One of my first roommates got me into making boxed pasta with sauce packets and stirring in a can of chicken. Ate that shit throughout my 20's. Also did the mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs. Even fancier was using cut up ham if I had some. And the Texas staple, Frito pie. My mom used to serve it ca...

Menthol cigarettes are helpful if you have a cold. Ladybugs don't bite. While any beetle can bite, it is the Asian Lady Beetle that looks similar to a lady bug that is the biter that is often mistaken for a ladybug. I don't know the precise markings to tell the difference, and I have been bitten a ...

There was lots of talk about Gene Simmons’ tongue when I was a kid. Keith Richards and the blood transfusion. Jack In the Box tacos being made with kangaroo meat. Heard that about Jack in the Box as far back as I can remember. I remember thinking, well, it seems kangaroo meat takes pretty good. I l...

Nah, he was Paul on The Wonder Years! Came here to say this - thank you. Also: Billy Corgan was the kid on Small Wonder. Chuck Norris was the guy inside the Barney costume. He felt bad and he wanted to give back. Rod Stewart and the gallon. Richard Gere. Kid who got caught in the rain with a back p...

I think I'd have a better time at a Phish show than at SXSW or Bumbershoot. Well yeah, there's only one terrible band, as opposed to dozens of terrible bands. I know a weirdly large number of Phish fans (Phish Heads? A-phish-ionados?), and too many of them only like Phish. It's boring! Some of thei...

Not long after that, I bought Sonic Youth's album Schizophrenia and another door opened in my head. Sister? ...For me the gateway artists were Elton John, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, David Bowie, (the) Sweet, Queen. You know: most of the rock music that got played on the radio in the United St...

Until I was a senior in high school(1986), I was pretty much an AC/DC and Led Zep dude. Some time that year I heard The Replacements and Camper Van Beethoven. The next year I moved to Georgia and made friends with students from the big art school, SCAD. Through a roommate, I got swept up in the REM ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqH1N83KE9k "everything that could go wrong, did." "look at these horrible plastic shoes. they will never become popular." "today it would be people staring at their phones." i'm not going to sit through 3 hours of that.... never watched...

I love The Scientists (prefer the swampy Sydney years to the poppy Perth years), and yeah I have a couple Surrealists records, too. Tony Thewlis is a monster Kim Salmon lived in Houston for awhile. I never saw him during that period, but I think Trey did. My band opened a show for Kim Salmon at Emo...

I know not everyone has seen many of the Cyber Trucks in the wild, but here in Austin they are fuck-everywhere. Plus I live about a mile and a half from the Tesla dealership. I literally see several of these fucking dork trucks every day. Something I have not seen once? Anything in the back of one. ...