Austin Texas RFI

Bombing suspect dead after police track him to Round Rock, sources say

http://www.kxan.com/news/crime/source-bombing-suspect-involved-in-shooting-on-i-35/1065119748

wow, did not expect to wake up to that news.

Mark Anthony Conditt

Just went to Loro for the first time, and it was A++++.

Boil your tap water or use bottled water

http://www.kut.org/post/austin-issues-city-wide-boil-water-notice

heading there march 3-7 for a conference. ill be staying in zilker. what's good near there? looking especially for good nature spots, food, art

That's pretty much right downtown. Zilker park and Barton Springs are close nature spots. Tons of food around there, my favorites include Ramen Tatsu-Ya, Loro, Uchi, 24 Diner, Easy Tiger. There's a cool graffiti park just north of there and the Blanton art museum up near UT. I think there's some smaller museums and galleries in the downtown area too.

Lots of good food truck parks right around there too.

Maybe this just a sign of how awful everything is these days, but last night's Nightline was an abridged version of a new Hulu doc about the Austin Bomber, and I had totally forgotten that happened.

Remember when a guy crashed his plane into an IRS office building on Research Blvd?

Yeah...now.

Took me a minute to remember the bomber and that was only a year ago. I guess the fact that he killed himself kind of brought that story to an abrupt end.

Yeah, and there isn't a whole bunch of public info about him. In the doc, they mentioned a taped manifesto that's been classified.

It's not a narrative that holds much appeal for the police, conservative leadership in Texas, or the press... a white Christian kid from the suburbs targeting black people. The Austin police chief and Governor Abbott's public waffling about whether or not his actions constituted terrorism are indicative.

and an explosion at a FedEx center near San Antonio last night; one injury

I'd nearly forgotten this happened, though to be completely honest after the nearby Sutherland Springs church massacre in November 2017 (and the 1979 Battle of Flowers shooting spree that took at least two lives before the gunman shot himself) "one injury" seems hardly worth mentioning.

We have a few nights in Austin in a week or two: anything any of you'd recommend doing / seeing that might not be in guidebooks?

Ok so 24 hours is obviously enough to make a definitive judgement and here is mine on Austin: nice town, nice people, shit weather.

Too hot?

It’s been like living inside a Bain Marie today. And then a stupidly violent storm. Then back to the steaming.

tomorrow's gonna be beautiful though

you came at a weird time, it had been completely dry and extremely hot for about 3 months straight prior to the past weekend

Any kind of extremely hot not desirable IMO.

Looking forward to tomorrow though!

Yeah, I'm glad we're getting rain and cooler weather

New Oral History of MTV's "Austin Stories"

https://www.austinmonthly.com/an-oral-history-of-mtvs-austin-stories/

I'm going to be spinning some vibey techno over at Gnar Bar on 6th tomorrow (Monday) night from 10-11. Drop by, say hi, grab a beer, dance!

https://www.kut.org/transportation/2023-10-17/austin-chronicles-historic-headquarters-to-be-paved-over-for-i-35

...and then

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2023-10-05/austin-chronicle-co-founder-louis-black-sued-for-alleged-harassment-abuse-and-sexual-servitude/

I see now those stories are from October (KUT re-upped the first one to FB today, and I thought it was new).

Austin peeps, we got a real show coming up next week!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5Eh28bJItF/?igsh=MW04M29hYWEwdzBkYw==