The Albatross

My 2-second music video career

noreply@blogger.com (dsizzle) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:01:00 +0000

I was an extra in a music video once:

You can see the back of my bare-ass-bald head beginning at the 3:48 mark (I'm in front of the hot redhead). Interesting shoot for an interesting band. I pretty much had no idea what the hell was going on. This was back during my days as a music video company executive (ah, 2003...), and I was baby-sitting the camera. Not a happy story.

Haiku to Celis

noreply@blogger.com (dsizzle) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:30:00 +0000

There is a backstory here. See below.

Sitting on my porch
Since early spring, 2000.
Why are you still here?

Rancid, rancid beer.
Who will ever drink you now?
Stupid law students?

Your box is rotted,
Your brewery has closed down,
Yet still you live on.

Farewell, sweet Celis!
I fear I hardly knew your
Sweet, fruity flavor.

Backstory: In the spring of 2000, during my first year of law school, I attended an after party for the law school theater group, Assault & Flattery, at a house on Avenue G in Austin's Hyde Park neighborhood (lovingly nicknamed "the G-Spot"). Our theater production was generously sponsored by Celis, the then-Austin-based brewery, which provided innumerable cases of its many varieties of beer for our drunken enjoyment. Among these varieties was Celis Raspberry, which to this day I can still honestly say I have never tasted.

Fast forward to the late summer of 2001. Thanks to good connections and just the right amount of popularity, the singular honor of living at the G-Spot has passed to me and a friend, who took occupancy in August of that year. We were astounded to discover that a single case of Celis Raspberry had survived not only the many Assault & Flattery and other G-Spot parties, but was in fact still sitting on the back porch, having endured two Texas summers and one winter. Needless to say, we left the case undisturbed in honor of the fact that, uh, it was there.

At some point, during a party hosted for idiotic drunken first-year students, somebody got a mind to actually drink some of the beers in the obviously-rotting-and-decaying cardboard box full of above-room-temperature beer. I only wish I could have seen what happened to that person.

We moved out of the G-Spot in August 2002, after the bar exam. I can only hope that the Celis case has found happiness somewhere. Here's to you, my skunky pal.

Zeta the loldog!

noreply@blogger.com (dsizzle) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:51:00 +0000

Awaiting approval from ICHC.

Seattle, in Haiku Form

noreply@blogger.com (dsizzle) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:58:00 +0000

Here's some verse from my vacation:

Sunset, Seattle.
Dusk breaks through the rain showers.
Look! It's a seaplane!

Who's grilling burgers?
The Evil Michelin Man?
No, it's only Mike.

In the Pig Parade,
Some swine have their chance to shine
In their Sunday best.

Awful pigskin puns
Nevertheless make me smile
With such craftsmanship.

Shelter from the rain.
I think I'll stay and relax...
Holy shit! A troll!

A phallic symbol
Points to a proud tomorrow
For this great city.

Please stop and admire
My swirly cappuccino
Before I drink it.

Zeta v. The Plush Abominable Snowman

noreply@blogger.com (dsizzle) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:55:00 +0000

Poor snowman...he never had a chance against her:

Intel Building demolition - WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (dsizzle) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:02:00 +0000

The Intel Building at 5th & San Antonio, long the blight of the Austin downtown skline, finally went away Sunday morning, sort of. Here's my footage, complete with excessive commentary:

Cross-posted at Cryptic Philosopher.

Great Austin Ice Storm of 2007

noreply@blogger.com (cryptic_philosopher) — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:15:00 +0000

Previously posted at my other blog here and here.

January 16, 2007:

January 17, 2007:

The Squirrel

noreply@blogger.com (cryptic_philosopher) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:55:00 +0000

He's carefree...

He's happy...

He's adorable...

But he has a secret...

He is the squirrel.