But what if attitudes and religious memeplexes aren’t changing because adapting to social pressure is necessary? What if the new millenarianism, instead of crashing computers, will be a fight to the death with a Frankenstein version of Mother Nature? What if environmentalism is becoming the new faith? What if responsible consumerism is the new moral ethic? What if recycling, dear Green God, is the new ritual of absolution?...

Gangsters retire and move to Miami; rock stars never retire, but some do move to Nashville, have kids, and start making records by the numbers. Who wouldn’t? It’s not like you’d need to impress anybody anymore. Exhibit A: Icky Thump, the 6th LP from the Artists Formerly From Detroit, the White Stripes. Icky Thump follows a similar template as last year’s under-appreciated Get Behind Me Satan—open with an iconoclastic berserker of a single and spend......

*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole. Thank heavens.* -The Editors Due to extreme apathy toward Austin having a flag (and Benji adding further, in so many words, that perhaps even I myself did not actually care about this issue), I doodled together some rough sketches for the pleasure/disgrace of your eyeballs. Exhibit A: Perhaps it is an old school, Spy vs Spy......

While we're confused enough by the daily goings-on over at Craigslist Austin, reader Christina kindly alerted us to an even more perplexing spate of dairy and poultry-related posts that have been showing up recently in their free stuff section. Exhibit A, "Brie": I bought this "cheese" last week thinking I would step out of my comfort zone and try something new. Well....I look at the package every time I open the refrigerator and it hasn't......

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Exhibit A: Check out the juxtaposition of the picture of President Bush with this (allegedly) unrelated headline from today's Austin American-Statesman. Thanks to reader Bruce for the heads-up.......

Ah, the sweet smell of college freshmen. School's back in session, summer is almost over (in theory), and it's a few weeks before the holiday movie rush begins (Exhibit A: this week's slim pickin's). *Trust the Man We’ve got one word for the entire cast of this movie: yum. The Wicker Man God bless Nic Cage. He tries, ya know? What a trooper. The Quiet This film is receiving fairly poor reviews, which is......

We are big supporters of our local Public Broadcasting Station KLRU. From Charlie Rose to Austin City Limits, we constantly find engaging, informative and entertaining programming to satisfy our television fix. But KLRU is more than just a television station; it is a part of the community. Exhibit A: Spark: KLRU's Engaging Speakers Series, formerly known as the Distinguished Speaker Series. We have been fortunate enough to attend a couple of these speaker events......