Predator came out in 1987. It’s a movie about a team of rugged commandos in the jungle who run into a formidable alien creature, and it starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Sonny Langham, Richard Chaves, and Shane Black. This was an important casting decision, you see. The casting director was looking for a few obvious key characteristics when he chose these guys, since they would be portraying an elite team of commandos that live in a jungle and hunt aliens. Read the rest…
If you’ve been keeping up with this blog for a while, you’ve probably read one or more of Jeff Timpanaro’s gut-busting guest posts. (To read some of these, just punch “Timpanaro” into the search bar on your upper right.) He also has his own blog that will crack you up to no end. He’s genuinely one of my favorite people. Unfortunately, he’s got this incredibly complicated disease and he needs a new kidney. Read the rest…
Earlier this week, there were reports coming from online publications that a 2 million dollar house in Kingwood belonging to Chamillionaire was foreclosed on. Who cares, right?
Chamillionaire did. In fact, he jumped right into the studio and recorded a venomous 6- minute rant about his circumstances. Read the rest…
This weekend I’m headed to the Free Press Summerfest, a 2-day music festival where they are expecting a turnout of about one billion people. Thought it would be a good opportunity to promote the site. It’s hard to get one t-shirt made, you know? I settled for a $14 haircut from Gina Hair Salon on North Main, which specializes in this kind of thing. The hard part for the barber was working around the various scars from broken bottles and pool cues. The hard part for me will be getting this off of my dome by Monday morning.
***FAIR WARNING: The hyperlinks in this article don’t contain nudity right off the bat, but some workplaces might frown on seeing the word “Playboy” in your URL history.
Playboy Mobile is a website geared toward mobile devices. What sets it apart from the online playboy.com is that the stories are about 140 to 200 words so they can be read easily on a mobile device.
You know, so you can read the articles.
Playboy Scout is a blog module within Playboy Mobile that covers some of their favorite things, and this website just happens to be one of them. They recently did a writeup on the GunsandTacos blog that I thought I’d share with you.
Next time you get caught flipping through your cell phone looking at airbrushed gals in their underwear, you can blame it on me, I guess.
For close to a year, I’ve been employing different tactics to get Chamillionaire, a successful Houston-based rap artist, to follow me on Twitter. I tried tweeting him several times, and I tried approaching him through his online forum, which was eventually shut down. Paul Wall, another successful rap artist from Houston (and friend of Chamillionaire), started following me on Twitter last week, and right then I thought I had it in the bag. But when you’ve got close to 80K followers, I guess it’s tough to read every message you get. I had to try another angle, so I went to see Chamillionaire and Paul Wall perform at the House of Blues in Downtown Houston in person.
Obviously I couldn’t go talk to him, so I stopped at CVS and picked up a posterboard and a fat Sharpie, then crudely fashioned a sign that said “FOLLOW @GUNSANDTACOS ON TWITTER.”
Since I would be holding up this sign in front of a bunch of angry people, I wrote “GunsandTacos.com” on the back of the poster so they would have something to read while I was blocking their view. I held it up for most of the show, and worked my way through different parts of the crowd to ensure full visibility. Note to self: It is difficult to drink a beer when you are holding up a sign with both hands.
The show was sold out and packed to the hilt. Here are a few photos.
The sign worked out to an extent. He once asked the crowd how many of them used Twitter. It didn’t garner a huge response, but Cham asked House of Blues to turn the lights on. He did this so that all of the Twitter users could take photos with their camera, which I thought was a pretty awesome thing to do. Toward the end of the show,Chamillionaire gave props to “The guy with the sign, Gus or whatever”.
He’s still not following me on Twitter, but that doesn’t mean I’m giving up yet.
I submitted a taco photograph to the online New York Times for a reader-driven feature, and they published it on their website. This was taken with a Canon G10 I borrowed from a friend. I like this photo because the whole image appears to be in focus. The slight haze you see is the steam coming off of these superbad Taconmadre tacos. Check it out!
While touring with the SpicyRV.com crew on our RV trip to Albuquerque, NM, we stopped at a venue called Lucha Libre Mexicana in El Paso, where I pursue my lifelong dream of wrestling a luchador.
Along with James Beck Jr, Paul Sedillo and Jason Russo, I’m headed to Albuquerque, New Mexico to attend the 22nd annual National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show starting on March 5 in a massive tour bus, because wasting gasoline is like, Steve McQueen awesome.
I’ll be regularly updating their blog and the @SpicyRV Twitter account, so check out SpicyRV.com and add it to your RSS feed for the next week or two.
Paul will be capturing the trip on video and dropping it on the site so all the viewers can see what kind of shady business we’re getting into.
James Beck Jr. will be eating things most people can’t comprehend (myself included), and at a major international hot sauce festival like this, there’s no telling what folks are going to try to feed him. It’ll get interesting.
Since we’ll likely be heading through El Paso, hopefully we’ll come across a taco stand or two as well.
And if we’re that close to Mexico, it’s going to be mighty tough keeping my ass out of Juarez. Just sayin.
Predator came out in 1987. It’s a movie about a team of rugged commandos in the jungle who run into a formidable alien creature, and it starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Sonny Langham, Richard Chaves, and Shane Black. This was an important casting decision, you see. The casting director was looking for a few obvious key characteristics when he chose these guys, since they would be portraying an elite team of commandos that live in a jungle and hunt aliens. Read the rest…
