Rich & Creamy Just The Way I Like It

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Some of you might remember that I was headed down to the capitol of Texas this past weekend. I'll spare you the extensive travelogue - let me just say that Austin's a terrific city and I had an entirely pleasant long weekend down there. I ate so much barbecue a representative for the cows and pigs of Texas personally escorted me to the border and told me to never return. But before that, I did these things.

I went to the Bagdad Cemetary in Leander,
about 45 minutes outside of Austin...

... where the opening sequence of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was filmed. I posed like I was wielding a chainsaw, as you can see. And then, no kidding, an obscenely large pickup truck with two shadowy figures inside of it came up the dirt path and sat there idling and watching us. Needless to say we left quickly. I ain't gonna end up in nobody's prize winning chili.

Speaking of chili, we went to The Texas Chili Parlor
on Lavaca Street right in downtown Austin...

.... where Jungle Julia and the gals hang out, get trashed, and head off onto their fateful drive in Death Proof. Speaking of speaking of that, an important part of driving around Austin involved constantly blasting "Hold Tight!" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, the song that's playing on the soundtrack when that terrible accident happens.

"For your information, Pete Townshend, at one point, almost quit The Who. And if he had, he would have ended up in this group, thus making it Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, Tich and Pete. And if you ask me, he should have."

In case you were wondering, I borrowed my car-dancing moves mainly from Shanna (Don't call her Shauna!), with a little Julia head-whipping thrown in for good measure. I refused to put my leg out the window, however.


And in our final burst of geekiness we made the movie-lover's Austin must-stop at the Alamo Drafthouse and saw Peter Jackson's Dead Alive on Halloween night. They served super sloppy Sloppy Joes, and custard...

... rich, creamy, pus-colored custard. It almost made me want
to saw off my own ear and drop it right in, and then eat it up.
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Mmmm it was deeeeelicious. Thanks, Austin!
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