As you can probably tell by the complete lack of updates, I completely suck at this blogging crap. I\’m not only fine with that fact, I am actually pretty happy I can\’t be called a blogger. I\’m much better at composing thoughts in 140 chars or less, but here are the highlights of the day:

Started the day off at Denny\’s, what an epic mistake that was. Took 30 minutes just for the waitress to ask if by \”chocolate milk\” i actually meant \”vanilla milk\” (seriously). That should have been enough of an omen but we were hungry and wanted to GTFO..

Sat through a few interesting panels today. The best of which was called \”Oooh, That\’s Clever!\” and as you can probably guess showed off a bunch of cool techniques and ideas. Definitely the most entertaining of the three panels, if for no other reason than being actually engaging and not a lecture. The other two I can\’t really remember and am way too lazy to look up right now.

Then we headed over to the Rio Grande after that to try to figure out where everyone was. They won us over with some fantastic free chips and salsa. 8 bowls later the beer was flowing and some friends found their way over. Combined tables up with a couple strangers and had a good time bullshitting. Opted for the mesquite smoked chicken soft tacos and good lord were they fanstic. Some how about 4 plates of apps, ~12 drafts, 3 dinners and some other crap only came to $75. Gotta love Austin Happy Hours! Would definitely love to go back but there seems to be tons of great places left to try.

After that we wandered around the city looking for some excitement. The Burlesque Show Cupcake Cookoff line was ridiculous so we headed over to some laptop DJ battle at the Mohawk. It was a filthy sausage party and nerdfest so we found our way out rather quickly. Really had no interest in listening to shitty techno and itunes visualizer type videos on a wall all night.

And the rest in lazy list format because I\’m tired as hell:

• 65 year old homeless man in a studded g string took a crap on the sidewalk
• Death Metal Pizza blastic slayer (win) but later playing like mallrock numetal (fail)
• stole a traffic cop\’s stop sign and stopped a trolley in the middle of the road
• managed to get my digestive system functioning properly again after 3 days of inactivity

Big big hopes for tomorrow as there\’s about 15 panels and parties we\’d like to hit up. Follow the debauchery here and/or here if you so desire.

This entry was written by russo, posted on March 14, 2009 at 3:08 am, filed under miscellany and tagged austin sxsw adventures texas.