We were all sitting at the table having lunch yesterday afternoon. The La finished her juice box. Holding the empty juice box, she extended her arm out in front of The Wife who was sitting next to her and said in a clear, practiced voice, “Be a good girl and get me another drink.”
The Boy claims that she copped that line from Teen Titans. All I could do was suppress a laugh and tell The La that she needed to say “Please”.
As seems to be their custom with major IMAX openings (we missed the one for Bugs!, dammit), the Bob Bullock museum is having an event this evening from 5-6pm for the opening of Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey, inspired by the long-running show of the same name. I remember it moving in to the Orpheum theater around the corner from where I was living in Manhattan in early 1994. I never did make it in to see the show. The touring version has been to the Paramount at least twice since I moved back to Austin.
Here’s the info from the source:
On opening night, from 5-6 pm, kids of all ages can take part in FREE activities, like playing percussion instruments and joining a drum circle led by Sherry Gingras of Drumz. Then stick around for Music under the Star, with a free concert by the Celtic group, Cluan, from 6-9 pm. Drumz returns for brief hands-on workshops during Cluan’s intermissions.
All kinds of uproar over John Roberts as Bush’s nominee to replace O’Connor. I just ran across a couple of AP photos showing Roberts’s family during last night’s press conference. It looks like John Jr. was having an Andrew Giuliani moment. Get down! Anyway, who are these people that they dress their kids like that in this day and age. I mean, I realize being nominated to the Supreme Court is a big deal, but saddle shoes??!??!
This article makes me want to go home, get in bed, turn out the lights and go fetal.
But nevermind that. Why worry about such weighty issues when I can find other people who think the new Daily Show set sucks ass and miss the couch? Can we track down the person who won the old couch in that contest they had a year or so ago?
I wrote last week about UT’s attempt to push Player’s out of it’s home of 20 years. Eminent Domain is a hot topic these days with the recent Supreme Court ruling and many state legislatures are expected to propose laws that will limit the effects of the ruling. Since we’re in a special session here in Texas, it’s happening now. In fact, it just so happens that Carlos Oliviera, a co-owner of Player’s, has a cousin who’s a state rep., Rep. Rene Oliviera, D-Brownsville. I think you know where this is going.
Rep. Oliviera created legislation that would specifically save the restaurant. It would bar condemnation for a parking or lodging facility. The legislation also states the land must be used for the same commercial purpose for at least 20 years to avoid condemnation.
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We were downtown around noon today and just missed this accident. Apparently, the car may or may not have been sideswiped, hydroplaned into the hotel and then the disoriented driver backed into the columns. It looked like there were at least two small children in the car, but no one appeared hurt. There’s a decent chunk out of the corner of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel.
We took the family to the Harry Potter release party at Bookpeople last night. The Boy dressed in his Harry Potter costume from Eeyore’s earlier this year. He got quite a few compliments, in fact, so much so that a PA from Rick Linklater’s IFC-funded as-yet-untitled 12-year project asked if he’d be interested in being an extra in some filming they’d be doing at the party.
They ended up including the whole family walking behind Eller Salmon and his crew in full Harry Potter regalia up the side of BookPeople from GSD&M. The Boy got a first hand view at the mind-crushingly boring reality of filmmaking. We had to walk up to the party about 10 times before they decided that they had a decent enough shot to move on. They headed over to the Lamar side of the store to do some more shooting at which point we were allowed to rejoin the party. I guess we’ll have to wait for 2016 to see if we made it in the shot and avoided the cutting room floor.
The party was ok, but hampered by the high temperature and high humidity. We never got to see the fire dancers or the surprise prepared by Alamo Drafthouse, although they were inflating the portable screen as we left. We only lasted until 10pm as we’d already reserved our copy of the book at Sam’s last week.
There are a few more photos in the Flickr set.
The Statesman reports that the Austin Children’s Museum has signed a deal to move to Block 21, that’s West Second between Lavaca and Guadalupe, one block north of City Hall and two blocks west of its current location.
I remember going to the old location on West 5th Street in the same complex as Art on 5th as part of a developmental psychology class I was taking at UT. They’ve expanded quite a bit since then and the new space will give them room to do even more. I must say that I’ve been disappointed with the cost a quality of the exhibits though. The family and I checked out the San Antonio Children’s Museum last summer and it was much cooler. I guess a larger city has more funding, but still. We’re headed to Chicago next month, so we’ll see how theirs stacks up.
If you’d like to check out the museum at its current location, the best time to go is Wednesday evenings when admission is by donation as opposed to the usual $5.50 per person over 2-years-old and $3.50 for 1-year-olds, which I think is a little steep. Admission is also free on Sunday from 4-5pm.
Yes, I just got done complaining about how the museum isn’t that great and now I’m telling you how to get in there without paying.
I hadn’t checked in with GYWO since before the London bombings a week ago. I just did and saw this. The Daily Show also showed a clip this week of John Gibson on Faux News in an op-ed called My Word talking about how he was disappointed that Paris didn’t get the 2012 olympics so that they could worry about bombers for a while. Wow.
Update: It’s gone now, but it was a page quoting Brit Hume from Fox News mentioning something to the effect that he wished he’d called his stockbroker the morning of the London bombings and cashed in on the resulting market fluctuations. The quote was contrasted with photos of those killed and injured by the bombings.
