Ten things right now that don’t suck

1.    Mardi gras beads
2.    500Gb external hd
3.    La Calavera coffee cup
4.    Pangea Organics lotion
5.    Adequate hydration
6.    Examples of heroism
7.    iPod (old school)
8.    Giant mega super stapler
9.    Huge window w/great view
10.  Trusty MB Pro

O Winebringer, the sun is up

Driftwood Vineyards, very early a.m. Click on the link to see a photo (not mine) from the opposite perspective.

Pride ‘08: Mighty Real

A few of you may recall that here at virgotext we celebrated Pride last year with a rather impromptu series of posts about all manner of things queer.
Well, it’s coming on that time again, so put on your marching boots. The parade starts tomorrow morning.

(image source unknown)

I contain multitudes: visual meme

Found a cool n’ different (to me anyway) meme idea over at casa de Charlotte della luna:
The concept:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s [...]

Hot hike

Went on a hike yesterday morning on some new land recently obtained by the City of Austin Water Quality Protection program. For the most part, it was a great hike and the acreage is gorgeous. About three/quarters of the way through, on our way back, I got overheated during an uphill climb across [...]

Poetry blogging: if light had not transformed that day

Effort at Speech between two people
Muriel Rukeyser
: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now?
I will tell you all. I will conceal nothing.
When I was three, a little child read a story about a rabbit
who died, in the story, and I crawled under a chair :
a pink rabbit : it was my birthday, [...]

Hill Country grasses photoblogging

I had the privilege yesterday to participate in a field class on identifying the Texas Hill Country native grasses. The class was held on the Onion Creek Management Unit of the City of Austin’s Water Quality Protection Lands. It was conducted by botanist and Master Naturalist Tom Watson, a Land Steward for [...]

Friday (vintage) pet blogging

Back when Alfie was a wee thing. Still a terror but a wee terror. They still do this, btw.

Wednesday photobloggery

Last bits from Houston.
See, I caught a fleeting glimpse, from the freeway, of a giant chicken in front of what I thought was a church. An hour or so and several margaritas later, we found it.

There was a second chicken in the back yard, at ground level. Oddly enough, the people living in the [...]

Houston (on everything)

The good:
Steve fuckin’ Earle. Crappy venue, spotty turnout, drunken howling audience members but he brought it on every damn song, and and he and Allison Moorer dissed the administration and the Republicans and the media at every available opportunity.
The tzatziki at Niko Niko’s
2 out of 3 margaritas at King Biscuit
Catching up on the Eschacon lowdown
Poodle [...]