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Wendy's Theme 27 Jun 2013 | 03:17 pm
Local band Bright Light Social Hour happened to be at the big Citizen's Filibuster event where the awesome Wendy Davis spoke for 11 hours, on-topic, with being allowed food, bathroom breaks, or even l...
May Post 30 May 2013 | 05:55 am
Hello! Yes, I know, I have not posted for awhile. Still keeping very busy between working and weekends, but generally facebooking things instead of blogging. I even missed my 8th Blogiversary announce...
Welcome Princess Neko 29 May 2013 | 06:51 am
Here she is. We asked her owner if we could keep her. That's the short version of the much more lengthy post I was in the middle of - then decided that could wait. We are happy to have her as part of...
Ritchie Havens 23 Apr 2013 | 03:33 am
So sorry that the world has lost Ritchie Havens. He was an icon of the music festivals of the 1960s (where I saw him quite a few times), and if you've seen the movie "Woodstock" you must have been mov...
Tall weeds and a new toy 14 Apr 2013 | 10:16 pm
Spring is just busting out like crazy now, and I have a new camera which I am still trying to get used to. It's got options for "special effects," which the old camera didn't offer. Here's one used to...
Those boots 11 Apr 2013 | 04:35 am
Remember the pairs of mysterious gold boots that were draped, tennis shoe style over the wires around town? (Things can ALWAYS get more fabulous, and you truly never know what you will see during SXSW...
It's poppy time! 28 Mar 2013 | 03:21 am
This zoomed-in view looks almost painted!
Quote 24 Mar 2013 | 10:28 pm
Peter Walker [American space physicist; researcher at Rice Univ; contractor for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Space Science Div.] quotes — “…..The supreme arrogance of religious thinking ~~ that...
Zombie Day and The End 20 Mar 2013 | 02:17 pm
We got downtown early enough to be able to head back to the Waterloo Records parking lot to see The Zombies, a band I have loved since I was about 12. They still have enough principal original people ...
A Day at the Park(ing Lot) 20 Mar 2013 | 03:48 am
Friday was easily planned. (A) Go to Waterloo Records. (B) Stay all day. Waterloo's SXSW day shows have outgrown the inside of their record store (which actually hosted Iggy Pop & the Stooges in 2007...
