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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 COMMENTS
- “Now that I have finished
vomiting, I am going to go
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January 21, 2010 05:09PM - “I have now talked to
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January 21, 2010 04:38PM - “Greetings from
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January 19, 2010 01:40AM - “Amuse-- that line is
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January 13, 2010 12:50AM - “Totes Auss a-muse. I
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January 13, 2010 12:50AM
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Texas Racists Want Family Out of Their Neighborhood
It was catastrophic news for the progressive City of Austin, Texas- a University Town, a high-tech city, a city that rates near the top of Bob Florida's creative class ladder, a blue town that gave about 75% of its votes to… 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 »
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 »
Scandirabia sucks! "Let the Right One In" & Islam in Sweden
The beauty of genre fiction is how easily it lends itself to allegorical interpretation of the cultural circumstances that birthed it. The hyper-literati of the print and celluloid geeker-domains are particularly prone to looking upon innocent horror, science fiction, and …
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.
Eeyore's Birthday Party- Austin's Rite of Spring Turns 46
46th Annual Eeyore's Birthday Party
Pease Park
Austin, Texas
What began in 1963 as a small
event organized by a University of Texas English Professor to
simultaneously honor the onslaught of spring and the A.A.
Milne classic "Winnie the Pooh" has, over 46
years,… 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/…
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 »
Man U v. Barcelona; Commies 2:Corporation 0 ; FINAL
MAN U BARCA
When not in Rome what do you do?? No cable, no ESPN? What does an
old soccer hooligan do? Crank up the Sirius XM Radio on
channel 102 and let Rome come to you. That's right! From right… Read full post »
The Texas-size disgrace that is Judge Sharon "Killer" Keller
Thanks to the New York Times editorial board, the callous
disregard for law and life of Judge Sharon
“Killer” Keller has been upgraded from Lone Star
broohaha to a national imbroglio. The story per most of the media
regarding the Keller incident has been this:
On Septemb… Read full post »
More Texas Racist Fun: "Hispanics Keep Out" Sign on Home
Quick! Let's scrap the First Amendment to save us from 72 year
old racists!
This is a video story from Dallas-Fort Worth ABC affiliate WFAA
about a 72-year old woman in Azle, Texas (only 24 short miles from
my hometown of… 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 »
Marfa! Marfa! Marfa! Going All Jan Brady in West Texas
"Marfa! Marfa! Marfa!"
You can hear the Jan Brady overtones of the ever-overshadowed middle child rising from the Chihuahuan desert.
Alpine is in the middle of the great Marfa-Alpine-Marathon metropolitan area- a grouping of some 10,000 souls caught between the Davis Mounta…
ACL Fest Day 3: Where the wild things are
Utterly, fracking exhausted! Ouch. The pain. All I can say at this point is that I rather enjoyed the assembly line production efficiency of the festival.
Nice to be inundated with good music, and actually have the occasional conundrum about who to see.
World's… Read full post »
Viva Morrissey!!! More fun with the world's happiest sad guy
Bass Concert Hall
Austin, Texas
4/12/09
Over the years, I've heard so many stories about what a shit Morrissey is that I had assumed that most or all of them were true. I had become resigned to the fact that my hero, though possibly the greatest songwriter of his generation- n/… Read full post »
Tea'd off- I hate taxes, too! But you guys are weird
Whole Foods CEO: You have no right to healthcare or food
Note: New info added at 9:16 central, 10:16pm eastern, 8/11/09
Well the wolf has taken off his sheep's clothing. Hippie health food store proprietor cum corporate hoo haw John Mackey, CEO of Austin-based Whole Foods, in a Wall Street Journal… Read full post »
Happy 100th Birthday LBJ
Most People Only Remember You for the Vietnam Imbroglio... That's a Shame. You Did Many Things Just as Bad and Many Things Much Better
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States. I would…
Scenes from LBJ's 100th Birthday Party
THIS AIN'T NO DIGNIFIED SOIREE. THIS IS A
TEXAS-SIZED BACKYARD PARTY!!!
I don't know what I was thinking, or if I was thinking at all. Somehow, from the little description I read about LBJ's 100th birthday bash, I had imagined that it would be a subdued ordeal… Read full post »
Austin Firm Linked to Madoff in Row Over Racist Email
Ah, man. This falls into the "What are you? Stupid?"
category.
As though Austin Capital Management isn't in enough hot water as it
is with a
few lawsuits filed against it for its involvement with the
Bernie Madoff Scheme, it has been… Read full post »
Keep Austin Spicy
Photos from the Keep Austin Spicy Asian Food Festival at Fiesta
Gardens, Austin; 3/28/09
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