Archive for May, 2008

Friday Field Trip! (With Pictures!)

Alex Food Site News Skunch

It’s Friday, it’s almost summer vacation time, and I’m unemployed. So what better to do, than go on a field trip! And do I ever have a special field trip destination for you, dear readers. That’s right, I went to:

Wades Supermarket!

No, really. I did. Southwest Virginia’s finest locally owned and operated chain of food stores. If you’re not too afeared to learn more, jump with me.

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Back In The Saddle: News Version

News wadE

Yes, I’ve been MIA on SP as of late. No good excuses, just sheer laziness and focusing my time on different things. But there’s nothing like a run through the daily news to get one back untracked… (I did that just to annoy Alex)…

But enough rankling of fellow SP-ers, what’s happenin’ out there in the news-o-sphere?
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where all the lights are bright

Skunch anderswa

aaaah, downtown. how i’ve missed you. the reasons are numerous, but here’s one of my favorites: watching people nearly get schmucked crossing the streets that intersect nicollet ave. well, okay, that’s just a side benefit.

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Everything changed…

Alex Skunch

…after 9/11. That’s what you always hear, right? Well I’m here to tell you it’s true, folks. For an example, let’s look at one of the major issues the Bush Administration was well on its way to resolving during the summer of 2001:

Vampires.

It is unknown whether or not the President consulted with Joss Whedon before embarking on such an ambitious program of vampire eradication.

local man injured, idiot

News anderswa

you know, we really could use an “austin in the news” category. get on that, al. it can be a graphic of a can of spam or something.

anyway. from the 5/21/08 edition of the austin daily herald:

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