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Haircut night tonight at The Hair Asylum, formerly known as the artist called Salon Millenia. Come visit us for cocktails and hair inspired shenanigans at: 513 Dumaine St, New Orleans, LA 70116, from 6-9. Or call us there at 504-522-7426.

Updated the 10 books section this evening.

Happy birthday baby Jesus!!! Oh wait, wrong holiday.

Strange, but good weekend. Our wacky friends Kenny and Jennifer came over for dinner Friday night. I made fajitas from this recipe and margaritas. The fajitas kicked ass. Saturday, work out at the club and a Spanish class with Ari. Sunday had another work out and a visit from Cassie's parents. We made Moscow Mules . You can read the history of the Moscow Mule here . Oh yeah, here's the recipe in Japanese . I studied Hiragana for a while. Then my old school mate and Baja Bug aficionado Charlie Ford called.

I just stumbled on a great photograph of Yakuza at a hot spring in Japan.

Things that matter to me.

Keep it simple. Simplicity is elegance. Elegance is the true luxury.

Watched Ohayo last week. Story from post-war, Westernized Japan. An interesting message of consumerism.

Just updated the books page on my site to include A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present . Potent stuff so far.

Went to see this last night. Very clever.

Me gusta mucho la telenovela Pobre Diabla . Es la historia de un amor imposible.

I got a flat tire today when I bumped in to the curb in FRONT OF MY HOUSE! What a bummer. Anyway, today I am thinking about airline safety (mostly because I was driving in the direction of the airport with my mini doughnut spare tire), right livelihoods , and how I want to sell my car and buy a scooter .

I saw Al Gore today. Spent the evening in Deep Ellum , in Dallas.

Worked on this thingie this evening.

Monday morning. Dallas, Texas for a tradeshow . It's gray and threatening to rain outside.

Here's me and Jim enjoying a mojito in Miami.

My ADSL is up again, after 3 long months.

Phone calls. Unrealistic expectations. Everything needs to be done yesterday.

So the roof got fixed. I'm thinking about owning a really old house and all the work that entails. Most everyone who comes to work on the house really doesn't like working on it. It takes a lot to love my house. My house is even mentioned here . Scroll down or hit "control-f" to find 920 Spain. Time to go outside and get some sunshine!

It's going to rain today. I'm a little scared about the roof, but there's no stopping the rain, baby. I'm thinking about voodoo today. Then, I saw this article about a voodoo shrine. From a website I visited: 3. postmodernism: A rejection of the sovereign autonomous individual with an emphasis upon anarchic collective, anonymous experience. Collage, diversity, the mystically unrepresentable, Dionysian passion are the foci of attention. Most importantly we see the dissolution of distinctions, the merging of subject and object, self and other. This is a sarcastic playful parody of western modernity and the "John Wayne" individual and a radical, anarchist rejection of all attempts to define, reify or re-present the human subject.