Here is Mrs. Lovett. A cute, pretty, rather sultry Mrs. Lovett, on her way to go see Sweeney Todd last winter (“A Major Disappointment,” she says). When not wearing her hair in tiny buns, she is better known as Sarcasm Girl. And she is, today, 18 years old. Old enough to rock the vote (which she has every intention of doing) but still young enough to cuddle and eat popcorn while watching a movie.

My favorite bumper sticker this week:

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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On the west side of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, stands a statue of a lady in her nightgown . . . firing a cannon.

This statue (which you can see in its full downtown-Austin context via Google StreetView) depicts a real person and event. The lady was Angelina Eberly, and modern-day Austin probably would not be the capital of Texas were it not for her cannon shot – which was the only shot fired during the so-called Archives War of 1842.

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