The Austin Tadarida
@austintadarida.bsky.social
A new website for Austin. Collectively run. https://the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io
piece about sleep apnea: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/hereditary-s...
couldn't do much of an Austin angle with this one
couldn't do much of an Austin angle with this one
Hereditary Surprise Part Infinity: Sleep Apnea
Gauging what is or isn’t a valid medical concern as someone who experiences health anxiety is an unhappy exercise with no cooldown. Can any reassurance stick, or would hearing bad news be better — if ...
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February 13, 2026 at 6:35 PM
piece about sleep apnea: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/hereditary-s...
couldn't do much of an Austin angle with this one
couldn't do much of an Austin angle with this one
Remembering Glenn Scott: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-force-of-n...
"A Force of Nature" - Remembering Glenn Scott
Neither the loudest nor bossiest person in a room, Glenn Scott (1948-2018) did manage to buzz with the most energy. I met her in 2017 when she was already undergoing chemotherapy for the cancer that w...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Remembering Glenn Scott: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-force-of-n...
It's roundup time, and I'd like to share some posts we've published since March. The first is this piece on estate sales: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-little-mus...
"A Little Museum of Someone's Life" — Estate Sales in Austin, North Texas, and Beyond
Visiting an estate sale is one of the most indirect but intimate ways of trying to understand a person you have never met. Instead of through their work, their personality, or their physical features,...
the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io
December 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It's roundup time, and I'd like to share some posts we've published since March. The first is this piece on estate sales: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-little-mus...
Chatting with chiptune artist Layna Bergstedt about open mics, Mega Man 3 and much more: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-merchant-o...
A "Merchant of Novelty" — Speaking with Chiptune Artist and Vocalist Layna Bergstedt
Open mics have a deserved reputation of primarily hosting guitar-plucking, folkster singer-songwriters — a classic pairing which I expect to continue even as the folkies and/or guitars become half-rob...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Chatting with chiptune artist Layna Bergstedt about open mics, Mega Man 3 and much more: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-merchant-o...
we have a chiptune-related interview taking place this weekend, and a piece about sleep apnea materializing. stay tuned.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
we have a chiptune-related interview taking place this weekend, and a piece about sleep apnea materializing. stay tuned.
the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/great-world-...
Talking about sound with mentions of @lizpelly.bsky.social, The Equipment Room and Terry's Kissa.
Talking about sound with mentions of @lizpelly.bsky.social, The Equipment Room and Terry's Kissa.
Great World of Sound
"Don’t bother — it’s not worth it." A grinning but clearly agitated British man softly stormed out of the Equipment Room, "an intimate space that houses one of Austin’s most special record collections...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/great-world-...
Talking about sound with mentions of @lizpelly.bsky.social, The Equipment Room and Terry's Kissa.
Talking about sound with mentions of @lizpelly.bsky.social, The Equipment Room and Terry's Kissa.
Keeping Austin Paranormal: An Interview With The Austin Séance
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Keeping Austin Paranormal: An Interview With The Austin Séance
The human desire to explore the unseen tends to swell when reality itself grows more dismal. Case in point: The American Spiritualist movement of the Victorian Era, which posited that spirits exist an...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Keeping Austin Paranormal: An Interview With The Austin Séance
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Inside the Austin ConcertDome: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/in-the-round...
In the Round at the Austin ConcertDome
On March 8th, Lady Gaga will play the Moody Center. Tickets start as “low” as almost 300 dollars, and go up exponentially from there — row 5 tickets are almost 9,600 dollars. While the experience of s...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Inside the Austin ConcertDome: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/in-the-round...
I am looking for contributors to this, my Austin-based website. More here: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/contribute-t...
Contribute to The Austin Tadarida
On Bluesky earlier this month, cartoonist and illustrator Mattie Lubchansky wrote:
a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck...
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August 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I am looking for contributors to this, my Austin-based website. More here: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/contribute-t...
Reposted by The Austin Tadarida
a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck business the people who own these publications think they are in. shouldn’t the point be to just make enough money making the articles to make more articles
August 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck business the people who own these publications think they are in. shouldn’t the point be to just make enough money making the articles to make more articles
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it begins, buckle up Austin!
Look, ma. No driver. The "Robotaxi"-branded Tesla Model Y was seen cruising on South Congress Avenue in Austin.
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First Tesla Robotaxi Spotted Driving Around Austin
The
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June 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
it begins, buckle up Austin!
Remembering Brian Wilson: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/remembering-...
Remembering Brian Wilson
With every big, booming song gifted to us from The Beach Boys — from “California Girls” to “Sail On, Sailor” — you’ll find a leafy cousin, a condensed, sleepier mini-symphony like the hula ballad “Lit...
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June 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Remembering Brian Wilson: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/remembering-...
A update on what the national news is saying about our hometown, and a guide to how to understand the University of Austin: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/bad-news-and...
Bad News and a Fake College
Complaining about the New York Times is an unvanquishable media pastime, but ultimately as useful as slingshotting rocks at a zeppelin. The volley might annoy the crew and result in a few light direct...
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May 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A update on what the national news is saying about our hometown, and a guide to how to understand the University of Austin: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/bad-news-and...
I did interviews with people who enjoy going to or working at estate sales: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-little-mus...
"A Little Museum of Someone's Life" — Estate Sales in Austin, North Texas, and Beyond
Visiting an estate sale is one of the most indirect but intimate ways of trying to understand a person you have never met. Instead of through their work, their personality, or their physical features,...
the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io
May 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I did interviews with people who enjoy going to or working at estate sales: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/a-little-mus...
Estate sale article incoming soon. For now, last weekend's Dungeon Synth festival in Austin: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/drawn-to-the...
Drawn to the Dungeon
It begins with a quest. A marauder, simple traveler or possibly a knave takes to the road or a barely visible forest path in search of some knowledge, treasure. In this case, the trail winds east on C...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Estate sale article incoming soon. For now, last weekend's Dungeon Synth festival in Austin: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/drawn-to-the...
Since I'm here and social media-ing, I also want to share this piece about Austin I (Adam) wrote: endofaustin.com/2024/01/11/o...
Only Onward: Lawrence Wright’s Austin and the Politics of Nostalgia
In February of last year the New Yorker published an article by Lawrence Wright entitled “The Astonishing Transformation of Austin.” Wright is the author of several books about al-Qaeda, one about …
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April 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Since I'm here and social media-ing, I also want to share this piece about Austin I (Adam) wrote: endofaustin.com/2024/01/11/o...
Working on a piece about Austin estate sales.
April 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Working on a piece about Austin estate sales.
a post about what you treasures you may find at the Austin History Center: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/tempered-joy...
Tempered Joy at the Austin History Center
Three cheers for the not-so-distant past of tactile media, when newspapers explained the everyday, books contextualized the past, and DVDs and VHS cassettes made these discoveries audible and extra-vi...
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March 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
a post about what you treasures you may find at the Austin History Center: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/tempered-joy...
Our first post, about attending @sxsw.com Interactive. the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/sxsw-interac...
SXSW Interactive: Interesting Times
At the opening keynote of SXSW Interactive in Ballroom D at the Austin Convention Center, Hugh Forrest, the easygoing President & Chief Programming Officer of SXSW, walked us through the usual round o...
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March 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Our first post, about attending @sxsw.com Interactive. the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/sxsw-interac...