It came from Jette, as query for some interesting links for Austin weirdness. Like I know a lot about that? Hardly. She writes, “Southerners like to tell stories. They like to tell you the truth, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be factual about it.”
Any list like this has to start with Bubba’s blog.
SWA – UT Local media? Can’t help there. As I’ve been pointedly ignored, time and again, I’ve given up on the birdcage liners. The Salt Lick more as a tourist thing than real BBQ these days. Stubbs BBQ. Twisted Texas.
Jo’s Coffee, The Hideout, Halcyon, Bouldin Creek Caffeine Dealer, these places don’t have websites. How do I point high tech folks to the real treasures? The date will probably be next fall sometime, how do I include Barton Springs?
Or on my trail for best BBQ, decent TexMex, and the quest for a good breakfast taco? How to include that data? Really good breakfast tacos often include something that looks like “bacon,” but might have been roadkill, for all I know. Makes for a better taco, tho.
Local medical facilities? How about the city hospital. “I took one of my workers there one time, he was having a heart attack. They saved him, but it’s a teaching hospital, and he got really upset that that they kept bringing all these student through to look at him. He didn’t have any insurance, what could I do? He’s still pissed.”
Green Mesquite, Artz Rib House, The Arroyo, any place on S. First Street, the list goes on. Maybe it would be helpful to explain that we frequently buy our food roadside. Or what constitutes a safe taqueria from less safe one?
[http://www.cafemagnolia.com/>Magnolia Cafe has a website. Hula Hut?Amy’s Ice Cream should be up there. What sort of Tech stuff? Want to see Dell or Apple? Boring cube farms, probably. Downtown’s a ghost town these days, no more exciting companies, with employees riding scooters around.
And where does the The Fat Guy fit in? That’s quintessential Texan, if not Austin.
