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FronteraFest 2007 and St. Nicholas

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Jan 222007
 

webster06.jpgFronteraFest 2007 kicked off last Thursday, a couple of days late due to the ice storm that hit early last week. KUT had a report on the festival on opening day.

You can check out all the details on their site, but here’s a quick rundown. The 14th annual fringe theater event is grouped into three sections:

  • The Short Fringe (25 minutes or less) at Hyde Park Theater
  • The Long Fringe (90 minutes or less) at Blue Theater and City Theatre
  • Mi Casa Es Su Teatro (site specific productions around town

The festival runs into February with the Short Fringe performances judged each week and culminating in a Best of the Fest week at the end.

I’m going to check out St. Nicholas, an entry in the Long Fringe. It’s written by Conor McPherson and performed by Ken Webster. Performances are Wednesday, Jan. 24th at 7pm, Sunday, Jan. 28th at noon, Friday, Feb. 2nd at 10:45pm and Saturday, Feb. 3rd at 8:15pm at The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D. Ken performed this piece last fall at Hyde Park Theater, you can check out the page from those performances and some links to reviews here.

 Posted by on January 22, 2007 at 2:21 pm

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 Posted by on January 22, 2007 at 11:17 am

Massive Delicious Post Coming

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Jan 212007
 

When I started using Bloglines, I didn’t have a decent way of bookmarking stuff I read for later. Now, the delicious integration with Firefox and some people’s feeds is better, so I don’t use the Bloglines clipping feature, but I do have a bunch of links sitting in there gathering dust. I’m converting those to delicious, so there’s about six months worth of old stuff about to hit delicious. It’s a good thing I didn’t use the clipping feature too much because it sucks. It’s ended up pointing to the wrong posts on Slashdot, Digg, and a few other sites.
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 Posted by on January 21, 2007 at 12:48 pm

So it begins

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Jan 202007
 

The Boy was at a friend’s house this week. The kid, who we’ll call Luigi, is nearly two years older. They both ran up to me when I arrived to pick him up, telling me that I *had* to hear this song. They had the video for it pulled up on Google Video (When are they going to integrate that with YouTube? they’re the same company after all). The song? “Amish Paradise” by Weird Al Yankovic. I suppose it was only a matter of time, since The Boy’s right in Weird Al’s demographic. I told them I’d heard it (more than a few times) and that it’s a parody of Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise” (from that laughable movie, Dangerous Minds, with Michele Pfeiffer). After explaining what a parody was, I double-checked and realized that the parody is nearly 11 years old and so is the original. BTW, both songs are reworkings of Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise”. I’m old.

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 Posted by on January 20, 2007 at 11:06 am

Dead Bird Verdict? Cold and Bugs

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Jan 192007
 

According to News8Austin and some AP stories I’ve seen floating around today, it was parasites and an overnight ten degree temperature drop (doesn’t that happen all the time around here?) that killed 63 birds and caused downtown to effectively shut down last Monday. It’s been interesting to hear the conspiracy theories. I guess that rumor I heard about the poisoning wasn’t true. Not surprisingly, the shutdown cost local businesses quite a bit in lost revenue.

No word yet on what kiled those birds in Australia.

 Posted by on January 19, 2007 at 12:20 pm

Wha?! The Nuge Performs at the Governor's Ball?

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Jan 182007
 
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Apparently, The Nuge performed at Governor Rick Perry’s Inaugural Ball on Tuesday night and got a little out of hand.

I’ve got a few questions about this:

  1. I know The Nuge is now a right wing nutjob, but what’s he doing hanging out with Rick Perry? Political aspirations?
  2. Isn’t this the sort of thing people expect from The Nuge? Why was anyone shocked?
  3. Did he play “Wang Dang Sweet Pootang”?

Photo from Flickr by Lancefestivalen

 Posted by on January 18, 2007 at 3:13 pm

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Reminder: Metblog Meetup – Tonight – 6-8pm – Gingerman

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Jan 172007
 

We’re gonna go ahead and have the meetup tonight at the Gingerman. I don’t know about you, but I need to get out of the house. Of course, if you don’t feel like braving the elements, we’ll understand. Come on out and show us your smiling faces and red noses. If you haven’t started to dig your car out yet, you might want to get on it. It took me 20 or 30 minutes to dig out of the ice on our two cars.

 Posted by on January 17, 2007 at 1:52 pm
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