SXSW 2008 Concert Log |
Wednesday, March 12 Yellow Fever (Austin) Carrots (Austin) The Mae Shi (Los Angeles) Van Morrison Sunburned Hand of the Man (Boston) Pterodactyl (Brooklyn) Ecstatic Sunshine (Baltimore) Thursday,...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:20:00 PST |
Book Log for 2007 |
SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY The Gate by Francois Bizot Memoir by a French archaeologist who was restoring the temples of Angkor when the Khmer Rouge seized power of Cambodia in 1975. Mistaken for a s...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:50:00 PST |
The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art |
A new book review for ink19The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art is not a pretty art book. In lieu of reproductions of paint-spattered apocalypse (other than one on the cover), settle in f...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:27:00 PST |
Austin Listens 2 |
A few weeks into my Texas resettlement, ink19 called with a new assignment: "I've got something special for you to review." "Oh?" "The new Townes Van Zandt biography!" "Cool." "You know who that is, r...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:53:00 PST |
Brainwashed |
My first stint volunteering for the Austin Museum of Art serendipitously involves the record label, Kranky, i.e., my favorite purveyor of drone pop for the past decade....
Posted by Polygon Panties on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:46:00 PST |
Austin Listens |
Austin is the music capital of the states, or is it the (((UNIVERSE)))? Either way, despite my J-O-B-less status, I've been working hard to put this claim to the test: Calvin Johnson, Lavendar Diamond...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:46:00 PST |
Five Things You Do Not Know About Me |
Just because Bittersweet Pony turned 30:
1. Start with the big one: I am a divorcee.
2. I won an essay contest about Christopher Columbus in high school and Parade Magazine sent me on a two-week trip...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:57:00 PST |
Austin Eats |
Mexican is the gastronomical grail of cuisine here in Austin. It comes in many variations, fancy fusion fare to rock-bottom cheap eats sold out of mini-trailers that pop up anywhere on a moment's noti...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:37:00 PST |
Alive in Austin |
The road trip, undertaken as a solo mission in a rental car piled to the lips of driver visibility legality, was a smash. Err, not smashing in a J.G. Ballard way hurrah. Though, the experience produ...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Wed, 02 May 2007 07:04:00 PST |
The Week in Review: Comedy |
Coming from someone who's lived without cable television for most of her life and has been absent from the country for a damn long time, the following will sound like it's from the Donny character in ...
Posted by Polygon Panties on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:06:00 PST |
