| UPS | DOWNS |
| Dick Cheney | Austin's Bad City Planning |
| I mean, honestly, how awesome is it that the Vice President is going around shooting friend's in the face? | From starting in on a
light rail system that will take white folks from the suburbs to buses in East Austin, to the trendy building of shitty 'lofts' throughout town, does anyone have any sense of city planning in this town? M1EK's Bake Sale of Bile is my favorite blog for deconstructing Austin's planning issues. |
| Stephen Colbert | LOST |
| Single-handedly delivered the most cutting, biting and truthful speech in Washington since the British still ran this country. And he did it in front of that miserable dumbass who runs this country. |
The first season had me, the second started to let me down. The third was a slow moving travesty that made me stop, cold turkey. |
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Floyd Landis | People who cried about the Crocodile Hunter |
| No one reveled in his
failed drug tests and weak excuses (Jack Daniels, high testosterone, etc.) more than I did. Too bad they never could catch Lance. | I mean, OK, he was a good guy, but come on. He wore tan shorts and jumped on wildlife for a cable TV show. |
| Democrats Take Over Congress | Democrats Take Over Congress |
| I mean, I was surprised, weren't you? I was starting to believe Americans didn't have it in them. | Oh yeah, this is going to end well.
But can they really be worse than the Republicans? Nothing surprises me anymore. |
| California |
Poverty |
| For the first time in my life, in an extended two week stay, the Left Coast started making sense to me. |
I'm sick of being poor, I hate not having any health care, I despise the fact I eat some variety of noodles for at least 85% of my meals. |
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Cantanker | Young Artists |
| Austin's art scene got a very needed kick in the
pants into taking a step forward and growing up with the latest, most unpretentious arts magazine to debut and make waves. Check it out for yourself: Cantanker Magazine. |
We've all been there, full of vigor and vim, fight and grand ideas. It's painfully funny to watch young artists think that what they're doing matters. Five years into making art my career, all I can say is art is bad business. |
| Chuck Woolery | |
| My obsession with the veritable game show host started by being shocked into seeing his visage on late night TV shamelessly hawking Arkansas real estate. My obsession grew to stalking him on the web until I ran into him in person six months later at the Austin City Limits Festival. | |
