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I arrived in Texas just after noon local time yesterday, flying in to the airport in Houston. On the flight from Orlando I saw the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in my life, New Orleans (got good pics of the French Quarter and the causeway across Lake Pontchartrain), offshore oil rigs, Johnson Space Center and the Astrodome, and then touched down in Houston. Waited there ’til 1:30 and took off for Austin. The girl at the car rental place recognized me from when my school board commercial ran on E!’s The Soup a few weeks ago!

The car rental people said that they didn’t have too much to choose from at the moment. I said “Give me the most Texas-ish thing you got.” The girl said “You want the big white Jeep.” So that’s what I’m driving.

I’m staying with friends in Travis County. If I’m not mistaken, ...

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Hee-hee-hee… not bad eh? I didn’t have much time to do a perfect job on it, but ever since I found out that I’m going to the Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival in Austin, Texas this year, I’ve had it in mind to do a spoof of Preacher: Gone to Texas (a really good graphic novel that I discovered some years ago). Just ‘cuz it sounds cool to say “gone to Texas” like that, and this’ll be my first time ever going there.

I’m not staying in some swanky hotel in Austin, either. I’ll be staying with some friends who live outside of town, in an area notorious for scorpion infestations and whatnot. They tell me that I’m going to love Texas barbecue… which is not pork at all but beef. “Porkless barbecue ribs” ummm sounds like blasphemy to me. But you know, “when in Rome…”

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Tonight Harry Knowles unveiled the official poster for Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 and it looks frickin’ awesome!! Check it out…

Still can’t believe that I’m finally getting to go to Butt-Numb-A-Thon this year. After everything that has happened going as far back as the summer of 2006, and especially the past several months… I can’t help but feel like maybe this is a sign that things are looking up. You just gotta have faith, folks. As a highly respected philosopher once put it: “faith manages” (and props to whoever can spot where that came from :-P).

I had a crazy thought the other night: might one of the big movies that we’ll see premiered at Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 possibly be… Cloverfield?!? Dunno. I’m still hoping that we’ll get to see Mother, Jugs & Speed ‘cuz that’s the absolutely perfect movie for a Butt-Numb-A-Thon crowd. Even more than those two though, I’m praying ...

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I’ve been able to share the good news with enough people on this end, so I might as well post it here too (especially since I promised that I would on the post about yesterday’s wedding/car crash)…

Yesterday morning, around 4:30 a.m., I discovered that I made the list to attend this year’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon in Austin, Texas!

What is Butt-Numb-A-Thon? It’s an annual film festival in Austin, sponsored by the website Ain’t It Cool News and hosted by site creator Harry Knowles (and here is it’s entry on Wikipedia). It’s a 24-hour long (sometimes a bit more) movie event, and this will be the ninth one ever since Harry started it in 1999. The whole thing is a neat fund-raiser that supports stuff for children. Butt-Numb-A-Thon used to be held at the now-legendary original Alamo Drafthouse. This will be the first one held at the new Alamo Drafthouse ...

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