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Happy New Year from Austin (2024)!
Hey hey! We made it to the New Year. Not like there’s a Y2K situation on the horizon but I think there’s something to ponder or sweat when 32-bit processors choke, if they’re still in use. Meanwhile, the weather was … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Austintatious, News, The Site
Tagged Header Art, New Year's Day
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Welcome December 2023!
Damn, the current year is almost over and it has been a pretty solid one too. In many ways I hate to see it end. This month’s header is a nod back to the Seventies when I really, really wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Diversions, News, The Site
Tagged Atari, Header Art, Seventies, Videogames
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Finally deployed/migrated to my new M3!
Greetings from my new M3 MacBook Pro! It arrived mid last week which is pretty sweet given how Apple only announced their existence a fortnight ago (I don’t like to repeat if I can find a similar word). It lives … Continue reading
Welcome to November 2023!
I was really excited about this month’s Header because it’s the 60th anniversary of Josie and the Pussycats debuting as a comic book; ok, it was just called Josie and it was a lazy female version of Archie. The Pussycats shift … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Movies, Music, News, The Site, TV
Tagged Archie, Aughts, Header Art, Power Pop, Saturday Morning, Sixties
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1993: Dazed n’ Confused debuts
I think this movie was supposed to make Richard Linklater a big deal but it tanked. For me it doesn’t help that its legacy was launching the overrated, insufferable self-proclaimed favorite son of Austin…Matthew McConaughey. Contrary to the myth, he … Continue reading
Posted in Austintatious, Movies, News, The Site
Tagged Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Day-in-the-Life, Header Art, Nineties, Seventies
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Welcome September, Austin’s last full month of Summer!
Where I grew up for 14 years, this would be August since we have a politically incorrect, non-woke season called Indian Summer which I figure is now called, Indigenous or Native American Summer. I would be okay with it being renamed … Continue reading
Posted in Austintatious, Movies, News, The Site
Tagged Header Art, Nostalgia, Seventies
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In honor of D&D the movie…
…I decided to make my header Krull, the original attempt to make a D&D-based film but fell through and thankfully was recycled into a pretty good B-level Fantasy flick. It even stars the late Robbie Coltrane and big fave Liam Neeson … Continue reading
Why the March ’23 Header Art?
The month is nearly over so I will finally explain/blather on why the header art I went with Monty Python’s: The Meaning of Life. March is the 40th anniversary of its release in US theaters plus it’s the first full-length movie … Continue reading
Happy New Lunar Year! Year of the Rabbit
Well, the Chinese aren’t the only culture with a moon-based calendar still in operation. There’s Judaism and Islam readily coming to mind. Then I’m stumped after these three. It is odd how none chose to adopt the more accurate 365.24 … Continue reading
January 2023 Header explanation!
Although Rio was released way back in 1982, by this time Duran Duran was all over the radio and I think they would go on to be the musical guest of SNL. What a fun talk that was with my classmates … Continue reading
Happy New Year from Castella di Maggi. May 2023 Rock!
Here’s a great photo of us before we went to enjoy the annual Feast of the Seven Fishes at L’oca Doro. Couldn’t wait to show of my new blazer I got as a gift! I received SEVEN, yes, seven compliments and … Continue reading
Posted in Austintatious, Movies, News, The Site
Tagged Daredevil, Las Vegas, New Year's Eve
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Don’t panic over this month’s Header!
It has nothing to do with Current Events! I will explain its significance in a couple weeks as it’s the anniversary of a mostly life-changing experience. Plus why I never took a true, week-long vacation for a few years! I … Continue reading
Why Gestapo NPH for this month?
It’s a nod to one of the best Satires made in the Nineties…Starship Troopers which hit theaters 25 years ago. Like most movie goers, I saw it the first time and thought, “Hmm, pretty decent Sci-Fi/Action flick. Not sure it … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, News, The Site
Tagged Header Art, Near Future, Nineties, Politics, Satire, Science Fiction
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HIATUS IS OVER FOR NOW
I’ve taken some time off from life in general; work, my hobbies, my routine, etc. to reflect on whether or not to keep going forward with life, the universe and everything. I was in a pretty awful, awful mood in … Continue reading
Six hundred comments!
A nice landmark and it only took, what? 18 years. Such a great conversation starter my site is, that and you can blame the crap I post as I guess it just doesn’t interest nor enrage enough people. The latter … Continue reading →