Tinta Fresca

No better way to spend a Friday morning.

regulars:

Per usual, we enjoyed a good Mozart’s Friday morning. As the crew grew, we moved outside to have more room. Several cool conversations flowed simultaneously.

I caught topics like:

• The Last Days of the San Jose
• the greatness of the Hotel Saint Cecilia
• Gerry Van King, King of 6th Street
• East Austin geography and development
• the current markets for office and industrial space in Austin
• Austin commuter rail
• The Wire
• Manda Bala (trailer above), directed by Jason Kohn
• Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil
• Mexico City neighborhoods
• Mexico seemingly falling apart
• traveling Thailand and Southeast Asia
• international business, especially w/r/t different cultures, communication, and norms
• Hernando De Soto’s Mystery of Capital and The Other Path
• The Plaza Accord (1985) and the present, building currency war
• Austin City Limits
• Alex Jones of Infowars (here confronting David Gergen about Bohemian Grove, here in Waking Life)
• the greatness of Austin Cable Access
• The Show With No Name
• the economics and associated temptations of college football
• the UT budget and “putting a price on professors” (here via the WSJ)
• the BCS and anti trust
• McBride’s and Governor Perry
• Concealed carrying
• Bishop John Hines
• Gypsy Picnic
• the history of SXSW (see page 12)

Btw, the link list is the new thank-you note. Thanks, folks. I really dig this thing we’ve got going.

Hasta pronto.