mud bugs can't swim

it seems odd that i was born in the deep south of georgia, grew up in texas - and yet, had never been to a crawfish boil until today - i was instructed to rip off the legs, pop off the head, suck out the juice, crack open the shell, and...enjoy - i must admit, it was pretty tasty - but there were an abundance of live mud bugs crawling about - and it was bit like eating a cheeseburger in a field of roaming cattle - i have to say, i think i prefer the anonymity of my food - it keeps me from being a vegetarian

and this little piggy laughed out loud

i spotted this while out at a bar over the weekend - i love denton's dark sense of humor - all the weird of austin, minus the traffic

america's future

as if photographing multi-million dollar properties during a housing crisis and a drowning economy weren't ironic enough - i drive by this on my way to one of them today - i couldn't resist pulling over to photograph such a symbolic and ominous scene... a vulture, perched atop a dilapidated house, shrouded in a bank of dark and stormy clouds