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Hello Kitty Guitar! In Tokyo! To put things in context for everyone, especially my friends outside the US…. The Internet’s intellectual-property scandal of the day involves the magazine Cooks Source re-printing an article by...
I spend many October evenings as a guide at the charity haunted house “Scare For a Cure.” In what may be the only acting/hiking gig in the world, I’m responsible for safely leading groups...
I had an unexpected realization during the Flaming Lips set at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Watching the Oklahoma-based band closing their show with “Do You Realize??” I discovered tears steaming down my...
I’ve never been the sort of person who usually thinks about World War II. I don’t watch the History channel, I don’t read books about the war, and I’ve never taken an interest in...
Going to a music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia, three years in a row is so absurd, even I don’t really believe I’m doing it. Yet, come July 16-17, I’ll again be someplace I never...
. . . . . In what sounds like the setup for a horror movie, in Little Rock, Arkansas a Southwest Airlines Employee found 40-to 60 heads — or parts of human heads —...
You may be aware that Austin’s annual hippie festival, Eeyore’s Birthday Party, was held in Pease Park this past April. You might know about the hordes of costumed revelers, some of whom attended the...
It’s one thing to be aware that you won’t live forever. It’s quite another to be made aware of your own mortality amid the youth-inspired bedlam of South by Southwest. It’s taken me a...
There are a lot of kinds of parties in the world: birthday parties, toddler bouncy-house parties, work parties. For South by Southwest Interactive, one of the party-est parties was the Saturday night event,...
It’s never easy getting ready for a gazillion European houseguests to stay in your small Central Austin bungalow. When your houseguests are some of the more famous people from the tiny post-Soviet county of...
