Texas Book Festival 2006

Pipie's first. Last year Francesca and I went together; the year before that, Scout was Pipie's age.

Baby Laugh

I can top it.

Bono & Oprah's Red Product

iPod Made By Chinese Children
To Benefit African Children

The Onion
America's Finest News Source | October 27, 2006

To Infinity...

My Daughters

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I have exceptionally beautiful daughters.

Pas de Duh

Mom sent Jodie and me this. I needed it.

When I despair,
I remember that all through history,
the way of truth and love has always won.

There have been tyrants and murderers
and for a time they seem invincible
but in the end, they always fall.

Think of it, always.

- Mohandas Gandhi

We Won't Remember Their Names. Will Someone Remember Ours?

I wonder who they are
The men who really run this land
And I wonder why they run it
With such a thoughtless hand

What are their names
And on what streets do they live
I'd like to ride right over
This afternoon and give
Them a piece of my mind
About peace for mankind
Peace is not an awful lot to ask.

-David Crosby, Neil Young, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Michael Shrieve

Ani Difranco at Stubb's

James and I waded neck-deep in the L-word (Liberal? Lovely? Looney?) last night. It poured the entire concert; the audience drank it up. At one point Jams turned to me, water dripping off his nose, said, "Knuckle down. Just be OK with this." She played this tune, too, sending shivers though me:

Oh, and she's pregnant. Someone passed her up a pair of red suspenders after she said her pants kept falling down off her belly. Who knew?

Set list:
(that is, songs I think I remember were played, in no real order)
- Napoleon
- Knuckle Down
- Paradigm
- Shameless
- Studying Stones
- Independence Day
- 78% Water
- Hypnotized
- Lag Time
- Names and Dates and Times
- Done Wrong
- Fuel
- Half-Assed
- Decree
- Recoil
- Evolve


Here's a nice taste of what it looked like at Stubb's. Such a great time. A world of difference from the night she played for 40 mins and fled, out at the Back Yard. When Jodie was pregnant. Scout's first concert.

My day job (that I'm told to not quit)

I work for a multinational corporation that manufactures everything manufacturable. In our small Austin division, I write technical documents for engineers and their customers. The following is an example of what my cellmates tell me the customer needs to understand, as clearly and jargon-free as possible.
Note the kind of arm that can be employed to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.

Wow. Bill Hicks found his where he parked it: behind a dumpster.

A co-worker found this and sent me the link. Ever the optimist, I like to think it was hard for them to claim their car while handcuffed to a gurney in St. David's.
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Drunk? Lose your car after wrecking it? It's here...

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Reply to: comm-217431XXXX@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-10-07, 4:43PM CDT

Walked outside this morning and there is a white car in front of my house. The side is covered with blood & the hood is covered with something akin to PUKE. Both air bags are popped out & the windshield is smashed. Please come get your car from in front of my house. Tell me what kind of car you're missing and I'll tell you where I live. You were probably too drunk to remember where you left it.....

PS, yes, I did call WilCo, there have been no reported hit and run incidents. (you probably only hit a deer, but I can't guarantee that)

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Willie Nelson, Allegiant Voice of Reason

October 11, 2006

"I was at a concert this weekend in California to raise money for the National Veterans Foundation. I'm an Air Force veteran, and I have great respect for the military. I like to support the soldiers whenever I can. But I don't support this war in Iraq.

I was against the war before it started. I always thought it was a terrible decision, badly thought out, badly planned, and then horribly executed.

I want to see our troops come home right away, and so do most Americans. Unfortunately, too many politicians in both parties refuse to listen.

So when will the troops come home? When we won't put up with it anymore-when we change our government. And how will we do that? By voting the bastards out! On November 7, you should vote for anyone who's against the war and vote against anyone who's for the war. It's that simple.

When I wrote the song "Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth" at Christmastime in 2003, a lot of people were for the war, a lot of people didn't know the facts or the truth. But people are waking up now. They're learning that they were lied to about the war. They're feeling lied to about this Mark Foley scandal in terms of who knew what and when. They're questioning the leadership in this country.

And that gives us new possibilities for November 7th. If we all go out and vote for peace candidates and get our friends to vote, and if our votes are really counted, it's no contest. There'll be a change in the Congress, and then we'll just have to keep building so we can get a president who won't send our soldiers to fight a war based on lies.

We should have thrown the bastards out years ago. Let's do it now! Give Peace A Vote!"

Willie Nelson
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