Daily Archives: 06/24/2008

(Community Matters) On Feb 23 I sold my General Motors stock at $24/share citing Vice Chairman Bob Lutz’s comment that global warming is “a total crock of shit” as a sign that the company was managed by idiots. Today GM closed at $13/share. It’s dropped nearly 50% ytd. So glad he’s a vocal idiot.

(Community Matters) Yesterday evening, I joined Amanda Chiampi, Michael Kellerman, Craig Davis, Patricia Buchholtz and other residents of Chestnut Commons for a residents block party/dinner celebrating the opening of the third and final phase. These single family units built condo style on the former Featherlite tract have attracted a very cool, crowd of overwhelmingly 20- & 30-something nonprofit professionals, state workers, marketers, UT staff members and other young professionals. And, it is creating a fund of over $1mm for affordable housing projects in Central East Austin. (hmm, I had a picture of the 50+ folks under the tent having dinner. I shouldn’t delete after emailing to myself.)

(Community Matters) Kudos to George Brant who won the Keene Award and $50,000 for his play, Elephant’s Graveyard, which I reviewed here. George had previously won the Austin Theatre’s Critics Award for this play.

(Community Matters) Robert Torian in NYC visiting Paul Daigle, and of course, no coincidence he was there for this year’s Broadway Bares.

This was Broadway Bares’ 18th year and they raised over $800k to help fund services for those with AIDS. It’s an annual benefit of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS group. Charles Santos ran their Dancers Responding to AIDS program.