Do you know Austin, Texas's unofficial slogan?
KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD
I
love that! Love it, and it fits. There's a guy selling cupcakes out of
a trailer in the middle of an empty lot. There's bat-watching from the
bridge (I swear those rabies shots are totally painless), and I've
spotted some twenty-somethings sporting dreadlocks, making me wonder
just what they and Robert Pattinson have against combing their hair.
(Not that I'm anti-Pattinson. I just liked his hair better in Goblet,
you know?)
Anyway,
I'm going to try to stay weird this weekend at Armadillocon 31, a
science fiction & fantasy literary conference. So if you live in
Austin and want to try to talk me into dreadlocks, wander over to the
DoubleTree hotel. We can discuss that along with Hollywood hair gel
experiments gone wrong and which books we love and which we'd love to
forget.