Let me give a quick clarification on this article since its author is full of crap, like anyone who visits my city and thinks she has it down after spending a week at SXSW.
- Tacos, yes. Tacodeli is OK, only recently have I discovered Torchy’s. I need to eat more of the latter to have a strong opinion. So far their GM at 620 was very helpful with a recent work-related catering gig.
- I’m not a dog person.
- Free outdoor shows, sometimes like SXSW but not Blues on the Green.
- I haven’t practiced yoga in years and certainly not at Black Swan, I just followed my wife’s DVD and I know a legit instructor.
- See 4.
- See 4 and 2.
- I have no love for Whole Paycheck Foods, especially its Shruggalo CEO John Mackey who ignorantly calls the ACA Fascism.
- Depends.
- See 8.
- In 20 years of living here, I’ve never really done this on a real river, just the mechanical ones and in other cities.
- Guilty.
- Very guilty and I own that shirt too. The reason why…because we don’t need more assholes with a John Mackey mindset living here which is what Austin is getting flooded with, namely deadbeat, selfish GOP refugees from Arizona, California and Florida. They mostly bitch about Austin being weird.
- I lived in Wisconsin for five years, of course I like cheese.
- Never been in one.
- Yes but Austin has scores of mediocre BBQ. It does compensate for the unreliable pizza and non-existent delis.
- Yes, yet I’m not keen on MPT anymore, it’s rather lazy comedy on most days, the other special events are better.
- Local yes; organic has a slippery definition and 7 contributes to the problem; vegan? You gotta’ be kidding me after listing 15.
- Hell yes. Each bat eats around 600 bugs a night, namely mosquitos. The horrible smell under certain bridges is worth what they do.
- No opinion.
- Never been there, I know of it; Rainey is in South Austin, I live in the Northeast. Mike Judge used it for King of the Hill, it’s where Hank lives.
- Yes, haven’t been there in years though.
- Absolutely, I do need to attend more stuff, especially if I don’t want the hypocritical Greg Abbott to be governor.
- The show yes, the Coachella wannabe mess we have every Fall, HELL NO.
- No, I’m not a good swimmer.
- He seems OK.
- Yes, I’ve posted some on my site.
- Yes, but not Bob Schneider, he’s rather dull and an asshole. I prefer Shawn Colvin, Not in the Face, Quiet Company, Toni Price (who may have moved back), the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Black & White Years, the Reivers, the Zoltars and the Octopus Project.
- Sure, most often they’re the opener for a nationally touring act.
- Yes, but it has the same pitfalls as 15.
- No. The ones I endorse: Lucy in Disguise and the Continental Club. I’m not familiar with others because SoCo is a nuisance to navigate/park on.
- Yes.
- No. Heresy due to football being the state religion.
- Yes, yet I’m more modest in my expression. I have also encountered thong-wearing bicycle guy and saw Leslie from a distance.
- I agree there but it’s disappearing thanks to overdevelopment, greed from outside one-percenters buying everything up and climate change.
- My additional reason why I call Austin home that the author didn’t list…regardless of the political persuasion here, a larger population at large is better educated than other areas I’ve lived in. I left my Midwestern region for intellectual reasons, not economic. Where I resided in Central Illinois was a heavy GOP bastion in a (now) Blue state. A college degree was a liability, not an advantage. Outside Chicago, Illinois is mostly northern Kentucky while Austin is the anti-Texas inside Texas.