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 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? Satan's Cheerleaders - A wholesome gaggle of devil-worshippin' dancing fools. Dorkbot - Techo-nerds with odd tendencies. Fruit sculpture - Donna Pardue's use of apple's rivals that of the snake in the garden. Flatfork Studios Great yard art, oversized commercial scultpures, ceramics HUG - A scary music group (with recipes!)	Places Cathedral of Junk - A reason why South Austin is generally the epicenter of weird Austin. Now with open visiting hours Saturday evening and during the day on Sunday. Oat Willie's - Helping Austin avoid reality for over 40 years. Onward through the fog! South Austin Museum of Popular Culture 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. Neverlandia - A hallucination of a home. Beautiful, handmade, eco-friendly South Austin gem. 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) Radio Free Austin - Crackpot conspiracy radio, various frequencies (including with tinfoil beanies) - entertaining, wacky theories about government that may be true. Nationally syndicated Austinite Alex Jones at midday is particularly good. KAOS radio - Yikes Keep Austin Stupid - A very focused movement.	Gorilla on W. Lynn (see our home page) Christmas lights on W. 37th St. Peter Pan Miniature Golf - Riverside at Lamar Nau's Enfield Drugs. The time machine perfected. W. 12th at West Lynn Dry Creek Saloon. Where time doesn't exist.
	Austin Art Car Parade - Many photos from Oct. 2006 parade Air-Coolers - Oddballs dedicated to old VWs. Dirty Car Art - Not strictly Austin, but nearby. Makes one ambivalent about rain	Dirty's on Guadalupe. Where the burgers are shiny enough to use as mirrors. The Carousel Lounge - The usual hillbilly Rat Pack circus sort of place. Lala's Little Nugget - A swell bar on Justin Lane with year-round Xmas decor Coffee Houses (a particularly fertile field) - Bouldin Creek Café (S. 1st) - Flightpath Coffee (Duval St.) - Spider House - Cafe Mundi Despair.com - A local business that truly understands the workplace.
	Spam-a-Rama - The pinnacle event of Austin weirdness, but threatened by a takover by Hormel. Beware. photo copyright 2005 Sherry Justus 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
November 2008