Keep Austin's Festivals Hot

We have partaken (partook?) in so many free events in Austin that we felt it was time to give back. So we volunteered to help with the Keep Austin Weird Festival. The bonus was that we would get free admission and receive stellar staff shirts. The anti-bonus would be that we would have to actually do stuff and be friendly about it. Nothing is truly free right? So we man up and prepare to do our duty, give back to the people and support our lovely city.



We arrive and don our spiffy staff shirts and are sent back to the hospitality tent. There we sit for a while, trying to appear hospitable, until we are reassigned to the runner's village. In this unshaded area we find that roughly 6,000 t-shirts need to be folded and placed into 6,000 bags with 6,000 samples of runner candy.

Me and my handy work

(Yes, another photo used without permission)

After a few hours of prepping the bags the runners started pouring into the area. Mayhem ensued, but in the end the job was completed without too many casualties. We spent the final hour of the festival sitting in the grass and watching Alejandro Escovedo. Afterward, we went to Pluckers on South Lamar and had the finest buffalo wings in all the land.