To my Hoona Nu. “Daddy, I want a piggy back ride.”
All I’ve wanted to give you is this big beautiful world, sleep in a big beautiful bed, beautiful clouds inside your head…

1. If you don’t have to deal with a crazy person, don’t.
2. You can’t outsmart crazy [Thanks to Lisa J]. You also can’t fix crazy. (You could outcrazy it, but that makes you crazy too.)
3. When you get in a contest of wills with a crazy person, you’ve already lost.
4. The crazy person doesn’t have as much to lose as you.
5. Your desired outcome is to get away from the crazy person.
6. You have no idea what the crazy person’s desired outcome is.
7. The crazy person sees anything you have done as justification for what she’s about to do.
8. Anything nice you do for the crazy person, she will use as ammunition later.
9. The crazy person sees any outcome as vindication.
10. When you start caring what the crazy person thinks, you’re joining her in her craziness.

Still another Austin brewery starting up

By Patrick Beach | Thursday, February 11, 2010, 09:44 AM

Say hello to South Austin Brewing Co. Disclosure: Jordan Weeks is a pal I know through a mutual friend, a good guy and a very accomplished brewer whose commercial experience goes back to Balcones in the late ’90s.

Now he’s the newest player in a field that’s filling up in very promising ways. He’s got the keys to an 8,000 square-foot space at 451 St. Elmo Rd. This comes after approximately eleventy billion other breweries announced plans to get going this year. (Weeks was hoping to keep his plan under wraps but it turns out the Twitters keep no secrets. And if you’re his friend on Facebook this is not news to you.)

“I think there’s a new requirement: If you want to be a resident you have to open a brewery,” Weeks says.

He’s aiming to have beer ready in a year. “It’s an aggressive schedule but I’ve worked in a production brewery like this before so i know how to do it,” Weeks says.

Most promising: He’ll be making “aggressive beers that appeal to the already sophisicated craft beer drinker, people who drink Stone and Avery and Lost Abbey. They’re going to be style-challenging. I’m not going to stick to Belgians but I have the greatest respect for Belgians. That’s where everything I know about beer started from.”

Production plans call for an 80 to 20 percent split between 750-ml bottles with wire corks and kegs. This is Weeks’ identified niche: Lots of people will take a chance on a 750 but not a six-pack. The single bottles make nice gifts, and people seem more likely to take a chance on something they haven’t tried before if they’ve only got a single to finish.

As I said, I can’t say I’m impartial on this one. But Weeks has the experience and the brewing chops to do great things for the Austin craft beer scene.

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Here’s a link to Townes doing Lungs at the Old Quarter, recorded live (slideshow video)

From Family Guy, the one where Stewie disguises himself as a popular high schooler and infiltrates the cool kids:

“You can see them on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and things that other people have created, but that I use to express my individualism.”

“I have a MySpace page too!”

“Yeah, I have mine ironically.”