Outside the airport, it smells like ribs.
It’s 55 and rainy here today.
The hotel is downtown but overlooks a lake named after a First Lady.
They have chips and pimiento cheese on the room service menu!
Where am I?
Outside the airport, it smells like ribs.
It’s 55 and rainy here today.
The hotel is downtown but overlooks a lake named after a First Lady.
They have chips and pimiento cheese on the room service menu!
Where am I?
Another clue? It is the fastest growing city in its state. Its city limits encompass about 1 million these days.
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Baton Rouge? (I’m taking a wild guess before I look anything up.)
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Nope, but in the right direction from Minneapolis.
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Houston?
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There are no professional sporting teams that go to “bat” from here.
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Well, you are warmer than we are here. We go to Bismarck today for Husband’s first cataract surgery.
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Thinking of you both. Hope all goes well.
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Thanks! He is back in pre-op where they are dilating his eye.
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It all went well. We are at a new Thai place afterwards, and now we are back for his post-op appointment.
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Rise and Shine Baboons,
Greensboro S. Carolina?
Memphis? (But no rain at this time)
Nashville?
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Going to guess Atlanta because pimiento cheese sandwiches are a staple at the Masters Golf Tournament in nearby Augusta.
Chris
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I’ll probably take a walk this morning But I’m going to take my umbrella because it’s “Rainey” out there
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Austin Texas has a Rainey Street, no sports teams, and barbecue.
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Ding ding ding ding. Also the largest urban bat population in North America.
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Is that counting the dingbats?
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Probably a much higher number if we count the dingbats.
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Eeewww. I understand that bats provide many functions. BUt I do not have to like them (or mice).
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They’re not here right now but apparently during the summer season people come out by the hundreds to watch them fly out from underneath the bridge at night. And they don’t have a mosquito problem in Austin.
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And now, what do we discuss all day? Bats, I guess.
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Or we could talk about all of the famous people who are from Austin. Because there are a lot.
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Or the food from Austin because I have been informed just now but my waiter that if you don’t have breakfast tacos when you are here, you haven’t really been to Austin
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What else does Austin TX have going for it?
And what is the name of that lake?
What famous (renegade) journalist was from Austin?
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My room looks right out over Lady Bird Lake. And I don’t know enough about either Dan Rather or Walter Cronkite to know if they were considered renegades?
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I think Walter is considered the gold standard in journalism rather than a renegade. Right now Dan Rather is a Twitter renegade, though.
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Rather and Cronkite were mainstream reporters in a time when professionalism required them to be as middle-of-the-road as possible.
Cronkite was considered an ultimate professional, although he famously broke with LBJ’s gang to announce he thought the US was losing the war in Vietnam. By the time he retired, conservative antagonism to mainstream media reporters was mounting.
Rather was the CBS anchor who inherited Cronkite’s chair. Times had changed, and conservative hostility to CBS made things harder for Rather than they had been for Cronkite. Rather was finally forced out at CBS when he and his production staff could not demonstrate the validity of documents they used to show George W Bush cheated to avoid military service.
Cronkite was considered the most trustworthy man in America. I think Rather wanted to be the modern Cronkite, but couldn’t bring it off because of the increasingly partisan times. Neither man was anything like a “renegade.”
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Molly Ivans?
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Molly hails from Houston.
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Molly Ivins was who I was thinking of – she lived in Austin when she died, and was free-lancing by then… see Wiki – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins ,
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Molly Ivins was a Minneapolis Star columnist for a few years. I met her at a party in the early 1970s. She found Minnesota unbearably boring because our politicians were much too sane and ethical. As she left to go back to Texas, Molly declared the Twin Cities a “stone wall drag.” But she was fond of the place and said nice things when her boredom had worn a bit.
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Steve, Husband says it must have been fascinating to know her. Lucky duck!
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No kidding! Didn’t know that, Steve.
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I wouldn’t claim to have known Molly, but meeting her was a joy. She is one of those people who have an aura around them. Some people are special. She was just the same person face-to-face as in her columns, just a bit more profane.
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It’s not quite accurate that she was a columnist for the Minneapolis Star. She was a reporter, not a columnist, for the Minneapolis Tribune, the first woman assigned to cover the police beat, and later on a beat called Movements for Social Change. There she covered “militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers.” She returned to Texas in 1970 as co-editor of The Texas Observer.
Last year in April, the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival screened “Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins,” a documentary of her life and career as a trailblazing journalist. Cathy Wurzer did an interview with the film’s director, Janice Engel, which gave some additional insights into Ivins’ life and career. I can well imagine, though, that she would make a lasting impression if you ran into her at a party.
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So does the airport smell like barbecued ribs or just ribs in general? I wonder what that would smell like.
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Sorry… bbq ribs. Snort.
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Austin City Limits! (The tv music show)
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I was wondering if anyone would catch the city limits clue
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No, missed the clue. But I sure like the show. If not the musical artist that week, the lighting is usually fantastic.
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Other than Austin City Limits, I associate Austin with a friend who lives there; she keeps urging me to come visit. I know that Willie Nelson and Shawn Colvin are also based there, as are Lance Armstrong, Andy Roddick, Rene Zellweger, and Sandra Bullock.
I await your report, vs.
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Just been out walking around. It’s a little drizzly actually not quite drizzle so should we say mist and drizzle- “mizzley “? Anyway Austin is very high-tech with a lot of millennials here and you can tell because just in the area around the hotel I counted at least seven shops where people can go in and plug-in and or connect and also several places that were clearly tech companies named Labs or Tech.
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Or you could say is was dristing out.
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For some reason I have in my mind that Austin is a relatively progressive city, as compared with most of Texas.. I wonder why I think that, other than that Molly I. liked it there.
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I think that perception is accurate. It’s a Democratic stronghold, as are most of the other big urban areas. It’s them cowboys ya gotta watch out for.
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Right, BiR. Austin is always included on lists of “with it” cities that are attracting talented young people. The arts and museum scenes are lively, and such cities always seem hospitable to gays.
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OT. Blevins at Jim & Cathy’s this Sunday.
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But do they have a Spam museum?
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Or the world’s largest ball of twine!
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Lisa, my phone buzzed and I picked it up and read your comment when I was at the restaurant with my client and supplier. And I snorted out loud and then I had to try to explain the trail to my client and my supplier. Not an easy task. But I think they are already suspected I was a little crazy so I don’t think I hurt my cause any.
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great writing- standing somewhere
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