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The Neighborhood Joint Perfected: Billy’s On Burnet

Posted in Burgers, Food, tagged on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The neighborhood bar holds a kind of mythic status. It’s an archetype that is in most of our heads, but few of our actual neighborhoods. I must have driven by Billy’s On Burnet a hundred times, often wondering what it was like inside. Having finally ventured inside, I think we may have discovered the perfect [...]

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Things I Like About the House: Storage

Posted in Homefront, tagged , , on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’m learning that when you buy a house, trips to Home Depot take up a good portion of every weekend. I don’t mind Home Depot, but I’m not a fan of spending the weekend in the car. I will say this, though: trips to Home Depot beat trips to the storage space. When we lived [...]

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Charm School: Texas Rib Kings, Austin TX

Posted in Barbecue, Food, tagged , , , , , on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On September 6th 1995, I began to realize that professional photography wasn’t my calling. That was the day that Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s “Iron Man” record, playing his 2,131st consecutive game. I wasn’t exactly a big baseball fan, let alone an Orioles devotee. This was the pre-Nationals, post-Senators days, when the Orioles were [...]

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Austin Food Truck Roundup: Asia Edition

Posted in Asian, Food, Trailer Food, tagged on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve had some photos stacking up lately, but no time to do proper writeups. So here’s a nice copout: a breezy tour through some of the recent additions to the food truck scene in Austin. Oddly enough, all of them are Asian food. A better title for this post might have been “How We Tried [...]

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Franklin Barbecue, Austin TX

Posted in Barbecue, Food, tagged on May 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Yesterday, we finally ate at Franklin Barbecue, a bbq trailer on the I-35 access road. We tried to eat there once before, and were devastated to discover that they had sold out for the day. When we pulled up around noon yesterday, there were already a dozen hungry bbq lovers waiting in line. As we waited, our excitement building with each [...]

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