Austin City Blues...

...is the name of the iris. This one always blooms early.  

Our Sunday paper has a very prominent article previewing the Super Bowl commercials that are to be aired this afternoon. It's a long in-depth piece about upcoming television ads.  My sources tell me that an inexpensive ticket to the game is 5 or 6 thousand dollars, and that some people pay thirty thousand dollars to get in. Sometimes I feel like I'm from another planet.