two things

like this shirt? then hook a sister up and go here to buy some.

if you're a person who doesn't just THINK they have good taste in music, you should go here. it's sweet.

garden state

best film i've seen since eternal sunshine. equally badass soundtrack. go. see it. now. you can thank me later.

idola-b.s.

people are dumb. proof of this: lubbock is building a new freeway. to make the road more aesthetically pleasing, they decided to add panels with the image above on them. a panel of lubbockites worked together with txdot to come up with the "windy man". here's where it gets dumb. certain citizens are outraged because they claim it's a graven image, going against the word of God. there have been for too many letters to the editor claiming that a christian city shouldn't have pagan images gracing the roadways. when people build altars and pray before the "windy man", then people can tell me it's sacrilige.

another complaint people have about the "windy man" is that it reinforces a negative stereotype about lubbock. i hate to break it to them, but the wind in lubbock is just a fact of nature, not a stereotype.

sadly, some over-zealous nut took a sledge hammer and destroyed the only panel that had been installed so far. way to destroy any progress lubbock may have made to remove the back-woods closed-minded hick image it has in the rest of the state.

the inevitable

900 miles roundtrip, about 5 trips per year for over 4 years.....it was bound to happen. yes i, the invincible one, got pulled over on my trip to lubbock. now i know many people think i've had this coming, but let me just say that i did it in style.

i didn't see him until it was too late. too late to slow down from 80 to 55. in a construction zone. where fines are doubled. yay. so i pulled over, turned the car off, threw my keys on the dash (thanks to drew darsey for that move) and stayed surprisingly calm. i didn't create an elaborate story for why i was speeding, or break out into tears. i simply informed the state trooper that he was my bitch. and for all of this, i got a warning. that's right folks.

so to anyone who was thinking 'i told you so', i have two words for you: shove it.