Hungry? Bored of the same old crap for lunch? Well, Dot’s Place is back to a permanent location after nearly two years.
The restaurant was destroyed by fire in October of 2004. The new location is in the Windermere Shopping Center in Pflugerville near FM 1825 and Pecan Street. If I’m reading the map right, that means she’s now east of I-35 and a little north of the old location which was near Howard Ln. and Burnet Rd.
Jon L. reminds me that today is One Web Day, a celebration of everyone’s favorite series of tubes.
Austin is celebrating tonight at 7pm at Café Mundi, 1704 East 5th Street.
From the press release:
If you can’t remember or imagine life without the Web, then you shouldn’t miss this event!
Join the conversation. Stand up and tell everyone how the web has changed your life.
One Web Day is the Earth Day for the internet, and it’s being celebrated for the first time this year around the world. Because the web is made of people, it’s up to us to celebrate and protect it.
I’ll refrain from any Soylent Green quotes or Charlton Heston impersonations on that last one.
By now you’ve all heard that Willie Nelson got busted a few days after ACL in Louisiana (why is it always Louisiana or Florida?) for drug possession. Others have pointed out that this has to be the easiest bust of the year. Congratulations to Louisana’s finest.
Anyway, Smoking Gun has a shot of the contraband, check it out. Kelso of the Statesman also weighed in on the world’s easiest drug bust today.
Don Walser, local country musician and yodeler extraordinaire, has died of complications from diabetes according to News8Austin.
Don hadn’t played out for several years. I’m guessing it was due to his health. He had a recurring gig at Emo’s back in the late 90’s, introducing “the kids” to some good old fashioned country music and yodeling with his Pure Texas Band. I saw him there a couple of times. He always had a smile and was a very personable guy. His death is a loss for the Austin music scene. He’ll be missed.
Markos Zuniga of Daily Kos fame will be in town tomorrow promoting his book, Crashing the Gate, and getting his drink on. He debuted the book back in March at SXSW.
From his post:
I’ll be signing books and drinking liberally tomorrow in Austin.
Monkeywrench Books
6pm
110 E. North Loop 78751The Parlor
8pm
4301 B Guadalupe St 78751I expect quite the party. It’s Austin, after all.
Odd that the signing is at Monkeywrench which is a few doors down from the original Parlor location, but it appears the drinking afterwards is at the new location at 43rd and Guadalupe, which isn’t really within walking distance. I guess the new location has more space? I haven’t been there yet.
One of the benefits of being part of a network of worldwide, city-focused, sites is that when something significant happens, either positive, negative, or something in between, there’s someone there to lend a local perspective and add to what you’re hearing from the mainstream media.
Last week, it was the shootings at Dawson College in Montreal where Montreal Metblogger, Jay, who works in the print shop there, gave his first person account.
Today, it’s coverage of the coup in Thailand from Bangkok metbloggers Daniel and Bonafide, whose post yesterday foreshadowed today’s events.
The wife and kids arrived at ACL just after the noontime downpour. They checked out the kid area and The Boy sampled The Black Angels and Husky Rescue at my recommendation. It was his consolation for having to miss The Raconteurs the day before. He liked Black Angels better than Husky Rescue. The Wife thought the opposite. I would’ve liked to have seen Husky Rescue. We noticed the beach area had been improved from last year, complete with misting fans and tents to provide more shade than the umbrellas that were available the past few years. I think after the blistering temperatures last year, they heeded the complaints of festival-goes with kids and added much needed heat relief for the little ones.
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Tomorrow be Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties! A little birdie tells me that Opal Divine’s Penn Field will be celebratin’ right proper with The Jolly Garogers, contests, specials and other skullduggery.
If ye be new to pirate lingo, here be some useful words and phrases to fool the lubbers and a pirate to engilsh translator for the laziest of bilge rats among ye. Arrrr!
Andy attended Day One, focusing mostly on the festival itself and not the music.
I said earlier this year that I wasn’t going after the heat and dust last year. Finding a cheap 3-Day Pass from someone who couldn’t make it up from Galveston because of an exam changed my mind. I neglected to bring my camera yesterday (and buy liter bottles of water at the gas station by my house where they’re 99 cents as opposed to the $2 or $2.50 near Zilker Park) so no pretty pictures for you.
We arrived yesterday around 2:30 and sat down at the Austin Ventures stage to watch Blue Van. I wandered off to look for a cheap hat, an unsuccessful trip because of my enormous noggin, but was underwhelmed by the few songs I heard.
We parked ourselves at the AT&T Blue Room stage for Nada Surf. I loved “Popular” when it came out and had heard good things about the band. They were ok, not great. We headed over to the AT&T stage for The Shins and I remained in that general area for the rest of the day. The Shins were good. I wouldn’t buy their music, but I enjoyed them. I turned around to watch Aimee Mann from a distance at the Heineken stage. I could hear pretty well actually and the jumbo screen made it easy to see.
The Raconteurs were up next, by far the best band of the day. I’d only heard “Steady As She Goes”. The whole band was amazing; great drummer, excellent harmonies and Jack White can bring it. They did a couple of covers: “Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” and was that a Yes cover at the end? We moved up for Massive Attack since it seemed that most of the festival goers headed to the other end of the park for Willie. I’ll never understand why you’d want to go see a guy you can see many other times throughout the year in better surroundings when a band that hardly ever comes to Austin is playing at the same time.
Massive Attack had an impressive light show. The camera work on the jumbo screen was extremely irritating. I don’t know if they were having technical problems or if it was intentional. The video was sepia toned for the Raconteurs, an interesting touch. Massive Attack played several tracks from Mezzanine. They were quite a contrast with the Raconteurs, relying more on the light show and fog for visuals instead of individual performances and kinetic energy. With Tricky long gone, they were also short his replacement; his wife gave birth to a son the night before.
I didn’t see Ben Kweller, but my sister met up with us later in the evening and told quite a story. Apparently, he got a nosebleed partway through his set. He attempted to soldier, shoving a tampon supplied by his girlfriend up his nose. The nosebleed was bad enough that it began to expand in his nostril, causing him to abandon that remedy. He quit early, apologizing for not being able to continue.
The weather cooperated yesterday with cloud cover making most of the day bearable. By the time the sun went down, there was a decent breeze, a welcome contrast to last year’s blast furnace / dust bowl. Since it’s raining right now, it looks like today will be nice and cool as well. I’m not heading over there until 3, but I’ll have the camera today. Stay Tuned…
Isis is playing at Emo’s tonight.
They’ve been touring with Tool and apparently some or all of the members of Tool have been known to show up at Isis gigs on off nights and swicked.net points to the emo’s page which hints this may be the case tonight. Tool’s site also mentions tonights show and having a Shiner or two at Stubb’s although last night’s San Antonio gig was cancelled due to illness. Hmmm. Let us all know what happens if you’re down there tonight.