Henry the cat chases a laser dot

Cats go crazy over these laser dots. The fact they are uncatchable doesn't seem to matter.

Baby A's Purple Margarita

It's not the prettiest drink in Austin but it will fuck you up! This seemingly innocuous purple slush at Baby Acapulco's Restaurant Y Cantina is laced with the dangerously potent liquor Everclear, which is why the menu reads:

Purple Margarita
Our most popular margarita. Not for the faint at heart.
(Limit of 2) $7.25

S. and I went there last night with some of her friendly coworkers and had to draw the line at one each. We were driving home after all, and this is DUI in a glass.

Say what you will about Pizza Hut...

...but do not tell me that doesn't look fucking delicious. Even if the reality is closer to this.

If you're as obsessed with pizza as I am, you'll also be interested in the industry trade journal Pizza Marketplace's Top pizza trends for 2009. Number three is ridiculous. (Enough with the social networking already!) Number five bodes well for the cash strapped. (More cheap pizza!)

No fair, Old Man Winter!

We suffered through an oppressively hot summer and now we're having our normally pleasant winter replaced with mildly cold weather! I feel ripped off.

distracteddispatches.com!

If all went well, you were forwarded to this site from distracteddispatches.blogspot.com. Registering my own web address and hosting this blog on an external server not only makes me the master of my own domain, but it also allows me to attempt incremental content delivery improvements. In other words, I get to fuck around with web technologies I only faintly understand to make this blog even more entertaining!

In the meantime, check out my friend Steve's new blog at chungkingmansions.com. He moved to China around the same time I moved to USA.

Driving though SoCo into downtown

Perfect weather yesterday for a three mile drive from South Austin straight up Congress Ave to the Capitol. Join me on a ten minute drive while I listen to the local public radio station. I'm using Vimeo for some video uploads now because the quality is just slightly better than YouTube.