Yellow Bike

Yellow Bikes 4 HONK!TX

February 3rd, 2011 by veronica

iLoveMikeLitt calls upon you, Model Citizens, to roll up your sleeves!  RSVP to this super sweet event on Facebook! Honk!TX is a nonprofit community street festival created by, for, and of the people, which means the festival is depending on the help of everyone who wants to see this radical party take to the streets! [...]

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Parker Puryear in the Tundra Snow

What’s Your Cold Weather Story? (videos)

February 3rd, 2011 by veronica

UPDATE: IT’S SNOWING! Weather (zing*) you are getting Thunder Snow or a more Anticlimactic Climate, we are all in this together.  Even Mexico. My Story:  Work is cancelled two days in a row.  We can’t let the babus get cold.  Also, I have a parka.  I am not cold at all, in fact, I cannot [...]

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Wild Roses

Spam from the Heart, and Other Great Advices!

January 24th, 2011 by veronica

I probably spend too much time reading the spam comments that make it to this site (and wishing that some of them were for real).  But before these gems are deleted forever and sent into comment oblivion, I’m going to share some of the best with you. They fall into a a handful of categories [...]

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Belton Bell County

Free City-Wide Internet the Way of the Future?

January 23rd, 2011 by veronica

Heard of Belton?  Belton, TX is in Bell County and a stone’s throw from Waco.  Don’t ask what I’m doing here, I’m not sure myself, but it is a gorgeous little town filled with historic sites and antique shops (about 20 on the square surrounding the courthouse). Anyway, when you’re chillin’ in a coffee shop [...]

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Tami Love

Hey kiddos!  Our favorite comic masterminds at New Movement Theater have entered the blog-o-verse.  Get. Excited. We’ve featured founder Chris Trew here before, in fact, you may remember him as Royal Bluberry.  (Link Warning: Careful For Children’s Eyes.)  So, we think it is high time we put the spotlight on another TNM favorite, Tami Nelson. [...]

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cartcorral

Video from the Minor Mishap Marching Band’s performance at Wheatsville!

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Sock It To Me 007

Of Fate & Footwear

January 20th, 2011 by veronica

Remember the Model Citizen tale of Sock Queen Carrie Atkinson as told by Portland-er Nichole Alvarado?  (Company info from the original post below.) During a quick stop through PDX on the way home from Alaska, I heard a voice calling my name, and it came from a rack of very magical socks – the Super [...]

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HONK!TX

Honk! Fest West @ Seattle Center (video)

January 15th, 2011 by veronica

More Marching Mayhem! What Austin can expect come March:

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Quin Video Still

Starstruck in Tuntutuliak (viral video)

January 14th, 2011 by veronica

Veronica is reporting from Tuntutuliak, Alaska and never ever refers to herself in third person. Right now, a mini basketball tournament between villages Tuntutuliak and Quinhagak is underway.  Tons of school kids come out to watch the games, and boy do these kids love getting their picture taken (and asking who my husband is – [...]

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12 Signs

Thank goodness for the blog-o-verse.  Here you will find a comment from my personal guru Rob Brezny clarifying the new changes to the Zodiac according to today’s headlines.  If you somehow missed the hubbub, astronomers have announced a 13th sign, Ophiucus, located between Sagittarius and my 23 minute identity crisis (actually, Scorpio, to be more [...]

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