Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Life: April 14th, 2006 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)
Most of this […]
Life: April 1st, 2006 I can highly recommend that everyone who’s frustrated by modern life read The Cure for Information Overload.
Life: March 16th, 2006 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 […]
Life: March 14th, 2006 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. […]
Life: December 18th, 2005 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.