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We Need a Command Decision

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Ok. I am about to very seriously go on the bottle, so I need to know- bangers, mugshots, or easy tiger. I will be there where ever we choose at 6:00-6:30 and plan to stay until you all are done or more than two of us are in handcuffs.

I’d delegate authority to one of you but the previous threads have confirmed to me that you all are the feckless idiots I had assumed you were.

****update***

Easy Tiger, 7pm-911.

I hate you people.

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  2. 2.

    Marcelo

    Banger’s it is! I’ll be there at 8ish, leave at 9ish, and check in at 11 when I’m done with my online tutoring gig. Bangers is DELICIOUS and the beer wall is pretty effing epic.

  4. 4.

    Frankensteinbeck

    I was uninvolved in the previous conversation and have nothing to do with this one, but can I sign up to be a feckless idiot anyway? Upon request I can also be callow and entirely lacking in gorm!

  6. 6.

    Marcelo

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s because there’s only one decent place in the whole state to go hang. Our inability to decide where to go comes from an embarrassment of riches. :)

  8. 8.

    Marmot

    Bangers it is. The mushroom-based sausage is divine. And Rainey St. is more of what I like to present to visitors.

  14. 14.

    Lolis

    @EGrise:

    The name Bangers does seem to fit Cole’s Austin experience so far. I will be there to bask in Cole in the center of the hipster hive in Austin, Rainey St. I might have to grab some food at G’Raj Majal though cause German food does not do it for me.

  17. 17.

    Marcelo

    @Lolis: Not all the sausages at Bangers are German. The Merguez, for example, is originally Moroccan in style but then got popular in France and Spain.

    Still, you can’t beat G’Raj Mahal.

  18. 18.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Does it mean I’m a petty person that I’m loving this rehash of Mitt Romney’s worst moments and all the mockery that this Fox interview has stirred up?

  21. 21.

    Milliegogo

    Banger’s only serves beer and wine. As in no scotch. Also, too Rainey St is a hipster hive. Easy Tiger has a full bar.

  22. 22.

    Schlemizel

    @zombie rotten mcdonald:

    There is a town on Minnesotas Iron Range that had 800 residents and 23 bars on the main drag. The closest I know to that is a town in Wisc. with 35 bars for 1500 population.

    BTW – if you ever come to a civilized state like Minnesota I can guarantee you we will find a better place & agree quicker. SOmething about all that sun & cow shit messes with Texans brains ;)

  24. 24.

    Schlemizel

    @zombie rotten mcdonald:

    There is a town on Minnesotas Iron Range that had 800 residents and 23 bars on the main drag. The closest I know to that is a town in Wisc. with 35 bars for 1500 population.

    BTW – if you ever come to a civilized state like Minnesota I can guarantee you we will find a better place & agree quicker. SOmething about all that sun & cow shit messes with Texans brains ;)

  26. 26.

    taylormattd

    FFS, just pick the place closest to your current location and tell the assholes to show up.

    I recommend bringing your own handcuffs.

  29. 29.

    Marcelo

    Oh for fuck’s sake. Bangers had the most support in the last thread, so let’s just go there and call it settled. It doesn’t have scotch, but John suggested Bangers to begin with, so he can’t be mad when we take him up on it. It’s not that big of a deal anyway and like the man said, we need a command decision. We’re going to Bangers.

    And if someone yells out “Hole in the Wall” at the last minute, so help me.

  31. 31.

    Mark B.

    I’ll do Bangers or anything in the Rainey street hipster hive. Parking down there is a bitch, but its near my work and my best friends condo. It’ll be interesting seeing some of the balloon juicers.

  36. 36.

    Marcelo

    EDIT: Nevermind. I was just trying to help the command decision along. See y’all at ET…

  40. 40.

    Marcelo

    I don’t think pictures could even begin to bring the experience home to the rest of you.

  43. 43.

    eemom

    Very pleased and impressed to see that former misanthrope, aka “Just tell me where all the good bars are and fuck NO I don’t want to meet you at one” Cole is doing Teh Meet Up for teh Austin folks….even if it is taking 83 threads and a transcontinental organizational effort to get together.

    Several weeks ago here in the deecee area we had a very enjoyable and civilized gathering under the dignified leadership of DougJ without three time zones being implicated in the process. Jussayinzall.

  47. 47.

    Jane2

    @eemom: To be fair, half of the confusion is the nature of Austin where nothing is named the same as on the map, and there are eleventy million great places to meet.

    That being said, I expect pictures! And if you smartphone users can’t figure out how to do it without Cole noticing, you should have to turn in your devices.

  48. 48.

    Comrade Mary

    I predict that somewhere between 7 and 911, Cole will be plastering this blog with selfies.

  52. 52.

    dance around in your bones

    @Redshirt:

    You can take pictures only if you’re not seen taking pictures.

    Kinda like those up skirt photos, only these might be up shorts photos?

    Ok, that was weird and might completely deter Cole from even attending. If it ever happens.

    How about bloody no more beard photos? With lots of bits of toilet paper stuck to said beard area.

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Donut: I would have recommended Genna’s if we were doing something in Mad-town.

    ETA: I was never at the PSH. As far as I can recall.

  59. 59.

    Donut

    Oh yeah, and the entire Hotel Washington complex, especially the Barber’s Closet.

    I only miss the places that I can never see again.

    Except Nick’s, which I think is still there? That place had/has the best wallpaper evar made.

  60. 60.

    Ryan

    @marcelo – I’m going to try and make it out, not sure if Bernice will make an appearance with me, but I’m hopeful she can!

  66. 66.

    Marcelo

    @Ryan: Yay! It would be so fun to see her again (and you, of course). Also, it would be neat to have her around, after all this blog is the reason she was able to find such a great home.

    If you can’t make it work, let’s plan something soon. I miss her a lot.

  67. 67.

    Debbie(aussie)

    Amazing, isn’t it , how you can just feel the love in that statement ‘ I hate you people’ :)

  69. 69.

    danielx

    Traffic, no parking, in the middle of a bar district crawling with hipsters which means that it will likely also be crawling with cops…why am I getting a sense of a massive clusterfuck in the making?

  70. 70.

    Marcelo

    @danielx: Easy Tiger is on dirty 6th (although closer to the freeway), which means it’s more college frat boys than hipsters.

    All your other points are well taken, though :)

  71. 71.

    SquareSquid

    Okay, so it really is Easy Tiger? I will laugh if half the people show up at the wrong bar.

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