Apparently, very few of you have any skill whatsoever with Photoshop. (Side note: So stop making fun of my own pathetic skills). Click on the Links to see the entries. Y'all can choose the winner. If you think you've got something better, then email them to me.

Here are the entries:
One Silent Grandma View image
Silent Tom View image
Silent Fox View image
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Silent Kinky View image
Silent Perry View image

Last night, Stephen Colbert hosted the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Colbert remained in character the entire evening, which, as you can imagine, led to some moments that Bush must've loved. A few sample lines:

"Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty. Because, 32% [his most recent approval rating] means it's two-thirds empty. There's still some liquid in that glass, is my point. But I wouldn't drink it - the last third is usually backwash."

"As excited as I am to be here with the President, I am appalled to be here with the liberal media that is destroying America. With the exception of Fox News. Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the President's side, and the Vice President's side."

"I stand by this man [Bush] because he stands for things - not only for things, but he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently-flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message: that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully-staged photo ops in the world."

Click the permalink to watch some excerpts from his speech, as well as his audition video to be the new press secretary.

And other useless prayers:

A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps.

Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can't attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established.

In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are "overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis."

Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group's founder.

"It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation's most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world -- God," Royster said.

People going into their Capitol offices today found an attack mailer shoved underneath their door. Texans For No New Taxes put together the mailer attacking the "Perry Tax Plan Disaster". It says that the House voted for the largest tax increase, and it urges people to contact their senators to vote against it.

You can see the front here.
Inside here.
Next inside here.
Back here.
(They're in jpg format, just download them and zoom in to read the text, I don't have adobe on this computer.)

This seems like one of those astroturf groups, big money set up to look like a grassroots movement, but whatever, a hit on Perry is a hit on Perry. At the least it's a chunk of his base coming out and attacking him.

Rush Limbaugh reached a settlement with prosecutors Friday in a fraud case involving prescription painkillers, though the conservative radio commentator maintains his innocence.

Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities about 4 p.m. on a warrant for fraud to conceal information to obtain a prescription, the first charge in the nearly 3-year-old case, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the state attorney. He was released an hour later on $3,000 bail.

Not going to jail. It's a great America when you can doctor-shop, buy prescription drugs illegally and get away with it. Still, you'd like to think he'd be more dignified than to get addicted to Oxycontin for Chrissakes. Oxycontin..so white trash. I mean, at least, score some Vicodin or something.

A group of Latino artists put together a version of the national anthem in Spanish. I didn't think this was much of an issue, but I just found this: Bush Opposes Singing Anthem in Spanish. Bush doesn't want people singing the anthem in Spanish, because "I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English." Um, yeah. And maybe you could learn to speak in correct English, Senor Presidente. Your first lesson: "nu-cle-ar", not "nu-qu-lar". "Are our children learning?", not "Is our children learning?"

But seriously, folks, is this a big deal? If people want to sing the national anthem in a way that makes them feel more patriotic and makes them feel a closer connection to the country, what is wrong with that? Honestly, so many native English-speakers butcher the song to extremes all the time. As long as the singer is on pitch, I'm open to whatever language they want to sing it in.

Just heard something about a deal on teacher pay raises that Craddick and Dewhurst worked out. $2000 across the board, and $1000 in incentive pay. It'll be added to HB 1.

HB 110, filed by Villareal and Strama, is likely making James "Whoremonger" Leininger pretty pissy this morning. The bill would limit individuals to spending no more than $100,000 on political races each election cycle.

Clearly, this would throw a monkey wrench in Leininger's ultimate goal to have the entire Legislature receiving the overwhelming majority of their campaign contributions from his coffers. I mean, he funded five last session - why stop there?

But this bill wouldn't just affect Leininger:

Eighty-seven individuals or couples gave $100,000 or more in contributions for statewide offices in 2003 and 2004, for a total of $28.8 million, according to the Austin-based watchdog group Texans for Public Justice. That represents about 9 percent of all political money raised during that two-year election cycle.

I sense a Whoremonger PAC in the future.

Inspired by this we saw on WOW Report, we'd like announce our own version of a photoshop contest. Based on the movie posters for the Silent Hill, take a photo of a Texas politician and create your own Silent Hill style, mouth-off photo and send it to us. We'll post the best here.

