Eeyore’s 2005

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May 032005
 

I posted a quick recap and linked a few photos over on Austin Metblog, which, if I hadn’t already pointed out, has its RSS feed linked over there on the left in the Austin Metblog box. David and Sofia took some pictures of The La with Teo. You can busy yourself with those and the video of The Wife hula-hooping until I get a chance to update the pictures of the week with a few of our shots from the festivities. Observant readers will note that The La picked out the very same dinosaur tattoo and had it placed the opposite cheek as The Boy did at Eeyore’s in 2002. Check the archive for April 27th, 2002. Creepy.

Update: I added an album to the Photos section of the Main Menu. You’ll have to be logged-in to see it.

 Posted by on May 3, 2005 at 7:34 pm

24 hour news proves its worth

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May 032005
 

I’ve written in the past about the crappy job of mass media and especially 24 hour news networks are doing. I was mostly beating on Fox News, but they’re all guilty. Of course, I’m not the only one beating this drum. Rude Pundit weighs in (the Media on the Run section) on this past weekends idiotfest about the runaway bride and Jon Stewart bashed it last night. CNN has become another favorite target and deservedly so.

Speaking of battling idiocy, Richard Dawkins is my new hero.

 Posted by on May 3, 2005 at 6:15 pm

Get your theater on

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Get Your War On with Rude Mechanicals
The Austinist kids beat me to it, but I just noticed this afternoon on one of my periodic checks of David Rees’s site that a staged adaptation of his Get Your War On strip is being performed locally by Rude Mechanicals theater collective. It started this past Thursday, but runs another two weeks. I’m not sure how well Rees’s hilarious strip will translate to a live stage setting, but the results should be interesting at the very least.

I saw Rees speak at Alamo Village at the Texas Book Fair just before last fall’s national elections. He was damn funny, if a bit overconfident that the election would turn out differently than it did. I’m all for anything that promotes that strip, so go check it out. You’ll be supporting him and local theater in one event. How can you argue with that?

 Posted by on May 3, 2005 at 5:34 pm

Eeyore's Recap

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We managed to avoid a rain-out this past Saturday at Eeyore’s 42nd Annual Birthday Party. The rain in the morning kept the dust down and prevented it from getting too hot. We all wore sweatshirts or pullovers until noon. The kids’ costume contest lasted a little long this year. I understand that they were trying to include everyone and to award a prize to each participant, but allowing kids to keep trickling in almost an hour after the contest started was a little much. We didn’t manage to win a bike this year, maybe next year. The crowds picked up by late afternoon as evidenced by the longer and longer wait times at the port-a-potties by the time we left around 6.

There was a new brewery at this year’s beer stand, Independence Brewing Co. I hadn’t heard of them before, probably because they’re draft only and I don’t get out much anymore. Apparently, they were founded late last year by a longtime brewer from Copper Tank. I tried one cup of the Independence Pale Ale and was underwhelmed, although in their defense, I had already had a few and may have been a little distracted. I’ll give them another chance. I can’t say I was ever very impressed with the beers at Copper Tank either, so I’m not surprised that I wasn’t into it.

I posted a few shots over on Flickr. I may add a few more tonight if I don’t hit my limit.

 Posted by on May 3, 2005 at 1:22 pm