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The SXSW Slog Begins
After listening to our flight attendant—a former auctioneer from Dallas—rattle off emergency escape instructions in double time and then tell jokes about her co-workers for the entire flight (one was a former Miss Dallas, the other Southwest's steward of the year), I arrived in Austin, Texas, in high spirits.
I'm here to cover SXSW, Austin's ginormous film-music-interactive festival that draws (last I heard) about 10,000 folks from around the country (and abroad) to the Texas capitol.
Before I start really digging into things here in Austin, a few quick observations:
1. Bars serve beer until 2 a.m. in Austin. Not 1:30, not 1:45, but 2 a.m.
2. The two people sitting on either side of me on my flight into Austin talked about the Eliot Spitzer scandal a lot. No one I've met so far at SXSW seems to care.
3. I've seen 3 Ron Paul bumper stickers so far.
4. Lou Reed is a very funny man (more on that later).
5. I'm surrounded by a lot of other white dudes in their 20s and 30s wearing plaid shirts, jeans, and Vans; and it's kind of bugging me out. Yikes.
—Gary Moskowitz
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Ahh, Spring comes to TX and all the privelaged, white-male youth begin their annual ritual at Play in the Fields of the Lord.
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