I keep a little shrine in my fridge to Kosmos Spoetzel, the founder of the Spoetzel Brewery. For the uninitiated, the Spoetzel Brewery makes Shiner Bock, which is the greatest invention since air.
I saw more of the inside of the cooking school at the original Central Market on Lamar in Austin than I did of any of my college classrooms. There is always someone here at my place getting fed, and frequently it's a lot of somebodies at once. The more the merrier, as far as I am concerned.
Music
Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Corb Lund, Randy Rogers, Roger Creager, Peter Dawson, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Reckless Kelly, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Eli Young Band, Ryan Adams, Green River Ordinance, Hot Hot Heat, The Killers, The Pogues, Flogging Molly, The Dropkick Murphys, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Ministry, The Sisters of Mercy, Peter Murphy, Siousxie & The Banshees, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Book of Love, New Order.
A very abbreviated list, and one which, despite my best efforts, makes no sense at all.
Movies
It should be duly noted that my taste in humor leans heavily towards the sophomoric - Animal House, Caddyshack, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, Van Wilder, Wedding Crashers, Blazing Saddles, American Pie, Monty Python and The Holy Grail... this is the kind of stuff that cracks me up. The dumber, the better. Dumb and esoteric is even better still.
I also have a Geek Streak (copyright 2006, Big Geek, LLC, all rights reserved) and enjoy science fiction and fantasy flicks like Star Wars, Serenity, The Fifth Element and The Lord of the Rings.
Television
I used to not watch television. Then I got an LCD television. Then I got every last channel available in the northern hemisphere and it went rapidly downhill from there. I want to be House when I grow up. I strive for that level of smartassness every single day. I mainline college football, NFL ball, NASCAR. I spend hours watching hunting and fishing shows on the three channels I have that are hunting and fishing 24/7. God bless whoever came up with that shit.
There is also a ton of hilarious content on the internet, like Homestar Runner (especially Strong Bad emails), Neurotically Yours (Foamy is a minor deity), and Red vs. Blue that is way more original and much, much funnier than anything on television.
Books
Some favorites, in no particular order, are Gordon MacQuarrie, Robert Ruark, Hemingway, Neil Gaiman, Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose and all sorts of WWII history, Texas history, pirate history, Robert Jordan and Tolkien. I also have an unnecessarily large collection of cookbooks and subscribe to a paper avalanche of magazines like Ducks Unlimited, The Delta Waterfowl Report, Tide, Texas Fish & Game, Texas Parks & Wildlife, Texas Highways, Maxim, Men's Health, Men's Journal, Texas Monthly, National Geographic, National Geographic Travel, Forbes, Imprimus, Bon Appetit...
I'm kind of a reading freak and I am fairly certain my postal carrier wants to kill me.
Heroes
Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, Major Dick Winters.
Everything you need to know about me can be gleaned from my blogs. There is critical information in there, such as:
I am a better cook than you are.
Shiner Bock is the every, only God.
I love women. Every goddamned one of 'em.
My friends are renegades, rednecks, rockstars, miscreants and lushes.
I will do literally anything for a laugh.
I enjoy polysyllabism.
My girlfriend has the sense of humor to deal with me.
And most of all... IT'S GOOD TO BE ME.
Who I'd like to meet: If you don't subscribe to my blog, the possibility exists that the eight pound, six ounce Lord baby Jesus, just sittin' in his crib watching his Baby Einstein developmental videos, hates you and has condemned your soul to fiery damnation in hell. For the sake of your soul, subscribe to my blog.
In Jan. I am going to a blast and Cast event near Crosby to hunt some geese. I had a decent couple hunts, Killed alot on stock tanks. After the split lets go hunting
I found the following while reading some of your old blogs:
"Human cloning is legal. However, the only humans permitted to be cloned are Scarlett Johansson, The Jessicas (Alba, Simpson and Biel) and Kate Beckinsale..."
This of course was said before Simpson started banging our quarterback and destroying our team. If only we could have seen into the future we could have had her euthanized back then.
el chile (just east of I-35 on manor rd). absolutely heavenly black bean dip, a mole sauce to die (and kill) for, succulent pork, and a perfectly crusted tilapia.
I thi nk a few of us are talking of removing all of our money out of the banks and stock markets and moving to New Zealand. Too many hurricanes in the Carribean.
Yes, it's obviously very logical to make it personal, especially since Mike has absolutely no control over elections in which he cannot vote. But hey, thanks for the well wishes. Oh, and congrats. Your country just elected the first Black president.
