A noun and a verb and 9/11

In last night's Democratic debate on MSNBC, Joe Biden -- my favorite drunk uncle -- delivered the best line of the night when he spoke about Rudy Giuliani's lack of experience. Check it out in the clip above.

I've been especially disturbed about the prospect of Giuliani winning the presidency, and not just because he's a Republican.

- His foreign policy team is made up of neoconservative hawks who helped push the U.S. into war with Iraq and now think bombing Iran is a great idea.
- The crazy fucker not only would continue raids on the sick and dying users of medical marijuana, but also insists the drug is "dangerously addictive", unlike - say - Oxycontin!
- Giuliani's racist worker ID card proposal (making all foreigners carry biometric ID cards) was once described by one of his own economic advisers as "totalitarian".
- He routinely cites misleading statistics to forward his argument that the U.S. health care system is "the greatest in the world."
- He even goes so far as to suggest the U.S. might have gone to war with Iraq if Bush and Cheney weren't in office!
- Just do a Google News search of Giuliani and you're bound to find some reason to hate the fucker.

But hey, if GOP voters elect a pro-choice, anti-gun, former mayor of New York City as their man in the White House, I guess the world is kind of fucked up already.

Born to ride...

At this mall in South Austin the mall cops ride around on Segway scooters! Making matters worse, they are wearing helmets! I'm sure teenagers are more amused than intimidated. It is hard not to laugh at them.

Texas "Autumn"

Finally, after sweating through two months of blazing hot temperatures, living in Texas pays dividends in the form of beautiful weather! Maybe we missed Autumn, but as you can see from these forecasts comparing Austin and Montreal's weather over the next couple days, Austin is about to get a nice Canadian-style summer. Just in time for Thanksgiving!



Sorry for rubbing it in Montreal, but come on! A warm Montreal afternoon right now is like a cold Texas night. I've finally been rewarded for all those weeks I had to spend in shorts.

Floppy and fuzzy

This cat sure loves the leather couch. Awww!

Individually wrapped hotdogs

Another food product that makes me laugh, cringe, and wonder

Large oak tree

This is one of the oldest oak trees in Austin. It is estimated to be about 500 years old. Damn, that's old!

Turbonegro videos!

I finally uploaded some video I shot at the Turbonegro show last week. The band provided a much less energetic performance than when I last saw them in Montreal. No blood was spilled on the audience, Euroboy never crowd surfed while shredding on his guitar, and Hank kind of lumbered about the stage like he was hung over. But it was still very awesome to see one of my favorite bands of all time! And the crowd loved them. Here are the three songs I filmed from their encore.

Everybody Loves a Chubby Dude (the video above)
The Age of Pamparius
Get It On

LOL

Nikki Sixx is in Austin to launch his new fashion line, being carried at extremely expensive high-end stores like Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's. Anyway, I just had to laugh out loud at this picture of him in the newspaper with a black panther on a leash. Could there be a cheesier rock cliche?

Nikki, what happened?!