Time to Return to the Well of Elvis Costello-ness.
Just days after I moved to Austin, I walked into the now-defunct Sound Exchange on the drag. It was so long ago, that Daniel Johnston hadn’t even painted what was to become the iconic...
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The Editor of Cooks Source is an Idiot…And I Know This Because Of Having my “Hello Kitty” Article Republished!
Hello Kitty Guitar! In Tokyo! To put things in context for everyone, especially my friends outside the US…. The Internet’s intellectual-property scandal of the day involves the magazine Cooks Source re-printing an article by...
The right kind of scary
I spend many October evenings as a guide at the charity haunted house “Scare For a Cure.” In what may be the only acting/hiking gig in the world, I’m responsible for safely leading groups...
A festival everyone can enjoy
I had an unexpected realization during the Flaming Lips set at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Watching the Oklahoma-based band closing their show with “Do You Realize??” I discovered tears steaming down my...
Scare For A Cure at Eeyore’s Birthday
You may be aware that Austin’s annual hippie festival, Eeyore’s Birthday Party, was held in Pease Park this past April. You might know about the hordes of costumed revelers, some of whom attended the...
There’ll be a lot of Latvian guests in my living room
It’s never easy getting ready for a gazillion European houseguests to stay in your small Central Austin bungalow. When your houseguests are some of the more famous people from the tiny post-Soviet county of...
Romance Readers Social….at the University Hills Library
Bad timing and helping my friend Byron move at the last moment killed this post for Austinist…but if the people in it ever Google themselves, they might see this! Maybe…. Valentine’s Day is a...
Fantastic Fest Is Bringing Us More Fantastic-ness!
. . . . . . The third wave of content for Fantastic Fest was recently announced, and it totally rocks. That’s especially true if you dig vampires, ninjas and super scary stories about...
Boobs Plus Liqueur=A Fine Charitable Event
Boobs Plus Liquor = A Fine Charitable Event [Drink Pink] Opal Divine’s Drink Pink Campaign to Benefit Breast Cancer Research Thursday, June 4 Opal Divines Penn Field (3601 South Congress Ave) 6-8 p.m. Free...
Skin + Bones+Tattoos = SXSW Hotness
South By Southwest is my favorite time of year. Not so much because of the music, though the music is literally what brings me my happiness. It’s because SXSW is the only time of...
