Mathew

The shrimp quesidilla from Santos Taqueria
16 oz Rib eye, medium rare, ditto the mashed, sub a big green salad for the corn, add hot bread
Charcoal grilled chicken thighs (vinagrette marinated), corn on the cob, cole slaw

I just found out that CAKE is playing at Southwestern University in Georgetown, tonight, about two hours away. And I already have promised to, well, do other stuff that now seems worthless by comparison. Shit.

I know I'm always behind the curve, but at least I have good taste.




with thanks to my friends in fucktunes

I have read a lot of newspaper, magazine, and blog articles about the war in Iraq. They have all left me with mixed feelings, and now I know why.
It's because if you honestly try to understand all sides, all you are left with is the internal conflicts that I have never seen more well described than in the ultimate war simulation game rant.
And as has been proven time and again through human history, there are never any winners, some lose their lives, others their soul, everybody loses something.

nicked from theheretic in a post to a community that points out all the little details I'd really rather ignore, so_very_doomed

I almost forgot!

Happy Pi day, everyone!

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I am officially too fucking old. I have heard of neither tonights guest host nor the musical guest.

Of course, now that we've had our fun with the crackers, here's the flip side of the same coin - Stuff Educated Black People Like . a truly telling scenario of the homogenization of our populace.

STOLEN WITHOUT REMORSE FROM schn00gy

...if it were not so damn true. Why is it that we, as Caucasians, are so easily ridiculed? Yet no one can find a word for us that is nearly as inflammatory as the N word. At any rate, check out the latest place to laugh at yourself in which all of my personal secret shames are revealed.

It's already 68° this morning. High today to be in the low to mid 70's, with a forecast low tonight of 30°±. Thats over 40 degrees of swing, and this happens all the time in January & February. Damn this is a fun place to live.

Once Bob Dylan's backup band prior to finding their own audience, one of the better live performance recordings of all time (IMHO), 11 great cuts from 1972 - The Band - the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

However, not everyone felt that way....

my dad died sometime Sunday evening. he was 88. very sudden, very unexpected. he had a good run, but the end has been sort of rocky. I'm headed to memphis to help sort things out, pretty numb at this point.
This is a good time to point out that it's always a good idea to tell people how you feel every time you get the chance.

Eventually, maybe, common sense will prevail.

One of Britain's most senior police officers is to call for all drugs – including heroin and cocaine – to be legalised and urges the Government to declare an end to the "failed" war on illegal narcotics.

Reply to: pers-426425844@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-09-19, 9:31AM

I’m seeking a like-minded man with whom to share a disastrous 3 to 9 month relationship, ending in acrimony, emotional chaos, and possibly legal proceedings.

My name is Amanda. I live in Dallas, I’m 32 years old, fairly well educated, and I have a good job and am pretty stable. I’m told I’m fairly good looking, but I’ll let you be the judge of that. I’m generally caring and very honest.

I am looking for an attractive male who will at first give me obsessive love, praise, and devotion - but whose paranoia, self-loathing,comitment issues, Opedial complex and fear of rejection and abandonment will eventually lead him to alternately push me away and pull me closer in a love/hate cycle that will lead to infidelity, consensual sexual violence, and the inevitable emotional breakdown of one or the other party - or, if we’re lucky, both!

You should:

be 30 to 45 years old;
have a history of short, intense, drama-driven relationships;
enjoy degrading and dehumanizing sex;
have undergone negative psychiatric evaluations in the past; and
be willing to threaten self-harm and/or annihilation as a weapon to control your partner and make them stay with you and care for you.


Although not completely necessary, I would prefer men:
with nice smiles;
who have larger than average wallets;
who have a history of unstable relationships;
who drink to forget; and
who have had a previous established diagnosis of borderline or dependent personality disorder or bipolar affective disorder - or who are currently taking lithium carbonate, SSRIs, or tricyclic antidepressants.
If you think you meet these requirements (and wow, I’m getting excited just writing them!), please don’t hesitate to get back to me as soon as possible. In the meantime, thank you for reading my advert, and do take care.


Location: Downtown Dallas
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Original URL: http://dallas.craigslist.org/w4m/426425844.html


HMMMMM ..... WHADDYA THINK? MY KIND OF GURL?

"How to untangle headphones using a cat"

Some very unusual breakfast guests

So I got fired last week. It was 50/50 which would come first - me quit or them cut me loose. I was completely sick and tired of the drive (125 miles round trip), the INSANE management merry-go-round, and the frustration of seeing so many solvable problems be ignored, swept under the rug, or seen as acceptable behavior. You can only run head first into the wall so many times before it starts to hurt. My production had turned to shit and I just didn't want to be there anymore. That's hard to disguise, and I refuse to just resign myself to those conditions because I need a paycheck.

I liked the people, for the most part. I hope I can remain on cordial terms with them. And I liked the work when I was allowed to do what I'm good at.

It has crossed my mind that maybe the problem is me, and yes, I'll accept part of the responsibility for my discontent. I'll also quote 4 out of 5 co-workers: "Man, this place has serious problems." And these are people with as much experience in the industry as I have - 20 to 30 years of continuous work in various venues with exposure to a multitude of different production philosophies. And I think that may be a big part of the problem - the owner has never worked anywhere else, so his way is not only the right way, it's the only way. But enough of spilled milk.

Starting Sunday Sherry and I, accompanied by her daughter Alicia and Alicia's partner Santiago, are going to spend a week in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado - Santa Fe and Pagosa Springs. We have a wedding present, a free week in a condo in Pagosa Springs. That should be a really nice little break. Leaving Texas for the mountains in August is always a treat, though this summer has been remarkably cool so far. I almost wish it was hotter, make the trip seem more like escapism :).

The following week I start a new job here in Mason. I can walk to work. I'll be doing drafting for a survey company, land plats and such. I know nothing about the business, I can just go to work and do my job. I feel like this will be a huge transition. I'll finally be a full time resident, after 2 years of living here. I will no longer be a weekend visitor, I'll be part of the life around the square, have lunch with the ranchers at the cafe. Maybe I'll even join the Lions Club.

This has been a week for reflections - This is the last stop on my journey, the place where I dig in. My last stand where I settle down and do all those things I've been promising myself I'll do for 20 years. I've never felt PERMANENT before, I've always known it was temporary, just a way station, even when I've lived there for years. Someplace to mark time till the right place came along. Well, this is it. I'll never get a better shot at realizing my dreams than I do right here in Mason. They're not big dreams anymore, but they're achievable. And I've got time.

The way I see it, the battle between the secular and scientific humanists and the religious/creationist traditionalists is heating up when it gets press in the Dallas Morning News.
What cracks me up is that there are so many people in this neck of the woods that don't even know there's another school of thought.