keep austin weird: current weirdness




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current weirdness

	These can be extravagant and self-aware. They can be small and unassuming. Suggestions encouraged
	People Leslie Cochran - the iconette of Austin. (Sadly Leslie struted off this mortal coil on March 8, 2012.) Austin Lounge Lizards Lizardman - another kind of lizard. Local guy devolving into cuddly reptile Human Marvels - a cute couple Texas Roller Girls Lone Star Rollergirls The ghost of Joanie Weston lives on. How many towns have 2 female roller derby leagues? Dorkbot - Techo-nerds with odd tendencies. Fruit sculpture - Donna Pardue's use of apple's rivals that of the snake in the garden. Flatfork Studio Great yard art, oversized commercial scultpures, ceramics HUG - A scary music group (with recipes!)	Places Cathedral of Junk - The recent silliness with the city on building permits was resolved and the CoJ is back and open. A donation when you visit is your ticket through the Pearly Gates. Graffiti Park - This homegrown site is at the 1100 block of Baylor Street. Oat Willie's - Helping Austin avoid reality for over 40 years. Onward through the fog! South Austin Popular Culture Center 1516 South Lamar Blvd Austin Tejas 78704 phone 440-8318 Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata - A treasury of stuff that may exist. The visiting hours may or may not exist too. Higly recommended. Neverlandia - A hallucination of a home. Beautiful, handmade, eco-friendly South Austin gem. The owner also does great beadwork. Ginny's Little Longhorn - A great bar at 5434 Burnet. Chickenshit Bingo on Sunday afternoons is not to be missed. Great live music too. Dart Bowl 5700 Grover Ave., 452-2518 All bowling alleys are good. This one also has a fantastic collection of bowling kitsch and a cool cafe (cheese enchiladas with fresh homemade dinner rolls recommended). Polka Dot Lawn - from the recent past, revived in 2005. A masterpiece. Mr. Poole's house on East M.L. King
	Things KOOP Radio, 91.7 (especially "The Lounge Show" on Saturdays, 10-noon) Alex Jones - Crackpot conspiracies a go go. Entertaining, wacky theories about government that may be true. KAOS radio - Yikes Keep Austin Stupid - A very focused movement.	Gorilla on W. Lynn (see our home page) Mosaic bridge on El Paso Street - A beautiful guerilla art project straddling Bouldin Creek. By cool artist Stefanie DiStefano. Check out her other art on that web site. Austin Yard Art - A collection of oddities. Christmas lights on W. 37th St. Peter Pan Miniature Golf - Riverside at Lamar. Much better sculpture than Umlauf. Nau's Enfield Drugs. The time machine perfected. The lunch counter, the odd candy collection, the knicknacks. W. 12th at West Lynn Dry Creek Saloon. Where time doesn't exist. Space may not either considering the seediness of this dive and the mansions surrounding it. On Mount Bonnell Road.
	Austin Art Car Parade - This seems to come and go. Why isn't Austin a leader in this important field? Dirty Car Art - Not strictly Austin, but nearby.Amazing dust "paintings." Makes one ambivalent about rain.	Dirty's on Guadalupe. Where the burgers are shiny enough to use as mirrors. It's been a tad tarted up, but still a gem. The Carousel Lounge - The usual hillbilly Rat Pack circus sort of place. On E. 52nd St. Lala's Little Nugget - A swell bar on Justin Lane with year-round Xmas decor. Coffee Houses (a particularly fertile field). A couple of personal faves: - Flightpath Coffee (Duval St.) - Spider House Also a bar. On Fruth, just north of UT. Despair.com - A local business that truly understands the workplace. Sparky Park - A pocket park in Hyde Park (3701 Grooms) with fantastic art walls.
	Esther's Follies - going for over a quarter of a century. Yard Art:

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If you know of something weird that needs to be photographed and you can't or won't, tell us and we'll check it out.
It can be something small, like a good store sign, or something large, like Spamarama.
You can also send nominees to the KAW Cemetery of Weirdness Past.

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updated
March 2012