The winner will receive a copy of the soon to be released THE DEFINING MOMENT: FDR's First Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter.

Email your submissions to me.

We'll announce winner and have a gallery of the submissions up on Monday.

Special thanks to Simon & Schuster for providing an advance copy of the book!

The Senate Finance Committee is meeting right now to consider HBs 1-5. Conservative anti-tax schlep Steven Hotze is going to testify against the largest tax increase in history. The funny part? QR already has his testimony, along with John Sharp's rebuttal interspersed throughout it in italics. This is really funny, you can watch Hotze testify and Sharp gives you appropriate ways to burn him throughout the whole thing.

What wet-behind-the-ears freshman legislator wants to run for Governor in 2010? Your guesses in the comments.

Hey y'all. We want to introduce you to a new contributor to the filth we serve up here at Pinkdome. SuperWow! is hopefully going to wow us with insight and double entendre and some policy stuff. Y'alll be nice when you see SuperWow!'s first post and cop a good feel while you're at it. You can shoot SuperWow! an email just like the rest of us.

Watching TV news is always an excercise in stupidity, but for some reason last night the TV vomited stupidity all over my living room. From the Texas Legislature, KVUE reports: A group of Texas Democrats has proposed relief at the pump by temporarily suspending the state's gas tax. Really? Wow, thanks! Twenty whole cents for what? A month? Such largesse....really, you shouldn't have. This is the kind of mind-boggling stupidity that can only be topped by, wait for it, The United States Senate! Senate Republicans have proposed giving every taxpaying American (Fuck you illegals!) a $100 'stipend' to pay for gas. Cause, you know, it got expensive and shit. Yes, brilliant!

While they are doing this the magic donkey, George Bush, tours the country talking about ethanol and alternative forms of energy and ending our dependence on foreign oil. Then back in Washington they're trying to push through more drilling in the Gulf and opening up the Alaskan Wildlife Reserve or whatever it's called.

This is called..."Oh, I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me, now they don't I've come and gone."

Why doesn't the government propose real reforms. I'd like to see a tax refund/deduction/ or direct payment to me for a never-ending prescription to Xanax so my head doesn't explode from having to listen to the sheer stupidity and bullshit they ask me to swallow every day.

Two white teenage boys in Spring, Texas brutally beat and sodomized a 16 year-old hispanic boy at a house party. [CNN]

The quest to determine the hottest legislator in Texas is officially over. Go here, click on Party People, President's Masked Ball and check out photo number 6.

OK so this is a little weird.

When you go to TLO to search for a bill, you have the option of searching by author. When you click on author you get the names of all the reps, the senators, and for some reason 5 other dudes: Robert Eckels, Ted Houghton, Joseph Krier, William Madden, and Michael Stevens.

Krier, Houghton, and Madden were appointed by Perry to the Study Commission on Transportation Financing. Stevens is another transportation guy with ties to TLR. Eckels is the all-powerful Harris County judge.

I'm sure it's just some weird mix-up, but why do those 5 guys get Capitol ID numbers and why are they popping up as authors to bills?

HB 110: Relating to limits on political contributions and direct campaign expenditures by individuals.

From QR we learn that a bipartisan group of legislators banded together today to put a $100,000 cap on contributions in 2 year cycles. A quote from Casteel:

She asked her party to pay as much attention to transparency in campaign donations as it does to transparency in the operation of public schools.

The call for this session is tighter than Linda Harper Brown's pantsuit so it'll be hard to get this passed, but I applaud everyone involved for trying.

I'm really digging this whole outting of the smokers during the debate. Jackson called out Hodge, Menendez called out Hardcastle, Coleman called out himself, who else in that august body is a smoker?

Rick Perry was talking to the Senate today about his tax plan, and he remarked "As ol' Larry The Cable Guy says on a regular basis, it's time to 'get 'er done.'"

Thank you, Mr. Governor, for making our state look even that much more bass-ackwards. Note to Rick, you don't have to dumb down the legislature, they're dumb enough as it is.

Kuff spoke to Reps. Rick Noriega and Mike Villareal about their votes on the tax bill. QR also ran The Mark Strama Saga: One Man's Coming To Grips With a Tax Bill, giving his and Donna Howard's reasons for their votes.

