Usually, street closures around the Capitol hail the arrival of one of Austin's many street festivals, where you can listen to a wishy-washy blues-rocker do his best to channel Stevie Ray Vaughn while you eat a turkey leg amongst a sea of fanny-packed families and homemade jewelry vendors. But once a year it means it's Texas Book Festival time. As literary events go in this town, it is the big one. For two days......

If the visions of debauchery seen in the season premiere of The Real World: Austin is any indicator of what is to come, we may have on our hands a pop culture episodic that carefully documents the total disintegration of all things good and wholesome, like a giant Nothing rolling across the land, destroying everything in its path. This is like the decadence of Ancient Rome - orgies, gladiator combat, drunken celebrations of Bacchus......