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What It’s Like Having an Old Dawg

Nali is 15.25 years old. She has slowed down quite a bit, though she still gets the zoomies almost every morning. The most dramatic change, however, has been in her incontinence. This is a dog who could, in years past, hold her pee a whole 24-hour day. Now, she can’t even hold it overnight. My…

Sacks and the City: A Football and Dating Podcast

For those of you who missed hearing your favorite faux celeb laugh perhaps inappropriately, always raucously, and someone said “too often” on my radio show* (RIP), have I got news for you … There’s a new podcast in town, and I’m its co-host! My girl Nikki and I dropped two episodes of our brand new…

More Than Just Texans Drink Texas Wine

The Texas Hill Country is named one of the  “10 Best Wine Travel Destinations for 2014” by Wine Enthusiast magazine! The Texas Hill Country is one of only three regions from the United States (Sonoma and Walla Walla, WA are the other two) to make the list this year. In the past ten years, Texas…

10 Worst Things About Living in _______________

I came across a pretty funny list: The 10 Worst Things About Living in Las Vegas. I’m not particularly fond of Vegas myself from several visits, but this guy lived there and is extra funny about why it was terrible … It inspired me! 10 Worst Things About Living in Austin It’s hard to make a list…

We Win!

How bad is it when you’re so busy you don’t know this is life in austin & aspen has won an award until TWO DAYS after it was announced? Pretty bad. But still badass! We won a “Best Local Blog” award from The World Media Awards, which recognizes successful bloggers and publishers from across the globe. To…

[UPDATED] Aspen: Aspen Mountain Opens Saturday

BREAKING UPDATE: I’ve heard from a reliable source that the mountain is NOT opening this weekend. Thanks to some serious dumps of snow the past couple of days, “rumor” has it Aspen Mountain is opening Saturday!! Skiing four days earlier than we thought! SkiCo hasn’t officially announced it, but everyone knows it’s true!! Of course,…

Texas Wines Win!

Being a Texan is an admittedly huge part of my identity. My state pride may or may not be larger than my national pride, so naturally I MUST tell you that Texas wines are winning! I received a press release on Texas wines winning, and I got really excited. Upon further inspection it turns out…

Uchiko is Hiring

The opening of Uchiko, the 42nd & Lamar sister to Austin’s world-renowned Uchi, has been delayed again and again. But they’re tracking their progress with sweet construction pics and menu updates at http://uchikoaustin.com/. Should be open this summer. They’re also HIRING, a hiring event takes place April 26, 27 and 28th. Uchiko, like Uchi, will…

Girly post: free makeover! Teddies for Bettys!!

In other words, welcome to the girliest post I may ever have posted. For all my tweeting about football and pullups, I present to you: makeovers and teddies. The Clinique Fresh Faces Tour with Teen Vogue (supported by Taylor Momsen aka Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl) hits Austin Thursday & Friday. Clinique’s one-of-a-kind “Mobile Beauty…