'Taylor Swift wrote a song about Matty Healy, who played her a Blue Nile song, sung by Paul Buchanan, who dated Rosanna Arquette, who also dated Toto's Steve Porcaro, whose brother and bandmate Jeff died in a freak lawn-care accident' should be able to excuse you from jury duty.

Austin could use some more events

On #jackierobinsonday , a mini-album I found among my grandparents’ stuff. Apparently they went with my father sometime in the early sixties to see him speak at a Long Island synagogue: #JackieRobinson #type1photo #whodoyoucollect

The greatest quote in the history of quotes.

Super-classy move from Jelly Roll

Here's 10+ minutes of Norm Macdonald shitting on OJ Simpson

An opportune day to mention that 'OJ: Made in America' is one of the greatest documentary films ever made.

The day of the Bronco chase, nearly the complete staffs of the Austin Chronicle and Texas Monthly met for volleyball and barbecue at the Chronicle offices. No less than 60 of us crammed into a tiny office around a 24” TV, unable to share hot takes on non-existent social media.

Starts at 9PM and a 4th band gets added to the bill.

Crestview…

Ugh. They make a pretty compelling case that Gannett was responsible for a laundry list of foul/unethical things done in the absence of striking journalists.

For those unfamiliar with the “Children’s Health Defense,” it is one of RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine propaganda vehicles, and it does tremendous damage to public health.

I’m gonna start more sentences with “As President,…” since I have similar chances (none) of actually becoming President. But only one of us can fuck this up everybody and send votes Trump’s way.

Guild members at the Austin American-@Statesman are on ULP (unfair labor practice) strike through Monday, April 8. Here’s why. 🧵

Re: the Willie Nelson & Orville Peck version of 'Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other': in 2013, Willie told me for Texas Monthly 'I never thought of  marriage as something only for men and women. But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like.' texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Allow me to introduce… eclipse eye-damage denialists

Inspired by pics Evil MoPac shares, I’ve been religiously snapping pics of vanity license plates- the good, the bad and the hard to decipher. I’m generally curious what would make people self-identify with random stuff to the point of ordering custom plates. This week’s haul:

Truer words…