divHere is one of the pics from the Calendar shoot. Not sure if it is the one they are going to use. This young man is named Travis and he loves car racing. I took him for a buzz in an a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWoo82zNUA"Ariel Atom/a. If you've never seen one in action, click on the link to watch what these things can do. We had a blast out at a href="http://www.drivewayaustin.com/"Driveway Austin./a/diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjpWBJwD2NI/AAAAAAAAG0k/8goL1eGMK-k/s1600-h/JB04.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjpWBJwD2NI/AAAAAAAAG0k/8goL1eGMK-k/s200/JB04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348682085253241042" //abr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjpWAzUe-HI/AAAAAAAAG0c/AjdVhXaR-Z8/s1600-h/JB03.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjpWAzUe-HI/AAAAAAAAG0c/AjdVhXaR-Z8/s200/JB03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348682079231998066" //abr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjpWAjr0NNI/AAAAAAAAG0U/ugdBMLrLfcs/s1600-h/JB02.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjpWAjr0NNI/AAAAAAAAG0U/ugdBMLrLfcs/s200/JB02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348682075034891474" //abr /divbr //divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjoVw0h9otI/AAAAAAAAG0M/69DicVoGs4E/s1600-h/5090_1159278388059_1410763092_435291_3212835_n.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SjoVw0h9otI/AAAAAAAAG0M/69DicVoGs4E/s200/5090_1159278388059_1410763092_435291_3212835_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348611435934884562" //adivbr //div
Here is one of the pics from the Calendar shoot. Not sure if it is the one they are going to use. This young man is named Travis and he loves car racing. I took him for a buzz in an Ariel Atom. If you've never seen one in action, click on the link to watch what these things can do. We had a blast out at Driveway Austin.
I was once on over the top, organized, anal-retentive freak. You know, to the point where it was quite annoying. I was pressed, waxed and sporting a handheld label maker with pride. My apartment was always ready for guests on a moments notice. I could have it visitor ready during their elevator ride up to my place. I recall a time when April 15th would roll around and I could pull my files out of my desk, run a report on quicken and my taxes where done. If I needed a receipt for the purchase of a battery from three years ago, I could find it in a heartbeat. My wife remembers that guy and wonders where he went. I donât know where the old JB is, but I can tell you when he left. He departed on November 26th, 2001. This was the day that I became a father and my mind warped and my priorities changed. Parents, you know what Iâm talking about. Those of you who have not yet had children or are expecting, I am about to give you a glimpse into your future.br /br /Let me take you on a little visual tour of my house. Just to be clear and avoid us coming across as slobs, my house is always clean. You could eat off the floor. It just has the distinct markings that a child lives there. Next to our front door youâll always find my daughters backpack, jacket and shoes. Our daughter can slip them off in one fluid motion when she walks in the door. Our living room is filled with extreme toys. Next to our lounge chair is an electric scooter that is charging. Next to the sofa is an electric car that is also charging. On the kitchen table is an remote control helicopter this is, you guessed it, charging. It seems every outlet is filled with a charger of some sort for portable dvd, ipods, DS Nitinendo or something. Whenever we sit on the sofa something needs to be moved, a pogo stick, hulk gloves or possibly and critter from outdoors, being held against itâs will. br /br /I always envisioned a quite office where I could find solitude. Itâs become the most chaotic room in the house. My office has become the office/playroom/family room/exercise room. The shelves meant to organize my work, taxes, books are filled with dinosaurs, board games, and puzzles. Itâs not uncommon to be working in the wee hours of the morning, the only time I am alone, only to have Squeeky the hamster cruise across my keyboard. The exercise equipment that âfolds for easy storageâ has lost its motivation to fold and store. At least itâs being used. On our tour, I can take you quickly from the family room to the bathroom because we have our choice of transportation available anywhere you look; skateboards, bikes, stilts. The bathroom is filled with gimmicks to entertain. When you pull back the shower curtain you literally canât see the bottom of the tub. Itâs a porcelain toy box of squirt guns, dolphins, mermaids and animal shaped bath gels. When I was growing up I donât recall needing scuba gear.br /br /Outside our home isnât much different. We have a small yard filled with nerfs, balls, bats, kites and inflatableâs. Not being much of a judge of size while ordering online, I apparently purchased the largest trampoline known to mankind. You open the door, walk to the end of the deck and all you see is my Ringling Brothers approved larger than life trampoline, leaving no yard whatsoever. Oh well, less mowing. Iâm not sure if our garage is organized or not. Itâs more of a magical David Copperfield sort of trick. Itâs really a mess but itâs all on the ceiling. Using every imaginable hook, shelf and pulley known available at Home Depot, Iâve managed to hang upside down every outdoor sports mechanism you can imagine; a Canoe, tent, surfboard, or fishing gear. What I basically have is an upside down REI. If you can find the right rope you are welcome to borrow anything you like. If you grab the wrong rope, they all come tumbling down.br /br /As crazy and chaotic as this all sounds, itâs also comforting. To walk into our home and find everything perfectly stowed away wouldnât feel right. I fully expect to walk up to the front door with the dog scratching at the glass, as if I hadnât been home in years, even though I just went to the mailbox. I expect the place to look as if a seven year old is loving every minute of being seven in this home, just as they did at six, five, and so on. Dinner wouldnât be the same if there werenât rubber frogs in the chair and fake poo on the table. I wouldnât know what to think if a dvd was actually in the correct case, or in a case at all. br /br /Priorities change when kids start taking those first steps. Itâs almost sad when we box up a years worth of her favorite toys and take it to our storage building, something I said I would NEVER have. We pull out a jumbo marker and write âRaleigh age oneâ and so on accordingly each year. She only gets to be a kid once and I hope she remembers how fun this house was. We always wanted it to be a creative, inspiring place to learn even if it meant mommy and daddy would have army men and jacks permanently embedded in their feet. There will always be plenty of time later in life to return to the old JB, but I donât miss him for now.br /br /I would like to make one last stop on our tour. I would like to show you my car but unfortunately melted crayons have jammed the doorlocks. But if you look inside and to the left youâll see a lovely design made of crushed goldfishâ¦
I was once on over the top, organized, anal-retentive freak. You know, to the point where it was quite annoying. I was pressed, waxed and sporting a handheld label maker with pride. My apartment was always ready for guests on a moments notice. I could have it visitor ready during their elevator ride up to my place. I recall a time when April 15th would roll around and I could pull my files out of my desk, run a report on quicken and my taxes where done. If I needed a receipt for the purchase of a battery from three years ago, I could find it in a heartbeat. My wife remembers that guy and wonders where he went. I donât know where the old JB is, but I can tell you when he left. He departed on November 26th, 2001. This was the day that I became a father and my mind warped and my priorities changed. Parents, you know what Iâm talking about. Those of you who have not yet had children or are expecting, I am about to give you a glimpse into your future.
