Shuttle?
Texas could meet its growing electric power needs without building new power plants
what the hell
sure, Hillary, just give it all away
uh-huh






baby hippo. hippito.




I bought a Holga. This is the 2nd roll i shot on it:

pic I took with my new infrared filter

whatever, you're goin' down, Hillary
Parallel universes exist
dated March 8, 1992

I had another dream this morning that I lost a tooth. This one went further, though, because I woke up (in the dream) and all my teeth had come loose and were further out of the gum than they are normally. I had to push them back up in there, and then one of my top incisors came out, but it had been broken, it didn't just fall out. Anyway, when I really did wake up, I felt all of my teeth just to make sure everything was still in order. I don't like these kinds of dreams.
Amy and I had dinner at the King Biscuit Patio Cafe in the Heights the other day, and it was good. I had these great shrimp and poblano quesadillas. The restaurant is sort of a funky greasy spoon hole in the wall kind of place, and it is right next to White Oak Park in the southeastern nether regions of the Heights. The Houston Press blurb i read about it said that the cafe "overlooked" white oak park which it could only do if it were somehow higher, and the full summer foliage also completely blocked the view of DT, but still a very nice and quiet little spot. The only really bad thing was the dozen or so flies that came out as soon as our food arrived, but my vigilance paid off and i think that only one fly landed on my food.

I don't know why the blog now looks so weird in firefox. It looks fine in IE, I should go to an apple store and see it in safari. I bought a map that is 8' x 13' and it will cover one of my walls.
Today I bought a new chair for my room (at Ikea) so I can sit and read or whatever.
I also ate at Beck's Prime, which, though I heard about it long ago, I've tried only recently. The cheeseburgers there, especially Bill's Burger, are fantastic. So if you like burgers, and ever find yourself in the Houston area, try BP. You will not be disappointed, and yes, they are worth the $7+ price tag. BP also has lots of other stuff.

Why are the media so scared of one little man?
Bush setting America up for war with Iran
EBay stops sale of Belgium
"Iran is not a suicide nation"
Me too, guys
And, boy, are they paying for it

Houston's light rail hits people




oh to be a billionaire
great. just great.



awesome

Fire Fighters lift car with water!!! - Watch more free videos

numbers
right
swinging London



Korean Baseball, yay!

glumbert.com - Hold your feet! Korean baseball gets strange

borrowing itself into a deceptively deep hole
huh
the US prints money and OPEC just opens the tap a lil wider
8 most common sci-fi visions of the future (and why they'll never happen)
Regulation, Free Trade and Mexican Trucks

evil was born

I liked Inland Empire, I am glad to own a copy. I had a dream that I was going to get a PS3 and I was happy.
I want to start wiggling my fingers when I talk, just like David Lynch.


scientists long have thought that salt water couldn't be burned
scrap subsidies for biofuels

Go home, asshole
Earth Deemed Unsafe; God Sued For Negligence

35 years of photographing Tokyo:






They hate the free society and always have
sigh

Dallas' ways free and high are red and orange respectively, Houston's are white and yellow. Background is Houston if you're totally lost.

I made this today when I was bored. I love photoshop.


Zombie Reagan stole this and caused katrina

games might end up controlling our brains
armageddon
Metal scarcity is pushing some of the world's biggest industries into a regular Battle Royale
the thinly veiled policy changes are obviously meant to ensure that lenders are not defaulted on
Candidate Calulator
That's not safe
oh no human-animal embryos



I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand,
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?
These sensations barely interest me for another day,
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away.

It's getting faster, moving faster now, it's getting out of hand,
On the tenth floor, down the back stairs, it's a no man's land,
Lights are flashing, cars are crashing, getting frequent now,
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow.

What means to you, what means to me, and we will meet again,
I'm watching you, I'm watching her, I'll take no pity from your friends,
Who is right, who can tell, and who gives a damn right now,
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know,
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know,
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know,
I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling,
I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling.
Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling.

50 acorns tied in a sack

I want an albino peacock
Ron Paul is my hero
I love cheetos



Dallas was fun, there are way too many freeways there. Houston really needs to get crackin' on the Grand Parkway.

pic I took in DT Dallas inside the Chapel of Thanksgiving, which is in Thanks-Giving Square.

