Back during a few months when the TV show was being filmed from “Dillahunty International Studios” rather than its normal location at the public access TV station, we stopped eating at Threadgill’s for a while and started going to a place near Lakeline Mall called Pluckers Wing Bar. Some people didn’t like it, but I managed to get mildly addicted to their hot wings. 
There’s this challenge at Pluckers, that if you eat 25 “Fire in the Hole” wings, you get your picture taken for inclusion on the “Wall of Flame.” I’ve been meaning to leave my mark there, so yesterday I skipped breakfast and lunch and went for it.
The picture I got is of me giving an anguished stare at the empty basket of bones. Written in sharpie at the bottom is the inscription: “There is NO GOD!” If you want to drop by and admire my handywork, I’m on the left side of the board near the ceiling, as that was the best spot I could find on the fairly crowded wall.
Also got a t-shirt for cheap (unless you count the price of 25 wings) so that I can proudly display my accomplishment the next time I’m on TV. I feel enriched and character developed, let me tell ya.
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Lars
August 25, 2010 at 8:32 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Good thing you don't believe in the bible, because it's got some things to say about gluttony.
Tim Stark
August 25, 2010 at 8:33 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Way to be "on fire" not for god!
Hortan
August 25, 2010 at 8:34 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Pics or it didn't happen.
Roberto Aguirre Maturana
August 25, 2010 at 9:03 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Is there any correlation between being a non-believer and Cardiovascular disease?
Martin
August 25, 2010 at 9:13 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
There's a Plucker's down on my end of town, so I'll have to see if I can pwn you on this one at some point. I didn't care for the place when I first went there with everyone, but I have to admit their "Fire in the Hole" sauce isn't half bad. (Spicy food is my crack. I eat fresh jalapenos like people eat apples and customarily put sliced habaneros on my homemade burgers.)
tracieh
August 25, 2010 at 9:42 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Haha! Way to go Kazim! I have a secret desire to attempt it. But am "chicken"!
JD
August 25, 2010 at 9:45 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Congratulations Russell and Martin feel free to take along my Pluckers Club card when you go I am really hard up for the points
Matt D.
August 25, 2010 at 10:06 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Anyone attempting to set/break records needs to do what Russell did: make sure you go on Tuesday because that's all-you-can-eat wings day.Sincerely,The Pluckers Expert with a table named after him
Cafeeine Addicted
August 25, 2010 at 10:08 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Oh great. Another thing in my hypothetical itinerary of things to do in Austin if I ever come down there.
Mark B
August 25, 2010 at 10:30 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I try to avoid having my mouth write checks that my ass can't cash.
JT
August 25, 2010 at 1:02 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Little do we know that this act will be the spark of rationalism across the world's population. The end of religion starts today.
Mythnam
August 25, 2010 at 2:36 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
When I get to Texas it's going to be like going from middle school to high school, in that I'll be going from the guy most able to tolerate hot food (except maybe the Indian families who make curry) to the newbie who can't handle jack.I look forward to it. A lot.
ernobius
August 26, 2010 at 6:07 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
We will never forget what you accomplished there.Go on Tracie, try it! This is surely the one activity that can give any meaning to our depressed and meaningless atheist lives.Oh, yeah, and we must see the pictures, so that we can be jealous about them .
scorinth
August 26, 2010 at 12:17 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Martin: A friend of mine with similar tastes in food once had me try some hot sauce that was so hot it gave me hiccups.After I settled down, I complained that the sauce was too hot to taste anything else. He shook his head and said, "No, you're just distracted. Try again!"This time, I felt the heat in my mouth again, but I persevered and tasted the glorious smoky and fruity complexities of the peppers that was hidden behind the veil of capsaicin, and was enlightened.Does the Habanero have the Buddha-nature?
Eyedunno
August 26, 2010 at 4:58 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I think I'd have to live on nothing but water for two days straight to be able to eat 25 wings in one sitting. But congrats; you should photograph the photograph and put it up here.
aerie
September 1, 2010 at 11:33 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I'm late to the discussion, but I'm curious if you've seen or had any bad or ugly reactions/graffiti/comments from the religious folk on your 'blasphemous' picture & caption. It's an accomplishment indeed; I fuss & gulp water because the 'mild' wings are never mild enough for me! I'm always amazed at folks who actually *enjoy* the 'heat'. It is just not in my DNA!
The Dimery
September 2, 2010 at 1:08 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Russel your a bad ass!