Let me take you on a little visual tour of my house. Just to be clear and avoid us coming across as slobs, my house is always clean. You could eat off the floor. It just has the distinct markings that a child lives there. Next to our front door youâll always find my daughters backpack, jacket and shoes. Our daughter can slip them off in one fluid motion when she walks in the door. Our living room is filled with extreme toys. Next to our lounge chair is an electric scooter that is charging. Next to the sofa is an electric car that is also charging. On the kitchen table is an remote control helicopter this is, you guessed it, charging. It seems every outlet is filled with a charger of some sort for portable dvd, ipods, DS Nitinendo or something. Whenever we sit on the sofa something needs to be moved, a pogo stick, hulk gloves or possibly and critter from outdoors, being held against itâs will.
I always envisioned a quite office where I could find solitude. Itâs become the most chaotic room in the house. My office has become the office/playroom/family room/exercise room. The shelves meant to organize my work, taxes, books are filled with dinosaurs, board games, and puzzles. Itâs not uncommon to be working in the wee hours of the morning, the only time I am alone, only to have Squeeky the hamster cruise across my keyboard. The exercise equipment that âfolds for easy storageâ has lost its motivation to fold and store. At least itâs being used. On our tour, I can take you quickly from the family room to the bathroom because we have our choice of transportation available anywhere you look; skateboards, bikes, stilts. The bathroom is filled with gimmicks to entertain. When you pull back the shower curtain you literally canât see the bottom of the tub. Itâs a porcelain toy box of squirt guns, dolphins, mermaids and animal shaped bath gels. When I was growing up I donât recall needing scuba gear.
Outside our home isnât much different. We have a small yard filled with nerfs, balls, bats, kites and inflatableâs. Not being much of a judge of size while ordering online, I apparently purchased the largest trampoline known to mankind. You open the door, walk to the end of the deck and all you see is my Ringling Brothers approved larger than life trampoline, leaving no yard whatsoever. Oh well, less mowing. Iâm not sure if our garage is organized or not. Itâs more of a magical David Copperfield sort of trick. Itâs really a mess but itâs all on the ceiling. Using every imaginable hook, shelf and pulley known available at Home Depot, Iâve managed to hang upside down every outdoor sports mechanism you can imagine; a Canoe, tent, surfboard, or fishing gear. What I basically have is an upside down REI. If you can find the right rope you are welcome to borrow anything you like. If you grab the wrong rope, they all come tumbling down.
As crazy and chaotic as this all sounds, itâs also comforting. To walk into our home and find everything perfectly stowed away wouldnât feel right. I fully expect to walk up to the front door with the dog scratching at the glass, as if I hadnât been home in years, even though I just went to the mailbox. I expect the place to look as if a seven year old is loving every minute of being seven in this home, just as they did at six, five, and so on. Dinner wouldnât be the same if there werenât rubber frogs in the chair and fake poo on the table. I wouldnât know what to think if a dvd was actually in the correct case, or in a case at all.
Priorities change when kids start taking those first steps. Itâs almost sad when we box up a years worth of her favorite toys and take it to our storage building, something I said I would NEVER have. We pull out a jumbo marker and write âRaleigh age oneâ and so on accordingly each year. She only gets to be a kid once and I hope she remembers how fun this house was. We always wanted it to be a creative, inspiring place to learn even if it meant mommy and daddy would have army men and jacks permanently embedded in their feet. There will always be plenty of time later in life to return to the old JB, but I donât miss him for now.
I would like to make one last stop on our tour. I would like to show you my car but unfortunately melted crayons have jammed the doorlocks. But if you look inside and to the left youâll see a lovely design made of crushed goldfishâ¦
Just in case you missed it. :)br /br /br /âIâm sorry honey, I completely underestimated the purpose of your closet and I will do everything within my power to respect your space, your things and the overall sacredness that is YOUR closet.âbr /br /My wife would be thrilled if I wrote that statement 100 times on a giant chalkboard, but the problem is⦠itâs not going to happen. I hate to further perpetuate the obvious differences between men and women, but the way we think of our closets is a big one. Itâs hard for me to get our brains around how women feel about their closets. The key word is âfeelâ. Itâs complicatedbr /br /To men, there is no attachment to a closet. Itâs a space where we shove our stuff. I literally mean, shove our stuff in there. It starts when we are kids. Mom says to clean up your room or you canât watch Monday Night Football. So, we scoop everything up into our arms and shove it into the closet. As soon as you open it, baseballs, basketballs, skateboards and race car sets come tumbling down. We never really outgrow this. Our closet is eternally a hidden space to hide things for a surprise inspection. br /br /I have talked to several adult women about their relationships with their closets. They were all very passionate about the things they love and hate. I found them all very interesting.br /br /I was shocked at the number of married couples that donât share a closet. Some because they are well off and have the his/hers setup, just off the master bedroom. More often they have the setup that means she got the master closet and he gets dressed somewhere else. I donât think she really cares where. The men that are not in the master closet are typically newlyweds that are so fresh, excited and willing to please their new bride they make this move right off the bat. Bad idea guys. You will spend years trying to fight your way back into the master, especially when you find yourself sharing space with your toddler. It doesnât really make a man feel like a power executive when he accidentally tries on his three year olds Spiderman undies. I was in the guest room as a newlywed, didnât want to wake up my new bride with my early hours. I still love her, donât get me wrong, but sheâs the first person Iâm waking up if I canât find my keys.br /br /Women love to be able to see every single pair of shoes they own at a glance. This takes a lot of space. This problem has arisen from the shoe boutiques that display their items in what I call âshoe condoâsâ. Little private residences for your footwear. Women want this same sort of glam treatment for their shoes at home. For most, this is not very realistic, so we go to The Container Store on mission to organize our closets. I have a theory on those shelving systems they sell. The only oneâs that have ever been built and actually exist as a complete setup are the ones on display in the store. When you attempt to replicate this in your home closet, the boxes you buy that are supposed to mimick these systems are just misc spare parts that are not intended to go together whatsoever. How many of us have fallen for the Elf system, only to be left on our closet floor in the fetal position wimpering?br /br /Women like to break down their closet into specific sections, casual, dresses, t-shirts, jeans, etcâ¦br /They are way off base with their labeling. If they were being honest their sections would be more like this; fat clothes, skinny clothes, out of style, too fancy, not fancy enough, not mine, shows too much cleavage, donât know why I still have this, all of my friends have seen me in the recently, and letâs not forget the stained/ripped/torn needs attention section.br /br /All women love the concept of having something new in their closet that they have NEVER worn, preferably still with the tag on it. It makes them feel special. Iâve found an easy, affordable remedy for this situation. I make the rounds to all the finer boutiques in town with some fresh cupcakes. I offer the cakes in exchange for some high priced tags which I take home and attach to my wifeâs old clothing. Women will either fall for this or think they are going crazy. Either way, itâs entertaining.br /br /Iâve always been fascinated with the number of purses women will keep. They typically take up all the upper shelf space in their closets. They hang on to them forever knowing full well that they are never going to go back to an older purse. Why wonât they part with these things? Have you ever given any thought to the amount of money women will drop on designer purses? Iâve always been perplexed by the fact that women will spend far more on a container for their money than the amount of money they posses. Thatâs completely illogical and unreasonable. Of course, if I wanted logic and reason, I could just marry my computer. The day they design a computer with breasts, women are in trouble. br /br /I know there are a lot of other things my wife would like for our closet, besides me moving outside into a Rubbermaid shed. Just to name a few, I think she would like twice the size, a full length mirror with rotating stage, a balance bar on the wall, matching hangers throughout (a chick thing and completely ridiculous), a lock on the door to keep me and the kid out, a tv, a pedicurist, a chocolate fountain, a hot tub, a young shirtless towel boy for when she steps out of the hot tub, and live performances from latin boy bands on the weekend and/or Oprah. Other than that, I think she loves our closet.
