Will Ferrell + Bugs Bunny = Austin

Don’t believe me?  Head on down to Hyde Park and see for yourself.

Happy beerfest!

Prost! Slainte! Salud! Or whatever!

Austin weekend, kinda pearshaped

So first off, a beautiful day was planned! Lunch somewhere south of the river, then a brewery’s first anniversary party for a few hours, then maybe some poolside antics.

Well, we got the lunch part down. Güero’s on south Congress delivered some serious food, and my pals loved the girlflesh that sat near us wearing [...]

Day 1: Austin evening

Day 1 of what?  Of time for ME!  I’ve been so very scattered and busy lately I haven’t had any time to myself.  So today was the first day in weeks that I didn’t have anything planned.  Things just happened.
I needed to get a book downtown (5 acres and independence, if you want a good [...]

Fun day in Austin!

Finally!! I’d been trying to go to Mt. Bonnell for weeks, and at last actually did it. Wow, there are some seriously rich people in Austin.
The view was great, the weather perfect, and then we hit the Mayfield House (wait, was that what it was called?) and chilled in the shade with the peacocks.
We hen [...]

Can JoCo write a song that JoCo can’t sing?

Evidently! I saw JoCo at Antone’s last night, where Paul and Storm tantalizingly told us the name of JoCo’s winning Song Fu entry, but which he refused to play, citing impossibility to do so. The concert is during SXSW, but it wasn’t officially a SXSW venue. Semantics, I know.  But sadly, the third tan-sharpei-yelling musketeer [...]

Alamo Drafthouse, Role Models, and a finished project

One: molten delicious pecan pie at midnight.
Two: Role Models (finally saw it) is hilarious with lines like “now exit my burger hole”, but above all funny because LARPing saves the day. Ha!! But I’m still not gonna do it.
Three: finished mom’s cowl today, just in the nick of time, as my Pedi wrapped up. Hooray [...]

Amazing lightbulb planter mobile tree

Man, I’m totally sold on First Thursdays.  Not only was there a great sale at the yarn store (more on that later), not only was there a santa pub crawl going on, not only was there a mile-long impromptu parade of VW buses and bugs and things, but there were also artists set up, waiting [...]

First Thursday adventure

Here are some images from last night.  I’ll flesh out a bit more detail about that amazing lightbulb mobile tree in a bit, once I find the artist’s card (and thus name).
Meantime, here’s the skinny:
We went there to enjoy the sights and see what kind of sale would happen at Hill Country Weavers.  Little miss [...]

Why it rules to live in Austin

First a disclaimer:  no, it’s not the town it used to be.  I grew up here-ish, and the Austin my mom remembers isn’t the one of today.  And that’s ok. Things change, it’s cool.  Here’s why it’s still cool, though, and why I’m loving being here:
1) First Thursdays.  Why have I never been there before [...]