So a post on the Austinist made me realize something. Stop making mass transit jokes. Let’s make this a moral issue. I mean everyone in this town frickin’ believes that mass transit is good, and yet very few ride it. Let’s start making everyone feel bad for not taking it. Really bad.
It’s like sleeping with your sister. This isn’t even really an issue now a days. Why? Because anytime anyone mentions incest they mention it in a bad, morally repugnant light. You don’t even have to think about how gross it is to you, the social conditioning is already there. You already have societal shame there to make sure you don’t. Let’s do the same with driving your car! Let’s make driving alone in your car to work like sleeping with your sister! It’s morally repugnant. It disgusting. Only a backwoods yokel would do it (well probably because they don’t have any public transit, but still).
Don’t make ironic jokes about the fact that no one takes mass transit. You’re killing the idea before it’s even born.
The thing about public transit is that it gets better the more people who ride it. Right now I get 20-40 minutes between busses. But if I can get all of my neighbors to ride we might get 10-30 minutes between busses. And eventually we could get to busses every five minutes, which would completely negate most convenience issues (since it’s not really the speed of the bus but making the connections that takes the time).
You’ve gotta stop commuting alone to work. It’s a filthy disgusting habit.
We have certain knowledge that Zombies are moving north east into south Austin from the hill country. Their intended destination is South Congress. Expected arrival is 7-7:30, just in time for 1st Thursday. Please help us in any way to get the word out. THE ZOMBIES ARE COMING!!!
Follow the Zombies back up South Congress to Trophy’s (but avoid being eaten!) There is a free show tonight with the Unbearables (and part of the Zombie Rock Orchestra) at 9:30, followed by The Four, Attic Ted, and Ghetto Princess.
So I’ve got to give a shout-out to my friend Ashley and the superb baby slings she makes. That picture is me with Stella in my sling. It’s a custom made Little Pepper Pouch (although it predates the online store so it doesn’t have a cool tag), but now you can get your own custom pouch here:
I really love mine. It was especially nice when Stella was really tiny and I needed a way to carry a sleeping baby around. It also doesn’t stress my back as much as the Baby Bjorn (which is pretty comfortable but leaves me a bit tired afterwards). These are especially nice for eating with a baby. Crying baby goes into pouch. Baby goes to sleep. Daddy eats. Wonderful. You need one (if you have a baby or small dog that is).
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mcoker
2006-08-04T16:50:30.000Z
Those pouches look so cool. Your friend looks really familiar. Maybe I just recognize her from one of your plays.
My mom came into town from out of state, and we both ran the Sunstroke this week. It was at Brushy Creek park in YankeeLand. This was a significantly harder run for me. There was a lot less shade (due in no small part to the fact that the park was halfway to Dallas), and there was a nasty monster hill with switchbacks. I slowed down on this one to 26:43:90 at a pace of 8:34/M. I haven’t been running as much though lately as I’ve been tired and sick a lot. Oh, well. Next week is at town lake, and it’s the last of the series. I’ll miss the races, but I’m definitely more motivated to get faster. I feel like such a slow poke.
We had one of our Auditionee’s blog about the process of auditioning for Loaded Gun Theory. It’s all about singing, and corrupting innocent children and stuff. You know, everything Loaded Gun theory stands for. We hope she gets cast too, but that’s because the we in question didn’t attend any of the auditions and doesn’t really know what he’s talking about, other than the fact that he likes people and wishes we could cast every actor in Austin in our productions.
Speaking of Auditions. You’d gotten a last chance. Tomorrow night (July 25th), we’re holding some callbacks, but if you’ve just woken up and realized that we’re having auditions and you still want a chance at Zombie Stardom, then send us an email at auditions@loadedguntheory.com.
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Letty
2006-07-26T03:25:20.000Z
That’s how I roll! Thanks for reading my blog.
—The Illumiletty
My mother is coming to visit us. I think this may be the first time ever that the temperatures in Texas are in the high 90s and someone from California could be said to be taking a vacation in a cooler climate in Texas.
Loaded Gun Theory is auditioning for Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. If you can sing and you’d like to audition call 512-280-2156 or email us at auditions@loadedguntheory.com. You can find out more information by clicking on the [“Audition” link](/node-pages/lgt/auditions/) to the left.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on women in power: “I’m not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten what high school was like.”
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Kate
2006-07-13T19:53:29.000Z
I’ll admit to suffering from everything would be better if women were in charge thinking. Right. Because it’s the maleness that makes men bad, not their humanity. We’re all flawed. Why can’t we just all get along? I think if we spent less time fighting each other and working together, well… I sound like Sesame Street.
I just got linux setup with my wireless card natively (FINALLY). It’s beautiful.
See it there, the magical wireless bars? It’s beautiful. And I can switch to other wireless networks, using all types of encryption (WPA, WEP, etc) without having to edit any files. It’s beautiful. I will not miss editing files. It’s using ubuntu’s native bcm43xx driver and network manager to manage the connections if you care about the geeky stuff.
So I’ve got to give a shout-out to my friend Ashley and the superb baby slings she makes. That picture is me with Stella in my sling. It’s a custom made Little Pepper Pouch (although it predates the online store so it doesn’t have a cool tag), but now you can get your own custom pouch here:
