Tonight I go to the bar to watch the spurs, for water cooler talks sake. I like ‘soccer’ because once it was explained to me, countries abstract their hatred for another country to an opponents soccer team. Made sense to me, makes the stakes more intense, etc, etc. Meat and potato basketball wins again. Got [...]

Radiohead carry the flag for indie rock to Houston. A rainbow above the gig, later a kinda full mood. Ronster, mr 5th row, must be nice. the free tibet theme going on.

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, a GEM of a book if I ever did read one. It talks of many things, basically though it speaks of what is in your control is RIGHT NOW. I could go on forever, but here’s the brief.It speaks of being super conscious, and if you are / when [...]

Years back a friend of mine did ‘Project: Does your Vote Count’, she basically said ‘no’, and based on this election the holes in the ‘process’ really shin through. Some say its a ‘win’ for democracy, in the sense that there have been a lot of new registered voters, however, if the participation rate isn’t [...]

There she is, mummy and the turnip. We celebrated mothers day in a low key fashion, on a beautiful day. She’s the bomb, and I’m glad she had us kids. How’s about a bird house ‘made in the Philippines’ (sp?) coming to you from a ‘free trade’ program. Big Peppers Huge Onions Hotter peppers Green [...]

A chance meeting, Toshi and Robert in Schulemburg Texas of all places. He drives about 70 miles, I drive about a 100 to eat some ‘classy’ food at ‘Franks,’ hmmmm, I THINK I can cook better I can and will go on and on one day about Toshi, he is easily one of my best [...]

A handful of peeps came out for my brief stint at my current job. Tomorrow I take my lunch pail and go to a new adventure, it’s always kinda like the first day of school. Well here’s the Das Boot at Freisenhaus, it’s 2 liters of brutal Spaten, surely to knock you on your butt. [...]