In Texas we love our religious nutters, but every time I read a piece on these whackjobs, I'm always left speechless. Those crazies out in ElDorado are still kicking, the Houston Press gives us the lowdown.

Well not really, they've been threatening to raise the price on a pack of smokes for a long time now, basically a nickel for every cigarette. But here's a new angle for the debate, some fun stats from TexasWeekly:

In order to get the amount of money from the cigarrette tax that they want, Texans will have to smoke more than 26,636 cigarettes per minute every minute of every day of the year.

If laid end to end, those cigarettes would wrap around the world 28 times. The state would get a nickel for every three inches of that line.

Ok, so before the special, Rep. Jim Jackson sent an email to all House employees with his opinion of what to do with the surplus. I was wondering why he was getting out in front like that. Then on Monday, he join Coleman, Burnham, Laney and Dutton in voting against HB 1 (Record 17). His reason for voting against it was "It was not worthy of my support". What kind of cocky answer is that?

This is purely rabble rousing, but why is this dude trying to get so much attention all of a sudden? What's he angling for? I've been vaguely aware of who he is, and all of a sudden he's jumping up and down trying to get people to notice him. Can someone explain to me what he's gunning for?

I was downtown today and wandering Congress Street after being up in the Pink Dome and I ran into two very comely young staffers. (Hey ladies) and they told me they'd just spotted Rep. Mark Strama and Rep. Rafael Anchia having lunch at Chipotle. Why didn't I spot you? Next time say hello to a brotha.

Plus...I saw a guy get off the bus at Congress and 8th with a chainsaw! They let you on the bus with a chainsaw? That is f'ed up.

Chris Bell is asking Ronnie Earle to look into those sketchy Rick Perry campaign ads Texans for Taxpayer Relief ads that are paid for with corporate money.

There's a new KinkyToon out with alot of Texas musicians, check out the ad here. A quote: "If you want Texas great again, not always bein' last, then save yourself for Kinky and tomorrow we'll kick ass"

Robyn Hadley of Capitol Crowd has a new column called Out There on Texas Weekly that is a weekly round-up of the Texas blogs. I like it because I've been quoted twice now. If you don't feel like anxiously hitting refresh all day long waiting to read our next line of bullshit, you can chunk $250 bucks for a subscription and read the light version of what we're all saying. (I recomend the subscription, Ross Ramsey's wonky self has been doing a great job of chronicling all the current tax shenanigans).

Has Dewhurst grown some balls or what? First there's his catfighting with Craddick. Now, regarding Sharp's assessment of revenue numbers he says "John Sharp also was telling everyone that he felt comfortable he was going to win by 10 points in 2002". Boo-yah.

Someone sent this me a couple days ago and I've been meaning to put it online. Just hours after his Earth Day speech, Bush went bike riding on a mountain trail that is off limits during this time of year to protect endangered sheep. Dumbass.

But Media Matters isn't happy with the announcement that Tony Snow will be the new White House Press Secretary. Their statement in the permalink.

We aren't that surprised at the choice, but we were surprised when CNN this morning said that Snow had said some tough things about the current administration. Um, okay. We go to his old FOX News site and it looks like he has a lot of positive things to say about Bush. Can someone point us to any "tough" comments he made against the administration? Thanks.

Oh, and if you can view his rendition of the "Spongebob Squarepants" song, please let us know how that is. For some reason, my computer won't let me view it.

WTF you say? Me too, but The Agonist has a ton of links for us to learn about it. There is a FAQ here that explained it all to me and probably will to you as well. And, you can totally be Net Neutrality's friend on MySpace. (You guys know I'm all about being a MySpace whore)

Save the Internet has a site where you can send an email to your senator and congressman.

I know most of you are still going, WTF? But after I spent about five minutes reading this stuff I went from "WTF is net neutrality?" to "Are you shitting me? This is real?"

Dubya's advance team is said to have hoped to put the President up in the Royal Suite at the Imperial Hotel in Vienna when he attends a summit of European leaders in June. But Jagger already has booked the $6,400-a-night pad and isn't budging.

This, plus the lowest approval ratings ever and the shame of the new Rolling Stones Cover. "The wost president in history?" I smell a dogpile coming on!

