Category Archives: Neighborhood

The world immediately around us

How to be very very stupid:  the aftermath

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Marchbanks

It turned out the rifle was a pellet gun.  In the end two of three subjects were arrested. Continue reading →

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How to be very very stupid:  Lesson #1873

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Marchbanks

The roof guys were sitting VERY STILL up there with their hands raised VERY FAR in the air. Continue reading →

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The Tree War:  City Council gets involved

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Marchbanks

In other words, “Austin Energy, hold everything!!” Continue reading →

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The Hyde Park Tree War

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Marchbanks

The neighborhoods haven’t won the tree war by any means, but we haven’t lost either. Continue reading →

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It gets right up yer left nostril

Posted on November 16, 2005 by Marchbanks

There’s no point in building a fourteen-bedroom duplex if you can’t cram fourteen college students into it. Continue reading →

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It only took a year and a half

Posted on December 21, 2004 by Marchbanks

We now have records on 990 properties in a sixty-block area. Continue reading →

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Hit by the Mad Tire Slasher of Hyde Park

Posted on October 12, 2004 by Marchbanks

All that really happened was that some malicious, anonymous jerk got to dump some of his bile on us. Continue reading →

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Don’t make me do it twice

Posted on January 18, 2004 by Marchbanks

So now I have to do all the data entry again anyhow, fuming because I’m doing work over that I could have done right the first time. Continue reading →

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Quelle surprising

Posted on July 18, 2003 by Marchbanks

I promised L that I would finish laying the new peel-and-stick tiles in the north entry today. Continue reading →

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I am going to DIE this weekend

Posted on June 12, 2003 by Marchbanks

I wrote some talking points for the docents, so they have something to do besides keeping tour-goers from pilfering the smaller portabilia. Continue reading →

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