Wilson Brother Sighting count - 4
Number of times I have looked at them, smiled at them, or otherwise made any form of normal human contact - 0
Feeling like an asshole - priceless
After I was done for the day yesterday, Matt and I walked to the LARGEST Whole Foods in the history of time. Apparently, it just opened and is supposed to be the flagship store. It is about 5 times the size of the one in Chicago. I am still all sickly (Thanks, Sarah) so I bought Tussin Tea and Zinc lozenges. This coughing thing has really turned out to be a much larger painin the ass that I thought it would be, as I am unable to sit through an entire panel without going into a coughing fit. Bar!
They have these birds here that are the most scrappy, hessian birds I have ever seen. Yeserday we were eating lunch at the outdoor patio at the Four Seasons, and one landed on the table of the couple next to us and stole a giant biscuit from their bread basket. 7 other birds then started a vicious fight club for ownership of the biscuit. When we were walking back from Whole Foods last night, we passed a group of 5 trees that were filled to the brim with these birds. They were just squaking and squaking and squaking. It was nuts. It was like The Birds.
Sounds like a Grackle - those things are nasty! Like a crow, but trashier... http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i5110id.html
Yes, Grackle. That is exactly what they were. We met up with a couple of people from the Austin Metroblog and they told all us all about these psycho herding birds. Crazy and really creepy.
GRR! I had no idea the flatstock poster convention was going on the same time as your convention. wtf! say hi to the silk screeners for me.... bar :(