Back to our roots.....dog pictures!



































But we can't let the snake thing go entirely! Earlier this week, D found an impressive snake skin in our yard.









We admired it, identified it in a handy snake book (purchased once we moved out here) and then threw it to the dogs. They love weird smelling shit. I tried to get a close shot of Oscar with some skin hanging from his mouth, but just as I snapped the picture, he went after a moth that flew by. Cute, huh?





















And just for fun, here are a few pics from our trek to ACL two weeks ago. It was less hot this year, but somehow way more brutal. We had a great time, though.


















































As we surveyed the two large parking lots filled with overflowing bikeracks at ACL, D sighed and said "Only in Austin." We're coming back, Austin! We promise!

You too can be politically savvy, or get yelled at

At the risk of this blog becoming more political and less dog, I offer up the following:

First, If you are a non-republican of any stripe and are at all interested in the coming mid-term elections but you just don't want to wade through all of the bullshit to get at the information, some nut has put together Electoral Vote.com, a non-partisan (as far as I can tell) website that breaks down every contested senate and house race. There is polling data for each race and for the most part, the polls are very encouraging. For those of us in Texas, we can at least live vicariously through other states, such as Pennsylvania who will soon have a new Senator.

Second, if you have a fast internet connection, you dislike Fox News, you disliked Path to 9/11 so much you didn't watch it, you love (or at least miss) Bill Clinton, and your tired of seeing politicians give lame answers to stupid questions, enjoy this two part interview:

Stephen Colbert will die soon

Perhaps you all have heard of Stephen Colbert's gig at the White House Press Corps Dinner thingy, I know that I had, but I realized that it may be on youtube.

I have never seen anyone with a bigger set of balls than Colbert. Its so scary to watch, yet you can't turn away. Its like his show but in front of the people he makes fun of in his show. Its brutal, he even makes fun of the reporters in the audience. Its actual real satire. If you have a fast connection, you should watch.

I sincerely hope that Ann Richards got to see this before she died. RIP the real tough grandma.

No way......

The Crocodile Hunter died!

OK, D and I are currently debating the surprise factor of this bizarre piece of news. I'm honestly a little surprised and he's.....not. Not even a tiny bit.

I guess I just thought that this guy has done crazy stunts for so long and built an entire empire around his wacky ways that he was really being more careful than it seemed. The man is a father! Was I sucked in by the sur-reality of TV? Though I only saw this guy when I accidentally stumbled upon his show, I always got the impression that it was as much a nature show as an act. I mean there is so little authenticity in TV that I had no reason to think otherwise, right? It always seemed so put on and over the top that it never occurred to me that this guy was really just betting on the idea that a thick layer of stupidity provides some sort of protection from the laws of nature. (I suppose that's possible, seeing as Bush not only survived childhood, he lived to graduate college! Darwin be damned!)

Anyway, I just thought I'd throw that out there. Am I alone in my rose-colored view of TV? Has grim reality finally taken over, leaving behind that childhood revelation that the blood on screen was only red goo?

Just for fun.