RE: MOLLY

Here’s more information from and about Molly from The Texas Observer, where we both spent some time. Molly’s farewell column is included. It’s very hard to know what else to say right now.

GOODBYE, MOLLY

Sad news from Austin.

DSO NAMES NEW CONDUCTOR

Or it will tomorrow morning at a 10 a.m. press conference. The maestro will be in attendance. So will Tall Paul.

RIP, MOLLY IVINS

News just coming down the pike. Very sad.

CRAIG CIVALE HAS SEEN THE LIGHT–AND IT HURT HIS EYES

Craig Civale is new enough to Channel 8 that a bio of the square-jawed David Hasselhoff look-alike doesn’t appear on their site. He came to us from WVEC, the Belo station in Norfolk, VA. Well, comes word from an informed FBvian that last night Civale got his eyes burned by the HMI camera lights while he was doing a live shot. I’m told Civale woke up in the middle of the night with his face red and his eyes swollen shut. He had to go to the hospital. He’s now wearing patches on both eyes, which, I assume, means he won’t be on camera anytime soon. (Bonus trivia: what’s an HMI light? Hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide, of course.)

RE: JUNIUS HEIGHTS CRIME ALERT

Hey, that’s about two hundred feet from my new place. Go funky neighborhood! Does that mean I can sell to Jim for more than I paid at closing? Sub-question: Can I still be a flaming liberal and go gun-shopping this weekend?

RE: ATM THIEVES

A realistic FrontBurnervian pokes a hole in our anti-ATM-thievery plan:

The ATM is usually left behind or ditched nearby, after they bust it open and steal the cash. So a ‘LoJack’ device would be of little use.

What would be real cool is a system that if the machine is ‘tussled’ real hard, that the cash inside self-immolates and burns up, or that acid is poured onto the cash destroying it!

As I told him, a GPS device, even if it leads police to a then-abandoned warehouse, might lead to more clues. But then, I’ve been trying to catch up on The Wire, so my perception of crime-solving is admittedly distorted.

IT’S OFFICIAL

The Gypsy Tea Room will close soon. The question is when. Fingers of Fury reports TV on the Radio is booked for April 4. But probably no later than May, expect to get your live music fix at–sigh–the House of Blues in Victory Park, which is scheduled to open around then.

ATM THIEVES BEWARE

A humble FrontBurnervian notes the spate of ATM smash and grabs and wonders aloud:

If they can put GPS locators on cell phones or have systems like “Low Jack” on cars, why can’t they put them in ATM’s?

That idea makes far too much sense. It’d never work.

CHEAP CHOCOLATE AND BIG SNOW

Great Scott! Take a look at this snowflake that fell in my backyard this morning.