I’m sure most people have seen www.engrish.com by now. It’s pretty hilarious and worth visiting now and again.
My friend Minn just posted a link to rahoi.com which is a blog written by an American in China. In this blog he documents some of the best “Engrish” I have seen.
Take this menu selection from his post May I Take Your Order entry for example…
I’m sure cowboy meat goes great with spicy cock flavored soup….
I was having a brief conversation this weekend with respected man about town, Bill Shirley, and the conversation turned as it will to politics and podcasting. While we both agree that it *might* be a good thing to have Kinky on the ballot we seem to be in agreement that having Kinky in office is another thing entirely.
No one I have talked to can really say why they’re for Kinky…what he stands for or what we can expect from him as governor. In some regards I think people just enjoy saying the word “Kinky” out loud or revelling in the perceived effect of the word prominently displayed on the bumper of their pick-em-up truck.
I mentioned that a good podcast subject might be to conduct interviews with random Kinky supporters (who seem to be in force on any given night at the Continental Club) to find out what they *really* know about the campaign of Mr. Friedman. It was agreed that it might be quite amusing to hear the results.
This is not the first time I have expressed my doubts/concerns here. Please refer to my Freak Candidate Principle post from last September.
I spotted this over at the Burnt Orange Report. I must say, it’s refreshing to see some critical thought applied to the Kinky campaign.
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The Conservative Kinkster
by: Ryan Goodland
March 05, 2006 at 22:36:53 CST
(Please don’t waste your primary vote & state convention chances on signing Kinky’s petition if you care about helping either Democrat get elected Governor. – promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
I was talking to some friends tonight about Bob Gammage and the primary on Tuesday. These friends are young, urban artsy types and are pretty excited about Kinky Friedman; one even said he was skipping the primary specifically to sign Kinky’s petition. He’s probably not alone; drive around Montrose in Houston and you’re bound to see more than a few cars with those “Kinky Friedman: Why the Hell Not?” bumper stickers.
It’s disconcerting to see so many smart people out there fall for Friedman as if he’s the cool, progressive alternative to whoever the Democratic nominee will be. Following his campaign in the news, the more I learn about Kinky Friedman, the more conservative I realize he is. So rather than chastise him for being a potential spoiler, here are some on-the-merits reasons why you shouldn’t skip the primary to sign Friedman’s petition. Or vote for him at all.
1. Kinky Friedman wants to tear down the wall of separation between church and state. He supports school prayer and posting the Ten Commandments in Texas classrooms.
2. Kinky Friedman wants to put up a wall between Texas and Mexico. In a March 2005 appearance on “The No-Spin Zone,” Friedman said, “Good fences make good neighbors, and, Mr. Fox, help us build that fence.”
3. Kinky Friedman won’t say if he supports a woman’s right to choose. When asked, Friedman dodged a question about his position on abortion. Incidentally, Texas is one nineteen states with a legislature that would be likely to ban abortion in the event that Roe v. Wade were overturned.
4. Kinky Friedman has promised to root out cronyism…and appoint his biggest campaign contributor Secretary of State. No one should be appointed to a position just because he “gave the most money,” according to Kinky. Except if you donate $600,000 to Kinky’s campaign. Then you get to be Secretary of State.
5. Kinky Friedman didn’t take the time to vote for the equal rights of the GLBT community. As Karl-Thomas has pointed out, Kinky didn’t bother to vote on Proposition 2 last year, which amended the Texas Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriages.
6. Kinky Friedman did take the time to vote for George W. Bush. That kind of voting record sort of speaks for itself.
7. Kinky Friedman talks out of both sides of his mouth on public education. Friedman says he wants a teacher pay raise, but at the same time he wants to spend the state’s 4.3 billion dollar surplus this year on a tax rebate.
8. Kinky Friedman is a Republican. In 1986, Friedman ran for Kerrville JP as a Republican.
If Carole Strayhorn is Rick Perry in a skirt, as Bob Gammage has said, then Kinky Friedman is Rick Perry with a cigar. Why anyone would skip the primary for this guy is beyond me.
The Lone Star Beer
It looks quite queer
clap clap clap clap
Deep in the butt of chicken!
Cynthia has discovered a new recipe that has been working very well for us and I thought I would share.
It’s beer-butt chicken and it’s yummy!
All you need is a chicken, salt, pepper, olive oil, rosemary and a beer (any brand).
Clean the chicken and prep it by salting the inside just as you would if you were going to bake a chicken.
Open the beer and drain or drink 1/4 to 1/3.
Waste not, want not I always say!
Place the chicken over the beer can in a pan suitable for using in your oven.
Slather the chicken with liberal amounts of olive oil and rosemary.
Place in oven and cook as per instructions on the wrapper you chicken came in.
Remove when done
Come out perfect and is moist and delicious!
Saint Isidore’s Feast Day is April 4th
St. Isidore of Seville is my patron saint. He patches my operating system and keeps my device drivers current and up to date. He watches over me and delivers me from the BSOD. He gives me strength to smite sooth my users and optimize my network bandwidth. He protects me from viruses and worms and allows no spyware to tempt me. He is my guardian and keeps my identity from being usurped by those who would phish it. St. Isidore insures my passwords and guards my accounts from hackers. He is the firewall that guards me from the Internet barbarians and the pop-up blocker that shields me from unwanted pr0n. He is the encryption algorithm that guards my data and maintains the integrity of my storage devices. He is my backup and my restore in darker times when I lose my way or my faith is waning. He is the sale at Fry’s and the shepherd of increasingly lower prices on computer hardware. St. Isidore ushers in faster processors, cheaper and better video technology and increasingly smaller portable and removable storage options.
St. Isidore watches over me.
On the air…
Esta noche en Technology Bytes, el programa computacional de ayuda, Aurora Losada traducira en vivo preguntas formuladas en español. Ella es la editora de La Voz, el periódico en español del Houston Chronicle. Tú podras explicarle en español tus dudas de cómputo, y ella las traducira al inglés para los miembros de Technology Bites. El programa se transmite hoy miércoles 8 de 7:00 a 9:00 p.m. por KPFT, 90.1 FM. También lo puedes escuchar en www.kpft.org.
Tonight on my show, Technology Bytes, we will once again be experimenting with bilingual tech support. Aurora Losada, editor of the Chronicle’s Spanish-language publications, will be joining us in the studio as we invite our Spanish Speaking audience to phone in their support calls.
The last time we did this it was a huge success…and QUITE amusing.
According to Evil Dwight (who works with Aurora) there are some surprises planned. I am all a-twitter with anticipation.
You can tune in via KPFT 90.1 FM tonight between 7 and 9 pm CST or listen to the stream via the web site at www.kpft.org.
It’s distresssing to me to consider how foolish we, as Americans, look in the eyes of the world. How willing we must appear to be to give up our rights, our freedoms, our dignity.
At times we must truly resemble a nation of inbred hicks.
Senate to save Bush’s bacon on illegal wiretaps
The House is a prole outfit that hasn’t got the imagination to worry about what these executive powers will mean in a couple of years, when the President and Mr. Clinton occupy the White House, and Democrats control Congress. They are foolishly fixated on letting their redneck boy king, whose handling of national security and public safety has already resulted in the loss of an American city, get away with anything he pleases to do – because, hey, terrorism.
