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Uh, yes, and then there were other days, during which things happened. The Lovely D got to hang out with everyone's favorite NPR correspondent and former Miss_Allie Linda Holmes, because The Lovely D is that bad-ass. Black Pond was pretty good. And that was a long time ago, so... next!

I'm a little subdued this South by Southwest, because, no, I did not see Cabin in the Woods by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard. I am here for the second half, and the Whedon was opening night. Yes, I have heard that the heavy rain in Austin Friday meant attendance numbers were down, and most of the Whedon line got in. Yes, I have heard that everybody ( Read more... )

The thing about the lovely D. is that she's not a nerd*. And, and here's the bit that's inexplicable to me, has no nerd friends. You could walk into a barn full of Friends O' D. and start singing the Ballad of Jayne and they would look at you funny. I thought we as a race had evolved beyond that, what with the San Diego Comiccons and so on, but ( Read more... )

Me again. So, I have been to many places since the last time I had Internet; one of which is the Seattle Museum of Sci-Fi and Rock and Roll. As you can tell from me linking it, this is a real place. It's not one of those deals like the Kansas City Jazz Museum and Negro League Hall of Fame either, where two museums go halvsies on a city block and ( Read more... )

One last day of film going. We start with SXSW!: The Story of South by Southwest (not exact title), a documentary about the festival I am currently attending. Tells story of how the festival grew from spunky regional underdog funded by the local alt-weekly to the current lovable imitator-down-shutting behemoth. At one point, they pause for a ( Read more... )

Now normally I would have charged out of my hotel room early in the mid-morning, espresso soda in hand, and been at the Drafthouse for the noon screening about the guy who fits animal skeletons with servomotors. But the circumstances are different this year... this year, Friday is The Day of One MovieAfter a morning of enjoyable activities that ( Read more... )

Downtown _really_ smells of beer ( Read more... )

This is unknown territory for me, he wrote, cross-legged on the lovely D's couch. See, South by Southwest is a festival of two parts. Days 1-5 are the joint domain of the computer nerds and the film geeks, when William Gibson and Conan O'Brien walk amongst the mortals and the Stomp Tokyo film blog is everyone's favorite schmooze buddy. (I love ( Read more... )

44 miles in 3.5 hours, holed up in Pauls Valley with jerky, dried apricots, cheese log. Variety!