âIâm sorry honey, I completely underestimated the purpose of your closet and I will do everything within my power to respect your space, your things and the overall sacredness that is YOUR closet.â
My wife would be thrilled if I wrote that statement 100 times on a giant chalkboard, but the problem is⦠itâs not going to happen. I hate to further perpetuate the obvious differences between men and women, but the way we think of our closets is a big one. Itâs hard for me to get our brains around how women feel about their closets. The key word is âfeelâ. Itâs complicated
To men, there is no attachment to a closet. Itâs a space where we shove our stuff. I literally mean, shove our stuff in there. It starts when we are kids. Mom says to clean up your room or you canât watch Monday Night Football. So, we scoop everything up into our arms and shove it into the closet. As soon as you open it, baseballs, basketballs, skateboards and race car sets come tumbling down. We never really outgrow this. Our closet is eternally a hidden space to hide things for a surprise inspection.
I have talked to several adult women about their relationships with their closets. They were all very passionate about the things they love and hate. I found them all very interesting.
I was shocked at the number of married couples that donât share a closet. Some because they are well off and have the his/hers setup, just off the master bedroom. More often they have the setup that means she got the master closet and he gets dressed somewhere else. I donât think she really cares where. The men that are not in the master closet are typically newlyweds that are so fresh, excited and willing to please their new bride they make this move right off the bat. Bad idea guys. You will spend years trying to fight your way back into the master, especially when you find yourself sharing space with your toddler. It doesnât really make a man feel like a power executive when he accidentally tries on his three year olds Spiderman undies. I was in the guest room as a newlywed, didnât want to wake up my new bride with my early hours. I still love her, donât get me wrong, but sheâs the first person Iâm waking up if I canât find my keys.
Women love to be able to see every single pair of shoes they own at a glance. This takes a lot of space. This problem has arisen from the shoe boutiques that display their items in what I call âshoe condoâsâ. Little private residences for your footwear. Women want this same sort of glam treatment for their shoes at home. For most, this is not very realistic, so we go to The Container Store on mission to organize our closets. I have a theory on those shelving systems they sell. The only oneâs that have ever been built and actually exist as a complete setup are the ones on display in the store. When you attempt to replicate this in your home closet, the boxes you buy that are supposed to mimick these systems are just misc spare parts that are not intended to go together whatsoever. How many of us have fallen for the Elf system, only to be left on our closet floor in the fetal position wimpering?
Women like to break down their closet into specific sections, casual, dresses, t-shirts, jeans, etc⦠They are way off base with their labeling. If they were being honest their sections would be more like this; fat clothes, skinny clothes, out of style, too fancy, not fancy enough, not mine, shows too much cleavage, donât know why I still have this, all of my friends have seen me in the recently, and letâs not forget the stained/ripped/torn needs attention section.
All women love the concept of having something new in their closet that they have NEVER worn, preferably still with the tag on it. It makes them feel special. Iâve found an easy, affordable remedy for this situation. I make the rounds to all the finer boutiques in town with some fresh cupcakes. I offer the cakes in exchange for some high priced tags which I take home and attach to my wifeâs old clothing. Women will either fall for this or think they are going crazy. Either way, itâs entertaining.
Iâve always been fascinated with the number of purses women will keep. They typically take up all the upper shelf space in their closets. They hang on to them forever knowing full well that they are never going to go back to an older purse. Why wonât they part with these things? Have you ever given any thought to the amount of money women will drop on designer purses? Iâve always been perplexed by the fact that women will spend far more on a container for their money than the amount of money they posses. Thatâs completely illogical and unreasonable. Of course, if I wanted logic and reason, I could just marry my computer. The day they design a computer with breasts, women are in trouble.
I know there are a lot of other things my wife would like for our closet, besides me moving outside into a Rubbermaid shed. Just to name a few, I think she would like twice the size, a full length mirror with rotating stage, a balance bar on the wall, matching hangers throughout (a chick thing and completely ridiculous), a lock on the door to keep me and the kid out, a tv, a pedicurist, a chocolate fountain, a hot tub, a young shirtless towel boy for when she steps out of the hot tub, and live performances from latin boy bands on the weekend and/or Oprah. Other than that, I think she loves our closet.
