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The Austin City Council has declared Thursday Austin Lounge Lizard's Day in the state capitol and to mark the occasion the Lizards will be playing a couple of tunes during the Council's meeting that day.
Now that's what I call having your governmental priorities in order.
The city is getting together to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's formation. The climax will come with a Feb. 20 concert at the Student Union Auditorium on the University of Texas campus.
If you are unfamiliar with the Lizards, it is a satirical bluegrass band, a union of Stan Freeberg and Ralph Stanley. One of the band's more priceless songs is Dallas, Texas that ends each chorus with "So I'm going back to Dallas, Texas, to see if anything can be worse than losing you" and a bridge that contains the line "Most cities have soul, but Dallas must have been at the bank when they were passing it around."
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Austin is just so gosh-darned swell that I cannot stand it! They have built their economy on the backs of musicians, most of whom are submoronic egomaniacs. We know how to treat punks in Oak Cliff, maybe we should export our expertise to that over-grown hipster-on-a-Fixed-Gear metropolis of concrete and coolness.
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