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At Ollivander's
No. I didn't get a letter from Hogwarts although that would have been cool. However, I did go to buy my first pair of cowboy boots and another for Shilpa. I walked into Allens Boots and my first reaction was Oh **** ! There were rows after rows with thousands of boots and I had no clue how to find a pair. I asked one of the guys about how to fit a shoe and he explained. And then he said very slowly in a very Texan ...
Fast Life in the Big City
... to doubt my bum's allegation, so I motioned to the bad guy bum and clarified, "THAT guy's got a knife?"
"Yeah. Will you call the police?" he asked.
I couldn't think of a more worthy use of a phone call, so I nodded and said, "Sure will." Then I turned to Kathy and asked, "Can I borrow your phone?" In a second, out came the phone and I called 9-1-1 to report the crime. The operator assured me plenty of help was on ...
Austin, TX: The Unusual Nature of Austin
In Fort Worth, TX 3-y.o. Dresden functioned as our alarm clock as he called out to his mom around 5-ish. I was up two hours later for a nice robust cup of bitter black coffee and quickly texted Binh about the change of plan; he had driven towards Austin in the hope to rendezvous with us for lunch and was within 1.5-hour from the city limit when he made the U turn back to Houston. Alex had to work for a few hours that Friday morning so this ...
Bat's & Bugs in Austin
... after realising waving my arms in a mental fashion would do no good as they're blind. And f*cking crickets!!! Yes I know...everyone thinks they're really cute, just like the one in Pinocchio...well I'm here to tell you, they're NOT! They're just gay cockroaches!!! They sit in their trees singing all day (probably a Kylie song) then when you walk past, they go silent, like walking into a room when someone's been gossiping about you!
At 3am (yes my body clock ...
The Ides are Springsteen
... via live coverage on KUT) what he called a key notes talk. “Since Elvis died,” he commented, “we have not agreed on anything about music. There is no pure way of doing it. There's just doing it.”
He’s been doing it. It was announced yesterday that Springsteen’s latest ...