EAST Interview: Kat Murph of Vertallee Letterpress
- Is it just us, or does a bank robber fleeing by bike—and making a clean getaway-- seem totally out of place in Houston? In the ATX, you might blend-in while riding a bike, but in H-town?
- Look at the 85 comments on this Statesman story on the closing of the Zilker lawn after ACL! This is an issue that Austin totally cares about!
- That Austin Chronicle cover-art of Bob Schneider is actually a self-portrait. Who knew?
- Going to see Wilco tomorrow night in Williamson County? Please don’t pee on this dude’s fence, as he’s already had enough!
- Oh no! Ex-Astros pitcher dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound. Services are scheduled.
- Former student at A&M claims her academic counselor told her she should fail three of her classes. That explains a lot.
- Hunting is dangerous for everyone involved. A 27-year-old game manager was gored to death last week at the Y.O. Ranch, by an exotic deer with a “full, sharply-pointed rack.” The deer also died, so he won’t be part of December’s Ranch Birthday Huntbash with Ted Nugent.
- Man dragged a cross from Longview, Texas to Aberdeen, Washington. At least it was on wheels!
Texas: Keeping the News Mighty Strange [Extra Extra]
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where's the public outcry over the condition of waterloo park?
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The Statesman story about the Zilker partial-closure is mostly commented on by the same 3 or 4 people over and over though with the collective intelligence of a grain of dillo dirt, so the # of comments is wildly deceiving. I'm sure 99% of the people complaining don't go to that piece of Zilker more than once a year anyway. People just love to complain that their tax dollars are going to waste, despite the fact that most of your tax dollars don't do you any direct benefit at any time anyway. If you didn't visit every single park in Austin today, then some of your tax dollars were wasted. Wow, life's hard.
Somehow it makes me feel better that it isn't just law enforcement in other cities and states that can't catch sketchy criminals. In DC last month, a guy shot someone and then rolled away in his wheel chair, and did not get caught. So...welcome, Houston, to the ranks of the incompetent.
I think the wheeled cross thing is a bit lame. It seems to miss the original intent. :)
The wheeled cross seems to be a bit of an easy way out to me.....
Okay the chronicle if officialy out of touch and irrelevent. Who cares about bob schneider? Why is there an entire spread on him in the chonricle? The music is boring, predictable and horrible. bob schneider is not austin....
The Chronicle is "out of touch and irrelevant"? Do you know who founded SXSW? Look at their ads & club listings sometime. The Chron is, bar none, the biggest supporter of live music in Austin.
As for Schneider, if you don't like his music, fine. But the fact remains he is hugely popular here. His weekly gigs at Saxon Pub are always packed. I'm not a huge fan, but some of his songs are pretty good (like "40 Dogs").
Yeah, when did he become the most popular singer-songwriter in Austin? What?