I always have such high hopes for Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, and I'm always let down in the end. But, true to form, here I'll go again. Dewhurst doesn't show the robotic support for the crap the House passed out last night and gives great talking points on passing 'meaningful reform' and how the Senate will take care of us. Oh how we all wish that were true.

I can't remember but wasn't this the same enthusiasm I had for Dewhurst during the previous sessions and didn't Craddick just beat his ass with a stick? [via QR]

Is someone that works in the House to shoot me an email. I need to verify something. Totally anonymous, as usual. But want to check it out. Thanks!

One of the Westboro Baptist nutjobs made it on Fox and how sad that Fox News had to show what the rest of the world sees Christian Terrorists are really like. A-mazing.

I'm just a simple man, from humble beginnings and with not a whole lot of book-learnin'. But, I'm not sure I get this "spend the surplus" fever the Lege seems to have. Especially the brilliant idea to use the surplus to reduce property taxes. That one is a doozy in my mind. I have tried to come up with some fun analogies here, but it's still early.

The surplus should not be used to reduce taxes. Taxes generate income for the state. Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down. This year, you are suddenly up a few pennies. Instead of cutting taxes, maybe you should be a little more responsible with the money. Maybe you could use it to upgrade computers and facilities at schools, or maybe for road projects, or any number of one time expenditures that the state needs. By using the surplus to reduce taxes, you cut off the stream of income that this year got you that surplus in the first place.

Now, reducing taxes is a great idea...an important endeavor and the Lege should consider as a constant goal. But the idiocy we saw last night reminds us that the Lege ain't got the sense God gave a mule.

We posted a lot about last night's debates. So scroll down and check them out.

Let me pound this into the head of every elected official:

Not One Dime For Education

Get it? Do you? Did you see the primaries? For the most part, education was the message that won. EDUCATION. You just voted for the largest tax increase in history. Not one dime for education. Every time someone refers to this special, they say "School Finance". No schools were financed. There's still no money for textbooks. No money for payraises. No money for health insurance stipends. No money for classroom supplies.

Go home, tell your voters you just voted for a tax increase. Without money for schools. Suck it, then vote to tax it.

80-69 HB3 passes to engrossment
Tom voted. Pussy. Someone check it against those names below when it's posted.

Now they are moving on to HB4. They reall are going to midnight! I'm online and chatting with staffers. We've invinted a drinking game. On HB3 it was every time you heard "broken promise" you had to drink. Sylvester Turner almost single-handedly got me wasted.

Oh, and a staffer says a special thanks to Karen Brooks for making, "I love my brother" a talking point on the House Floor tonight. Thank God that's made it into the record.

HB4 77-65 is passed to engrossment.

JEESH...now we're on to HB5...for Cigarette taxes. Everyone light up!

It looks like every female in the House is up at the podium with cigars and cigarettes smoking before they take on the bill. Peggy Hamric looks a little uncomfortable!

UPDATE MIDNIGHT
They're passing out all the bills tonight, suspending the rules and passing them on third reading. They are reminding us we have meetings tomorrow but after that see ya sucka's we are gone for a few days.

The Americans for Tax Reform have this pledge thing that they get legislators in every state to sign, It's a pledge to vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes. Four senators in Texas signed it, and 34 Representatives signed it. Who? you ask?
SENATE: Chris Harris (S-9), Kyle Janek (S-17), Todd Staples (S-3), Tommy Williams (S-4).

HOUSE: Leo Berman (H-6), Dwayne Bohac (H-138), Betty Brown (H-4), Fred Brown (H-14), Bill Callegari (H-132), Scott Campbell (H-72), Frank Corte (H-122), Tom Craddick (H-82), Myra Crownover (H-64), Dianne White Delisi (H-55), Gary Elkins (H-135), Dan Flynn (H-2), Kent Grusendorf (H-94), Glenn Hegar (H-28), Harvey Hilderbran (H-53), Fred Hill (H-112), Charlie Howard (H-26), Carl Isett (H-84), Bill Keffer (H-107), Jim Keffer (H-60), Phil King (H-61), Edmund Kuempel (H-44), Mike Krusee (H-52), Jerry Madden (H-67), Joe Nixon (H-133), Elvira Reyna (H-101), Gene Seaman (H-32), John Smithee (H-86), David Swinford (H-87), Robert Talton (H-144), Larry Taylor (H-24), Corbin Van Arsdale (H-130), Martha Wong (H-134), Bill Zedler (H-96)

Let's see how they are voting on these tax bills.

