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The Happy Monday

There are two things making this a happy Monday: getting to watch boys crash into each other during bike polo tonight and listening to the launch of KXT 9.17FM, KERA's new sister station that's devoted entirely to music.

The Rumor Mill

(Carine Roitfeld:image) 

Please say this gossip is true!!!! I agree it's highly suspect.

Grambling State University Tiger Marching Band

Just returned home from the 2008 Battle of High School Marching Bands at the Jesse Owens Complex. This photo can't begin to convey the size and spirit of the packed stadium. Everyone was either dancing in their seats or the isle. Townview Big D and Carter High School stole the show as expected (until Grambling took to the field). Will update with Youtube links when videos are uploaded. 

I snapped this photo of Grambling with my camera phone, hence the lame quality. Sans uniform, they were the grand finale to a long morning of competition. (Ricky Bobby, do the stanky leg) Lucinda, Amanda, and I got an awesome preview of what's to come tonight. Here they are in a cross formation in what I'm fairly certain was a tribute to Isaac Hayes. Off to the Fair now. 

To Do List | Tonight and Tomorrow Marching Band Madness

STOMP THE YARD

This is one of my most favorite weekends of the year, 

when Grambling and Prairie View marching bands face

off at the Cotton Bowl at the State Fair of Texas. I talked

about this at length last year.

The only problem is that the show ends way too soon and I

am left wanting MORE, MORE, MORE! Luckily, there is MORE. 

Here's the list of events for you to overdose on this weekend. 

I can't wait!!! Sorry about the weird spacing below.

And the late notice. Come out and pawdy. 

Friday  |  October 3 

Pep Rally featuring the GSU Marching Tiger Band

7:00 pm  to  8:00 pm

4th Annual Step Show

8:00 p.m. to  10 p.m.

Location: Pep Rally and Step Show - D. A. Hulcy Middle School

(I - 20, Exit Polk St.)

 

Saturday  |  October 4  |  8 a.m. to noon

Battle of the High School Bands

Jesse Owens Complex

(I - 20, Exit Polk St.)

 

Saturday  |  October 4  |  6 p.m.

State Fair Classic Football Game - GSU vs. PV

Texas Cotton Bowl

MORE DETAILS

Happy Me | The Boom Boom Box

Just saw this post about The Boom Boom Box featuring my first ever

CD cover art design. It's the only piece of press I've seen on the band— 

(plays its first show October 18 at Lola's in Fort Worth). And its the first 

time I've seen the layout anywhere other than my desk. Like, whoa.

The Happy Monday

 

Group bike rides are the best. Any time. My favorite is at dusk. But always loved. Especially when it includes an unexpected sighting of Big Texs' head prior to his Fall 2008 debut at the State Fair of Texas, opening this Friday. Can't believe it's already that time of year again. Radical.

Inspired by this, I made four versions of pro Obama bike spoke cards for everyone at the ride who wanted a set. Out of the hundred or so I made, I have a few left. Send me a message or leave me a comment if you want one I'll put them in the mail to you. Check them out—scan sizes are wonky but DO match up.

Set One

 

Set Two

 

Set Three (none left)

 

Set Four

 

Free | 9.20 | Ask A Mexican

No, I don't mean Cesar. I'm talking about the adorable Mexican-American reporter Gustavo Arellano and his wickedly funny "Ask a Mexican" column syndicated in dozens of weeklies across the country. Here, watch THIS and learn more.

I emailed him a question earlier this week and he responded within a few hours saying, "Ask me this question this Saturday at 2 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, where I will be signing and selling books." Actually he's going to be at Borders. Me too so I can get my question answered. Ustedes should also. Save you a seat?

Gustavo Arellano reads from his new book, Orange County

Saturday, September 20  |  2 p.m.  |  Borders on Greenville

Sweetest Summer Jam

JLMH

Free | Sneaking Into The Barack Obama Rally in Dallas

Me @ 12:00
You get in with a media pass? Am on the fifth floor of the parking garage. I’m so not getting in. Sad.

Friend @ 12:01
It hasn’t started yet. Don’t get in line just walk with confidence up to the door and go in girl!!!

Me @ 12:02
No way. I couldn’t. Really? No.

Friend @ 12:03
That’s what I did. I went to the second door and just walked!!!

Me @ 12:08
Am going to try

Friend @ 12:08
Do it!

Me @ 12:11
Am in!

Friend @ 12:12
Sweet!

Me @ 12:16
Thanks for encouraging me. This is awesome!

Me @ 12:20
Hey. I got this pink wristband. Does that get me anywhere special?

Friend @ 12:21
You rock! It gets our on the floor! I am stage left.

Me @ 12:25
I’m now standing next to where he will walk out.

Friend @ 12:26
You should be a journalist.

Friend @ 12:27
I see you.

Me @ 12:32
This is crazy.

And it went a little somethin' like this:

Needless to say, I left being at the end of the line and dashed down five flights of stairs, walked past a cavalcade of cops on motorcycles (oops!), turned and went the other direction, and accidentally ended up at the media entrance. I walked up, threw my driver’s license on the table, said “Holly Jefferson from ________ News”. I won’t say which news, because I fibbed. Without even flipping through the several-inch-thick list of names, my right wrist was slapped with a pink wristband and I was in. After taking a seat for a few seconds in section 110, I learned I could be "on the floor" and was now standing next to senators, celebrities, city council members, sports heroes, radio personalities and more. I was two seats from where Obama made his entrance. I took lots of fuzzy pictures and got to shake his hand as he made his exit. Pretty crazy for someone that had been standing at the end of a thousands-plus line on the top of a parking garage an hour earlier. And totally, totally scary how easy it was.

(see me?)

Others photos. Media coverage.

Happy Me | Dave Palmer Does Dallas

Dave Palmer and Fred Hamilton
Thursday, February 21
Club Dada
9 p.m.

Adam McGill wrote more about Palmer over at FrontBurner.
Go read it.

Happy Me

To the kittens.
Cute overload.
Sadly, they ain't got wigs on.