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Having Wonderful Time – 1938
A quick drop-in post for the first time in two years! Turner Classic Movies is showing this picture as part of their tribute to Lucille Ball, who is in the film but not the lead. My immediate...
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Growing up, I was regularly exposed to the music, films, and television series that my parents had grown up with. This is the rite of passage for almost all of us, and many of us tolerate it until we...
View ArticleGood News – 1947
MGM musicals are a brand. Every major studio during the classical era tried their hand at musicals, and you’ll find successful ones with a variety of stars, but MGM, in my opinion, owned the genre....
View ArticleA Yank at Eton – 1942
It’s 1942, and one of MGM’s go-to stars is 22-year-old Mickey Rooney. There’s a war on, but that isn’t stopping MGM from making schmaltzy pictures about plucky teenagers, and no one played plucky...
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A Sea of Grass – 1947
Recording movies to watch them later is an old habit, one I’ve had since I was reusing the same VHS cassette over and over again, watching and erasing films or television programs regularly. The age...
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Reinvention
There’s a chance you landed on this blog today looking for a political post of some kind. That blog retired a few years back, sad to say. The circumstances that led me to starting and running a...
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Austin ISD Latest Culprit in Tax Hike Craze
Tonight, any minute now, the board of the Austin Independent School District will vote on a $1.1 billion budget. The average homeowner will pay another $168 per year in property taxes (this in spite...
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School Finance Case Hits TX Supreme Court Tuesday
The constitutionality of Texas’ school finance system is being challenged in court, and this is the kind of thing that Texans need to pay attention to but so rarely do. Last year, it was declared that...
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Why Should Appraisals Be a Hotter Topic Than Taxes Themselves?
From Quorum Report: “The complaints that people have about property taxes are not about rising appraisals or an unfair system,” [Austin Attorney Jim] Popp said. “From the homeowner’s perspective,...
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Property Appraisal Reform Should be Texas GOP Priority
Hard to tell today, since there was nary a whisper of indignation on Monday to the city of Austin’s latest scheme to milk taxpayers, but the Republican Party in Texas has actually been, in the past, a...
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City sues state over “unfair appraisals”
Oh, this is just so ridiculous. The lawsuit, stemming from a petition the city filed in June to the Travis Central Appraisal District, contends that the appraised values of billions of dollars in...
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Non-Partisan Candidate Guides (for the “rest of us”)
The Travis County Republican Party put together candidate guides for several non-partisan races in Travis County (meaning the Austin City Council races, Austin ISD, Round Rock ISD, Del Valle ISD, and...
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The Case Against the Pending Transportation Cluster@#%!
By now, you’ve likely seen the vaguely offensive and certainly motivating signs around town proclaiming our traffic situation to be a “cluster@#%!,” as though none of us is aware of it. And the signs...
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Austin City Council Forums/Debates – UPDATED 9/24
So we got the 10-1 plan, and this November Austinites will go to the polls and elect truly representative council members for the first time ever. There are dozens of candidates, so many that those of...
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Watch “My #IceBucketChallenge Response” on YouTube
I haven’t been here in awhile. But I have something important to say: My #IceBucketChallenge Response: http://youtu.be/axJDigsWNPE
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Proposition 9
Proposition 9: SJR 42 by Huffman The Texas Constitution creates the State Commission on Judicial Conduct which is responsible for ensuring Texas judges comply with constitutional standards of...
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Proposition 8
Proposition 8: HJR 147 (SJR 54) by Guerra Repeals the Hidalgo County Hospital District from the Texas Constitution. Supporters Say: Hidalgo County does not currently operate a hospital district...
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Proposition 7
Proposition 7: HJR 87 by Munoz Allows for a home-rule city to amend its charter to determine its method of filling a vacancy on its governing body through an election to fill a vacancy of a term of...
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Proposition 6
Proposition 6: SJR 1 by Williams This constitutional amendment creates the constitutional State Water Implementation Fund for Texas and the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas. Both...
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Proposition 5
Proposition 5: SJR 18 by Carona The Texas laws related to home equity loans are contained entirely with the Texas Constitution. Recent federal legislation has allowed a person to purchase a new...
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