Austin Texas RFI

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.

i admit that's on my list

should I bribe someone to drive me to Lockhart for barbecue?

A definitive overview of Central Texas barbecue would take weeks if not months. You don't need to go that far for outstanding smoked meat. You might want to anyway, though, for the Hill Country while the bluebonnets are in bloom (I think you'll be here when they're in season.)

my transplanted friend recommends Salt Lick bbq, or in the city, Stubb's and Ironworks.

This Emo's show on the 27th at least seems worth getting drunk at:

Tribute Band Marathon with The Orgasm Addicts, Big Mess, Barracuda, A Joy Division Cover Band, The Black Squeeze, The Costellophones, The Lowelies

The Salt Lick is absolutely the best if you can find a way out there. Family style. All the meat you can eat.

Plus it's byob (meaning cooler of beer, in most cases)

Or it used to be. Egad it's been years.

Yeah Morbs Salt Lick over County Line any day of the week in my opinion.

Def. Salt Lick. The original in Driftwood is BYOB. Other locations are not.

One small drawback with Salt Lick: the price for Family Style has gone up dramatically in the last couple years. Only get this if you truly think you can put down massive quantities of Q, otherwise it makes more sense to just order a regular plate of whatever you want - much less expensive and you will probably still be stuffed.

Salt Lick is worth the drive. Best bbq in town at Ruby's on Guadalupe by UT campus.

Make sure to hit a taco truck while you're here. And don't forget what I said abt. Chicken Fried Steak! Texas cuisine is wonderfully diverse, except in terms of deadly cholesterol.

i've had chicken-fried steak in the east village, lol

Ruby's is a personal fave but I always feel impartial when I recommend it

Ok, is chicken bingo @Ginny's what I think it is?

http://www.austin360.com/food_drink/content/food_drink/stories/xl/2008/10/1009xlbars.html

Yes, it is called chickenshit bingo for a reason. Ginny's is great, but tiny.

fun? Yes.

I guess the dive bar I'll be closest to is Ego's.

Do any joints stay open past 2 a.m.? Damn, uncivilized.

That's when they've got to stop serving, so no, not really.

As for uncivilized? Yeah. We know.

I never really thought of Ego's as a dive, and it used to be one of my favorite places. One of my "moves" was to take a girl there when Bobby Doyle was playing piano, request something romantic, and canoodle in a dark booth. Now I hear there's karaoke and shit? Sounds awful.

Got Criterion Slacker out of the library to bone up on locations.

Scholz Garten, c/d?

Got Criterion Slacker out of the library to bone up on locations.

Sadly most of them are gone now.

Scholz - great if you're a lege/politician-type or an old German guy who will be allowed to bowl in the back.

My fave divey place is G & S Lounge. (Kenan, you're in Austin??)

love G&S. When I used to go there regularly all bottles were $2 and there was popcorn. Horseshow anyone?

Kenan left us a few years ago for the wintery climes of chi-town.

Horseshoe rather. Although I'm curious about any dive named "Horseshow".

What's the place on 5th where the old timers play Ronnie Milsap and stuff like that?

Tiniest Bar in Texas?

No something like Don's.

Ah! Donn's Depot. Lots of fun but soooooooooo NOT the place to be the evening Obama won. Atmosphere was gloomy and "Hotel California" was played twice.....

hahah

well, I figured Slacker-era places had been mostly... 'developed'?

yes but some spots are still recognizable

It's been a while since I've seen it, but the only location I can think of that's still pretty much like the movie is the old Daniel Johnston graffiti where Sound Exchange used to be.

it=the movie, not the location.

Yeah iirc it's a Vietnamese restaurant or a burrito place now or something?

First burritos then later (and still, I think) pho.

I miss the Kozik mural at that corner, too. Don't think it made the movie, though.

Crave, an over-priced sushi place is where Sound Exchange was. Apparently that is a historical monument now so can't be covered.

Old Austin I miss: Quack's on the drag, Mad Dog and Beans, Electric Lounge and *sigh* Les Amis. Too many food places there. . .hmm.

austin was officially dead to me when i heard les amis closed

losing les amis really accelerated the transformation of that part of campus into a total personality-free zone. it's like a street you see walking around town with a COLLEGE t-shirt on these days.