The can at the chic Hotel San José on trendy South Congress Ave: where edgy, creative people with sculpted bed-head go to pee. It’s unisex!
Once again spinster auntly pursuits interfere with today’s blaming schedule; I must take charge of my 3-year-old niece Rotel. She telephoned yesterday to inform me — in the background I heard […]
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Public Cans of Austin: Hotel San José
Published February 21st, 2007 in Men Hate You, Public Cans of Austin and Easy Persiflage. 98 CommentsPublic Cans of Austin: Blue Star Cafeteria
Published January 11th, 2007 in Public Cans of Austin, Morsel Institute and Austin. 19 CommentsIt is a comfort to know that, in the event of a sudden torrent, the can designated for use at Blue Star Cafeteria by people who identify or are identified as women is equipped with a handy drain.
Although it is a restaurant, the Blue Star Cafeteria isn’t a cafeteria. Naturally this is both distressing and […]
Public Cans of Austin: El Gringo
Published December 15th, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin, Morsel Institute and Austin. 21 CommentsStingray calls this “western kitsch,” but I fail to see what’s so kitschy about a gold spray-painted horseshoe.
I-35 runs down the middle of Austin, a cee-ment ribbon of apartheid segregating the populace according to caste. On the west side, which is never called “the West Side,” is the university, the Whole Foods, the horrid […]
Public Cans of Austin: Café Caffeine
Published December 3rd, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin and Austin. 39 CommentsThe exterior of the can at Café Caffeine poses a philosophic challenge to the connoisseur in juxtaposing a bleak and crummy frameless painting with ironic vintage deco signage, but the message is ultimately one of post-industrial alienation.
You know how when you’re driving along, whistling a happy tune, and you pass a business and the name […]
Public Cans of Austin: Emo’s
Published October 27th, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin, Easy Persiflage and Patriarchy-blaming. 54 CommentsFeast your eyes upon the sink in the can at Emo’s on Red River while you contemplate today’s question.
What is “fun”?
Because of its early associations — many of which were not without their cheap French whiff of the meretricious (it’s not called ‘tomfoolery’ for nothin) — with practical jokes, cons, and hoaxes, Johnson in 1755 […]
Public Cans of Austin: Maria’s Taco XPress
Published October 14th, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin, Austin and Patriarchy-blaming. 11 CommentsI did not photoshop the undersea aura into this snap; this is one of the few women’s cans I have ever seen that has ventured beyond “pinkly flattering” into the uncharted territory of “Martian hag” as a criterion for its lighting scheme.
They razed a trailer park and tore down Maria’s Taco XPress a few […]
Public Cans of Austin: Kerby Lane (South Lamar)
Published August 31st, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin, Morsel Institute and Austin. 25 CommentsThe grim and sinister baby-changing table in the can at Kerbey Lane has graffiti all over it. It’s where all the infant junkies of South Austin go to get changed. I knew you would want to see it, but—and I blame my dog Bert for this—the pictures came out like crap on accounta when I […]
Public Cans of Austin: Chinatown
Published May 1st, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin, Morsel Institute and Austin. 72 CommentsThe lavatory has been locked for three hours solid…. I think they are using it for an operating room….
NURSE: “I can’t find her pulse, doctor.”
DR. BENWAY: “Maybe she got it up her snatch in a finger stall.”
NURSE: “Adrenalin, doctor?”
Above: treat yourself to the panoramic view from the throne in the can at the Chinatown in […]
Can A Liberal White Dude Be A Feminist?
Published April 27th, 2006 in Public Cans of Austin and Patriarchy-blaming. 138 CommentsBut first: the can at Flipnotics. Good iced coffee. Really funked-up soap dispenser.
My post on fizzy wine in a pink can recently drew a “male feminist” out of his pin-up encrusted lair and into the open patriarchy-blaming field, with predictably hilarious consequences.
This male feminist (let’s call him “MF” for short), after apprising the group […]
Stingray and the Old Bat
Published April 22nd, 2006 in Keep your bias off my gender, Femininity, Public Cans of Austin and Morsel Institute. 101 CommentsFried oysters (with fried calamari at the other end of the plate) at Ranch 616: highly edible
Stingray and I have embarked on the Fried Oyster Tour of Austin. The purpose of this endeavor is not so much to determine a gold medalist as it is to simply eat fried oysters as often as possible. Our […]
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