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April 30, 2008
Overheard is back! This edition comes courtesy of Sarah Jones, Hunter Warren, John Bacon, Robert F, "Blah Haha," and Henri Mazza....
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| April 29, 2008
Sometimes we need to go back to basics. Pure, basic-basics. The bare minimum required. And thankfully, now that I’m old enough to recognize the signs of impending disaster, I can (hopefully) head that bad-boy off at the pass and keep things as kosher as possible for another round or two. At least I’ll live to fight another day. Anyone with any sort of body cleansing procedure, no matter how fucked up and disturbed… my liver’s listening. Intently. ...
Continue Reading "Truesday: A Move To Reset"April 28, 2008
Photo by tobiaseigen on flickrLocal venture capital firm Austin Ventures is contributing up to $50 million to create a company that will build a social networking platform for corporations. Jeffrey Dachis, who led Razorfish during its reign as one of the original digital services firms, will be the chairman and chief executive officer of the new company, which will be based in Austin. Today's announcement from Austin Ventures says that the newly formed company will...
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Austinist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on Austinist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
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TOMEX "Psychoanalysis of your playtime" (CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz XXX Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate towards isolated, obsessive nerd habits like I do, also consider a visit to: http://www.myspace.com/tales_of_mere_existence...
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April 24, 2008
The best way to efficiently kill a chicken, as far as I know, is to lop off its head. Next best is to break its neck. Neither method appeals to me. I don’t eat chickens—I certainly don’t want to kill them. But when one is an urban chicken farmer, as I was off and on for years, one stands the risk of having to take out a bird now and then. Chicken execution proved to be necessary with my flock last fall when I got a call from Starsky, my then roommate, informing me that the dogs had gotten into the chicken pen. Of my four birds, one was dead, one was hunkered down trembling, one was missing, and a fourth was flopping around, no hope for survival. I was at Warren’s house at the time. We were early into our relationship and he’d already witnessed enough drama—for being incredibly popular often comes with a component of frequent high drama—that I feared enlisting his help might be some last straw for him. I got off the phone and faux-bravely announced I had to run home and slaughter a bird and I’d be right back. ...
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A group hoping to capitalize on the anti-gentrification push in East Austin is now peddling a line of clothes emblazoned with the slogan "Defend East Austin."...
Continue Reading "Because It's Harder to Fight the Man When You're Nekkid"April 23, 2008
The Longhorns' starting backcourt of D.J. Augustin and A.J. Abrams have each signaled their intentions to enter the NBA draft, according to the Statesman....
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Some friends of mine were sitting at the Vietnamese sandwich stand on South Lamar, just south of Oltorf. You know the one, between the Office Depot and that tire shop that always blinds the shit out of me with thousand spoke rims shined to NASA specifications, all tethered together and splayed out near the bus stop to really piss off those who can’t afford to do anything but ride the Metro downtown. Across from where that other tire shop used to be, where they had another thousand-spoke rim chained to their street sign, but the rim was about three feet in diameter. Like it was designed for a pimp's dumptruck or something. Shit was INSANE. ...
Continue Reading "Truesday: Random Serendipity "April 21, 2008
As we move to the next square on the calendar you're still out there trying to make a connection. Sadly you let most of them slip by without saying a word. We understand, no one wants to be overzealous and get shot down. If only you had some place to find a second chance. Oh yes, Missed Connections. If only you had someone to sort through and find the best of the above. Oh, right, read below....
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Austinist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Old Settler's Music Festival, at Salt Lick Pavilion and Camp Ben McCulloch through the 20th. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on Austinist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
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As we move to the next square on the calendar you're still out there trying to make a connection. Sadly you let most of them slip by without saying a word. We understand, no one wants to be overzealous and get shot down. If only you had some place to find a second chance. Oh yes, Missed Connections. If only you had someone to sort through and find the best of the above. Oh, right, read below....
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Austinist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Old Settler's Music Festival, at Salt Lick Pavilion and Camp Ben McCulloch from April 17-20th. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on Austinist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
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Spartan / Bows + Arrows Grand OpeningSaturday, April 12Spartan / Bows + Arrows (215 S. Lamar)Noon - 7pm[Info]This Saturday, two of Austin's newest boutiques invite you to celebrate their grand openings with a day of food, music and shopping. Spartan - opened by Austin-native Currie Person - is a quaint home and travel accessories shop carrying a wide variety of items from handmade cards to stylish and eco-friendly household items. While relatively small, the...
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"Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz XXX Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate towards isolated, obsessive nerd habits like I do, also consider a visit to: http://www.myspace.com/tales_of_mere_existence...
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April 8, 2008
They were out there, the dudes, standing with slumps, targeted by those police lights. Though appearing pretty sedated, their faces showed a curiously awed fear. Like they just woke up in a stranger’s life. As if they’d Quantum Leaped, or got crossed-up in some weird Memento scenario, blinked, and WHOOSH – car is wrecked and cops are tapping their toes with expectation. Looking at them, you knew that they knew they were beyond help at that point. Chemicals moving through the system, dousing all attempts at neurological focus. ...
Continue Reading "Truesday: Like A Duck"April 7, 2008
We wanted to share some of the best of Craigslist posts from across the CL Austin universe from over the last few months. Enjoy......
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Austinist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Old Settler's Music Festival, at Salt Lick Pavilion and Camp Ben McCulloch from April 17-20th. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on Austinist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
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(CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz DMV Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate towards isolated, obsessive nerd habits like I do, also consider a visit to: http://www.myspace.com/tales_of_mere_existence...
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I sort of hated Elizabeth Gilbert for beating me to the punch in writing a memoir about how an utterly fucked up divorce led to amazing travels, much meditation, and ultimately great healing. On the other hand, I have to say that I actually enjoyed the book, my enjoyment compounded by the fact that I read it while I was in the midst of my own utterly fucked up divorce. For the three of you who haven’t heard of or read Eat, Pray, Love, basically this really tall chick with blonde hair and a big book advance decides to spend four months in three different countries not getting laid for a very long time despite the fact that she meets a lot of hot Italian guys. A part that really stuck with me was how her friends ragged on her for taking night classes in Italian. I think they referred to the campus as Divorced Lady College. As if we must immerse ourselves in frivolous activities to help us forget what our idiot ex-husbands did to us....
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