Art Car Weekend

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Here’s how the schedule goes, add what you will to your list: Thursday 7-midnight, Art Car Ball, $15, Sons of Hermann, cheap beer, bring a flask (they sell “set ups” – which of course you don’t need *wink*) (flyer pdf) You don’t need to go to the “outlaw ball” at the Meridian, this is the … Read more

VAST

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I wasn’t paying too much attention and then realized that VAST (site, wiki) was playing at the Continental Club last night only hours before it happened. I quite like the one album I have of this band – which is mostly a studio project – so I had to go to check them out. I … Read more

Smithville, Austin, and Dreams

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gothic smithvilleSaturday I drove out to Smithville and had a fabulous time at Glover and Judy’s with fabulous weather and a nice evening swim in the lake. Drove into Austin and stayed at Mary Ellen’s.

Sunday was the Houston v Austin roller derby with lots more fun, convincing Bob Hewett and Bill Fergerson to come out, and hanging with the roller girls afterward (even though they lost to an amazing Hot Rod Honeys team) and actually meeting a few of them I hadn’t previously talked to.

The drive home was bathed in yellow wild flowers almost the whole way. When I get home I have two emails from different friends who had dreams about me:

Subject: Hello?

Are you OK? I dreamed you died last night,

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MySpace to Buy Wall Street Journal

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Well, actually News Corp, which also owns MySpace, offered an unsolicited bid of US$5B for Dow Jones & Co. That’s a cost of $60/share for a company that was in the low $30s/share. Rupert Murdock runs News Corp and is a brilliant businessman and evil media magnate.   I won’t be surprised when this happens … Read more

Dueling iPods

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Both of my iPods were updating at the same time. Of course, as soon as I took the picture, one had quit. The 20MB takes firewire, but the 2MB has to use USB. Winslow has my name and address engraved on the back.  The name is that of an AnthroPC from the web comic Questionable … Read more