From a Statesman article on rising home prices:
In Area 9, which includes East Austin south of Town Lake and just east of Interstate 35, prices rose 35.4 percent to $188,200.
Guess who lives in Area 9, baby!
P.S. The Statesman’s 7 day archive policy will break the link on Tuesday, Nov. 2. After that, if you’re an Austin Library card holder, you can get to it from their reference databases.
David Rees of Get Your War On and My New Filing/Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable will be at the Alamo Village on Saturday at 4pm.
I’ve got a prior engagement, but I’m really trying to get there because his stuff is snort-coffee-out-of-your-nose funny.
I was posting a comment on Stepan’s post about the new Eminem video and noticed that A Perfect Circle is making one song a day available from eMOTIVe until it’s released on Tuesday.
I’m guessing most have already seen Triumph’s trip to spin alley after one of the recent presidential debates, but I just watched it today. It’s as funny, if not funnier than when he visited the Bon Jovi concert or the Star Wars movie line.
The 44th annual Wurstfest begins in New Braunfels this Friday, October 29th and runs until Sunday, November 7th. I first started going to this festival when I was at UT in the early 90’s. Now that I’ve got a family, it’s become our fall tradition. It gets pretty crazy on weekend nights, so we’ve taken to going on the last Sunday when it’s a little less crowded and the kids can have fun. We also go that day because we can see Jimmy Sturr. I’d link to his site, but his home page blasts one of his songs at you as soon as it loads with no clear way of silencing it and I don’t want to encourage such behavior. What Jimmy lacks in web savvy, he more than makes up for in polka. You can catch him Saturday night at 9:30 or Sunday morning at 11:30 in the Wursthalle.
We had family in town this weekend and were deciding on lunch options. In the end, we picked Zen because their food is healthier than the average fast food, they’re conveniently located and, more importantly, kids eat free there on Wednesday evenings and all day Sunday. Since I can’t find a decent listing elsewhere, I thought I’d do a quick list of kids eat free offers around town that I’m aware of and let people comment on ones that I miss.
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A recent poll (registration required, use bugmenot.com) finds a reality gap among Bush supporters. This follows the NY Times magazine article that I blogged about earlier this week which talks about the Bush administration and their own reality. It’s nice that so many people can live in their own little realities while the rest of us have to deal with the consequences.
HST on GW. Testify.
Wiley points out that Slint is reforming. Sweet. I wonder if more will come out of that show. I first heard about Slint from a guy who I met when I was looking for a new band in NYC in 1994 or 1995. The same guy is also responsible for turning me on to Shellac.
When I started working in North Austin 4 years ago, one of the first places my co-workers took me to was Dot’s. As many of you may have heard, Dot’s was destroyed in a fire early Wednesday morning. I’ll have to admit that the building itself always looked a little suspect, but it had character and the food was amazing. It was home cooking served cafeteria-style. The only other local home cooking place that I think compares is Hoover’s over on the east side.
Dot had let her fire insurance lapse because of the cost, so rebuilding will probably require community support. I’m no fan of insurance companies, but this is an example where it’s a necessary evil, a point driven home for me earlier this week when my mother-in-law got into a minor accident in one of our cars.
