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JoeinAustin
- Location
- Austin, Travis, Rep. of Tex.
- Birthday
- March 05
- Bio
- Born in the oil and gas deposit-rich region of North Texas, on the fraying edge of the Permian Basin, my mother was a special ed teacher, my father, a “pumper,” a far more glamorous job among the petroletariat than the name would indicate. I managed to escape the small town that spawned me promptly after High School graduation, a modicum of sanity still intact to ride shotgun with my generous portions of anger and resentment. Some five years later, I copped a BS degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Said institution and I gladly parted ways. In the intervening 20-plus years, though my only ambition has been to have ambition, I have miraculously coughed-up a boatload of freelance articles, a couple of books of dubious merit, and a metric ton of songs of occasionally inspired quality, not to mention a paralegal certificate, 11 years of experience as a legal underling, and tens of thousands of bicycle commuter miles.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Fleeing the Harridan: a
meditation in four parts
March 21, 2012 11:38PM - When the Mind is a Bastard
Contrarian
March 12, 2012 10:07PM - Excuse My French: Voyage dans
la Librairie
January 30, 2012 12:37AM - Misanthropia: Grappling with
the Von Trier Virus
January 27, 2012 04:55AM - Texas Rangers Agonistes: A
Political Fable of Woe & Hope
October 31, 2011 12:46PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “There once was a player
named Marcelo,
Whose
defense was never quite
mellow,
At
Fab…”
August 18, 2011 11:03AM - “You said it, Jeanette.
You said it. And England has
been
living in a state of
g…”
August 10, 2011 10:09AM - “Ah yes, Janie, the
proles have been stretched as
far as they
will go and are
now…”
August 10, 2011 09:44AM - “Thank you. I had no idea
about the "old code" option.
Thank
you, thank…”
August 09, 2011 11:38PM - “I remembered the
following verses from my
Sunday School days
while
reading about…”
August 08, 2011 04:18PM
JoeinAustin's Links
- List of Cool Stuff You Should Read
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- joemitchell.biz
- Fluoxetine Music
- Flower Called Nowhere
Attorney Dan Ross
According to the Austin American-Statesman, the wife of Vernon Hunter, the victim in the IRS Plane Crash on Thursday, has filed a lawsuit against the wife of the plane's pilot, Joseph Stack, III.
According to the Statesman report, a seven pag… Read full post »
Parker and her partner
Much noise has been made outside the Lone Star State about Houston
electing Annise Parker, an unabashed lesbian, to that City's
mayoral post. Many members of the chattering classes appear
to be shocked that a Texas city, of all places, would elect an/… Read full post »
It appears that the French Far Right Party of Jacques LePen is trying to force-feed foreign minister Frederic Mitterrand his own words, and with very good reason. In a battle of "French Politics - The Next Generation," the daughter of LePen,… Read full post »
It seemed to be a typical morning. I had slept peacefully in my cave of a casita on Wednesday night and right into Thursday morning, August 20, 2009. I arose around 8am, which is very early for me, had an apple, some watermelon and prepared for one of my twice weekly… Read full post »
Stephen York
I remember him vaguely. That's how I remember most of high school- vaguely, be it the chemicals or the desire to forget the whole debacle. I think he played some sports, and, maybe, just maybe, he was in the band. Did he play trumpet? I/…
Along Austin's Lady Bird Lake Trail near the Waller Creek Trail junction [about midway between IH-35 and Congress Avenue] is a very curious combination of style and function which I refer to as "the Iron Restroom." I was quite curious about… Read full post »
The Texas Judiciary is imbroiled in a bit of a kafafel at the moment, all thanks to one Chief Justice Sharon Keller of the Court of Criminal Appeals, the criminal law arm of Texas' dual Supreme Court system. Keller, who has always firmly… Read full post »
So for all you yankees who think September in Austin is too hot (it is), the 2009 edition of Austin City Limits Festival has been moved back a bit to October 2-4. Average temps should be in the lower 80's by… Read full post »
Texas Top 10 Ten Reasons this Texan Doesn't Want Texas to Secede
from the United States
Ruminations on San Jacinto Day
Happy San
Jacinto Day, y'all. This is the 173rd anniversary of the defeat
of Mexican General Santa Anna by Texas Forces… Read full post »
STATES RIGHTS! STATES RIGHTS! Governor Rick Perry's Speech at Austin Tea Party Rally, 4/15/09-- with some more pics from the rally.
It's a little scary how much he sounds like GW Bush, at times. Even scarier is the shades of George Wallace.
I felt really really Fellini-esque, running backwards to get this shot. Governor Rick Perry (left) leaving Austin City Hall after speaking at the 11:30 am Austin Tea Party Rally. I have no idea who that is with him. Anyone know? I hated that damn cap the Guv was wearing.… Read full post »
This is a bad, possibly dangerous, habit I've developed
recently.
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Stereolab:Deneuve, DeBord, Dali, Skunk Weed and Laundry Bags
Stereolab; 9/24/08; La Zona
Rosa; Austin, Texas, Estados Unidos
Entering LZR
on the teetering precipice of ten pm, I found my
nostrils assaulted by the oppressive odor of skunk weed.
Luckily, said odor did not permeate the air, but merely rode
upon it in mercifully infreq… Read full post »
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