May 172006
 

Austinst pointed to a leaked lineup for this year’s ACL Fest this morning and News8Austin just posted a list themselves. The official list is supposed to be released tomorrow. I don’t see anything there now and I haven’t seen anything from ACL Fest’s crappy e-mail notification system. Mike and Jason of 101X will be discussing the lineup on their show tomorrow morning as will many other local radio stations, I’m guessing.

Nothing on the lists that I’ve seen makes me regret my decision to skip the festival this year.

 Posted by on May 17, 2006 at 5:21 pm
May 172006
 

I’ve been a Mavericks fan since they started. We got season tickets in 1985 which my parents have held on to, but farmed out to other friends for now. This year’s NBA playoffs in general are insane. Game 4 of the Mavericks-Spurs series on Monday night was just awesome. They’re playing Game 5, a must-win for the Spurs, tonight on TNT at 8:30. Bill Simmons from ESPN wrote an article about Game 4 and this year’s playoffs, recanting an article from two years ago that said we’d never again see a game like Game 4 between the Celtics and the Lakers in 1984. Good times. Good times.

[tags]mavericks, spurs, nba, playoffs, billsimmons, espn[/tags]

 Posted by on May 17, 2006 at 3:56 pm
May 172006
 

I posted last week that it appear that AG Gonzales lied at his NSA hearings. Well, this week, Wolf Blitzer asked him about his grandparents, three out of four of whom were born in Mexico, and wanted to know if they were legally documented when they came to the U.S.. Gonzales’s answer?

You know, it’s unclear. It’s unclear. And I’ve looked at this issue, I’ve talked to my parents about it, and it’s just not clear.

Yeah, right. What a load of shit. He doesn’t know how his grandparents got here. Let’s have a quick poll. How many people in whole goddamn country who’re still in contact with their family don’t know how their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents arrived in the U.S.? I’m guessing it’s almost no one. Hell, my mother was adopted and only recently found her birth mother. I had an excuse for half of my family until recently and now even I fucking know. If Gonzales had any shred of honesty, he’d admit that they were illegal and then use that to speak about how he’s glad that we’re addressing the reasons why they did so. And if they weren’t illegal, they why the fuck wouldn’t he just say so? What a douche.

[tags]albertogonzales, immigration, attorneygeneral, cnn, wolfblitzer, liar[/tags]

 Posted by on May 17, 2006 at 10:52 am