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There's a running joke among some members of the Austin theater community that Austinist hates fun, given reviews that haven't always shined favorably on shows that aim for the lowbrow audience.

We've dismissed these criticisms with a dreary no one understands us, and gone on to busy ourselves with collecting driftwood and pondering the inherent futility of existence.

Tomorrow: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 6:30pm at McCallum H. S. here in Austin:

We'll get the Commander for 1/6 or so of Austin, as well as lt., sgt. and neighborhood officers.

Please come.

It's free, you'll learn a lot, it helps everyone prevent crime. These are only about twice a year. I've been to at least six.

No, not like the GM Death Watch at my favorite car blog; this is a "how long before somebody's killed" series.

Today, some pictures of the intersection I talked about on KUT last week.

Hugh Laurie’s House has nothing on Ken Webster’s twisted crackpot. Ken Webster—with a total of 21 Austin Critics Table and 46 B.

Iden Payne awards, and acclaim from both audiences and critics alike—can be seen as nothing short of a Austin theater legend.

To celebrate his 30th year in the game, he and the folks at Hyde Park Theatre are bringing back one his favorite productions, the hilarious and poignant one-man show, House (first performed in 2001).

So after reading a long set of complaints on the hydeparkaustin yahoo group(*) about the city not adequately enforcing code regarding to unrelated occupants in 'McMansions' in Hyde Park, I posted the following to their group, which was bland enough to make it through the moderator gauntlet:

Today is the second anniversary of my first post.  

Neighborhoods impose conditions on new development all the time.  Some of the conditions are sensible.  Some are strange.  Some are merely mildly irritating.  But a "no pedestrian/bicyclist" provision?

"The Next Slum?" if anything underestimates how bad things are going to get for the suburbs.

There's not much more ability at the margins for people to absorb higher fuel costs, and yet fuel costs in the long-term are going nowhere but up.

In the meantime, as the article notes, modern exurbs cannot be reconfigured into anything useful - but even more important, it's impossible to serve them with reasonably priced mass transit due to their broken roadway design.