Category: Pamie
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Library Good News!
Measure Q passed! Yay! Measure Q was placed on the ballot by the City Council in order to avoid further cuts to the library system, which has had its budget slashed twice since 2002. The measure should generate enough revenue to keep library branches open more often and buy new books and other materials. The…
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Latte Hottes
In Austin a coffee shop was expected to be filled with grubby, crazy people. There were the newspaper addicts, with their towering stacks of information as they devoured page after page, their faces growing increasingly furious as they learned how the world was going into the shitter.
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Winners and Losers
Ever since I lived in Austin, where my friends really don’t like to go thirty full minutes without gambling on something, the Oscars have turned into a betting game. We vote for every aired award, adding two tie-breakers (number of minutes of broadcast and most inappropriate speech (last year was “most pretentous”, and it caused…
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legion of boom
It’s a very thin line between “Ow. What is that? Should we evacuate? I think there’s some kind of hazardous waste and that’s the alarm. We should get out of here.” and: “I totally love this new Crystal Method song.” “Is that a bomb threat?” “No. Track two.”
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grr DON’T TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN’T DO, DAMMIT. LEAVE ME ALONE.
Dammit these days when I spend too many minutes in a row reading the news and reading blogs, realizing how the world appears to be spinning backwards in order to turn back time faster and faster until the white man rules supreme again it just gets me all pissed off. What the eff is going…
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Gilmore Girls Recap
Scene in a Mall: The amount spent in this episode alone, from Luke to Emily, might be close to fifty thousand dollars. Wait, that didn’t even include Lane’s first and last month’s rent plus deposit. Wow. It’s a pricey hour, as Emily has a million-dollar breakdown near the Manolos, and Lane makes her first steps…
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Nobody puts pamie in the corner.
My article on the Dirty Dancing DVD is up at the Austin American-Statesman. You have to register to read it. It’s free!