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â divbr //divobject width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-fd4f981e07018198" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fv4.nonxt2.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26itag%3D5%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26app%3Dblogger%26et%3Dplay%26el%3DEMBEDDED%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1276325523%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D6D6592F88B0ABB84724C03B807F6CFDB68CE7C66.EAB060DB14AE962E4630D308836B5B81A52BBCD%26key%3Dck1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DTJtWGtdKd9ONYkrYNRJ-yBxGc9oamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Denamp;nogvlm=1"param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fv4.nonxt2.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26itag%3D5%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26app%3Dblogger%26et%3Dplay%26el%3DEMBEDDED%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1276325523%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D6D6592F88B0ABB84724C03B807F6CFDB68CE7C66.EAB060DB14AE962E4630D308836B5B81A52BBCD%26key%3Dck1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DTJtWGtdKd9ONYkrYNRJ-yBxGc9oamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Denamp;nogvlm=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/object
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â divbr //divobject width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-fd4f981e07018198" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fv4.nonxt2.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26itag%3D5%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26app%3Dblogger%26et%3Dplay%26el%3DEMBEDDED%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1275978627%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D15BECDB38468DC6D35B4283A2FA5EA349FBFBC51.5346E46951136B9994495155406FD79643124ECC%26key%3Dck1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DTJtWGtdKd9ONYkrYNRJ-yBxGc9oamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Denamp;nogvlm=1"param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fv4.nonxt2.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26itag%3D5%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26app%3Dblogger%26et%3Dplay%26el%3DEMBEDDED%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1275978627%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D15BECDB38468DC6D35B4283A2FA5EA349FBFBC51.5346E46951136B9994495155406FD79643124ECC%26key%3Dck1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dfd4f981e07018198%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DTJtWGtdKd9ONYkrYNRJ-yBxGc9oamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Denamp;nogvlm=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/object
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Hanging out at Driveway Austin on Sunday and my friend Bill taught me to do a reverse 180 in the car. This is the cool hollywood move where you haul ass in reverse, spin your car 180 degrees and then punch it forward. Check it out. Â
Here is the video from our seats on the final play of the game. Huge win for Tx!divbr //divdivbr //divobject width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-263741d4f79ddc9f" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fv23.nonxt7.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D263741d4f79ddc9f%26itag%3D5%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26app%3Dblogger%26et%3Dplay%26el%3DEMBEDDED%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1276325523%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D19D2AB3050FE38D778F310F8895E3BC03E5B8FBF.68D2BF70523509341A6C11E40E9A16428AEAB6A%26key%3Dck1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D263741d4f79ddc9f%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3Dv3HrtpBJ5ct6acyLeMJjKITjUswamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Denamp;nogvlm=1"param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fv23.nonxt7.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D263741d4f79ddc9f%26itag%3D5%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26app%3Dblogger%26et%3Dplay%26el%3DEMBEDDED%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1276325523%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3D19D2AB3050FE38D778F310F8895E3BC03E5B8FBF.68D2BF70523509341A6C11E40E9A16428AEAB6A%26key%3Dck1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D263741d4f79ddc9f%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3Dv3HrtpBJ5ct6acyLeMJjKITjUswamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Denamp;nogvlm=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/object
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The following is an article I wrote for a href="http://www.rareaustin.com/"Rare Magazine/a for the Sept. Film issue. On stands at your favorite local boutiques and restaurants is the new "Food Issue".  Check out a href="http://www.rareaustin.com/"www.rareaustin.com/a for information on Restaurant week. divbr //divdiv______________/divdivbr //divdivbr //divMike Judge was dead on when he predicted the dumbing down of America in his film âIdiocracy.â He predicted that eventually the number one show will be âAwww, my Ballsâ and the Oscar winning film will be called âAssâ. The single reason we are bottom feeders for entertainment is the one and only YOUTUBE.br /br /Youtube is single handedly destroying films and civilization. I can prove it. I am going to start out on an indisputably pure subject and show you how quickly things fall apart. I log onto Youtube and search Mother Teresa, great philanthropist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.br /br /(Search) Mother Teresabr /The first video to catch my attention was video footage from a Mother Teresa documentary put to the U2 song âGraceâ. Watching it I learned two thingsâ¦Bono didnât always wear sunglasses and I will mentally remove Calcutta from my âplaces to visit before I dieâ list.br /42,794 viewsbr /br /(Related Video) U2 Angel of Harlembr /I felt the guilts for not staying on the Mother Teresa route. Youtube suggested more footage from documentaries about her, but I was ready to move on. Between Mother Teresa and Bono I was feeling pretty worthless. I napped most of the day and drank beer. Again, itâs weird to see Bonoâs eyes. 157,662 viewsbr /br /(Related Video) John Stevens â King of the Roadbr /Of course, many U2 video suggestions came up, but the one that compelled me to click was John Stevens singing âKing of the Roadâ. Remember John Stevens? The red headed crooner from season 3 of American Idol. Not only did he forget one of the lines on this performance, he lost to Fantasia! Loser. 24,958 viewsbr /br /(Related video) best tricks of KING OF THE ROADbr /Of course itâs inevitable that youtube take you to a skater video. Here it is in 3 moves from Mother Teresa! Iâm a sucker for good skate vids. This is a killer one. It has a naked skater, a couple of face plants, tattoos and thrashing tunes. Big props to them for not including a guy accidentally straddling a hand rail. 110,011 viewsbr /br /br /(Related Video) College Booty Shakebr /This is a webcam quality video of two college age girls doing a booty shake. If you are not familiar with Booty Shaking, itâs a type of dancing common among strippers. Itâs fairly sexy and exotic on both African American and Latin women. White women think they can do it, but look more as if they are suffering from hypothermia. The objective with booty shaking is act as if you are standing on a surfboard, but only move your butt up and down. This video in particular is more focused on the two girls making out, a common theme on Youtube.br /Views: 406,986br /br /I have clicked on every single related video and they are all girls booty shaking. Many of them have over one million views. Itâs impossible to leave this subject. This experiment is officially over!br /br /Once you jump into booty shaking, itâs impossible to leave. Who are they making these videoâs for? Their boyfriends? Their girlfriends? I canât tell. There are some common threads with the booty shake vids. They are usually shot in a cluttered bedroom. There are usually two or more girls, the beefier one seems to always be initiating things. I think the beefy girls are using the skinny girls for web hits and attention. However, I donât think the skinny girls would make this video alone, so I should really be thanking the fat one. âThank you fat girl!âbr /br /We went from Mother Teresa to girls shaking it in your face in a measly 4 moves. What does that say about us and our society? The shear number of hits with skateboarding and booty shake videos are staggering. Any aspiring filmmaker who wants to take a cue from this should be developing a script staring Tony Hawk and Kim Kardashian. Itâs a runaway hit.br /br /Who needs mega box office smash hits staring pretty people like Will Smith or Angelina Jolie? Besides, I was tired of films set âBefore civilization beganâ or âAfter it endedâ⦠in middle Earth or outer space anyway.br /Bring on the booty and bust an olie for me. My 8 bucks for the movie ticket is all yours.
The following is an article I wrote for Rare Magazine for the Sept. Film issue. On stands at your favorite local boutiques and restaurants is the new "Food Issue".  Check out www.rareaustin.com for information on Restaurant week.Â
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Mike Judge was dead on when he predicted the dumbing down of America in his film âIdiocracy.â He predicted that eventually the number one show will be âAwww, my Ballsâ and the Oscar winning film will be called âAssâ. The single reason we are bottom feeders for entertainment is the one and only YOUTUBE.
Youtube is single handedly destroying films and civilization. I can prove it. I am going to start out on an indisputably pure subject and show you how quickly things fall apart. I log onto Youtube and search Mother Teresa, great philanthropist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
(Search) Mother Teresa The first video to catch my attention was video footage from a Mother Teresa documentary put to the U2 song âGraceâ. Watching it I learned two thingsâ¦Bono didnât always wear sunglasses and I will mentally remove Calcutta from my âplaces to visit before I dieâ list. 42,794 views
(Related Video) U2 Angel of Harlem I felt the guilts for not staying on the Mother Teresa route. Youtube suggested more footage from documentaries about her, but I was ready to move on. Between Mother Teresa and Bono I was feeling pretty worthless. I napped most of the day and drank beer. Again, itâs weird to see Bonoâs eyes. 157,662 views
(Related Video) John Stevens â King of the Road Of course, many U2 video suggestions came up, but the one that compelled me to click was John Stevens singing âKing of the Roadâ. Remember John Stevens? The red headed crooner from season 3 of American Idol. Not only did he forget one of the lines on this performance, he lost to Fantasia! Loser. 24,958 views
(Related video) best tricks of KING OF THE ROAD Of course itâs inevitable that youtube take you to a skater video. Here it is in 3 moves from Mother Teresa! Iâm a sucker for good skate vids. This is a killer one. It has a naked skater, a couple of face plants, tattoos and thrashing tunes. Big props to them for not including a guy accidentally straddling a hand rail. 110,011 views
(Related Video) College Booty Shake This is a webcam quality video of two college age girls doing a booty shake. If you are not familiar with Booty Shaking, itâs a type of dancing common among strippers. Itâs fairly sexy and exotic on both African American and Latin women. White women think they can do it, but look more as if they are suffering from hypothermia. The objective with booty shaking is act as if you are standing on a surfboard, but only move your butt up and down. This video in particular is more focused on the two girls making out, a common theme on Youtube. Views: 406,986
I have clicked on every single related video and they are all girls booty shaking. Many of them have over one million views. Itâs impossible to leave this subject. This experiment is officially over!
