Austin Texas RFI

I suspect I will end up going where I'm told, and the people doing the telling will be astrophysicists, but thanks for the tips. Where on Red River St?

Red River intersects Sixth Street near 35 and for three blocks or so east there are some cool bars/clubs there. Less drunk college students at least.

gold dust, thank you.

> I suspect I will end up going where I'm told, and the people doing the telling will be astrophysicists

I see the Crown and Anchor in your future.

Haha, Crown's not bad.

haha, I know exactly the kind of pub you mean.

It's walking distance from the physical science area of campus, too.

Relatedly: anyone heard what's going in where Showdown used to be?

I was just in a Daily Texan meeting where I heard it's becoming a Little Woodrows. I miss the Showdown. ;(

Got to work on time without crossing a picket line.

Walking? UT shuttle?

a little of each

god no more showdown suuuuucks

had my first legal beer there!

Wrote my name on the ceiling when I graduated. :(

Go Windsor Park.

Was woken at four by the police chopper circling our block. police chased after five guys ho had shot someone off St. John's. They shoot at police with an AK-47, cops kill one in front of the Short Stop on Berkman. Others get away. Every exit and entry to our neighborhood is blocked off but they let me out. Statesman is showing Chief Acevado in the parking lot of my Randall's. Hey! Watch those home values!

Yeah, when I turned on 8 this morning I was hoping the strike was over, not that there were running gun battles in a neighborhood where a few of my friends live.

fuck.

heh, my roommate was complaining about the helicopters last night... so many ILXors in the neighborhood! our house was outside the perimeter though.

i'm going to call news 8 austin and ask them if it's safe to leave my house yet.

I assume so. My boyfriend finally left and went to work. (I was brave and just left.)

this sounds fun! can't wait to arrive!

this town! good times!

(although it is unnecessarily difficult to purchase a cellphone)

What you in town for boss?

astronomy conference/sucking up in preparation for postdoc application/hanging out with film festival ppls

i have sunburn from falling asleep on a bench on 24th st yesterday

just had a dish called "protein 2000" at veggie heaven

ahahaha

Have you been to Ruby's yet?

Sorry I was just there last night, have BBQ on the brain.

No Ruby's. Went to Trudy's earlier in the week.

Veggie Heaven was full of these guys today: http://www.socialismconferencetx.org/

And El Chilito in East Austin last night was excellent

Ha I know those dudes! I went a couple years ago. They love drinkin.

re: the socialist conf i mean

You are hitting the best caek.

I did not go to the Crown and Anchor, but I did have most excellent times and now really want the paying astronomy gig at UT. I will revive this thread in three months if I get it. Wish me luck!

Good luck dude!

I am takin notes (post-SXSW).

How do you feel about chicken-fried steak?

Only had it once! Wonder if it wd induce cardiac arrest now.

I think Threadgill's on N. Lamar is the best place for CFS that's near the heart hospital.

thx

also is LBJ buried at the ranch or the library?

I...

I don't THINK they keep him on campus, preserved in a glass chamber like V.I. Lenin or some shit...

maybe just the gallbladder.

"Johnson was buried in his family cemetery (which can be viewed today by visitors to the Lyndon B. Johnson National Park in Stonewall, Texas), a few yards from the house in which he was born."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lbj

So, if you want to piss on his grave that badly, it'll be a day trip.

not particularly, he was our last good president. (well, Vietnam aside)

I thought you once started a defend the indefensible thread on him?

Anyway, a friend of mine works at the Johnson Center, so if you really want details about that joint, I can put you in touch. And/or I can show you the spot on the South Mall where my uncle took cover from Charles Whitman.

I really doubt i'll go out to the ranch, or do the Whitman tour. I'm all about the present, man.

Wise policy. If I start mooning about the good times I spent at Liberty Lunch or whatever, just make sure you get a good clean headshot.

Go to the LBJ Library to see the animatronic LBJ, nevermind his stupid grave.