Real Name: Tim Lara Member Since: July 20, 2005 Last Signed In: November 29, 2008 Profile Views: 833 Blog Views: 4849 Another NaNo WriMo done... NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH IS ALMOST A WRAP I don't follow trends, I set them... Here's my new stance What's in a name? I wish it was NEWS to me PAX 2008 Apparently no one checks these things You can take me out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of me... Tropic Thunder... RIP Isaac Hayes July 05 August 05 September 05 October 05 November 05 December 05 January 06 February 06 March 06 April 06 May 06 June 06 July 06 August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 
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I was doing my usual dreary drive to work this morning. You know the one I’m talking about. The mornings where you wish you had about 30 more minutes of sleep, the sun’s not really out yet, and your rhythm hasn’t caught up with you yet. TGIF in the worst way.
So while driving, I was stopped at an intersection. There was this pick up truck in front of me with two all black dogs excitedly pacing the truck’s bed. One looked at me, puffed his chest and barked heartily. You...
I took some time out from my regular work week yesterday to take a little trip up to Houston. My brother, you see, received his Bachelor’s in graphic design from the Art Institute in Houston. It may seem sort of weird to some folks, as to why my brother would be pursuing so much time and effort for a little piece of paper. He is already working in the field, both for a company, as well as a freelance artist. He has built up small cult followings with the show posters he makes for bands...
I bought a new shirt yesterday. It’s pretty boss. It’s all black with pearl snaps, just rock and roll to do the job when you’re really not trying. I showed it to my wife when I got home. I’m not sure if I broke one of the cardinal rules of clothes shopping when married, (#1 never shop for clothes by yourself), or what the issue was, but my wife simply said… “It’s black. You own too much black, why don’t you wear something else?”
It’s a...
Looking back on my long, glamorous, and often unpaid stint as a writer, I have often found it full of life lessons. Oh sure, I’ll never be a Shakespeare or a Hemingway, for that matter I’ll probably never be a King or a Scott-Card either. My love/hate relationship with proper grammar and prose has left me less like a writer and more like the guy from the movie “Big Fish”. I’m in love with the story much more than my repeat offenses of run on sentences, and the misuse...
Happy St. Patrick's Day...
As a young man, I spent some time with some colorful Irish men for a few years in a few bars here and there. They always left me with some advice.
1. Put on a Pogues album today. Sure there are better Irish bands out there. But no one was as fun as Shane Macgowan and company.
2. Skip the green beer, real men drink Guinness.
3. Don't let them serve you Guinness in a bottle. From the tap is best. Either way... put it in a glass. Make sure the glass is room...
There is a little group called “The Westboro Baptist Church”. They pretty much endanger everything that embraces the idea of Christianity. They gained national attention for the first time when they picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, back in 1998 who was murdered for being gay. Since then, they seem to have made funeral heckling their number one source of getting attention.
They have picketed many funerals, and celebrated September 11th, saying it was an act of God’s...
My rhythm guitarist, Colin, called me yesterday. He was hanging up his mask and quitting the band. It’s nothing personal. There is no bad band break up story here. He just has a lot going on in his life and needs to focus on other things. After a conversation with him that seems to have been repeated many times, I assured him it was alright, that if his heart isn’t in it, it would actually hurt the band more than help it, we both agreed that if things work out, we’d consider...
These days, I can take a quick look around shopping areas, roadways, restaurants, etc… and I can always see the same thing.
Cell Phones.
They are everywhere. Taking over the airwaves isn’t about pirate radio anymore, it’s about how much signal strength you can get in the area or building you’re in. You ever stop and wonder how some people ever got along without them? I do. Especially when I see some regular person with a cell stuck to their ear, yammering on about so...
Awhile back, I wrote about my friend Kelley… (9-13-05) and the impact he left on me. The response was overwhelming, the comments from Kelley’s friends and family, as well as the readers on the blog were something that everyone connected with his life are soon not to forget. I think it’s important to stress that we all feel we lost our good friend/son/brother/uncle/ etc. to a really stupid senseless act.
I pray you all never have to experience something like that again. I hope...
There is an old saying I used to hear that goes… “Behind every great man there is a great woman.” I’m not sure who originally said it, I just thought it was something that they used to say to make the First Ladies feel better when people talked about the president. I mean, after all, I was, for the first 27 years of my life, a pretty hip guy, no need to depend on anyone, living life to the fullest, kickin’ butt and taking names… But then, something strange...
I was listening to the comedy channel on Satellite Radio this morning, when a particular comedian asked if anyone in the crowd had never waited tables at all. There was a few people who applauded, and he told the crowd.. “Those are the jerks…”
He went on to this pretty funny observation on how he thinks it should be mandatory for every person in America to wait tables for one year in their life so they will learn that they’re cheese fries really aren’t that...
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