Being an Anarchist in Texas

Mimus Pauly Asks:

Hey, Nick, what's it like being an anarchist in Lone Star Nation Under Bush? Jesus H. Christ...

Well, I'm from Austin, which isn't really Texas. My town is the birth place of Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughn. You see, George W. Bush is from Midland(shudder); we Austinites considered him a full fledged imposter (to put it nicely, I perfer to call him "the evil chimpy looking fascist idiot fuck"). In the 2000 election, my county gave Ralph Nader 12% of the vote. Austin is very anti-corporate: everywhere you see cars with bumper stickers that read "Keep Austin Weird", which is city-run ad campaign against corporations who try to stop out local business. Walmart has had a very difficult time finding places to build its super centers in my town :-)

However, it starts getting really weird about 10 miles outside of City limits. Back when I was in high school we used to call everything outside of Austin "bat country"(In reference to a line in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas... as that reference might suggest, we were "experimental" types who were more scared of the school k-9 units than we were of death itself. However, my main haunts are a hipster coffee shop near the UT, and Barton Springs (which Maxim rated "the second best place on earth to meet hot chicks"). In addition to that, Austin has been rated as the number one place for singles, and has been cited as having the highest proportion of beautiful people the US. Topping things off, if I am not mistaken, we are the most wired city in America (by percentage). So all in all, its a perfect haunt for a person like me. I just have to make sure to keep out of bat country whenever possible.