1) CAROLE SPRINGS ETERNAL Grandma Keeton Strayhorn, Austin’s political Energizer bunny, just keeps on running.
2) TEXAS TEA-TIME Rick Perry panders to loonies and ponders secession.
3) ALLRED AND ALL RIGHT Exiled Sammy returns to radio as a “Big Talker” –
with Glenn Beck!
4) MUD MUSIC Austin City Limits Festival + major downpour = stinking sea of sludge.
5) JOSIAH FOR MAYOR With Jennifer Gale gone, Ingalls picks up the torch.
6) MACK ‘MO’ MONEY’ BROWN Country, state, and university in fiscal crisis –
but not the football coach!
7) CRENSHAW VS. KITE Ben and Tom, two golf icons, take opposite sides of
“Save Muny” fight.
8) TWO HALF-WIT MEN Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones form a New World Order of Lunatics.
9) TOP 9S The Chronicle can’t count to 10!
This article appears in 2009.