SXSW Followup/Death of Beardfest 2KX

OK, so as I write this I'm enjoying a huge black cup of coffee with a donut that looks alot like this:

I haven't had a besprinkled (if it wasn't a word before it is now) donut since forever ago. I feel I've become less adventurous as I age because 10 years ago I would've bolted straight for all this colourful goodness without being forced into it (they were out of sprinkle-less chocolate). In my professional opinion, sprinkles have doubled my enjoyment of this donut.

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Alright, back on track. I'm following up on my Spring Break post where I talked about SXSW. Of my listed goals while I was in Austin I would say I accomplished about two out of the seven things I stated I was gonna do. Austin was experiencing some turrible weather the day I decided to visit. Temperatures in the 40s, lotsa rain, lotsa wind. This weather factored into where I ended up going. I didn't wanna have to wait by myself for very long in that kinda weather so I broke down and met Sara and Ashley (Arlington friends) at the Rachel Ray SXSW party. Before I go any further I wanna say that these two are absolutely adorable humans and made my day so so awesome.

So anyways, I was gonna be seeing the Black Keys/Broken Bells/She & Him. What I ended up seeing was a show by Andrew W.K. (man knows how to party), Dr. Dog (so so good, I accosted the bassist at the end of the show and I think we bonded), Jakob (I swear, my dad's famous, guys) Dylan, and She & Him! Zooey Deschanel was as captivating as ever and M. Ward managed to throw some creeptastic vibes in from the side of the stage.

Long story short, it's not what I planned but I had an absolute blast (thanks SarAshley!).

To close of SXSW here are some pictures courtesy of Sara!

Rachael Ray and Matthew McConaughey

Andrew W.K.

Dr. Dog

M. Ward without creeptastic facial hair

Zooey Deschanel

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As for Beardfest2KX... Towards the end I was getting comments like "Dude, could you be any manlier" and "can I touch it?" but I don't think I'm quite enough of a man to grow a beard yet. It ended up lasting about a week (due to un-forseen formal circumstances) and I'm calling this year a failure. But I have high hopes for 2K11... Very high hopes.

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Additional benefits of sprinkled donuts that I just now realized: if you get lucky you'll end up finding a rogue sprinkle or two in the bottom of your coffee cup.

I just found three.