Once you jump into booty shaking, itâs impossible to leave. Who are they making these videoâs for? Their boyfriends? Their girlfriends? I canât tell. There are some common threads with the booty shake vids. They are usually shot in a cluttered bedroom. There are usually two or more girls, the beefier one seems to always be initiating things. I think the beefy girls are using the skinny girls for web hits and attention. However, I donât think the skinny girls would make this video alone, so I should really be thanking the fat one. âThank you fat girl!â
We went from Mother Teresa to girls shaking it in your face in a measly 4 moves. What does that say about us and our society? The shear number of hits with skateboarding and booty shake videos are staggering. Any aspiring filmmaker who wants to take a cue from this should be developing a script staring Tony Hawk and Kim Kardashian. Itâs a runaway hit.
Who needs mega box office smash hits staring pretty people like Will Smith or Angelina Jolie? Besides, I was tired of films set âBefore civilization beganâ or âAfter it endedâ⦠in middle Earth or outer space anyway. Bring on the booty and bust an olie for me. My 8 bucks for the movie ticket is all yours.
If you have an extra 10 minutes today, it will make you a much better person to watch this. I didn't see it live, but my dad sent me this video. Two things. One, I don't know why anyone would watch Leno, never understood that. Two, if you never understood or just didn't know why Paul Newman was so great, Please watch this video. I think you will understand. Great job by Letterman of doing such a great humanitarian piece on this and helping us to understand why Pal was so significant. Great stuff. Â jbdivbr //divbr /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zbBMrz1DmXchl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zbBMrz1DmXchl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object
If you have an extra 10 minutes today, it will make you a much better person to watch this. I didn't see it live, but my dad sent me this video. Two things. One, I don't know why anyone would watch Leno, never understood that. Two, if you never understood or just didn't know why Paul Newman was so great, Please watch this video. I think you will understand. Great job by Letterman of doing such a great humanitarian piece on this and helping us to understand why Pal was so significant. Great stuff. Â jb
divVery nice guy. Here with my wife and his wife, Kim. Did you know he lives in Central, Tx now?/divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SOC_lHFKtII/AAAAAAAAEjI/99i0ufY7Qjs/s1600-h/CIMG3369.JPG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/SOC_lHFKtII/AAAAAAAAEjI/99i0ufY7Qjs/s200/CIMG3369.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251407809790784642" //a
divBelow is my September article for a href="http://www.rareaustin.com"Rare Magazine. /a/divdivenjoy... jb/divdivbr //divI imagine that most students today are tired of hearing how hard it âused to beâ. âWe didnât have computers, the internet, blah, blah, blahâ. Iâll admit. I fantasize about what it would be like to be in college today. Could you imagine the possibilites? If you are about my age, you remember that we didnât have cell phones and we would sign up for computer lab just to write a paper. Now, your syllabus and class notes are all online. Your fellow students are easy to track down via myspace and facebook. Answers are just a google search away and getting laid is just a few flirty text messages in front of you. Itâs the best of both worlds, your school work is easier and your social life it lined up for you online. Right?br /br /Wrong! Iâve come full circle on my opinion of students today. You guys have it rough. Much harder than any of us could imagine. I really started thinking about all of the things that are out there to distract you from your studies. I realize that had those things been at my disposal when I was a student, accomplishing anything would be impossible. I was a bad enough student back in the day. To try to pull it off today⦠impossible.br /br /Letâs start with all the distractions on your phone. The more and more phones become like computers, the more trouble youâre in. The time wasting, the web browsing. I canât imagine how much time the average student spends text messaging with their friends. Email is becoming the standard on a phone/pda. When are you ever alone? Never. Youâre always a buzzing phone away from catching up on gossip or being invited out with friends. To me, the biggest distraction from being a good student would be text message flirting. I would have been ALL OVER THIS. Thank goodness Iâm now old enough, married and have some success at managing my libido. At 21, it would have been GAME ON. If any girls were foolish enough to give me their cell phone numbers, the text message flirting would have started at about 6pm and not quit until I found one of them at at a bar having had too much to drink. Vodka and text messaging are a wonderful and amazing combination, but bad for studying.br /br /T.V. has hit a whole new level of preoccupation. I donât recall television being that big of a factor as I was growing up. It was nice, sometimes entertaining, but it didnât posses all the guilty pleasures it does today. Everyone I know has at least one guilty pleasure reality show. Have you noticed how many of these shows are targeted right at high school and college students? Back in the day I had to have my fill of Letterman or SNL, but these days, who canât fall victim to a marathon of The Hills, Miami Ink, The Girls Next Door, Americaâs Next Top Model, Celebrity Intervention, Rock of Love or I Love New York? T.V. has gotten so meaningless and trashy, but undeniably pleasurable, definitely a distraction from Biology.br /br /I donât even know where to start with computers. I think we all know what a huge diversion they are to every day living. Weâre all lead to believe that this might be the greatest, most essential tool for a student today, but itâs probably the opposite. I think back to the people and ran around with in college. Had they had the internet at their disposal like students today, most of them would have never graduated. I would say that at least a quarter of them would have quit going to class and took up day trading full time. Another quarter would have been too tired to go to class because they were up all night gambling online. Another twenty five percent of the people I knew in college would have been starting an online business of some sort, in an effort to get rich quick. The rest of the guys I knew would have been addicted to internet porn and never left the house. Think about that the next time you set foot in an all-male dorm.br /br /My point is. Think about how much time you waste with your phone, television and computers. Imagine having that pressure when you were a student. Throw on top of that the same distractions we had when we were student, primarily alcohol and sex. You still have the age old pressures of Cain and Ables, Posse East and Sixth Street. How does anyone ever make it to class or how does a research paper ever get written?br /br /I commend any of you that are reading this and able to focus on your studies long enough to make the grades. I really donât know how you do it. There are far too many distractions in day to day life for ANY student to ever succeed. In fact, any student who is completely able to focus on their studies gives me the creeps. There must be something wrong with you because our technological advances are just plain fun, dirty and time wasting! Next time you are thinking about studying a little English literature, instead try a little myspace, facebook, jump on ebay. When you research paper is due Psych class, instead see whatâs up on linkedin, Perez Hilton, or punch up a quick âcasual encounterâ on Craiglist. Got lab or group study time? Fire up the Playstation or Wii.br /br /If any of you students are getting a hard time and a lecture from your parents about how easy you have it and how it âused to beâ, try this. Grab you mom by the arm, march her over the computer and take her to smartbargains.com or even worse, neimanmarcus.com and ask her if she could focus on reading a chapter of Anthropology. If your dad gives you the same grief, grab him by the ear, pull him over to the computer and show him youporn.com and ask him âDid you have THIS when you were in school?â I think they theyâll understand.
