Since there were so many possibilities for a meetup during SXSWi, I decided to declare Nuclear Taco the Metroblogging Meetup location for this year. I’ve always meant to attend and never made it over there.
Mar 202007
Mar 202007
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Four years later. Go back and look at what was said by Bush and by Cheney. Four years and thousands of lives and billions of dollars.Ask yourself. Was it worth it?
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Here’s more of the shady history of Karl Rove. Surprise, surprise, they used the Patriot Act to appoint replacements without congressional oversight. But, of course, the Patriot Act is there to protect us. Trust them. They’ve earned it.
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While sitting at the Lifehacker happy hour during SXSW, Jason, Dylan and I acquired some new table mates, Kyle and Annalee. I took a shot of Kyle’s Twitter hack and Annalee found my photo, used it in her post, and credited it. Gotta love the Internets.
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I read about this one on Cringely.
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These screenshots from Fox News illustrate why The Word segment on The Colbert Report is such genius. I love that they don’t know the difference between then and than. Boy, does Fox News piss me off. I can’t believe anyone watches that shite.
Mar 202007
I missed this last week in the SXSW frenzy, but apparently Ted Nugent taped an episode of Texas Monthly Talks this morning down at the KLRU studios on the UT campus. Did anybody see him?
That’ll be interesting. Evan Smith, the show’s host and editor of Texas Monthly, is sure to ask him about his governor’s ball performance earlier this year.
I did a quick check of the schedule for that show on KLRU and it doesn’t look like it’ll air until at least early May. I’ll definitely have to make a note to watch for that one.
Mar 202007
I just read a huge post on the Alamo Drafthouse blog. They’re announcing their 10th Anniversary celebration and the original location on Colorado between 4th and 5th is moving to the Ritz!
Wow.
I knew they were having trouble at the current location because of increasing rents. They started Heroes of the Alamo program last year looking for donations to remain at the current location and I guess it just wasn’t working out. It sounds like they had a lot of help in working out a deal to move to the Ritz. It’s hard not to sound gushing and stupid about this, but it’s so damn cool. The Ritz has been around since 1929 and has a long history in Austin as a theater, concert venue (Stevie Ray Vaughn, Big Boys and other have played there) and bar. Its future was in doubt (at least for me anyway) since the pool hall era ended last year. The fact that both can come together to preserve a location important to Austin and one of the best local businesses is just too great. You can’t help but pull for Tim and Karrie.
It sounds like they expect to move sometime this summer, so if you want to experience the old location, you’ve only got three months or so.
Update (03.21.07 09:31 CDT): I traded e-mails with Tim League. They mistakenly posted the announcement yesterday. It was supposed to go up today. They’ll start construction on April 1st and plan to blog the progress with photos and updates.