End of Silence

A friend hand makes coats for little girls. She needed some models for a News8Austin story. The La is in the video. The coats look nice, although they’re a bit too much for my tastes.

In the wake of the recent passing of HJR 6 by the Texas House and this story, which highlights everything that is wrong with Texas schools and the marriage of big business and government, I’m left to wonder what the hell I’m still doing in this state.
Oh yeah, the weather, Tex-Mex, and Austin itself.
(BTW, [...]

I just got back from the Austin Metblogging meetup. Unfortunately, I was the only Austin Metblogger who made it. I think the other Austinites are contending with the same things we are: out-of-town guests, enjoying the amazing weather or hibernating until this whole SXSW thing blows over.
In addition to Sean, who we met last night [...]

My work holiday party was last night. It was pretty cool, my fifth one with this company. As I was driving the babysitter home after the party, we almost got hit by some pigfucker in an SUV. We were about 25-50 feet from from the the light at Burleson and Oltorf coming from the south [...]

No, not that kind of hick, Bill Hicks. I’m currently in the midst of a Bill Hicks marathon. I just finished reading American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story. I followed that up with a viewing of Bill Hicks Live - Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian, the new DVD from Ryko.
I think I was vaguely aware [...]

From a Statesman article on rising home prices:
In Area 9, which includes East Austin south of Town Lake and just east of Interstate 35, prices rose 35.4 percent to $188,200.
Guess who lives in Area 9, baby!
P.S. The Statesman’s 7 day archive policy will break the link on Tuesday, Nov. 2. After that, if you’re an [...]

The Austin edition of Sean Bonner and Jason DeFillippo’s Metroblogging was launched this week and I’ve signed on as one of the bloggers.
Small world, it turns out that Sean and I went to school together briefly, although he was a few years behind me and I don’t believe we ever knew each other existed. He’s [...]

We had a great night out this evening. We traded babysitting with some friends so that we could attend a screening of Stand By Me at Alamo Village with Wil Wheaton in attendance. It also turned out that M. and J. were hosting a letter writing party for MMOB just before the screening.
After dropping the [...]

Ok, so I’m a little late with the second ACL post.
On Friday, we checked out Trout Fishing in America, Rebirth Brass Band, and Franz Ferdinand. Trout Fishing was great. This was our first time checking them out live since starting to listen to them a year or so ago. I’d heard about the height discrepancy [...]

The reviews of this year’s ACL Festival are appearing on the blogs of various friends. I’ll have a more proper review with a picture or two up tonight along with some shots of the kids in the login required section of the site.
The common complaint this year seems to be that there were just too [...]