And I loved her glasses!

Look up St. Andrew’s and Bob McNair. It may have been more his son but the McNair Family promised then withdrew a $3 million pledge when the school refused to remove Brokeback Mountain from the senior AP English curriculum. Texas Monthly has a good story about it. So yeah, he’s a dick.

She actually grew up fairly poor, too.

My dog sitter notes are two pages, single spaced.

FWIW, I waited on SJP years (decades) ago in LA and she couldn’t have been sweeter. She asked me questions about myself and where I went to college then told me that UT-Austin was “such a good school”. I swooned and vowed to always give her a wide berth regarding future gossip. (Also, it’s rude to share this kind of…

Yep. I live near Zilker and the new folks bitching about ACL, etc.? Seriously? You can walk to ACL, what are you complaining about?

Not only can one eat food and drink drinks but their pre-movie show is so much fun, they support independent filmmaking and they have a hard-core no-texting, no talking policy. ❤️❤️❤️

Yeah, fair enough! I was just curious.

Dulles, baby!

Oh, I’m sorry. I was kidding because I grew up in SL and we spent all our time going in and out of Houston. I live in Austin and we have Central Market, which is a fancier HEB; believe Houston has a few now? Rice Epicurian is good and Jamail’s is where we used to go in Houston. Rice Village has several good tapas…

Tip: drive into Houston for food and shopping.

Why is it so important that Queens is more diverse than Sugar Land?

51 for McCain, 49 for Obama. Cloooooose.

I love his backing vocals!

Peace, Love, Hook ‘em Horns.

Oh, how awful.

I wish had THIS last week when everyone was changing their profile picture on FB.

Dulles grad here! What people here might not know is that FBC is extremely well-off so the Muslims you know are higher-income than much of Texas and the US. What I love telling people is that close to 50% (I think) of FBC voted for Obama in 2008. :-)

In some places*, many feel they have to.

Friend of mine is a neurosurgeon; he just treated a high schooler who was paralyzed after a bad hit. He’s now quadriplegic and the parents didn’t really understand that he will be intubated his entire life. Makes me so glad my kid is into Minecraft and Latin Club.