Subject: NASA

• Astronaut Jones

  February 12, 2009

• So Not the Real Terrell Owens

  October 12, 2006

• Space: So Not the Final Frontier

  September 5, 2006

• Spaced Out in North Dallas

  May 25, 2007

• Space, Still the Final Frontier

  December 5, 2007

• Naked eye

  Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

  March 16, 2000

• Welcome to the National Armball League

  October 29, 2008

• Video: MC Lars And Bowling For Soup's Jaret Reddick At The Double Wide

  I missed a ton of good shows around town last week--Thanksgiving with the folks in Boston, y'know--but the one I'm probably most disappointed about missing, which probably says a lot about me, is the nerdcore show at the Double Wide on Saturday. MC Lars? MC Frontalot? ytcracker? These guys are titans in the nerdcore world, people! And I've actually gotten to know Bryce Case, Jr., aka ytcracker, pretty well thanks to my time working in his home town of Colorado Springs. He's pretty legit: At

  December 4, 2008

• Supine science

  December 8, 1994

• Moonstruck

  July 6, 1995

• Global warning

  September 21, 1995

• Events for the week

  October 2, 1997

• Events for the week

  November 6, 1997

• Blast Off

  June 4, 2009

• The long trailer

  July 2, 1998

• Rocket man

  August 6, 1998

• Spaced out

  April 1, 1999

• Hefner

  January 24, 2002

• Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

  The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL. It struck me that: 1. "laugh out loud" isn't that difficult to type. 2. it's official, our laziness has become lazy. When in the name of Jack LaLanne did our lame asses become DOA? Our latest exerci

  March 31, 2009

• Look Sharp

  June 5, 2008

• Chafing Dishes

  February 14, 2008

• Love & Rockets

  Andrew Beal spent $200 million trying to launch rockets without Uncle Sam's help. His dream went down in flames

  March 1, 2001

• Moon Shot

  December 13, 2007

• Fly Me to the Moon

  Astronaut Farmer dares to dream

  February 22, 2007

• Drawing the Line

  July 26, 2007

• Black and White

  August 10, 2006

• Diet Riot

  October 7, 2004

• Holy Buzz

  Shinsei froths with sincere creativity

  November 16, 2006

• The Long Winters

  Ultimatum EP (Barsuk)

  December 15, 2005

• Moon Tunes

  October 6, 2005

• Live to Ride

  A motorcycle accident cost Bill Rucker his leg, but that won't stop him from building-and riding-bikes

  June 23, 2005

• Rocketman

  To boldly go where many have ralphed before

  September 30, 2004

• Letters

  March 6, 2003

• The Bleeding Edge

  A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

  February 13, 2003

• Coming Down

  A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

  January 30, 2003

• 'N Space

  Lance Bass attempts to boldly go where no man has gone before. Well, no pop star, anyway.

  September 5, 2002

• The Right Stuff

  Producers say Space Station 3D is "over the moon"

  April 18, 2002

• Lights Out

  The food at Bistro Latino rises above the darkness

  March 28, 2002

• Down by the Old Mill

  A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town

  December 27, 2001

• Talkin' Tolkien

  Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

  December 20, 2001

• The Iceman Cometh

  Brian Fridge creates space to make images to create space with

  June 28, 2001

• Wizards of Oz

  Eccentric scientists work wonders in The Dish, a distinctively Australian time capsule

  April 5, 2001

• Teed off

  Golf With Alan Shepard delivers the fairway

  April 27, 2000

• Theme puke

  At Jekyll & Hyde Club, the actors act, the puppets howl, and the food...well, never mind

  January 13, 2000

• Star Power

  July 16, 2009

• Space...The Final Art Scene

  September 17, 2009

• Whitt's End: 10.23.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Last night I got a foot massage. By a guy. And thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, now. Settle down. It's not what you think. Friend of mine tells me of a place where at 11 p.m. you can get an hour-long Japanese foot rub/back massage while drinking alcohol and watching TV. All for $29.99. I call that place Xanadu, but it's actually in Richardson. Foot Joy, indeed. If you can withstand the pa

  October 23, 2009

• In Space, No Chimps Can Hear Neon Indian Scream...

  Speaking of CMJ '09 (kinda), Neon Indian's up at the music marathon this weekend, set for a performance tomorrow night. And a hotly anticipated one at that--or so say the folks over at Spin, who've named Palomo and Pals among its 25 must-hear artists at the weekend-long festivities.And, sure, that's a good enough excuse as any for us to post the above, brilliant Heidi Petty-created video, which sets old NASA footage of Ham the Astrochimp to Neon Indian's "Laughing Gas." (Hat tip.)

  October 23, 2009

• Days Gone Bite: Space Food Sticks

  ​There was a 15 or so year blip in history when space--and massive government programs to explore space--was very cool. All a food company had to do was take, say, a powdered orange drink, slap a phrase such as "like the astronauts drink" on the label, and wait for the riches to roll in.Think about it: companies had been creating drink mixes under government contract for decades, including a lemonade version placed in World War Two rations (and which the Marines called "battery acid"), but onl

  October 28, 2009

• DISD's Getting a Grant to Help Kids With Science and Math. And It's from Outer Space!

  ​Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District and grant money ...I was poking around the briefing agenda for this week's meeting of the board of trustees and noticed this intriguing item: NASA -- yes, that NASA, not this NASA -- is giving the DISD, via the Foundation for Community Empowerment, $1.45 million to help students with science and math ... and to promote NASA. Per the briefing docs, half the money will go toward a "science-focused website and a computer lab in the designated ar

  November 3, 2009