Metal up your ass!

This yellow sports car parked outside a Barnes and Noble in Austin boasted the coolest Ontario license plates I've seen in my life.

Temple of Food

If you're going to raise food for the hungry, be creative. This is America, for fuck's sake! Basically, some group convinced a bunch of other groups to donate food if architechs would create a bunch of these things and put them in the mall with a sign displaying the donors logos. This sculpture alone was made of 5,328 cans and contained 4,250 pounds of food. After shoppers see these and learn how giving can be fun, the food is donated to charity. Everybody wins!

Driving north on Lamar Blvd

Austin is a driving city and I spend a lot of time in automobiles. I've decided to videotape every street in the city, starting with this stretch of road. (Consider yourself warned, Google Street View!) These videos will provide you with a great opportunity to take in parts of Austin, Texas for a fraction of the cost and from the comfort of your own computer! This section of Lamar is considered drab to some, but I like it because it still has unique local character. Better than strip malls filled with big box stores!

Henry the cat plays with disco toy

Our new cat is still young and easily thrilled by toy balls. Add blinking lights to the equation and it's a total mind fuck!

Singer performs for tips in San Antonio

My favorite destination in San Antonio lived up to its reputation as an eclectic, kitschy melting pot when this crowd watched a young singer perform a karaoke version of a Pat Benatar song. The best part? Public drinking is encouraged!

Rachael Fucking Ray!

Last Sunday, we didn't have much going on so we thought we'd go meet Rachael Ray at a local bookstore and have her sign our cookbook. The line was long as hell and contained exactly the type of middle America folks you'd expect would be fans of a chipper daytime talk show host who inspires seething hatred among sane people.

I had high expectations, that my prejudice against giggling robots would melt away once I experienced her warm personality first hand. My expectations were not met. And frustratingly, only children were allowed to take a picture with her. But I will confess, her cook book does contain some delicious recipes, even if many are needlessly complicated.

Sketchiest strip club ever

I passed by this strip club yesterday while driving through the middle of nowhere in Central Texas. You really have to click on the picture for a close-up view. I think S. put it best. She said it looks like a rape barn.

Geotagging, yay!

My new G1 phone has its pluses and minuses (the battery is a real bitch), but I'm happy with its ability to add GPS data to pictures. It means when I upload to Flickr, it automagically puts the photo on a map! For some reason this makes phone photography more appealing.
Here's the map.

Call me a geek, but we'll all be doing this in a couple years.