Today I was talking with someone about how much weed is smoked here in Austin, when I remembered a map I’d seen in the paper some time ago breaking marijuana use down by deographical regions. For the hell of it, I thought I’d post it here:
(image swiped from Some other Brad’s blog)
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I can highly recommend that everyone who’s frustrated by modern life read The Cure for Information Overload.
Well, it’s South by Southwest time again, that annual clusterfuck when the town swells with tourists and even more bands than usually plague our streets. I swear, I actually overheard, on Sixth Street, someone say “So this is Sixth Street, huh?” Parking becomes extinct. Traffic grinds to a halt. Tourists everywhere. Gaaaah. Just getting [...]
I’ve always been a big fan of what people like to call “politically incorrect” humor — I’ve always hated that tag, however, because it smacks of the early-90s hysteria that the Right whipped up that the Left was somehow trying to take away everyone’s freedom of speech and force everyone into sensitivity-training concentration camps. [...]
As most people have heard by now, actor John Spencer, who played Leo McGarry on The West Wing, died Friday of a heart attack. This bummed me out to no end, as I’m a huge fan of that show and of his character in particular. He’s had a less prominent role the past couple of seasons, and now I wonder if real-life health problems may have had something to do with that.
