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Have fun. Try Guero's on South Congress this time for dinner. And Avenue Cafe' on Congress for a pretty wonderful hangover-curing breakfast. Both should be more satisfying experiences than Hooters, I'm pretty sure.

geeks and free booze?
that dungeons and dragons guys that just died must be pissed...

9-11? Really? You're going THERE?
If I could to get away from a certain 7-yr old, lived anywhere near Austin and was still a drunk you wouldn't be able to keep me away.
Lucky Austin and immediate vicinity stiffs.

If Austin were only located somewhere in the USA, or another civilized country, instead of benig plunked down in the Republic of Texas, it would be a pretty cool place.
Its too bad that when most people [me] think of Texas, we think of George W Bush, Tom DeLay, Lyndon Baynes Johnson, Enron, and the list goes on.
Cheers, and please continue to post from behind enemy lines.
I totally support you, in a ribbon magnet on the back of a huge gas sucking vision blocking pickup truck kind of way.

Try not to get mobbed by the Paultards.

You'll be there with the Fleshbot people?

Wow, I kind of wish I was in Austin for reasons that I know will never come to fruition.

Ugh, I wanted to go to SXSW so bad. grad school sucks right now. And it's only five hours from Norman.... Lucky bastards.

I'm ditching everything and driving in from Blanco. I plan to get both Sara K and myself drunk, arrested for drunk & disorderly, thrown in jail, and we will effect our escape by blowing a whole in the cell wall with a pipe bomb that I will smuggle in.

See you soon, Sara!

Austin Minnesota is where Spam is made. You know, the kind of Spam you eat. Sigh. Have a good time.

Have fun. Have a hot dog from Best Wurst when you get out of there. They're especially good at 2:00 AM.

@biminitwst: Us Austinites see ourselves as pioneers. Our motto is "Keep Austin Weird" in part to piss off the red counties around us, especially Williamson County.

There is a community of artists/musicians that hold SXSW in utter contempt as a dweeby, blood-sucking posseur-fest, designed to exploit mentally retarded.

Be sure to watch Satan laughing at the 20-something penniless South Korean punk polka band crying in dispair in the back of Jovita's at 3:00 a.m.

Trudy's on 30th and Guadelupe. Spinach ala Dave omelette for breakfast, stuffed avocado with suiza and a mainline of margaritas for lunch/the rest of the day. If anyone can figure out how they fry the damn avocado, I would be forever in your debt.

@liquiddaddy:

Posseurs sound delicious...those are like crepes, right?

Imagine that...artist/musicians holding something in contempt...

Here's something to drink about (if you're like me and drink to dull the pain, rather than to socialize).

(Don't bother looking this up on Google News. It's not there.)

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Giulietto Chiesa explains why most of the journalists and parliamentary members did not attend the screening of "ZERO Investigation into 9/11", the new documentary on the attacks of September 11.

Jesus. Please add Austin and everything related to stuffwhitepeoplelike already....

@Cobden: I'm Asian, and I pretty much like everything white people like, except medieval fantasies and British royalty.

@DryFact: This one goes to #11.

@Cobden: I haven't seen Spinal Tap. Is that crazy or what?

@BoHan: I love Guero's! Also, go to Magnolia Cafe for breakfast.

(How mass media is controlled by ass-kissing editors, who understand nothing about basic things like Statistics 101, or don't care.)

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On Monday, June 12, Editor and Publisher ran a story about Robert Kennedy's Rolling Stone article concerning voting irregularities in Ohio, 2004.

Since this is an "open thread," let me say this:

Cokie Robert should replace Katie Couric.

@DryFact: * Roberts

Also, I am in favor of replacing Tucker Carlson with Rachel Maddow. Hell, I would even replace KO with RM.

Trudy's? Avenue Cafe? Y'all are some yuppies. Go to Star Seed's on 35 (24 hours).

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LMAO that buttplug Sean Hannity is trying to make a conspiracy theory video.

Didn't the U.S. fight WW2 against Nazi fascist buttplugs like Sean Hannity?

@DryFact: ... and Rep. Steve King.

@Harvey Birdman: mmm. star seeds. my other fave for breakfast, esp if you are on the go, used to be tamale house on airport.

best evening fare, el azteca on east seventh.

shit. now i'm hungry.

Woah.

[www.washingtonpost.com]
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Bacterium Gets Wheels Turning on Ethanol Fuel

By Susan Kinzie and David A. Fahrenthold
Monday, March 10, 2008

The hope is that the bacterium can be used to produce ethanol more efficiently and inexpensively and in effect recycle junk into energy.

Barack Obama / Sara K. Smith 2008

(How much better is that than Hillary/Obama 2008?)

I want to meet Sara K. Smith!

Whiskey Sour, some?

I am so sorry I missed the party. I had to prepare myself at 12:21 for 19-45 minutes of prepatory training. Sounded like fun, however.

My mistake ... that was 12:07 for 19-41 minutes!

Blah. The ONE week I'm not in ATX. It's Spring Break, y'all! Spend it someplace fun.

@JimNewell: You poor bastard. Ken should really spring for a field trip or something.

@Harvey Birdman: REAL yuppies brunch at Fonda San Miguel.

Ah! The one SXSW thing I'd be willing to go to and I missed it.

Hope y'all are having a blast here in the rain and lightening.

Go drink at Creekside (Side Bar's cooler brother) and Vivo on E. Dean Keaton. NEVER had a better margarita. And the place is themed around sex.

biminitwst- Good Lord. Can't say I'm sad to hear you won't be visiting!

Dammit, come to Atlanta! See how I scatter rose petals and alkaseltzer tablets to entice you.

What? This shit's already happening? Have I been drinking cough syrup for 3 p.m. breakfast already?

BTW, I wasn't kidding. The tacos at the Jack-in-the-Box on Oltorf and Burton: tres magnifique. Altough I am waiting to see how Dairy Queen's tacos stand up, and will be at the one on Town Creek and Riverside from 9-11 eating as many as humanly possible. I hope this does not draw attention away from this event.

so when do you think gawker media will do an event in st. thomas (virgin islands, not canada)?
the booze is cheaper, you can drive drunk and drugs are basically legal. spirit airlines flys down here for a song and you can stay at the governor's house if you tell the nice security guys at the airport that you're thinking about opening a bureau here.

what's not to like? i'll even take pictures for you!

Notnotlickingtoads: They are great with piping hot googlebombs. I recommend treacle.

You are right about musicians. Imagine, why would they have anything to complain about? They got it so damn good.

Well, I for one am sad to have missed the opportunity to hang out with some like-minded people.