Everywhere I looked down in Austin I saw someone sporting Mishka this SXSW!  Austin is booming and I am proud since that is my main home base and where I spent half my childhood. So for those out-of-towners who come down for SX, maybe next time take some time after your I <3 Comix/ Mad Decent parties and get a lil deeper into our Texas Capitol City. These are just a few cool things about Austin you can do too.

This is a flock of BATS not birds.  Every night from Mid March til November 1.5 million of  these Mexican free-tail critters fly out at every sunset and return by mornings light to back up under the bridge over Town Lake where they ‘hang’ out.

No tan lines! All kinds of people are lying around in the sun nekkid down at the lake.

Then there is the Alamo Drafthouse downtown where you can see movies for free and order from a full menu right from your seat and get everything from Jalapeno poppers to home made vodka while watching cult classics and oddities such as Demons 2, Blood Diner, Monty Python’s Holy Grail quote along, and …well, just check the calendar…

http://www.originalalamo.com/Calendar.aspx?l=2

I even noticed the Drafthouse advertising this L’amour Supreme print, originally used for the Datapop T-shirt, for the upcoming Datapop party in Austin which celebrates the music of Nintendo and other 8 bit  music. (insert visual of Ogre from ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ screaming  ”NerRrRds!!”  here)

http://www.datapopparty.com/

I’m moving back to Austin.

- Lava Gina