Jake on the Green Monster

(Boston.com Photo / Steve Silva)



Update: While Austin is at Austin City Limits

Jake was at the first game of the Red Sox/Yankees three game series, and taking it from the hottest seats in baseball.

Sitting on top of the famed Green Monster , Boston's left field wall, he watched the Sox lose their 5 run lead in the 8th to lose to the Yankees 8-7, in the second longest regular season 9-inning game in Major League Baseball history. He was not the only A-lister at the game, or on the Monster. Adrian Grenier of Entourage enjoyed the Monster view too.

That grin better be for the Sox early lead, if it is over the Yankees coming back to take the first game, he has some explaining to do.

Jake at the Sox

Austin at Austin City Limits

Side by Side the Best?

Austin (Texas) vs. Austin (Nichols)


TX: Hot Place in Texas
Nichols: Hot Guy from Texas

TX:It's hip and trendy in a vintage sort of way
Nichols: Dresses hip and trendy in a vintage sort of way

TX: Known for great live music
Nichols: Known to like live music

TX: Cosmopolitan, yet unpretentious
Nichols: Cosmopolitan, yet unpretentious

TX:Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble became stars here
Nichols:Got in trouble in a double (with BF)in city known for stars

TX:City slogan – Keep Austin Weird
Nichols: Kept John from Cincinnati weird.

TX:Known to many because of Willie (Nelson)
Nichols:Many know about his willie (Thanks Ted)

TX: Austin lives for the outdoors.
Nichols: Austin lives for the outdoors.

TX: Attraction for many- Waiting for the Austin Bats to come out each night.
Nichols: Attraction for many- Waiting for Austin to come out.

TX: Matt McConaughey has a trailer here where he likes to entertain people.
Nichols: Entertains people(ahem) in his trailer on the set.

TX: Associated with a Jewish cowboy who is interested in Politics.(Kinky Friedman)
Nichols: Associated with a politically active Jewish guy who played a cowboy

TX: Known to Hook'em Horn in public
Nichols: Known to Hook'em Horns in public ; )


Check out one of the coolest things about Austin (TX)
2007 Austin City Limits
3 Days 8 Stages 130 Bands

L'Shanah Tovah!

For a good year! As Jake and others around the world celebrate Year 5768, we wish for both Jake and Austin a good year, full of the sweetness of life.

Every Picture Tells A Story...

Pictures-IHJ

Something to say? Something to add?

UPDATE: Here is the Border's picture, BLTB suggested. Convinced TB - "The Lean" will be up on its, that is one that has no equal.

Jake and Austin in the National Enquirer

Love - Set - Match

Jake was at the US Open yesterday. I wonder if he if was trying to get some tips from Roger Federer? It isn't everyday that your (doubles) partner was mentored by tennis great Pat Cash.

On or off the court this pair is a perfect match.

Why haven't we seen the dynamic duo more? Well if you played Center Court every time it would be just another court, nothing special. Sometimes you have to save the blockbusters for just what they are -- once in a lifetime events!

Are you in for the whole tour? I am.

Photo - IHJ/Austin Nichols Fan

A Real Case of Rendition

Some of you may remember me writing about Sabri Ben Kahla, a man who underwent extraordinary rendition by the United States government. Briefly, here is his story. The source for the following information is a copy of the letter that Sabri Ben Kahla wrote to the court at his sentencing. Sabri is a Muslim American, born here in the US. He was studying Islamic Law and Jurisprudence in Saudi Arabia when he was abducted at gun point and imprisoned by a Saudi intelligence agency at the request of the FBI. He was held for a month and then transferred to FBI custody. The FBI continued to hold him under horrible conditions where he was stripped, photographed naked, and humiliated. Judge Leonie Brinkema said, "The uncontested evidence again is the defendant had been held under conditions which would not be acceptable for a United States-based defendant in a criminal case." Sabri was charged with providing material support to the Taliban, but Judge Brinkema found him not guilty. He was then brought in for further meetings with the FBI and eventually had to testify before a Grand Jury. His family's and friends' homes and businesses were raided. Sabri was then charged with perjury to the Grand Jury. In his words, "Essentially saying that I wasn't telling the truth when I said I didn't do what I was acquitted of doing during the last trial." Sabri was convicted of perjury in July 2007 and sentenced to 10 years, an offense that typically yields a sentence of about a year. He is the only citizen ever to have the terrorist enhancement applied to his sentence, even after the judge had given the jury the explicit instruction that this trial was not a terrorist case. The judge ordered Sabri to be placed in a minimum security prison close to home (VA). Instead, he was placed in a maximum security prison in Ohio in solitary confinement.

BBC story on Sabri-http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/5145970.stm

Some of you have asked how you can help. Letters of support can be sent to Sabri via his father at-

Sabri Ben Kahla c/o Anthony Ben Kahla
P. O. Box 1794
Falls Church, VA 22041

Contact the VA elected officials and urge them to investigate the civil liberties violations in this case-

Senator James Webb
Russell Senate Office Bldg. C1
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-4024(phone)
202-228-6363(fax)

Senator John W. Warner
225 Russell Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-2023(phone)
202-224-6295(fax)

Rep. James Moran
Eighth District
2239 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-4376(phone)
202-225-0017(fax)

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