SXSW Day 1 and a half
3/11/05
6:00 AM - Flight scheduled for Oakland to SXSW in Austin
6:45 AM - Wake up.
6:45-6:50 AM - Curse Violently
6:50 AM - Call SWA while knocking on door of roommate
7:00 AM Drive to airport. The roommate has neither phone, wallet, or pants but will take the care back for me.
7:40 AM Arrive at Airport
8:00 AM Sit on next plane to LA to Austin and text msg friends re: status.
8:00 - 9:30AM - Thank God profusely.
9:30 - 10:30 AM - Layover and eat cheesy pizza
10:30 - 3:00 PM - Fart from the cheese pizza and sleep on flight
3:10 PM : Collect luggage and find Glenda
3:15 PM : Talk to Car rental place and try to see about upgrading to a convertable.
3:20 PM : Continue to beg for car of ultimate coolness “Dude, I got a posse of party chicks and we gotta roll hard this week. Get me something with a sunroof at least. I mean, I promise that I’ll pose half naked on the hood… I can’t be doing that with no gawdamn dodge neon or anything”
3:40 PM Meet up with Mr. Dan
3:45 PM Pick up the vehicle. A pimping brand new SUV with tinted windows, sunroof, and blingy shiny wheels. Immediatley start playing Biggie Smalls and “throwing hands in the air” and “bouncing wit it”
4:30 PM Drop off Mr. Dan at his hotel.
4:40-5:00 Accidentally head east on Cesar Chavez
5:04 - Hit with sudden inspiration, we “Flip a Biyatch” and head over to the Pinata Palace
5:20 - Select el Senor Spongebob Pinata, PInata Stick, Hanging Rope, and loads of candy.
5:21-5:24 - Smuggly giggle and high five re: the pinata
5:25-5:40 - Get slightly lost down townish
5:40 - 6:20 - Get slightly lost on the 290
6:24 - Do a completely illegal uturn and “Peel out all gangsta” on a texan dirt road.
6:30 - Arrive at the Hacker House for Wayward Girls
6:30 - 7:00 Shower and clean and get ready to pimp ourselves out
7:20-8:30 Meet up at Manuels for Mr. Tantek’s birthday overdrive event
8:40 - Head over to Break Bread with Brad over at Gingerman
8:50 - 9:40 - Sipping multiple Shiner Beers, hanging with folks, meeting and greeting new folks, hugs and kissing, and giggle like mad.
9:40 - 10:30 - Car Karaoke en route to go pick up Ms Nicole. Singing Hit me with your Best Shot Some Ella Fitzgerald, Like A virgin by Madonna, Cole Porter, Boogie Oogie Oggie, etc.
11-2 Return to the Gingerman. Meet up with Ms Christine who is joining us at the Hacker House of wayward Girls and chill further until we depart back to the Hacker House
2:30 AM Giggle to sleep
3/12/05
9:10 AM Wake up
9:20 AM Mumble that Ms. Nicole and Ms. Christine should go take showers first so i can steal a little more shuteye
9:40 AM Nudge Glenda too for antoher 20 minutes stretchy catnap
10:30 AM Arrive at Kick
11:00-12:30 PM Heckle players at Kickball
- You kick like you use Frontpage
- You kick like you use Windows 98
- You kick like you voted for Bush — wayyyyyy to the right
- You pitch like your site doesn’t validate
- You kick like you still use tables
- You kick like you don’t have your own domain
- You kick like a blog about cheese sandwhiches
- You kick like a livejournal full of personality quizzes
- Casey Nicole could kick better than you
- You kick like all your base are belong to us
- Awwwwww 404 DENIED
12:30-1:30 Walk to Pinkies to get a phone charger. Or at least try to with Ms Jane and Ms Nicole. As we walk over there, some guys in a red pickup yell out at us. “Go back where you came from, you Chink mother fuckers.”
1:30 - 2:00 PM. Shake head about that a little bit.
2:00 Zeldman Panel
3:00 PM writing this post.
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