Let's say I was a Democratic consultant who, for a longtime, worked for a guy who played a rather large role in crafting the current tax bill. Let's say I played a role in helping get some Democratic House members elected, and even had some sway with other members.

What would I do regarding the current debate on the House floor? Would I try and exert my influence and help Rick Perry pass the plan because my old boss helped out with it? Would I jeopardize Texas schoolchildren and good Democratic members because of my old loyalties?

What would you do?

Funny how much we've heard that tonight. Honestly, we don't know if these folks could tell a good amendment if it promised to tickle their ass with a feather. We're currently on Amendment 44 to HB3. HB3, which will pass, despite the lip-smacking going on at the back mic. Let's watch and see if anything is happening. It's 8:52 p.m.

HIT REFRESH, We're Posting for a bit.

So far tonight we've seen HB1 get passed, HB2 get passed and now we're on to HB3. (Which will pass) They're pulling down amendments and just passing the ones they have left to probably strip them out in committee and get it back on the floor quickly. How come we know all this and we don't know diddly-shit?

Ok, y'all know I like her. But seriously, Rep. Senfronia Thompson has been at the mic all. day. long. She has been articulate, engaging, and thoughtful. Some of you really don't like her, but I'm impressed at her stamina, her passion and look at her? She's wearing a beautiful green suit. I love an underdog, and she's torn into these amendments and bills with everything they deserve.

So we've been watching the Lege off and on all evening. The more and more we hear, the more and more it looks like this thing is gonna pass. On top of that, there are some crazy-ass amendments. We've seen amendments on water rights and even immigration. WTF? Look for Talton to slip in an amendment banning gays from owning property.

They're fixing to pass HB 1, blowing the surplus on property taxes. A big ass monkey is off their back. Now that that's over it's gonna be tougher passing any other tax bills this session.

HB 3, a chunk of the guv's proposals, is up next. They've been delaying it all day to try and round up a couple dozen votes that they were short. We're hearing that they're gaining ground and it's now going to be a squeaker of a vote.

So far, the lege has decided to circumvent the legislative process, they've cut future funding from going to schools(or anything else for that matter), and they're blowing our surplus. Let's see how much more trouble they can get into tonight.

Have you been watching the House today? It's the same bullshit we've seen I don't even know how many times before. Amendments overruled, same partisan crap going on. Word is y'all will be there until midnight tonight. Nobody's getting Tiff's treats from me!

Unless you send me some "what the hell is going on information" then you'll get Tiff's. As always.

I will not be there with you until midnight. I will be busy doing something else.

The amendment on the floor is being heavily debated right now. It's Amendment 9 to HB1. It's a Perry move against Strayhorn. Rep. Senfronia is reminding us this is a backdoor political advertisement for the Guv-ah-nah. It's what Rep. Thompson calls an 'unfunded mandate' and we're having such a good time as Rep. Thompson says she can't believe they let this amendment got to the floor.

My GOD we've missed this. Rep. Thompson says, "Members if y'all got a lick of sense you should vote against this amendment." Then she stood behind Rep. Wooley and mouthed the words, "You are a tool."

I tend to forget that these two are brothers. Karen Brooks breaks down the sibling rivalry between Jim and Bill Keffer, showing how the two are worlds apart on the tax bill.

We're watching the House feed right now and let's just agree the Rep. Kolkhorst is doing a great job up there as Speaker right now. Plus, as always, so smartly dressed in the blue! All we are hearing now are amendments to amendments. Were these counted in that 124? This is some boring ass shit. I see Senfronia wandering around, she should make some parliamentary inquiries or something or we're going to fall asleep.

From left field, says Rep. Gallego, is where Rep. Wooley is suggesting that the notice of tax information should be sent by the Secretary of State as opposed to the State Comptroller under whose purvey tax information rightly falls. She's out-manuevered by Gallego and he made her look like a total 'tard trying to explain why the SOS should have anything to do with taxes. That was cute!

