Common Sense

This is one of those times when I actually get to say something knowledgeable about someone famous who has passed away.
I had the good fortune to actually meet Lady Bird Johnson a couple of years ago at a taping of Texas Monthly Talks. Evan Smith was interviewing Jim Lehrer because he had a new fiction […]

How come Sasha Grey gets to be friends with Bill Corgan and I don’t?
Soooooo okay…. recently a few people have been asking me is that little old you tucked within the art work for the new Smashing Pumpkins album Zeitgeist ….why yes it’s little old me playing a part a mystery a siren… collaborating in […]

I kinda wanted to see it anyway. I don’t know if any of you know this, but I happen to be a Michael Moore fan. For Fahrenheit 9/11, I managed to get my mom to drive us to Austin so we could see it together.
She was just as outraged as the rest of the audience.
Somehow, […]

Usually for the 4th of July, I repost a story I did on flag burning and taking flag worship to a level beyond what it should be. After all, what good is a symbol of freedom if you lose the freedom to use that symbol.
But this year I say “Move over Rover, and let Jimi […]

Where you just want to sleep and vomit? Well, I’m having one now.
It’s either because of my mom’s cooking or something else. I was upchucking in my trashcan before I even heard about any commutations, so that can’t be it.
It was probably a combination of bad guacamole, the increased pain I’ve been feeling because of […]

(Ed note: I knew adding a whole category category tag for Gina Parker would come in handy.)
My local harpie, Gina Parker, is circulating a piece around the capitol crowd (pdf) accusing Paul Burka and the others at Texas Monthly or being racist, sexist and “wine and brie Democrats.”
Obviously I can’t let this stand. […]

I’ve had this post about Chubs dying up top for nearly a week and its gotta be bumming some of you out. How about we put up the shot of Paris Hilton after getting booked?
And this link to Sarah Silverman ragging on Paris at the MTV Movie Awards. It’s just like a full minute of […]

Chubs died at 9:30 last night. My mom held him in her arms and he wanted to wag his tail and be the happy dog he was supposed to be. But he was just too tired. Finally, he just wanted down so that he could lay down and “go night night” for the last time.
Mom […]

I’ve become such a regular at Two Minnies, the strip club, that me, a waitress and two of the dancers are supposed to go play pool at Cricket’s Sunday night. Lexi seemed like she would want to back out because “I’m don’t know how to play pool.” But Autumn and Tracey will go, so long […]

My beloved puppy Cherub Rock is sick. We noticed this morning that he didn’t really want to move or come when you call him, which is very unlike him. He craves attention and he’ll stand on top of The Jesus to get petted first.
He also hasn’t eaten since yesterday. He looks so emaciated; I can […]