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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Dale Dudley’s close encounter
We relish the randomness of Austin. KLBJ’s Dale Dudley sent in this report:
I watch and nothing happens for a minute or two. I go and wake up the wife and it has disappeared and darkness is back. We live off City Park Road so I mean darkness.
I get to work and talk about it on the air and the phones light up with several credible callers saying they also saw it too off of 360 and also Interstate 35. Phones lit for a couple of hours. Got a short video clip of something glowing orange (when the sun was up) … weirdness.”
Anyone got a guess?
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Your A-List, Best Late Night Snack
When Austinites get the munchies around midnight, they gravitate to eateries that have finished off evenings for decades.
No. 4, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer — a welcome one — Home Slice, the South Congress Avenue pizza parlor. It took 8 percent. Best Wurst, the felicitously named Sixth Street food cart with the long line, served up 5 percent, just beating out dark-eyed Star Seeds on Interstate 35.
Following those in the tally were Pluckers, Roppolo’s and Mrs. Johnson’s Donuts. Reaping 3 percent or less were The Onion, Thai Passion, 888 and Wan Fu III.
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Your A-List, Best Hard Rock/Metal Group
Coming in Numero Uno is glammy, New York Dolls-ish Broken Teeth, with 20 percent of the vote. Not far behind is Sword with 18 percent. Tia Carrera and Super Heavy Goat Ass (would love to have witnessed that band-naming session) follow with 12 percent and 10 percent respectively.
Whore of Babylon hustled up 8 percent, while Honky and Grady split the difference at approximately 7 percent. Devil’s Right Hand pulled off 5 percent. Cashing in at 3 percent or less were At All Costs, New Disaster, Amplified Heat, Supercrash, Set Aflame, Rhoades Diablo, Ruins of Honor.
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Michael’s Jan. 7-10 Social Schedule
Cowgirls, back in the social saddle. After the post-New Year’s snooze, the calendar starts to trot hot.
Wednesday Jan. 7
7 p.m. Dinner with Robert Nash at Kyoto
10 p.m. Tia Carerra, The Strange Attractors, The Tunnels at the Mohawk
Thursday Jan. 8
6 p.m. Acclaim Talent Agency mixer at Opal Divine’s Penn Field
7 p.m. BCS National Championship Game & Trivia at Alligator Grill
Friday Jan. 9
7 p.m. Yelp Open Event at the Copa
8 p.m. Pre-Carnaval Party at Vicci
10 p.m. 20th Birthday Bash & Annual Fire and Brimstone Awards at the Vortex
Saturday Jan. 10
3 p.m. Texas Longhorns Men’s Basketball at the Erwin Center
5 p.m. Threshold Interiors debut at Guadalupe 5
8 p.m Sharon Bridgforth’s “Delta Dandi” at the Long Center Rollins Studio Theatre
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Will Austin lose Lance Armstrong to Aspen?
Then, Lance Armstrong puts up his Dripping Springs ranch for sale. Now, Lance Armstrong appears to be securing a $9 million home in Aspen. (Hansen is from Colorado.)
At least the Lance Armstrong LiveStrong Foundation is still in Austin. And his Mount Bonnell-area house — dinged for excessive irrigating last year — still stands. Along with Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop and his other Texas connections. Still…
Pictured: The Statesman photo that pumped up my blog numbers in 2008.
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Another dissatified Out & About reader
This arrived Tuesday in response to my print column on socializing in Marfa:
How much longer … do we have to put up with junior-high journalism? Today took the cake! Instead of names printed in bold (like who cares..) why not tell us what dusky steak is — or sprightly lamb. It would be of interest to know about the Marfa Book Company, or what is “Get Go” or a description of the Hotel Paisano. And how good to know there are Marfa virgins out there…. Come on Michael - you have such great ability. It certainly doesn’t show with this level of reporting.
I also considered the possibility of the reliable “upset with any updated report about over-discovered spots like Marfa (or California, New York, Boston, Colorado …).”
My response:
I am tempted to ignore any message that begins with such incivility, but here goes.
You want descriptions of the Marfa Book Company, Get Go and Hotel Paisano? Check my previous writings on Marfa, published just a few months ago…
Or check my blog. My two weekly print columns are refinements of my blogs, which provide 10 times as much reporting as do their print counterparts.
(Also Thursday’s column contains more about Marfa culture, including the Get Go, filtered from previous posts)
That’s today’s journalism. Almost all of it will end up online [and only a part of it in print]. And to use a 19th-century expression, that train has already left the station.
As for the names in bold, people care. People have always cared. Especially when the names are local.
Sorry my otherwise innocuous report on a lovely three days in West Texas upset you.
Best,
Michael
(2006 image of Marfa horizon courtesy of patmacgran.com.)
