From: William Pate

To: John William Felps
Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM

“All the generations of wonderful dead guys behind us. All the
Confederate dead and the Union dead planted in the soil near us. All
of Faulkner the great. Christ, there’s barely room for the living down
here.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/03/sabers-gentlemen-remembering-barry-hannah.html
Never read ‘im. Guess maybe I should.
William
Twitter: [...]

Okay, listen Cable News pundits. Listen, Keith Olbermann.
I DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ ME THE SPEECH OBAMA IS GOING TO GIVE IN AN HOUR.
There is a reason I’m watching the Convention on television. TO WATCH OBAMA GIVE HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH — not hear it from you before he’s even walked onto the stage.
You bastards [...]

If I were to start a gang, I would name it FM 3-24.
Just FYI.

Look . . .
Look . . .
BAM!
You just saved the world from another idiot motorcycler.
Thank you.
From the bottom of my heart.

Okay, so we only made it through three e-mails last time. I have 61 in my inbox. Fortunately, I don’t have to do all of them — just the oldest and worth saving.
Next up:
An item entitled “Watch ‘Charlie Rose – An hour with General David Petraeus’” I sent myself through Google Reader on 10 SEP [...]

I’ve realized it’s not a good idea to promise myself (and definitely not any readers my delusional mind thinks are out there) that I will post once a day. It just ain’t gonna happen. I’ll keep that defaulted promise in the back of my mind — so maybe it will urge me to write more [...]

Misty and I got up early today and headed to the bank and then the Texas Democratic Convention.
Joe lied to me. He said parking would be a breeze on Saturday. Fortunately, there was a breeze as we walked from 7th Street to the Convention Center on 2nd.
We couldn’t get into the main exhibition hall because [...]

From four until . . . when did we get home?
My brain feels dehydrated.
In the news.

Austin is rife with Democrats today — as if it isn’t always, but even more so today, tomorrow and Saturday — here for the Texas Democratic Convention.
There’s been a lot of, frankly, ridiculous prophesying that Obama or Clinton will show up, but that has finally been put to rest by Obama tapping Virginia Gov. Tim [...]

The Austin Chronicle is reporting that:
Saturday night, Tim Mahoney and [Speaker of the House Tom Craddick crony] Harrison Keller qualified for a runoff election in the race for Austin Community College Board of Trustees, with the former getting 48.5% of the vote and the latter taking 33%. Today, Keller decided to withdraw . . . [...]