Bloody Well Right
a cooling method that uses magnetic materials instead of electricity

"a woman in trouble"

I got Inland Empire on DVD today. I haven't seen it, such is my faith in David Lynch.
I also went to the lovely Stonebriar Centre (Dallas' answer to The Woodlands Mall) where my mom was kind enough to buy me some clothes that I sort of need. I also bought [the novel] All The Pretty Horses. I'm definitely a Cormac McCarthy fan now.

Jesus God


I went into a private art gallery (in Sak's) in the Dallas Galleria (Houston's is better) yesterday and they had several original Warhols, a couple Picassos (only etchings of some kind) and several beautiful Salvador Dalí watercolors, including a series of I think 8 that illustrated The Divine Comedy. I told them I would take them all, and to have them DHLed to my house. I also had lunch at Eatzi's, which was good.

Uh-
huh

My mom and I are going up to Dallas today to visit some of the Jehovies, which is to say some of her family. Should be a nice diversion; I usually enjoy myself up there.

I hate goodbyes

We had to put down our yellow lab Tinkerbelle today. Even though we sort of saw it coming it was still sad

awesome
hehe

hmmmm

pic i took flying over our beach in Costa Rica



Oh, the ragman draws circles
Up and down the block.
I'd ask him what the matter was
But I know that he don't talk.
And the ladies treat me kindly
And furnish me with tape,
But deep inside my heart
I know I can't escape.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley
With his pointed shoes and his bells,
Speaking to some French girl,
Who says she knows me well.
And I would send a message
To find out if she's talked,
But the post office has been stolen
And the mailbox is locked.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line.
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine.
An' I said, "Oh, I didn't know that,
But then again, there's only one I've met
An' he just smoked my eyelids
An' punched my cigarette."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Grandpa died last week
And now he's buried in the rocks,
But everybody still talks about
How badly they were shocked.
But me, I expected it to happen,
I knew he'd lost control
When he built a fire on Main Street
And shot it full of holes.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the senator came down here
Showing ev'ryone his gun,
Handing out free tickets
To the wedding of his son.
An' me, I nearly got busted
An' wouldn't it be my luck
To get caught without a ticket
And be discovered beneath a truck.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the preacher looked so baffled
When I asked him why he dressed
With twenty pounds of headlines
Stapled to his chest.
But he cursed me when I proved it to him,
Then I whispered, "Not even you can hide.
You see, you're just like me,
I hope you're satisfied."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the rainman gave me two cures,
Then he said, "Jump right in."
The one was Texas medicine,
The other was just railroad gin.
An' like a fool I mixed them
An' it strangled up my mind,
An' now people just get uglier
An' I have no sense of time.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

When Ruthie says come see her
In her honky-tonk lagoon,
Where I can watch her waltz for free
'Neath her Panamanian moon.
An' I say, "Aw come on now,
You must know about my debutante."
An' she says, "Your debutante just knows what you need
But I know what you want."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the bricks lay on Grand Street
Where the neon madmen climb.
They all fall there so perfectly,
It all seems so well timed.
An' here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.





There's a fantastic[ally fresh] asian art show at the MFAH. My pic

I decided to try out the new video upload feature, so this is a video I made in the giant steel sculpture at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth:

Last night I had a dream that I had braces again, and that one of my lower canines was loose, and I pulled it out. I was all freaked out because I lost a tooth, and anyway it was kind of scary. I've lost teeth in several dreams now. I should really keep a log.
I'm reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Its very good; I really like this author's work.

oh no

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Well Costa Rica was fantabulous. Our hotel was up on a hill overlooking the little cove formed by steep hills on either end of the beach. So, the view from most points at the hotel was breathtakingly beautiful. I was a bit apprehensive beforehand because the weather forecast said it would be cloudy and rainy every day, but it was actually sunny and only partly cloudy for most of every day, with a little rain in the afternoon, which is normal during the rainy season there. I got a little sunburnt.
We stayed in Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste, which is on the N. Pacific coast. I've always wanted to go to Costa Rica, and ever since I visited Mazatlán a few years ago, I've wanted to go back to the Pacific.
This summer I've been further north, east (Amsterdam), south (Costa Rica), and west (Las Vegas) than I've ever been before.

