Austin, Texas, for Dummies

Welcome to the Live Music Capital of the World

Come summer; it's vacation time. Once you've chosen a relaxing destination, you will of course – this being the information age – google things to do once you've arrived at your destination. People like Isabelle Esteves of WritEdge.com long ago figured that out. People like Izzy are happy to share their broad experience of the destination with you - the chief problem being that their experience consists of googling the destination and doing a copy-and-paste job. Take, for instance, Ms Esteves' recent advice about "Things to Do In Austin, Texas In the Summer"¹ [grammatical error in original].

A little hint for Izzy: there are far more than just three things to do in Austin during the summer. We called our house expert on Austin, who suggested that, had Isabelle ever actually been to the Texas capital, she would have done better than the same tired "Barton Springs / LBJ Library" that shows up in every article about the town. Hell, maybe she could have sent people to Deep Eddy pool instead of the overcrowded Barton Springs, or to the Congress Avenue Bat Bridge. And to start out by saying how hot it is in central Texas in summer and then suggest attending an outdoor theater?  She also noticed that Isabelle never bothered to mention Sixth Street, the self-proclaimed "live music capital of the world." Sheesh.

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We have no doubt that vacationers can benefit from travel journalism, but the staff of the Antisocial Network suspect that benefit is greatly improved when the journalist in question has actually visited the destination! Think Rick Steves, perhaps, if you can stand his voice. According to her WritEdge profile, however, Izzy was in both Hartford, Connecticut, and Phoenix, Arizona, yesterday; and her jetsetting lifestyle found her in both Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Vancouver, British Columbia, two days earlier. My goodness! our Dumbass of the Day sure gets around.

¹ This website is now defunct, and archive.org's Wayback machine never made a copy of the post. Oh, well, no loss...

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