Mexican Tire Weed

I wrote and recorded this song in tribute to the Texas weed smuggled through the Mexican border inside the tires of cars!
Download an mp3 here why dontcha?!

San Antonio highway construction project

Highway infrastructure in Texas is quite impressive. The common phrase, "Everything's bigger in Texas," definitely applies here. The absence of freezing weather makes the construction of soaring ramps possible, these spaghetti pools of roads crisscrossing into a giant sky.

In San Antonio, home of the second largest network of state highways in the U.S., they're doing everything possible to enlarge the already overwhelming transportation infrastructure. There is something mesmerizing about the concrete structures. Their design is purely utilitarian, but their aesthetic is both beautiful and alienating.

Me likey!

Your friendly neighborhood gun store

Coming from Canada, it's still shocking and thrilling for me to walk into a sports supply store like Academy and find all sorts of dangerous looking handguns on display like pies at a pastry shop. I mustered up the confidence to ask the man behind the counter if I could check out the largest handgun they had in stock -- a Smith & Wesson Model 500 revolver. The clerk reached behind the glass and pulled out this five pound monster of a weapon, checked that the chamber was empty and handed it over to me. He respectfully requested that if I want to aim it, to point it at the wall. I was dumbfounded! I didn't have the balls to ask the clerk to take my picture holding the gun, but I managed to snap some other pics from inside the gun shop ... er, sports supply store.

One day I fully intend to get myself one of these. Just for the fuck of it.

BBQ from heaven!

The Salt Lick's reputation as one of the best BBQ restaurants in Texas is well deserved. These people do not fuck around. Their brisket is by far the best I've ever had: moist, succulent, drenched in smoke flavor. When people from Austin are willing to drive to Driftwood, Texas to get BBQ -- probably the second most common genre of cuisine here (after Tex-Mex) -- and wait an hour just to be seated, they're doing something right. Actually, waiting is kind of fun. Patrons get to sit outside on picnic tables, drink their BYOB beer, and listen to some wacky dude play covers of old country songs.