Standing there alone
the ship is waiting
all systems are go
are you sure?
control is not convinced
but the computer
has the evidence
"no need to abort"
the countdown starts

watching in a trance
the crew is certain
nothing left to chance
all is working
trying to relax
up in the capsule
"send me up a drink"
jokes Major Tom
the count goes on

4 3 2 1
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
calling calling home...

second stage is cut
we're now in orbit
stabilizers up
runnning perfect
starting to collect
requested data
what will it effect
when all is done
thinks Major Tom

back at ground control
there is a problem
go to rockets full
not responding
"hello Major Tom
are you receiving
turn the thrusters on
we're standing by"
there's no reply

4 3 2 1
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
calling calling home...

across the stratosphere
a final message
"give my wife my love"
then nothing more

far beneath the ship
the world is mourning
they don't realize
he's alive
no one understands
but Major Tom sees
now the life commands
this is my home
I'm coming home

Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
coming home...
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
coming home...
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
coming coming home...
home.....

Scientists break the speed of light. with light.
The 6 most over-hyped threats to America
LOL Vogue

Well I'm pretty much all moved in to my new house, which also happens to be my dad's house.
Today a Harris County police officer came to our front door to tell us that my car was parked incorrectly in the street. Cars can be no more than 6" from the curb and have to be in line with the direction of traffic on your side of the street. I so wanted to ask him if he didn't have anything better to do and to inform him that there was probably an old lady getting robbed and murdered somewhere, but here he was, in the upper-middle-class Houston suburbs telling people how to park. It was a warning, next time it will be a $160 ticket.

I have moved back to Houston, and am transferring to UH. After deciding to switch to finance at UT, i realized that without a great GPA, my chances of transferring into the almighty McCombs School of Business were slim. So, true to form, I have taken the easy way out.
I'm flying to Costa Rica this Saturday, so everything is peachy.



Some funny signs:

Get away from her, you bitch!
hahahaha



I went over to the Mueller development today, mostly to see the new Dell Children's Medical Center. There's also a great pond with a huge amphitheater made out of giant blocks of sandstone on one side.

the hospital:


the pond (kinda far away from the hospital):

I've been taking a lot of photos in B&W lately.

be my baby

Scorsese is brilliant with music.

Full circle rainbow in Malaysia.


How to lucid dream
looks a lot like a terminator to me

some cool explanatory graphics made by the folks at Princeton
Don't these people know that taxing the oil industry will just mean higher gas prices for the American people? Fucking tax-happy democrats At least we can count on ole George to veto the thing; the votes weren't sufficient override one.

They're demolishing this building from the ground up in London.

it's been a slow week.

I am big, it's the pictures that got small

I just watched Sunset Boulevard. I was watching a video of David Lynch talking about what movies he loved and he mentioned the work of Billy Wilder, specifically SB, so i rented it. I liked it a lot. I love being familiar only with an actor's later work and then seeing them as a young man in an earlier role; I had heretofore only seen William Holden in Network (one of my all time faves) and The Towering Inferno.
I raised over $2,000 at work last night, my best shift so far. Last night I also started No Country For Old Men, which I finished today. I really liked it, and I am anxious to see the movie, as the book did not have what I would consider to be a "thriller" ending.
The Crying Of Lot 49 was also pretty good, I think Pynchon has a thing (a penchant?) for global conspiracies that go back years and years. Next I will read Steinbeck's The Pastures Of Heaven. I think I've read 10 of his novels already, so I'm sort of scraping the bottom of the barrel, not that I doubt I will like the book.
Over the weekend Amy and I visited The Station as well as the Contemporary Arts Museum, both of which had some really cool new stuff on show. We also went to an open house for a new little block of townhouses, and it was very nice. I especially liked the 4th floor balcony with a downtown view.

Rudy Giuliani: Asked About HIV, He Answers With 9/11
the real gouger driving up gasoline prices is not the private sector – it is our government



creepy kid's claymation video. nice existentialist ending:

I'm not really sure what all the artist is trying to say about The Netherlands



interesting diagram that shows all the candidates' positions
Belgian "Super-man" squints hard to see his non-existant country sic

I was one of the weirdos in my jr. english class that actually enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, so I endeavored to read another one of Hawthorne's novels, and finished The House Of The Seven Gables just this evening at work. After a short break from reading whence I doodled on my pad, I began to read Pynchon's The Crying Of Lot 49, which some say is his most accessible novel. Though I did not plan this at all, the Pyncheons depicted in THOTSG are based on the ancestors of the real life Thomas Pynchon, whom I just mentioned.

oh no flipper
Upon Return, Jesus Taken For Pussy Liberal