Pssst. Are you reading the NEW Austin Eavesdropper yet? If not, jump on it! This blog URL, thataustingirl.blogspot.com, will spontaneously combust on April 15. This video...
Did you know that Austin Eavesdropper has a new home on the Internet? Come check it out!Wondering where your delightful, witty comments went on this blog? Theyre all over there. (Mo...
Hello, Reader!Im still kind of in blogger purgatory right now while the new Eavesdropper site finishes its build-out (any day now I promise), but couldnt wait to share this with you.Who knew that one...
Well Reader, last Sunday we had our much-anticipated Downton Abbey Season Finale party, at the old Austin City Limit studios. May I just say that watching Downton Abbey, in a room of similarly ...
Welcome to the second-ever installment of AETV!In this webisode, my friend Dabney Dwelle (frontman for My Golden Calf) assists me with a very important fashion matter: How to prepare for an Oscars pa...
This Sunday is the big event: The Downton Abbey Season Finale Screening and Party, co-hosted by KLRU and Austin Eavesdropper!SugaPlump Pastries is generously providing treats for the event (pictured ...
Do you know what next week is? The Oscars. And also? The second ever AETV! We loved our Jaynie Buckingham / Cutie Pies segment so much, that we decided to partner with ano...
NEW LOVE:Watermelon radishes, from Greenling. A humble radish, so gorgeous on the inside -- who knew? Its particularly tasty with olive oil, honey, and lime. I ate three on Sunday.O...
I think the best Saturday nights are the serendipitous ones. So, remember that Wondercraft hot guy contest I was judging? Three cheers for the organizers, because that place was capital-p...
I was in a dreamy sort of mood yesterday, when I stumbled on this gorgeous blog: EvaForeva, by artist Jenya Kurtsman. Those are all her photos above.Jenya, like me, shoots with a Canon Rebel XS...
My friend Rendi, whom you may recognize from this post. What a babe, huh?Heres a funny little fact about my life. Of all the rich, beautiful global cultures out there, there are two that ...
In other event-related news this week (see yesterdays Downton Abbey post), I am judging a contest right now for an extra special Austin business, The WonderCraft.Have you ever seen The WonderCraft tr...
Well friends, it is Mission Accomplished around here. Remember how we were discussing Downton Abbey a few weeks ago? And how we wanted a public screening in Austin? Like really badly...
All above images by: Merrick Ales Photography.Right, so, remember when we were talking about our New Years Words? And how in 2011 I chose the word "openness?" I was so successful ...
Megan Renart reviewed the debut album of local indie faves Wild Child for Austin Eavesdropper back in December, and since then, we havent been able to get "Pillow Talk" out of our heads. ...
Last night, I had dinner with my friend Kim at our favorite restaurant, Blue Dahlia Bistro. Do you all know the sweet love story behind it?About six years ago, an Austinite named Amy Quinn was ...
Over the holidays, my sister-in-law gave me this delightful magazine - more than that, a journal really - called Anthology. Its impossibly pretty, all French food and gauzy photographs and year...
Its quite domestic around here. Do you remember Claudia, Reader? Its been a while since we really let her have her own post. Here is a picture of the two of us from back in the day, ...
Sanctuary at Amala FoundationOn Saturday night, Ross and I did exactly two things. One having to do with vegetables, community gardens, virtue; the other, fritters, butter, gluttony.Our first s...
One thing I definitely do not post about enough on this blog is aerial silks, a.k.a. the love of my life.Its hard to overstate how I feel about this hobby, a relatively new one. I started one y...
Oh, Downton Abbey. Where to begin. Where to even begin?In the last few weeks, it seems as if the Internet has exploded with rapture over Downton Abbey. When I asked on Austin Eavesdroppers Facebook p...
I was telling Ross this morning that I think Claudia and I can really relate to each other. Claudia, as you may or may not know, is our cat."Were both anxious, impatient, and only children!...
My friends Mai, Rose and I had a food trailer lunch date on Saturday, and while we did, we read parts of Roses old diary. A diary that she has kept - stunningly! - from age 8 to 18.Have you eve...
Well Reader, its happening. Austin Eavesdropper is getting another makeover and, brace yourselves, graduating from Blogspot."Wait. Do you mean to tell me --" I do."Youre...
You may recall a little conversation we were having last summer, Reader, the one where we were discussing goals. Remember? There was kombucha involved ... and kale. Come to think of...
Comforting Mix by Tolly Moseley on GroovesharkPhotoIve been in the mood lately to listen to some of my favorite "comfort food" songs, old and new, on repeat. Otis, meet Kat; Stevie, mee...
For my day job Reader, I am a literary publicist, and one of my clients this past year was the witty, wonderful Ruth Pennebaker. During a reading at BookPeople, she told the audience: "I ca...
We all had very vague notions of what was going to happen on New Years Eve. "2012," we murmured. "This. Is. Big."And yet, my friends and I were undecided on ho...
Every New Years, I do a little thing called the New Years Word. Its a movement - my own personal movement - away from New Years Resolutions, which never really work for me (or I suspect, anyone...
Ever since I spent Christmas with my three little nephews, Ive been thinking about this line from the Wordsworth poem, "Tintern Abbey:" May I behold in thee what I was once.In that poem, Word...
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