I imagine that most students today are tired of hearing how hard it âused to beâ. âWe didnât have computers, the internet, blah, blah, blahâ. Iâll admit. I fantasize about what it would be like to be in college today. Could you imagine the possibilites? If you are about my age, you remember that we didnât have cell phones and we would sign up for computer lab just to write a paper. Now, your syllabus and class notes are all online. Your fellow students are easy to track down via myspace and facebook. Answers are just a google search away and getting laid is just a few flirty text messages in front of you. Itâs the best of both worlds, your school work is easier and your social life it lined up for you online. Right?
Wrong! Iâve come full circle on my opinion of students today. You guys have it rough. Much harder than any of us could imagine. I really started thinking about all of the things that are out there to distract you from your studies. I realize that had those things been at my disposal when I was a student, accomplishing anything would be impossible. I was a bad enough student back in the day. To try to pull it off today⦠impossible.
Letâs start with all the distractions on your phone. The more and more phones become like computers, the more trouble youâre in. The time wasting, the web browsing. I canât imagine how much time the average student spends text messaging with their friends. Email is becoming the standard on a phone/pda. When are you ever alone? Never. Youâre always a buzzing phone away from catching up on gossip or being invited out with friends. To me, the biggest distraction from being a good student would be text message flirting. I would have been ALL OVER THIS. Thank goodness Iâm now old enough, married and have some success at managing my libido. At 21, it would have been GAME ON. If any girls were foolish enough to give me their cell phone numbers, the text message flirting would have started at about 6pm and not quit until I found one of them at at a bar having had too much to drink. Vodka and text messaging are a wonderful and amazing combination, but bad for studying.
T.V. has hit a whole new level of preoccupation. I donât recall television being that big of a factor as I was growing up. It was nice, sometimes entertaining, but it didnât posses all the guilty pleasures it does today. Everyone I know has at least one guilty pleasure reality show. Have you noticed how many of these shows are targeted right at high school and college students? Back in the day I had to have my fill of Letterman or SNL, but these days, who canât fall victim to a marathon of The Hills, Miami Ink, The Girls Next Door, Americaâs Next Top Model, Celebrity Intervention, Rock of Love or I Love New York? T.V. has gotten so meaningless and trashy, but undeniably pleasurable, definitely a distraction from Biology.
I donât even know where to start with computers. I think we all know what a huge diversion they are to every day living. Weâre all lead to believe that this might be the greatest, most essential tool for a student today, but itâs probably the opposite. I think back to the people and ran around with in college. Had they had the internet at their disposal like students today, most of them would have never graduated. I would say that at least a quarter of them would have quit going to class and took up day trading full time. Another quarter would have been too tired to go to class because they were up all night gambling online. Another twenty five percent of the people I knew in college would have been starting an online business of some sort, in an effort to get rich quick. The rest of the guys I knew would have been addicted to internet porn and never left the house. Think about that the next time you set foot in an all-male dorm.
My point is. Think about how much time you waste with your phone, television and computers. Imagine having that pressure when you were a student. Throw on top of that the same distractions we had when we were student, primarily alcohol and sex. You still have the age old pressures of Cain and Ables, Posse East and Sixth Street. How does anyone ever make it to class or how does a research paper ever get written?
I commend any of you that are reading this and able to focus on your studies long enough to make the grades. I really donât know how you do it. There are far too many distractions in day to day life for ANY student to ever succeed. In fact, any student who is completely able to focus on their studies gives me the creeps. There must be something wrong with you because our technological advances are just plain fun, dirty and time wasting! Next time you are thinking about studying a little English literature, instead try a little myspace, facebook, jump on ebay. When you research paper is due Psych class, instead see whatâs up on linkedin, Perez Hilton, or punch up a quick âcasual encounterâ on Craiglist. Got lab or group study time? Fire up the Playstation or Wii.
If any of you students are getting a hard time and a lecture from your parents about how easy you have it and how it âused to beâ, try this. Grab you mom by the arm, march her over the computer and take her to smartbargains.com or even worse, neimanmarcus.com and ask her if she could focus on reading a chapter of Anthropology. If your dad gives you the same grief, grab him by the ear, pull him over to the computer and show him youporn.com and ask him âDid you have THIS when you were in school?â I think they theyâll understand.
