Archive for September, 2008
ACL: Saturday photos at Austin.com!
Closed Published by Eddie September 29th, 2008 on Austin Music PhotosA few quick previews of my ACL Music Festival coverage for Saturday. See all the photos at Austin.com!
Robert Plant
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant
John Fogerty
The Black Keys
It’s that time of year again! One of the many joys of living in Austin is the renowned Austin City Limits Festival. Some don’t like the festival feel and while you obviously don’t get the best performances it’s just such a great way to hear so much great music. So here we […]
A few quick previews of my ACL Music Festival coverage for yesterday. See all the photos at Austin.com!
Jakob Dylan & The Gold Mountain Rebels
Jenny Lewis
Gogol Bordello
At age 83, actor Paul Newman died today. Here is a montage of film clips from his long career.
My reading list updated here.
Drawing from the recent book A Crime So Monstrous, this article chronicles some of the modern-day slavery movement, which includes human traficking to the U.S. Author and journalist Benjamin Skinner puts this in perspective:
“traffickers turn up to 17,500 humans into slaves on American soil every year. Put another way, assuming you read at an average […]
Fantastical.
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Five Things Making Me Ridiculously Happy:
1. Volleyball beach parties
2. Oregon State
3. Calling my mommy
4. Ski clothes shopping
5. Fall TV shows returning
Jet-Man Crosses the English Channel
Closed Published by jdodson September 26th, 2008 on Creation ProjectSwiss adventurer Yves Rossy (aka Jet-Man/Fusion Man) is an airplane pilot with an affinity for extreme sports. Today he flew 22 miles in 10 minutes across the English channel with a pair of wings strapped to his back and fusion jets in his boots! Amazing. A regular Iron-Man! Check out this video of an earlier […]
Editor of Paste, Josh Jackson, calls our attention to the prolific violence of American culture:
Violence in the media is a terrible thing. Except of course, for those great battle scenes in The Lord of the Rings…I am really repulsed by the idea of torture-porn flicks like Saw and Hostel, and don’t understand how anyone could […]
With the recent popularity (for swearing?) of old people on TV (Dancing with the Stars was headline news yesterday) I figured a great topic of conversation today would be old people.
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen a senior citizen do?
Remember, I live amongst most of them. I mean, La Jolla is a prime old people […]