friday night saw me wait for debbi get ready not once, but twice. i totally took a nap. but when she was done, she looked swanky (she actually looked swanky both times), and we met ricky and laurette for grub. initial plans sent us to onion creek, but apparently they were having some kind of post-hurricane, refugee auction and had those fuckers packed in like cattle cars. we ended up down the street at dry creek, which was fine cause i think i like them better.
after dinner, we retired back to the stone age, played neanderthal charades, and personified the candle-lit shadows on the cave walls with the spirits of angry grape gods whose fermented blood we had to imbibe before we could enter the promised land. in keeping with the prehistoric theme, we listened to motley crue on cassette.
sushi at korea house saturday night. my roll was called a “mexican orgasm”, and as a hispanic, i can vouch: yes, it was that good. serious bonus points for hearing the korean waitress say the words “mexican orgasm” with her accent and a straight face.
fred took us to buy comics at the world’s most awesome comic store. not really, but it’s the bizarro world version of nan’s which means it had everything we’d been looking for but had been unable to find. plus a cute gamer-nerd chick behind the counter. prevailing sociological theories surrounding gamer culture suggest she probably gives good head.
met elizabeth and re-met phryday. (lonny is the only person who gets two names.) their house is pretty awesome. saw zombie zombin on the zomb lounge and watched miisteria go bowliing on the wii. also met brad and kim(?) as well as a guy who looked reminiscent of cat from red dwarf. (his name escapes me, but he likes nodding head.)
sunday went to a nice brad and ‘auli’i‘s wedding. lately, debbi and i have been doing all these pseudo date activities with just her and i. it’s been nice, except i hope she doŸesn’t think i’m getting serious since i took her to a wedding. the first song played was depeche mode’s “never let me down again” and they also played that gogol bordello song about “purple” from the ‘everything’s illuminated’ soundtrack. (ironically, all the food was vegetarian. not even sausage.)
before we left austin, we stopped by to see zomb and eena’s maison de awesome. then we ate the world’s most fantastic schwarma, visited kick butt coffee, and listened to 96.3 fm (the republic broadcasting network).
seriously, if you’re in austin, tune in to 96.3 fm. it’s all kooks, all the time. there was a guy insisting the mortgage crisis was engineered so the UN could control all the water in the U.S. another guy who said the alien stories, though true, were released to distract us from the impending financial collapse (engineered by the bankers cabal and scheduled for sometime in october). another guy talking about the 20,000 bodies the news was not showing in galveston. another guy discussing how venezuela wants to unite south america, arm every south american (every south american), and attack the united states in may. a guy talking about how the government is an administrative state and not a constitutional republic (and why this means you don’t have to pay taxes). another guy talking about how obama was muslim and sent campaign money to radical islamic terrorists in sudan. and a guy talking about cataclysm being a year away and wisonsin would be underwater. (a caller actually called in to explain that only part of wisconsin would be underwater because is house was on a bluff that overlooked milwaukee. wtf?!?)
as seriously pretty awesome as the shows were seriously pretty awesome, the advertisers were pretty choice, too. they included survivalist seeds (5000 food pounds worth of seeds for $200) and the nets most popular choice for ron paul stickers. i’m pretty sure it was a pirate radio station, because they never announced the station id, ever.