Some idiots got together and made a website about the budget surplus, entitled aBig PileOfMoney.com, and they even wrote a song! It's called "Please Don't Tax Texas Again" and I encourage each and every one of you to go listen to it, it'll make your day.

Here's a few choice excerpts from the lyrics:
Well there's a Big ol' Pile of Money
Sitting not too far from here
It's called the Texas tax surplus
And they collect it every year

It's not about RepubliCANS
or even DemoCANTS
It's all about the folks of Texas
getting taxed right through the pants

To get a better perspective on the proposed cigarette tax, I went to see the movie Thank You For Smoking. You lobbyists will love this film. When the tobacco lobbyist was asked how he could defend cigarettes he called it the Yuppie Nuremburg Defense. "You have to pay the mortgage."

Good luck to Texas' own tobacco lobbyists in fighting the cigarette tax, see the film for speaking points.

Here's the calendar of events today over at the Capitol. Committee hearings and such. The House will convene at 10:00 a.m. where at once riots will break out over 124 friggin' amendments. The Senate, on the other hand, will stroll in around 2. They'll laugh at the House and then adjourn for cocktails by 5.

If anyone has read over the amendments and has something to say, by all means, say it!

President Bush used Earth Day to pander promote the uses of alternative fuels as our future. Bush declared hydrogen fuel as the answer to our dependency on oil. Actually, he said we were "addicted" to oil. If anyone knows about addiction, it sure is George.

Bush added that in the near future we'll all be flying around in hover cars and cities will be built in the clouds. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney was busy trading oil futures as prices are expected to reach $90 a barrel by summer.

After his speech on Earth Day, President Bush took 20 SUVs back to the airport and climbed about a 747 and buzzed the crowd while giving them the finger.

It's so nice to see an environment president, isn't it? And, just as a side note, whever you think of hydrogen does this come to mind or no? Just me?

That's right, 124 amendments have been filed on the five tax bills. Sumabitch that's a lot. They'll be available to the Members by Monday. I hope my amendment got filed. It says, simply, "The Legislature of the State of Texas is hereby instructed to suck on it." [via QuorumReport]

Remember the memo I posted yesterday? It's flying around the Capitol and is warning legislators that voting for taxes, even procedural votes will surely leave them open to attack in the November elections. People are not giving up without a fight and some folks should probably be scared straight to see these direct mail pieces that were so effective the last go-around.

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Last night's party was unbelievable. We started off slow and then built it to a loud roar. It was great to meet y'all and yes, great to make out with a bunch of you, too. Carter Casteel stopped by and we saluted her with the UT Fight Song and there was a line of folks to shake her hand. She left before things got embarrassing.

Pink Lady flirted with Rep. Dan Branch, well so did I to be honest. I don't know why I kept doing shots like it was Spring Break 1994, but I did that, too. For some reason the neck became my target and many of you have now learned how PD believes seduction begins with just the right amount of kissing on the neck. For those of you that liked it, my pleasure indeed. For those of you that felt molested, well sorry about that.

I did recall a few people taking photos so we'll see if Pink Lady has some to pop up. If you've got some, email them to me and I'll put them in the ol' flickr album. If they are unsuitable, please just keep them to yourself. I know there is a photo of me attempting to bite Don't Mess With Pink's ass, and I'm sure it's probably floating around somewhere already.

Thanks to all the people that donated to make the party a reality. It was as good as any ever thrown by a big time lobbyist and that's sayin a lot!

BB updates: ITPT has pics up.

If you skipped out on the party last night because there was a threat of rain, well, you really missed something. PD spent the night licking girls' necks, drinking shots with reps, and saying "I'm PinkDome. Who the f$ck are you?" I had a great time chatting with various people, including someone I went to high school with who is now working at the Capitol (?), a city council candidate, our fave Rep. Pena, Scott from Grits, Vince from Capitol Annex, all the crew from ITPT (even the supposedly elusive JCBT), Don't Mess w/Pink and more. Of course my pals Kimmy, Josh and Nate were there. Even our favorite Texan Carter Casteel made an appearance (love her!). All around, a very fun, enjoyable and debaucherous event. I think we should have these events more often, y'all.