The future of an Austin landmark featured in Dazed and Confused is somewhat in doubt after it’s proprietor’s untimely demise.
He was Mr. Top Notch,” Frances Stanish , his mother, said. “He made the orders. He did the cooking. If the faucet dripped, he fixed the faucet. He was the backbone of this place.”
Sad.
Recently my sister discovered that I have a bar in Brooklyn. Sort of. She finally got around to having a drink there yesterday – some reports, via text message:
At 5:03 –
Drinking at Angry Wade’s – not gonna lie, it’s real shady.
At 5:05 –
But then two minutes later we got free shots of whiskey. Angry Wade’s is awesome.
And it gets better at 5:30 –
Get this – Angry Wade was married to Sweet Melissa (the name of a sweet shop, also in Brooklyn), but they got divorced and everyone here says Wade is better for it.
Yup, I’m 90% certain this bar is mine, or at the very least the Angry Wade is actually me from the future come back in time to drink whiskey in the tri-state area.
The Martian Rover Phoenix sent it’s final tweet yesterday.
“I’d bet there are a lot of career employees in the intelligence agencies who’ll be glad to see Obama take the oath so they can finally speak out against all this illegal spying and get back to their real mission,” says Caroline Fredrickson, the ACLU’s Washington D.C. legislative director.
New Yorker investigative reporter Seymour Hersh already has a slew of sources waiting to spill the Bush administration’s darkest secrets, he said in an interview last month. “You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on January 20. [They say,] ‘You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then.'” – Wired
And god knows what else we’ll find.
Still the biggest rocket ever built – 41 years ago today.
Bell Peppers at the Downtown Farmer’s Market.
He volunteered in the Israeli military during the first Gulf War in 1991 (and only afterward showed up in the Clinton campaign’s war room). He’s said to have mailed a rotting fish to a former colleague, and to have cursed out Howard Dean over holding back funding for the 2006 elections. He told Fortune magazine’s Nina Easton that he trash-talked President Bush about his mountain biking, trying to goad him into stepping it up to a triathlon and telling Bush he could wear water wings for the swimming segment if he needed them.
More from Salon on Obama’s designated asshole. Seems like a sound appointment. (thanks B)
Well, that was fast – apparently when you become president-elect, you also have to switch to all serif fonts. Still, a pretty informative site for 48-hours later – hopefully a sign of future government transparency.
Some folks in Austin woke up and got dressed for some serious crime this morning. Quoth the statesman (wretched rag of a a paper that it is)…
The incident began around 4 a.m. at a home at 7604 Blessing Avenue when police received a call about a fight at that location. By the time police arrived, two people had been shot and five suspects had fled in a pickup. Police chased the truck, which crashed into a pole at Berkman Drive and Patton Lane.
The five suspects fled the vehicle but one of them, wearing a bulletproof vest, fired an AK-47 at police, officials said.
As Germ said, “Who owns an AK-47?” This is like L.A. style crime.
California has inexplicably banned gay marriage but passed high-speed rail in the same election. Go figure – I would have thought it would be the other way around.