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Friday, July 22, 2005
Marty Robbins wouldn’t approve
Third Thursday — Guadalupe Street’s answer to First Thursday — makes me sad.
Well, actually what made me sad is that when I joined Shannon and Julie of the East Side at the Texas Showdown on Thursday, loud and obnoxious music from the Kerbey Lane parking lot forced us to sit inside.
The Texas Showdown is my favorite bar in Austin, and has been since my friend Bret reintroduced me to Austin a decade ago. (I don’t mention the Showdown often because I live too far south to patronize it on any sort of regular basis.)
And sitting on the back porch of the Showdown is pretty much my idea of the best part of Austin.
Given all that, being forced inside by music I don’t want any part of (and which seemed to represent about nine-tenths of Third Thursday) … well, that was depressing.
Other things that make me sad?
We have a back-to-school story in Saturday’s paper. School shouldn’t even be mentioned until August.
Fireworks “superstores.” Buying fireworks while not standing between a hot sun and a fire ant mound is just un-American.
CMT’s countdown of Greatest Cowboy Songs. Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” not only wasn’t No. 1, but was behind some Tim McGraw song. The pain…
A retraction: Shannon was annoyed with yesterday’s blog, which insinuated that we’ve both been gorging ourselves since her triathlon. Actually, she wants everyone to know, she’s lost five more pounds since then.
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