In one of those odd historical coincidences, exactly ten years to the day after the Heidi Bowl…
…was the one and only telecast of “The Stars Wars Holiday Special”.
Coincidences.
November 17th, 2018Historical note, suitable for use in schools.
November 17th, 201850 years ago today, at about 3 PM Central Time on November 17, 1968, the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders began a football game.
Obit watch: November 16, 2018.
November 16th, 2018Roy Clark. NYT. Nashville Tennessean.
William Goldman, noted writer. I loved Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade and I keep looking for more of Goldman’s books.
Also, I should look for a copy of “The Ghost & the Darkness” while I’m out and about this weekend.
One more from the road.
November 15th, 2018
I took this one with the baby Nikon and did a little editing on the phone. This is another one that I think came out pretty well: I wanted to get the two graves in front of Geronimo’s into the shot as well, and those markers are actually legible (if you view the photo at full size).
(If you can’t read them, the one on the left is Eva Geronimo Godeley, daughter of Geronimo and Zi-Yeh. Zi-Yeah, one of Geronimo’s wives, is on the right.)
TMQ Watch: November 13, 2018.
November 14th, 2018Sorry about last week, folks, but between the elections and our wanderings over the state of Oklahoma (motto: “It’s not Scotland.”) we just flat ran out of time before this week’s edition rolled around.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Obit watch: November 13, 2018.
November 13th, 2018I was in cars all day yesterday, and wanted to give this a chance to shake out after it was announced
For the historical record: Stan Lee. NYT. LAT. WP.
Douglas Rain, “who performed for 32 seasons with the Stratford Festival in Ontario”.
Mr. Rain was somewhat more famous as the voice of HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey”.
Firings watch.
November 11th, 2018Bobby Petrino is done at Louisville.
2-8 so far this season, and 0-7 in conference.
I like the way this one came out.
November 9th, 2018
French 75, U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK.
Obit watch: November 8, 2018.
November 8th, 2018Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, noted book critic for the NYT.
Administrative note.
November 7th, 2018I get a lot of hits on the contact information for Austin City Council members page.
Just so everyone knows, I will be updating that and the other contact pages, but not until after the new folks take office, which I think will be January.
That’s not a knife…
November 7th, 2018
World’s largest Bowie knife, Bowie, Texas.
Obit watch: November 7, 2018.
November 7th, 2018Travel day.
November 7th, 2018Going to be on the road for a few days. Blogging will be catch as catch can, though I do intend to get some stuff up.
In the meantime, please enjoy this coded musical interlude. I think I’ve posted these before, but what the heck: they’re still great songs.
Update from the legal beat.
November 6th, 2018I don’t have much to say about this, partly because I’m still busy as all get out, and partly because I don’t know what there is to say.
But: Terry Thompson, the guy who was married to a sheriff’s deputy and choked a man to death outside a Denny’s, was convicted of murder yesterday. (Previously.)
Firings watch.
November 5th, 2018In great haste: last night was busy, and that’s continued well into today.
David Beaty is out as head coach of Kansas at the end of the season.