I spotted this over on Pharyngula. I was a little afraid I may have screwed up at least one of these, but happily, I can still pass 8th grade math with flying colors. How about you?
You Passed 8th Grade Math |
 Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! |
Casino El Camino has finalized their schedule for their own SXSW festivities. They open at noon throughout the festival as opposed to the usual 4pm.
Friday, March 17th
12:30pm Busy Signals (Chicago)
1:30pm Live Fast Die (Chicago)
2:30pm The Sons of Hercules (S.A.)
3:30pm Muck & The Mires (Boston)
Saturday, March 18th
12:30pm Headache City (Chicago)
1:30pm Wide Right (NYC)
2:30pm The Bloody Tears (Austin)
3:30pm The Clutters (Nashville)
For the uninitiated, you want to stop there and get an Amarillo Burger, just make sure you give 30-45 minutes lead time from when you order, more if they’re really crowded.
(Full disclosure: I host the bar’s website, but the burgers really are good. Honest.)
Abe Vigoda’s birthday last week prompted me to install the Abe Vigoda Status plugin for Firefox. I didn’t know that my actions would set off a chain reaction of star deaths over the weekend. Darrin McGavin was my favorite of the bunch. His roles in Christmas Story and Night Stalker make him a much loved actor from my childhood. Jon already posted a remembrance and mentioned his digital cameo in the disappointing attempt at reviving (or is that re-imagining?) Night Stalker last fall. Abe Vigoda was on a flight I took from NYC to Dallas when I was living there in the mid-90’s. I said a brief hello. He was showing his age a bit then, but he was still flirting with the flight attendants and calling them “sweetheart”. Looks like he’ll outlast them all.
For those friends and family that made it through the site move, I’m obviously behind in moving everything. I’m moving the “Picture of the Week” for the kids to Flickr. I’ll have a Flickr set for each kid. You’ll have to be a Flickr member and I’ll have to mark you as friend or family in order for you to see the set. The Boy’s is there now and I’ll have La’s up by Monday. It appears that the comments didn’t make it through the move either and I’ll have to do a custom import for those. I also still need to see if I can get a Rewrite Rule working so that the old posts in phpNuke will go to the new location in WordPress. Yeah.
Photographer, Flickr dude extraordinaire, Thomas Hawk weighs in on Apple’s announcement of the billionth iTunes download. I think he’s right on and his point is the reason why I’m still uneasy about embracing iTunes. I posted twice about this in the past and, despite actually buying a song from iTunes in August, I’ve only bought one other song since. Both purchases were ones that I’d consider throwaways. If I really want a full album, I’m sticking with CDs. Of course, going that route doesn’t avoid the DRM nightmare as evidenced by the Sony DRM debacle that continues to make news.
EmptyVee has taken notice of local metal throwbacks, The Sword. It appears a media frenzy is building for these local boys steeped in Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin in the run up to SXSW. Is it time to get snarky and say that we found ’em first (barely)?
If you missed them last week, they’ll be playing a showcase at SXSW at Buffalo Billiards on Friday, March 17th at 1am. It appears they’re working on a new website, but there’s nothing there yet.
This has to be one of the strangest news stories I’ve ever read.
The schedules for Film and Music are up on the SXSW website. As always, the schedules are subject to change. Many of the band schedules are still missing times, but most do have profile information and mp3s to sample, including my own.
Film passes went on sale this morning at Waterloo Video.
Check the temperature in hell because I actually agree with something George Will wrote.
I found this item over on Houston Democrats. David Van Os, a candidate for Texas Attorney General, is planning a 24-hour filibuster on the steps of the Capitol building here in Austin, starting Friday, March 3rd at 6pm.
In 1836 the founders of Texas declared and won their independence from dictatorship and entered the community of nations.
In our day the people of Texas must again win their independence from the modern dictatorship of corruption, cronyism, and corporate government.
Please join me as I honor the 170th anniversary of the Texas Declaration of Independence by conducting a 24-hour Filibuster for Independence at the seat of Texas government on the State Capitol grounds.
I’ve heard good things about Van Os. This’ll be a good opportunity to check him out.