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Did you join our "friends with benefits" program at a href="http://www.mix947.com/"www.mix947.com/a? If you did then you got the newsletter today that Matt Nathason is coming to our studio's on Friday. I love this guy. I have been listening to his new cd for quite awhile, was thrilled when Mix added his new song "Come on, get higher". Â Check out the video:divbr //divdivbr //divobject width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v7xTRh6G784amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v7xTRh6G784amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /I first heard of this guy years ago. He was brave enough to do a cover version of one of my favorite songs, "Laid" by James. Â It's a killer song from the early 90's that you might recongnize. It may also ring a bell because it was on one of the American Pie Soundracks. Here is a fun version of Matt doing it at a live show:divbr //divdivbr /divbr //divdivbr //div/divobject width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eo21umg_Btkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eo21umg_Btkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /Now, in case you have never seen them, you have to check out James doing "Laid". This song was HUGE, especially in the U.K. Check out how crazy the crowd is and how into it they are. Also, it's interesting going back and watching old footage of James. I think at some point Michael Stipe of R.E.M. saw Tim Booth of James and decided he wanted to look and act just like that on stage. Maybe it's just coincidence, but check out this old concert vid of James:divbr //divdivbr //divobject width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ol-KrTTta4gamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ol-KrTTta4gamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object
Did you join our "friends with benefits" program at www.mix947.com? If you did then you got the newsletter today that Matt Nathason is coming to our studio's on Friday. I love this guy. I have been listening to his new cd for quite awhile, was thrilled when Mix added his new song "Come on, get higher". Â Check out the video:
I first heard of this guy years ago. He was brave enough to do a cover version of one of my favorite songs, "Laid" by James. Â It's a killer song from the early 90's that you might recongnize. It may also ring a bell because it was on one of the American Pie Soundracks. Here is a fun version of Matt doing it at a live show:
Now, in case you have never seen them, you have to check out James doing "Laid". This song was HUGE, especially in the U.K. Check out how crazy the crowd is and how into it they are. Also, it's interesting going back and watching old footage of James. I think at some point Michael Stipe of R.E.M. saw Tim Booth of James and decided he wanted to look and act just like that on stage. Maybe it's just coincidence, but check out this old concert vid of James:
You might recall from years ago, we had a young aspiring film maker on the show named Alex Holdridge. He made a hysterically funny and cool film called "Wrong Numbers" using local talent and a shoestring budget. This film was about a couple of underage guys trying to buy beer in the course of one evening. A couple years later, we talked to Alex again when he was in Austin screening his next film that he wrote, directed and starred in called "Sexless". Growing up a Woody Allen fan, I saw this guy as the Austin version of Woody Allen. Sexless was a great relationship film and was the peoples choice for favorite at SXSW.br /Alex is living in L.A. now, but still has a lot of ties to Austin and so does the crew from his new film "In Search of a Midnight Kiss". The movies rolling out worldwide to rave reviews. It opens Friday the 29th at the Alamo Drafthouse South. We hope to talk to Alex this week and get some more scoop on the film. Make plans to see it and bring all your friends. br /These are the kind of films we need more of and fewer superhero/alien/crap movies. More details coming soon...br /br /object height="344" width="425"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eta6qTFY_rsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eta6qTFY_rsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"/embed/object
You might recall from years ago, we had a young aspiring film maker on the show named Alex Holdridge. He made a hysterically funny and cool film called "Wrong Numbers" using local talent and a shoestring budget. This film was about a couple of underage guys trying to buy beer in the course of one evening. A couple years later, we talked to Alex again when he was in Austin screening his next film that he wrote, directed and starred in called "Sexless". Growing up a Woody Allen fan, I saw this guy as the Austin version of Woody Allen. Sexless was a great relationship film and was the peoples choice for favorite at SXSW. Alex is living in L.A. now, but still has a lot of ties to Austin and so does the crew from his new film "In Search of a Midnight Kiss". The movies rolling out worldwide to rave reviews. It opens Friday the 29th at the Alamo Drafthouse South. We hope to talk to Alex this week and get some more scoop on the film. Make plans to see it and bring all your friends. These are the kind of films we need more of and fewer superhero/alien/crap movies. More details coming soon...
I'm still sticking with Radiohead for my whiney brit needs. Check out their new video here:br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G4qZfiTzSgQhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G4qZfiTzSgQhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object
It's been out for about a month. In case you missed the a href="http://www.austinmonthly.com/amonthly_home.php"Austin Monthly Home/a "Green Issue". Here is what I had to say about growing up green:br /br / p class="MsoNormal"Before everyone reading this starts handing out awards, commending each other for their green efforts and setting up a luncheon with Al Gore⦠I am here to tell you that you are not as Green as you think you are. I came to this reality when I was taking my own green home inventory. I realized that compared to when I grew up, we are total greedy, indulgent, all consuming mashers, yet we pat ourselves on the back for recycling and putting in double pane windows. You want to hear about true âgreen home living?â Let me tell you how it was when I grew up. We didnât have a name for it at the time and there were no city rebates. We were just green out of necessity. I canât tell if our green living came from those times or our modest economic status. Try reflecting on your own upbringing and you may too realize that you grew up greener than you could ever be today./p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pspan style="" /spanLetâs start with our obsession with square footage. This has got to stop. I love a cozy comfortable home with low ceilings. Am I the only one who likes this? Do we really need a separate room for every kid, their own playroom, attached kids bathrooms, a home theater room, a billiards room, a walk-in wine cooler, an office, a home gym, an art studio, a music room, a Riverdance Rehearsal roomâ¦? You get the idea. Most master closets are bigger than the rooms we grew up in. I have a friend with a treadmill that he uses in his master closet! Growing up kids shared rooms. It was part of the growth process. You had to learn to cohabitate with your siblings. We learn patience and understanding from clothes stealing and hair pulling. More importantly, think of all the massive square footage we are heating and cooling. I think it would be neat to have a specially lit eyebrow plucking room, but enough is enough./p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pAn energy efficient home is a good green home. When I was growing up, there was one stereo, one tv and the amount of time they were on was limited. Now, when I walk around my house I am shocked and amazed at just how many things are plugged in and sucking up power. I counted four computers, two cell phones, two digital cameras, four stereoâs, 5 tvâs, multiple dvd players, ipods everywhere. Iâm sure your house looks the same. I opened a closet and found an vacuum, an electric tile floor cleaner, a dustbuster and an electric swiffer. Weâve gotten too lazy to even use a traditional mop. Do you have the pre-soaked Clorox wipes in your kitchen? Weâre too lazy to spray a counter today or a paper towel. This is pathetic. Weâre creating massive amounts of additional trash to save ourselves an extra 20 seconds here or there. When we were kids, even paper towels were a luxury. I donât remember paper towels in my house when I grew up. We reused wash cloths until they smelled like a dead hamster. Our kitchen sponges would last through an entire presidential administration. I remember thinking people who had Brillo pads or st1:place st="on"Dixie/st1:place cups were rich. We had a pretty fancy dishwasher when I was growing up. I believe the brand was called JBNikkeStephanieChris, oddly named after me and my sisters. /p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pAre you starting to get the idea of what massive consumers we are today? Letâs just look at the exterior of your home. Think about your tool shed today. You have a chain saw, electric pole saw, leaf blower, electric edger. This will freak you out. Did you know that your gas leaf blower running for 30 minutes puts out the same emissions as driving your car 2,000 miles! Your rake, zero emissions! I remember raking leafs through half my childhood. In fact, itâs difficult to find a photo of me from my childhood without a lawn tool in my hands. You know the famous âAmerican Gothicâ depression era painting of the old man with the pitchfork? I was the pre-teen version of that. My sisters and I would edge the lawn with a pair of hand clippers. Donât get me wrong, we are not looking for accolades or anything, we pretty much bitched about it the entire time we were growing up. We were well compensated with dinner on the table every evening and a bad case of poison ivy on our crotch every spring. I canât complain./p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pAs you continue to dig into this, just as I have. Think about your childhood upbringing and compare the two. No one I know today carpools. Heck, we were even carpooling on bikes back in the day. Every memory of riding bikes as a kid I either had a friend on the handlebars or I was sitting on the bars getting âpumped.