I missed that there was a Super Villain quiz in addition to the Super Hero quiz.
I must like armor since I ended up as Iron Man and Dr. Doom. Wheaton took the quiz as well.
Your results:
You are Dr. Doom
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Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity. |
Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test
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Found this on Jason Calacanis’s blog today and for some reason enjoyed taking it. Probably because some of the questions were obviously pointing to particular heroes and others were hard to pick out.
Your results:
You are Iron Man
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Inventor. Businessman. Genius. |
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
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I’m not a big fan of country music, especially contemporary country music, but too many things have popped up about Jack Ingram in the last 6 months or so to avoid mentioning him. According to Andy Langer’s piece on Ingram from the Austin Chronicle in November of last year, Ingram moved to Austin from Dallas in the summer of 2005.
News8Austin has a wrap up about Ingram’s #1 singles and his 5th consecutive appearance at the ACL Festival this year. As an aside, Wikipedia doesn’t seem to have him listed for 2002, but Langer picked him as a Sunday Sleeper that year. Wikipedia wrong? Shocker.
As if all that weren’t enough, iTunes is featuring his version of “Auld Lang Syne” as a free download this week, so put that new iPod to use and ring in another year of Jack Ingram country dominance while I run screaming in the other direction.
I just saw word of the second water main break downtown in the past week. It was Bowie between 5th and 6th by Whole Foods on Tuesday and now it’s not too many blocks east and north at MLK and Nueces. Apparently, water will be off from 21st to 6th on Nueces for the next 6 hours. Good thing school’s still out, a lot of people are on vacation and the work day’s over for most.
It’s the cold weather, I guess? Or wide fluctuations in temperature throughout the day? Doesn’t seem that bad.
The Wife was up early this morning to beat the crowds at the grocery store. As she left, she asked if I had any requests. Not thinking, I asked for more beer since we’re low and we’ll be entertaining both tonight and tomorrow night. It being a Sunday before noon and this being Texas, of course, she was denied.
Blue Laws have been around for a long time in the US and Texas seems to have a particular fondness for them. Debunking the popular etymology, Wikipedia sez:
Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence to support the assertion that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper. Rather, the word blue was commonly used in the 18th century as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and those who observed them (e.g., “bluenoses”). Another version is that the laws were first bound in books with blue covers.
It’s not like I’m not aware of them. I was born and raised in Texas. It’s just that you forget sometimes in the course of your normal activities that it’s Sunday and that it’s before noon. You’re out getting groceries and think, “I should get some beer.” You’re not going to drink it right then…maybe not even that day, but you can’t fucking buy it because of the stupid fucking law. There I said it.
Can we please get beyond this silliness? I can’t buy beer and I still don’t go to church. I don’t go to church because I don’t believe in God, not because I’m out getting loaded, although stuff like this makes me want to go out and get loaded. Damn.
You may now resume your holiday merriment, though not until after noon.
We finally sent the Xmas cards out early this afternoon. There are a few stragglers, but the majority are on their way. We’re staying in Austin for the holidays this year. The Wife’s parents, brother and my sister are in town. No big plans for tomorrow, so we’ll take the lazy Sunday at home as well.
We did the Trail of Lights last Sunday. Last Saturday was the big birthday show at Beerland. Mine was that day and Bob’s was Tuesday. I played with Victims of Leisure and then with Bad Rackets. Sons of Hercules closed the show. We were supposed to share each other’s equipment, but Oltorf Music Lab decided to close at 6pm, leaving them without any guitars or amps. It was the second Victims show and went really well. I’m hoping we do another one soon. The Bad Rackets gigs are always fun. We played a couple of new ones and I sang (well, yelled somewhat in tune) on a Mono Men cover, “Watch Outside”. The Wife and I ate at Habana Calle 6 beforehand. I had the cuban sandwich and The Wife had Ropa Vieja. We’d never eaten there. It was pretty good. The food was served very quickly and it was pretty busy. Stubb’s, our first choice, was closed to all restaurant business for a holiday party.
The Bad Rackets got a little publicity this week (scroll about 1/2 way down the page) in the Austin Chronicle.
Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday.
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