I saw Beats, Rhymes & Life: A Tribe Called Quest at the Violet Crown Theatre in Austin, Texas with which the Alamo Drafthouse cannot really compete.
So far I have also experienced the Taquería Jefes, the Supermercado El Rancho which I really recommend, Mount Bonnell with its amazing views of the Colorado River, and the original Whole Foods which, apart from its enormous parking garage, is funkier, funnier and somehow less offensive than the other Whole Foods stores. I have been to the Tiniest Bar in Texas and Black Swan Yoga which is awesome.
Now I am at the Corona Café and I am about to experience Austin, 78704 in general and the University of Texas, as well as a boat ride on Lady Bird Lake and swimming at Barton Springs. All of these activities raise shades of American summers as they were then, in the timeless time.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Yes we are having this kind of summer too. In spite of malls and box stores and superhighways, this remains a varied and fascinating country.
Oh! be sure to watch the bats come out in the evening from under the Congress St. bridge. Fantastic.
Done, from the boat, although I walked over the Congress Street Bridge, twice. I’ve also now been to the Halcyon Cafe and the Nomad Bar, as well.
Snowy christmas is too late and cold an ambiance for a Texas girl to survive
Christmas? It’s August, yo!
Latest Austin places: Blanton Museum of Art, UT (good), law school at UT (good), Casa Colombia, restaurant in East Austin, Papi Tino’s, upscale cantina in East Austin run by a chilango. Now in Houston at the Agora after cutting hair at Michael Lyndon, buying hair dye at Whole Foods (the Houston Whole Foods repeatedly seems to be the only one with my color, odd), and eating grilled tofu salad at Brazil on Westheimer. I stayed with a friend in Austin but I am going to advertise this bed and breakast I am staying at in Houston.
Now the Houston Press wants us to go to Cafe Kubo’s for lunch: http://www.houstonpress.com/2011-07-28/dining/slurp-heaven/ … on Bellaire in a shopping center next to the Sam Houston Tollway South, on the western side of town.