Something Smells

We will move forward in the next cycle with the current format,” said Swofford, who serves as BCS chairman. “I believe the BCS has never been healthier in its first decade.” – ESPN

Bullshit. He must not be following the same college football that I am.

Bleak

Craigslist and other online auction and sales sites take note of the increasing trend of Americans selling off their belongings to pay the bills.

Gas

For the first time since being a broke college kid, I had to not completely fill up my car because it was so expensive.

Happy Birthday Willie

The redheaded stranger turns 75 today. If you live in Texas (or even if you don’t) I’d highly recommend the latest issue of Texas Monthly, featuring an oral history of our most iconic troubadour, told through interviews with the likes of Merle Haggard, Kinky Freidman and Jimmy Carter to name a few.

To write those lyrics, which are poetry with great music, it requires real tragedy. You can’t sit in a room and do it. Even if you worked 24 hours a day with a committee of men, you couldn’t do it. As a country singer, he’s never happy. That’s not the goal of being a country singer. If you’re not miserable, you’re not going to be very good. – Kinky Freidman on Willie Nelson

Ask the Times

Khoi Vinh, Design Director at the NY times does a bit of question and answer.  

Eeyore's Birthday

Eeyore’s is many things– mostly an excuse for attendees to smoke a lot of weed (seriously, the farther back in the park you get, the better the contact high), wear costumes and dance in drum circles. Essentially it boils down to a uniquely Austin festival of spring. Pretty spiffy.

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Primary

When Jon Stewart is fucking sick of this election, you know it’s gone on too long.

Mr. Jet Pack

It’s all about vertical flight this week, apparently. Ok, when I saw the first Ironman trailer, I thought we were preparing for another Hulk movie or worse yet Fantastic Four. However, subsequent trailers have moved the bad-assed-ness meter from empty to eleven so to speak, and even prompted the Onion to get involved.

Never one to be so lame as to just, you know, show a movie, The Alamo Drafthouse has scheduled a free sneak-preview showing, complete with an apperance from Mr. Jet Pack International.

Before the screening, we’ll be treated to a display of technology that was only in the dreams of sci-fi filmmakers until now. Mr. Jet Pack International will take off from the Alamo South Lamar parking lot, fly above the crowd and return to earth to shake hands, hold babies and sign cleavage.

To make it even better, to get the ‘free’ ticket you have to send in a picture of yourself dressed as ironman or Tony Stark. This is going to be one scary event.

Hancock

A superhero flying around with a bottle of booze. Yup I’m going to go see that.