jones plaza birds the crowd at the fest carrie rodriguez sarah bettens i was in downtown houston on saturday for the houston women’s festival. unfortunately, i missed half of the acts because i didn’t arrive until late afternoon but i still got to see: carrie rodriguez, blame sally and sarah bettens. the weather was perfect [...]

wow. one of the world’s most famous black republicans endorses obama on “meet the press” this morning. i can just hear obama saying, “ok mccain, how you like me now…booyah!” in the preface to his nod to obama, powell criticized mccain’s negative campaigning including those insidious “robo calls” filled with inaccurate statements about the democratic [...]

if you live in my home state of florida if you live in california

i was listening to bbc world service this morning when i heard about this. elizabeth II visited google’s uk headquarters. bbc radio ran a satire of an actress performing what she thought the queen might be doing and typing when she logged onto the internet from buckingham palace. it was hilarious. <a href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio”>www.bbc.co.uk/radio</a>

i just had to ward off some unannounced and unwanted visitors to my front door. one of my biggest pet peeves: random strangers knocking on my door during the middle of the workday pushing religion when i’m at my desk and under deadline. gah. this song was playing in the background. somehow, i’m not sure [...]

w. 12th. st, austin, tx

seen today at austin community college-rio grande w. 12th st., austin, tx

i spent six and a half months living on the border between austin and the abject suburbs, the border of travis & williamson counties. i have moved back to my the first ‘hood i lived in when i first arrived in austin a year and a month ago. hello bike. hello walking. hello less money [...]