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They Dont Make Salsa in New York City

Spending a week in New Mexico eating chili, bowling with senior citizens, and watching cowboy movies you've heard of but never seen like "Hang Em High" can make a liberal California commie really jones for a taste of the old world when they get back to the city.

What do you do??? You get onto NMChili.com and order up some fresh roasted chile on ice with a side of chile rellenos, tamales, and posole and have it 2nd day aired to your house, that's what.

I jones for the green roasted kind and will usually eat it until I reach a state of generalized discomfort that spirals into shooting hot pains in my arm and chest that spread into my armpit and choke me into submission on a flat surface such as the floor or a toilet seat.

Order up and enjoy! And take my grandparents' advice: pace yourself.

The Look of Love

True joy is seeing the perplexed look of an 86 year old when you try to explain that you have gotten them Memory Foam for their birthday, and then watching that look melt into a shy grin of utter and complete satisfaction as they sink into it for the first time.

Astute Socio-Political Observation of the Day

"Politicians should be slooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwly learning that no one cares about their self-righteous grandstanding. And it’s because of the W factor. George Bush has overdone it, he’s filled the bullshit cup up to the rim with BRIM ( that stands for something, I don’t know what, but the first word is bullshit)...

Because of Bush, it’s all starting to be scrutinized a little more closely. Now, no one believes any source anymore. Right after birth we pop out with an ibook (umbilical-ethernet port on the latest models) and do a Google search on our 'mother.'"

Courtesy of this article at TheAssimilatedNegro

Gay is the New Black

I just watched Crash this week as I have been sick with a horrible cold that has struck me down like a hammer and had nothing better to do. If you remember, Crash is the movie that beat Brokeback Mountain for the Best Movie Oscar last year. I never saw it as it looked like a piece of crap and figured it only won the Oscar because the category should have been called "Best Movie that is not about Gay Cowboys". After watching Crash and realizing that it is not only a piece of crap but a horrible piece of crap, I couldnt find words for the dismay and horror at the obvious bias directed towards Brokeback Mountain. Fortunately this morning I ran across this review of Crash on an mp3 blog I subscribed to a long time ago but barely ever read that says it all so I dont have to. Link

PS if any of you leaves comments like "oh i thought crash was a good movie" or some such horseshit you are not my friend anymore. try me.