â We were so green we would conserve energy amongst friends, which in turn took fewer calories and less food consumption to sustain our energy. Howâs that for green? We would walk to school, few kids do today. Have you seen the line of moms in giant SUVâs heading in and out of the schools today? My dad drove a beetle with four kids. I hated sitting in the middle. I have a funny walk to this day because it was a stickshift. /p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pReduce, reuse, recycle seems like such a new thing, every since the City of st1:city st="on"st1:place st="on"Austin/st1:place/st1:City handed out those blue bins. We were on it a long time ago. My mom could stretch the life out of clothing like no other. She would buy them big, hem them, slowly let them out and put patches on any tears in the clothing. My mom had a bit of a nautical fetish, so I was often seen sporting ships and anchors on my jeans that I had torn in skateboarding accidents or Evel Kneivel reenactments. There was nothing cool about going to school looking like the president of the Popeye fan club. Our kids would be appalled at the thought of wearing their cousins hand me downs. How about thisâ¦why donât you suggest to your kids that they share the bathwater before they drain it? See what kind of reaction you get. Try hanging your clothes our on a clothes line to dry for on monthâ¦just try it. Howâs this for recycling, one year my great aunt made us Easter baskets out of empty ivory snow containers./p p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:pIâve really got to rethink my lifestyle. My dad was always bitchin about wasted electricity back then. At this very moment, half the lights are on in the house. The dishwasher is running, laundry is running, the landscape lighting just kicked on and the sprinkler system just finished. Iâll never forget the sprinkler system we had when I was a kid. My dad would stand in the middle of the lawn and spray in all directions til his 40 ouncer of Schlitz ran dry. Which didnât take long. I could go on and on with my list of how we lived green back in the day. Iâm not belittling those of you who just spent massive amounts of money on solar panels, rainwater collection or quadruple pane windows. I applaud those things, but really, really think about your total consumption. By the way, did you know Al Goreâs house has 8 bathrooms?/p
It's been out for about a month. In case you missed the Austin Monthly Home "Green Issue". Here is what I had to say about growing up green:
Before everyone reading this starts handing out awards, commending each other for their green efforts and setting up a luncheon with Al Gore⦠I am here to tell you that you are not as Green as you think you are. I came to this reality when I was taking my own green home inventory. I realized that compared to when I grew up, we are total greedy, indulgent, all consuming mashers, yet we pat ourselves on the back for recycling and putting in double pane windows. You want to hear about true âgreen home living?â Let me tell you how it was when I grew up. We didnât have a name for it at the time and there were no city rebates. We were just green out of necessity. I canât tell if our green living came from those times or our modest economic status. Try reflecting on your own upbringing and you may too realize that you grew up greener than you could ever be today.
Letâs start with our obsession with square footage. This has got to stop. I love a cozy comfortable home with low ceilings. Am I the only one who likes this? Do we really need a separate room for every kid, their own playroom, attached kids bathrooms, a home theater room, a billiards room, a walk-in wine cooler, an office, a home gym, an art studio, a music room, a Riverdance Rehearsal roomâ¦? You get the idea. Most master closets are bigger than the rooms we grew up in. I have a friend with a treadmill that he uses in his master closet! Growing up kids shared rooms. It was part of the growth process. You had to learn to cohabitate with your siblings. We learn patience and understanding from clothes stealing and hair pulling. More importantly, think of all the massive square footage we are heating and cooling. I think it would be neat to have a specially lit eyebrow plucking room, but enough is enough.
An energy efficient home is a good green home. When I was growing up, there was one stereo, one tv and the amount of time they were on was limited. Now, when I walk around my house I am shocked and amazed at just how many things are plugged in and sucking up power. I counted four computers, two cell phones, two digital cameras, four stereoâs, 5 tvâs, multiple dvd players, ipods everywhere. Iâm sure your house looks the same. I opened a closet and found an vacuum, an electric tile floor cleaner, a dustbuster and an electric swiffer. Weâve gotten too lazy to even use a traditional mop. Do you have the pre-soaked Clorox wipes in your kitchen? Weâre too lazy to spray a counter today or a paper towel. This is pathetic. Weâre creating massive amounts of additional trash to save ourselves an extra 20 seconds here or there. When we were kids, even paper towels were a luxury. I donât remember paper towels in my house when I grew up. We reused wash cloths until they smelled like a dead hamster. Our kitchen sponges would last through an entire presidential administration. I remember thinking people who had Brillo pads or Dixie cups were rich. We had a pretty fancy dishwasher when I was growing up. I believe the brand was called JBNikkeStephanieChris, oddly named after me and my sisters.
Are you starting to get the idea of what massive consumers we are today? Letâs just look at the exterior of your home. Think about your tool shed today. You have a chain saw, electric pole saw, leaf blower, electric edger. This will freak you out. Did you know that your gas leaf blower running for 30 minutes puts out the same emissions as driving your car 2,000 miles! Your rake, zero emissions! I remember raking leafs through half my childhood. In fact, itâs difficult to find a photo of me from my childhood without a lawn tool in my hands. You know the famous âAmerican Gothicâ depression era painting of the old man with the pitchfork? I was the pre-teen version of that. My sisters and I would edge the lawn with a pair of hand clippers. Donât get me wrong, we are not looking for accolades or anything, we pretty much bitched about it the entire time we were growing up. We were well compensated with dinner on the table every evening and a bad case of poison ivy on our crotch every spring. I canât complain.
As you continue to dig into this, just as I have. Think about your childhood upbringing and compare the two. No one I know today carpools. Heck, we were even carpooling on bikes back in the day. Every memory of riding bikes as a kid I either had a friend on the handlebars or I was sitting on the bars getting âpumped.â We were so green we would conserve energy amongst friends, which in turn took fewer calories and less food consumption to sustain our energy. Howâs that for green? We would walk to school, few kids do today. Have you seen the line of moms in giant SUVâs heading in and out of the schools today? My dad drove a beetle with four kids. I hated sitting in the middle. I have a funny walk to this day because it was a stickshift.
Reduce, reuse, recycle seems like such a new thing, every since the City of Austin handed out those blue bins. We were on it a long time ago. My mom could stretch the life out of clothing like no other. She would buy them big, hem them, slowly let them out and put patches on any tears in the clothing. My mom had a bit of a nautical fetish, so I was often seen sporting ships and anchors on my jeans that I had torn in skateboarding accidents or Evel Kneivel reenactments. There was nothing cool about going to school looking like the president of the Popeye fan club. Our kids would be appalled at the thought of wearing their cousins hand me downs. How about thisâ¦why donât you suggest to your kids that they share the bathwater before they drain it? See what kind of reaction you get. Try hanging your clothes our on a clothes line to dry for on monthâ¦just try it. Howâs this for recycling, one year my great aunt made us Easter baskets out of empty ivory snow containers.
Iâve really got to rethink my lifestyle. My dad was always bitchin about wasted electricity back then. At this very moment, half the lights are on in the house. The dishwasher is running, laundry is running, the landscape lighting just kicked on and the sprinkler system just finished. Iâll never forget the sprinkler system we had when I was a kid. My dad would stand in the middle of the lawn and spray in all directions til his 40 ouncer of Schlitz ran dry. Which didnât take long. I could go on and on with my list of how we lived green back in the day. Iâm not belittling those of you who just spent massive amounts of money on solar panels, rainwater collection or quadruple pane windows. I applaud those things, but really, really think about your total consumption. By the way, did you know Al Goreâs house has 8 bathrooms?
