Monthly Archives: September 2005

Maybe network TV doesn’t suck

Last night while trying to unwind from ACL Fest, The Wife stumbled across a re-airing of last week’s series premiere of My Name Is Earl, starring Jason Lee and Rubber Band Man from the Office Max commericals among others. She’d … Continue reading

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!@&(*^# Subscriptions

Enjoy your last free Paul Krugman op-ed. After this one, rumor has it that he and the other NY Times op-ed mavens will be hidden behind the lock and key of subscriptions. CNN.com saw the error of their ways and … Continue reading

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Rawk show

The Wife, The Boy and I got babysitting for The Girl and headed out to the big Weezer and Foo Fighters Rawk show last night at Erwin Center. I blogged it at Metroblogging (it’s also in the Austin Metblog sidebar … Continue reading

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NO – Katrina Slideshow

A friend forwarded this Kodak slideshow from someone in New Orleans named Alvaro. It’s an impressive photo account of his experiences before and after the storm.

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The Horror

With Halloween approaching, there’s a few notable DVD releases that I’m not going to be able to pass up. Kolchak – Night Stalker – Finally, they’re releasing the entire series on DVD on October 4th. This one is always touted … Continue reading

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Crackpot

The Boy’s school is having a Back To School Night tonight where we’re supposed to find out more about what he’s doing each day, meet other parents, talk to the teachers, etc. . They’re making it a potluck dinner since … Continue reading

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A little accounting

Check out these numbers with plenty of footnotey goodness for sources.

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Aunt Bite

The following family moment is brought to you by Ornery Toddlers R Us. My sister was in town last week to help out while The Wife was in D.C. helping with my father-in-law’s recovery from heart surgery (he’s doing well, … Continue reading

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Unfathomable

It sounds like things are improving somewhat today, but this week and the events unfolding in New Orleans are just incomprehensible. I watched two things this morning on CNN.com that everyone should see and since they prudently decided to start … Continue reading

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Music Meme

I got this from Dru, who got it from Pandagon. Basically the meme is this–go to Music Outfitters, type the year of your high school graduation into the search function, select the top 100 most popular songs, cut and paste … Continue reading

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