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Is this some kind of sex code?

Notes from South Padre Island - It'll be Spring Break in about 3 weeks, nubile young girls frolicking drunkenly and barely dressed in the sand and surf....so, naturally I decide to stay here on business for a few nights now...when none of them are here. "Winter Texans" are here, everywhere. But like reverse vampires, they disappear when the sun goes down.

Driving in from the mainland, I passed one of those newfangled moving signs that all the schools are using nowadays. Out of the corner of my eye I see what looks like the word "Tampons", which doesn't seem so weird, because the school looks a lot like a Walgreens or a CVS, until I realize that it IS a school, Port Isabel HS. I'm trying to figure out why they'd be telling the world about their high school tampons, when I see their mascot is a big ass sport fish...the tarpon. Duhh.

I am the youngest person on South Padre Island right now, other than the people who actually work here. Hordes of old people, the aforementioned 'Winter Texans', in couples, are marauding the restaurants. I think there was a Monty Python sketch about marauding gangs of old people - it's like that here. If I hung out another 3 weeks, I'd probably be the oldest person on the island. What a weird dichotomy for the service workers, which leads to my last note.

Sitting in a little seafood restaurant (Captain Roy's), eating dinner tonight - the server is a cute young girl. I asked her who tips worse, 'this crowd' or Spring breakers? She gets kind of a stricken look on her face, probably wondering if she should answer, then whispers, "this crowd!" I shake my head as I fill out the check, then she comes back to my table to show me the last couple's check - $17.50 food and tax, 30 cent tip. Unbelievable.

And yes, I tipped her over 20%.

I respect many of paul's opinions, but the fact that he shits on New Girl really bothers me.

For others that enjoy good comedy, Delocated Season Three debuts on adult swim tonight. It's really not the kind of show that you need to know the back story to get into it.

Just spent a half hour watching St. Vincent videos...like, but don't love the music, but I'm so infatuated w/ Annie Clark. I want to make sweet, sweet indie love w/ her....

My favorite girl just joined - Kali Hawk.

Welcome to my life, and it even applies to friends I haven't seen in a couple of years. That's why we talk about our kids even though we know its annoying.

Do you not have a cat you can talk about?

Yeah, we talk about our dogs, too. There is a stray cat that lives in our backyard, but we don't usually talk about him. He did just recently lose his tail, but I don't know the story behind that.

Actually, this isn't entirely true. I did start watching "Breaking Bad."

Watching it now just makes me miss Party Down. I'm still hoping that it'll come back in a few years, but I know I'll never be that lucky.

Awesome. Was this before or after he died?

I imagine this could have had even better success if you were single.

And has it really been over 5 years since he died? Crikey indeed.

I feel like I need a shower after upvoting that.