Alicia, "This Week in Texas" project, 3/17/16

I think volume 1 is just about done! Next week I'll start on volume 2 :)

The first volume's last few issues are nice. Many businesses give sweet holiday specials and wishes. There is also a well-written response to an Answers by Adam question asking about gay marriage.

The only formatting conundrum I ran into today - and actually Tuesday, now that I think of it - was in the Advertisers' Index section. There are lots of little bullets between the business and the page it's on, which I for the most part keep but sometimes I don't. Hm.

Also, since this is the last blog post about volume 1, I have a little concluding remark which just occurred to me today and might be interesting to share. Typing the ads in This Week in Texas was a good exercise in decision making because most ads, if not all, cannot be typed exactly as they appear in the magazine. I ended up prioritizing simply getting the words on the page, usually in a way that seemed to be consistent with the original print.

Happy New Years! Just kidding, happy St. Patrick's day.

Alicia, "This Week in Texas" project, 3/15/16

I went through issues 36 and 37 today which means that there are just two more in volume 1. I'll miss 1975!

On page 23, there were a lot of little dots replacing dashes in the "This Week's Supporters" section. I hope to be able to replace all these at some point.

I also accidentally deleted some text in the transcript, then accidentally saved this deletion when trying to go back to my last save, but luckily it wasn't too much text.

Beyond this, today was smooth sailing!

Alicia, "This Week in Texas" project, 3/10/16

I finished up issue 35 today which means that there are just four more left in volume one. After I publish this blog post, I'll probably go back to an early issue because I think I left an ad out there, if my memory serves me correctly.

Next week - or actually, probably the week after - I think Jeanette will show me how to alter the titles for the next volume. Here I come, 1976 volume!

There were some Thanksgiving ads in the Around the State this Week section, and I was wondering, where's Tooter's Restaurant? Well, it turns out that the Sampling Texas section addressed this very question: Tooter's was closed to give their employees time off for the holidays.

I came across another horoscope section, but mine was not a match.

See ya next week. 

Alicia, "This Week in Texas" project, 3/8/16

I'm finishing up today towards the end of issue number 33. At this rate, I'll probably have gone through volume 1 by next week!

However, pretty soon I'll want to review what I've done so far. Sometimes the advertisements change from week to week, so I want to make sure that I've caught those changes.

As far as the Depository ads go, they seem to have gotten their format a little more under control :D

Alicia, "This Week in Texas" project, 2/29/16

What is interesting about today is that it is Monday instead of Tuesday or Thursday when I normally make entries. This is because next week is spring break so I'm heading off to CT tomorrow!

Today I ended on the Weekly Bulletin Board of issue 31. This section is a recent addition and it seems to have taken off pretty well with the readers. There is also the new horoscope section; it may be from 40 years ago and... a horoscope, but I thought mine was pretty accurate.

A new bar seems to have opened up in Houston in October, possibly September called the Depository. It seems like a great place, but their advertisements are not so friendly to the software that converts them to OCR text.

I have been seeing more and more ads for groups, most notably for the Christian groups, motorcycle riding groups, and the Gay Political Caucus. I've been adding to them in the description.

'til next week

Alicia, "This Week in Texas" project, 2/25/16

In one of his Screen Shop essays, Cristopher Savitch says that "capitalizing on a human tragedy is disgusting animalism." Then he asks, "Does greed know no bounds?" I don't know, Mr. Savitch.

I finished today on "A Fairy Tale of Sorts" in issue 29 of volume 1. I would like to make note to myself, on this blog, that I should go back to This Week's Supporters in issue 28 to switch the little dots that appeared to dashes. Also, I came across today for the first time an ad specifically for Dignity/Houston, a group for gay Catholics and Christians. I've come across it before in the "Around the State this Week" sections and possibly in the "Sampling Texas" sections, but I haven't been adding it to the descriptions because it's not one of the businesses/bars; in other words, it's a group, not a place. I've also not been including names like the Gay Caucus, TADS, MCC, and others for this same reason. Now I am wondering if I'd like to do this. I put it in the description of the page in which it appeared as an ad, which is, for now... a start. 

Alicia, "This Week in Texas" project, 2/23/16

I think the magazine is getting funnier all the time. Today's issues were very enjoyable. I miss the disco of the 70s and I wasn't even there.

I started in issue 25 today and ended once again on the Doctors Bag, this time in issue 27. I believe that today there was more typing involved than usual, although now that I think of it I'm unsure why. I think I'm getting better at discerning when it would make more sense to type something out and when it would be better to copy and paste the same/a similar ad from another page. This latter method can be quicker, unless it takes a while to find the ad or if it turns out that the ad is not so similar to the one on the current page. My favorite ad might be the Swamp Trash one - not because it pretty much never changes, although that does come in handy, but because it has an alligator and a fun font.