Between the Lines

You can't take the stripes out of the boy.

And don't couple remind you of this?

 Good thing he doesn't do polka dots.

That's for kids.

Off the Lyons

Here's Jake and Ben Lyons chatting about "If There is..."



Whenever these two chat you never know where it's going to go.

Remember these?

 

Five for Five

Between a digital dance and Italian premiere something small happened that was very big five years ago. 

A Very Special Top Five

"Baby It's You"

"Baby I Love You"

"Baby Love"

"Be My Baby"

 "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"

Voting Booth Review

This is not Jake

Now he might vote for Mitt you never know.

But Jake....

Well everyone knows the answer to that

Right Big Guy?

Let's review

Jake is not a fan of this Bush

But looks like he kinda is of this one

And the only Mitt he's going to get behind is this one.

 Extra credit points who find the secret connection to Tall Texans in this post.

Weekending or beginning

To sum up Austin x AUS10

1 Man,  3 Days, 7 stages, over a hundred bands and getting recognized by fans - this is what you get

Austin shows you can go home again - and - have a good time.

Just have to wonder what he did Sunday - did he stay for Red Hot Chili Pepper and Iggy and the Stooges and just not tweet it or did his  weekend start too.

Who says the weekend can't start on Sunday?


Speaking of the weekender - think he's firm on where he stand  inside the voting booth,  and why.

Out Spotlight

Today's Out Spotlight was a songwriter, poet and educator.  They are best known for writing “America the Beautiful" and for popularizing "Mrs. Santa Claus" through the poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride. Today's  Out Spotlight is Katharine Lee Bates.

Katharine Lee Bates was born August 12, 1859  in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minster.  Her father’s family left England and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635. He was the pastor of the Congregational Church on the Village Green at Falmouth on Cape Cod and died from a back injury when Bates was a month old. Her mother, a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary, moved the family to Wellesley where Bates graduated in 1880 from then-new Wellesley College, thanks to help from her two older brothers.

 After spending a year at Oxford University, she began teaching English at Wellesley College and soon became a full professor. Her salary was $400 per year “with board and washing.” When she met  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he praised her high-school poem, “Sleep”. Writing was a continuing priority that provided some financial support—children’s stories, books of verse, textbooks, travel books based on her three sabbatical years in Europe and the Middle East.
 
In the summer of 1893, when she was lecturing at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Bates joined a group that took a rough prairie wagonride plus a struggle by mule, followed by an exhausting hike to the top of 14,000 foot-high Pike’s Peak. Overwhelmed by what she saw, Bates scribbled in her notebook wrote down a four-verse poem originally titled “Pike’s Peak,” now known as “America the Beautiful.” When published in local newspapers, the poem became wildly popular. Her copyright provided continuing royalties for years.

Although set to various tunes, the poem is traditionally sung to the tune of Samuel Ward’s hymn “Materna,” and has become the unofficial national anthem. There have been efforts to give “America the Beautiful” legal status as the national anthem.

She also popularized Mrs. Claus in her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride from the collection Sunshine and other Verses for Children (1889).

Bates contributed regularly to periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym James Lincoln, including Atlantic Monthly, Congregationalist, Boston Evening Transcript, Christian Century, Contemporary Verse, Lippincott's and Delineator.


In 1915, Bates cofounded and served as the president of the New England Poetry Club. She was actively involved in social and labor reform.

While teaching at Wellesley, Bates became involved with professor, poet and dean Katharine Coman.  She described their relationship as a “romantic friendship.” The couple lived together for 25 years until Coman died. “So much of me died with Katharine Coman,” Bates said, “that I’m sometimes not quite sure whether I’m alive or not.” To honor her partner and celebrate their shared love and scholarship, Bates wrote “Yellow Clover: A Remembrance of Love” (1922).

Bates passed away in Wellesley, Massachusetts, March 28, 1929 at the age of 70.

The Falmouth Historical Society preserved Bates’s family home as a historical landmark. In 1970, she was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

"That the hymn has gained a hold is clearly due to the fact that Americans are at heart idealists.”

Austin x AUS10

Instead of SXSW - it's Austin X Aus10 and he is giving a photolog of the weekend.

He started off with The Whigs

Rufus

and  Oberhofer

and The Roots

 Sonambulo

and Bassnectar

and headliners Goyte

Neil Young

And Jack White.

 Just turn on your local alternative or college radio station and it's like you there.

No close up photos or  VIP section today,  this was party with the people in Zilker  Park.  But that's not to say he didn't have a star moment courtesy of former co-star Shantelle.

OMG!! OMG!! I found this guy from #OTH @AUS10NICHOLS ... Seriously he's my fav! Obsessed! #ACL ;) XO

 

Who says you can't go home again.  The forecast is for it to be in 85F in Austin tomorrow. It's still time for you to back to you shirtless ways Mr. Nichols.