Went down to Auditorium Shores for the fireworks this year. First experience and it was a memorable one. About 100,000 people attended, but as Austin has that little big city vibe, it didn’t feel crammed. My favorite part – the Austin symphony performed before and during the fireworks. I love love love live orchestras. Fireworks [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Austin Texas’
May 27, 2010
Some Folk + Some Jazz
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned my love for the live music scene here in Austin, so it’s probably about time I start. (; I have an Oregon visitor in town this week (23rd Oregon visitor since I came 11 months ago!) so I thought I’d show her one of my favorite Austin bars – [...]
May 25, 2010
Tour De Texas + Friendship Models
So I made a mini triangle trek around Texas this past weekend. Here’s a little map I drew (not to scale) to help put things into perspective. I left super early Saturday morning (6:30 am woot woot) to get to San Antonio by 8. SA is only an hour south of Austin, so it was [...]
May 18, 2010
I’m Going To Houston, BRB
Went to Houston this weekend to visit family. I feel so lucky I finally live close to them – love love love love love that I finally get to see them and we get to spend time together! Heading out 290. Pre-torrential rainstorm. HMMMMM that sure looks healthy! From this point on, I hydroplaned all [...]
May 11, 2010
A Little Cell Phone Photojournalism
Took another walk tonight – decided to switch it up a little and document my walk via iPhone photography. (; Found this under the Lamar Street bridge. I actually love this bridge because well, this is tagged on one of the walls, but if you look the other direction… You see this! So freaking cool. [...]
May 6, 2010
Cinco De Mayo En Austin 2010
So the last two years I have spent Cinco de Mayo in New York, as the One Show Festival seems to always fall on Cinco so I really had no idea what to expect this Cinco de Mayo as I am now in Austin and not working my face off…as much as the last few [...]
May 3, 2010
The Week
Man, I never used to blog about my day to day activities. Perhaps bc it’s when I was back home, people more or less knew what I was up to…now not so much. Hmm. Not sure. Whatev. Check it out. A few things I’ve been up to the last week or so: Mean Eyed Cat. [...]
April 30, 2010
After Greek Class This Week
I went to hear a guy perform. I love how much live music there is here in Austin. There always something all of the time. Excellent. Check him out, 5 Ways From Sunday:
April 21, 2010
En Los Heights
So, en el espíritu del tema de esta post, voy a escribir in Espanglish (= Bueno. Ayer, Do512’s Twitter tuvo un contest: Entonces, claro que I entered! Y guess what?? iiYo gané!! (and yes, tengo mas de un Twitter account – isorpresa!) Entonces, fui con Dathan anoche to see In The Heights!! Actualmente, queria verlo porque [...]
April 17, 2010
some updates
So the other night I spent more time writing hand-written letters than emails. It was a beautiful thing. This is a picture of many of the letters I have received. I love that some of my friends from around the globe are getting back into snail mail like myself. It’s so much more wonderful to [...]
