I went to see The Help with Dawn and Kenzie tonight and although I expected it to be good, it was much better than I had figured. This is easily the best movie I have seen this year! I know the critics are lambasting it as “racist,” and I get that – but come on, [...]
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Wimberley Texans sent off to Waco in style by city.
December 10th, 2010 
Chris Doelle The Wimberley Texans (14-0) took off Friday afternoon aboard chartered buses as they headed to the campus of Baylor University to take on Coldspring-Oakhurst (13-1) at Floyd Casey Stadium. The game will kickoff at 7:30 and the Texans faithful hope it is one step closer to a return to the state championship. The Texans last [...]
Posted in Football, Friends & Family, Politics, Video 
Tags: events, Football, high, hill country, http://www.thisweekinwimberley.com, News, school, texans, texas, Wimberley 
No Comments »Small world – that includes some good music
February 26th, 2010 Chris Doelle Dawn was looking online for some tracks to use on her iPod while running and the track Fischer Store Road by Sarah Jarosz showed up. The title caught her eye because there is a Fischer Store Road not far from the house here in Wimberley. A little digging later and we discovered that Sarah was [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Politics, Video Tags: bluegrass, catholic, fischer store road, ira, irish republican army, Music, protestant, sarah jarosz, shankill butchers, texas, tim burton, Wimberley No Comments »Cameron’s success is…. well, elementary.
December 30th, 2009 Chris Doelle There are two seasons where you can usually count on seeing a good movie or two – the Summer blockbusters and the Christmas blockbusters. This Christmas season has provided me with two good movie outings. Both of them made me skeptical at first, but in the end, both delivered solid entertainment. First up was Avatar [...]
Reflections on a biking boo boo
June 10th, 2009 Chris Doelle I crashed my bike the other day – okay, crash may be a bit hyperbolic. I did have a mishap, but it was nothing serious. I was heading up a sketchy hill with a lot of loose gravel and just as I was thinking, “I should clip out,” I was on the ground before I [...]
Posted in Cycling, Entertainment, Friends & Family, Health & Fitness, Politics Tags: accident, ant hills, crash, Cycling, mountain biking 3 Comments »GM Bailout? Puh-lease. Wake up and complain now!
April 23rd, 2009 Chris Doelle Now there is talk about a GM bailout or the impending collapse of the prehistoric automaker. I want to make a couple of points here. 1 – Capitalism is designed so that the smartest, leanest, best-run companies survive and the dinosaurs go under. You can’t complain that giving healthcare to citizens if communism without agreeing [...]
Happy “Remember this day when you vote” Day
April 15th, 2009 Chris Doelle That’s right – it is tax day. It’s the time of year when we pay “our share” of what it takes to run our government. This is where those highways and all those other great government services come from. Oh wait, we don’t really get much in the way of helpful government. This is where [...]
Posted in Business & Money, Politics Tags: government waste, Politics, taxes, vote, voting No Comments »IIHS spits out latest propaganda regarding small cars
April 14th, 2009 Chris Doelle The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has come out with a amazing new report. Apparently, when a larger vehicle crashes into a smaller one, the smaller takes more damage. I am so glad I have the lapdog for the auto industry to teach me about the basics of physics. Yes, the IIHS took the current [...]
Posted in Culture, Environment, News, Politics, Travel & Entertainment Tags: automobiles, cars, fuel economy, iihs, insurance institute of highway safety, microcar, obama, propaganda, suv No Comments »Really? I hope you are not falling for this nonsense?
April 5th, 2009 Chris Doelle Am I the only one that finds the new GM “Total Confidence” ad campaign insulting? (Actually, I know I’m not the only one because when I was watching it with someone this weekend, we both agreed) That’s right – turn your cap inside out and we can “turn this thing around.” Oh yeah, and uh…. [...]
Posted in Business & Money, Politics, Video Tags: advertising, bailout, economy, gm, rally cap, total confidence No Comments »Disturbing documentary
March 24th, 2009 Chris Doelle CNBC takes an in-depth look at how data is collected and used in their special: Big Brother, Big Business.
Posted in Movie Reviews & TV, Politics, Video Tags: big brother, big business, cnbc, data mining, identity theft, privacy 1 Comment »
