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Of course, tomorrow is the beginning of the Texas Book Festival, if anything else - to prove that some of us here in Texas do in fact read.

Here’s what events look good to me:

• Saturday
  1. 11:45 - 12:30: H.W. Brands, Lone Star Nation
     Reading and Q&A introduced by Greg Curtis
     Location: Auditorium

  2. 12:30 - 1:30:
     James Ellroy: Destination: Morgue!
     Jessee Sublett: Never the Same Again
     Reading and Q&A introduced by Kip Stratton
     Location: Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Main Hall

  3. 12:45 - 1:30: Dayton Duncan, Lewis and Clark
     Reading and Q&A introduced by Regan Gammon
     Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.028

  4. 2:00 - 3:00: What’s So Funny About Politics?
     Jim Hightower, Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush
     Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report
     Panel discussion by Evan Smith
     Location: House Chamber

  5. 2:15 - 3:00: Men Behaving Badly:
     Adam Johnson, Parasites Like Us
     Kyle Smith, Love Monkey
     Jonathan Ames, Wake Up, Sir
     Reading and panel discussion moderated by Neal Pollack
     Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.010

  6. 7:00 - 9:45: Texas Book Festival After Hours: Movies
     Location: Alamo Drafthouse–Downtown -
     Oscar-winner Peter Bogdanovich will introduce two of his favorite films: 7 p.m.: Targets & 9:45 p.m.: Saint Jack.
• Sunday
  1. What’s Cooking in Texas
     John DeMers, Houston: Culinary Capital
     Fernando Saralegui, Our Latin Table
     Linda Bauer, Historic Recipes from Texas and American Sampler Cookbook
     Panel discussion moderated by Virginia Wood
     Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.014

  2. 12:30 - 1:15: Meghan Daum, The Quality of Life Report
     Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams
     Reading and Q&A introduced by Mary Margaret Farabee
     Location: Senate Chamber

  3. 2:00 - 2:45: Mind of a Killer
     Michael McGarrity, Slow Kill
     David Lindsey, The Face of the Assassin
     Reading and panel discussion moderated by Gary Lavergne
     Location: House Chamber

I’m someone! I got my first comment spam!

Why do I now have this sudden, uncomfortable urge to play online poker now?

Am I the only one who doesn’t care about podcasting?

Why would I want to HEAR posts from someone when I can skim them in seconds in my RSS reader? There are so many other interesting things to listen to and it’s not like most of our voices are sonorous enough for lengthy attention.

Webnote - an online tool for taking notes, looks like something very interesting that takes up a lot of the slack in what I don’t like about wikis: the lack of a metaphor and interface for beginning users. If they’d add a text formatting toolbar (for each sticky?) and had something like trackback this would be something to REALLY watch.