Fitting in. (Austin, Texas Edition) Part 1

Over the past few years, Austin has grown into as the city to live and travel. It may not seem like it if you’ve been living here, but you’re missing out of if you haven’t been outside in a while.

For starters, going downtown to check out the cool things that have been popping up around 6th street and SOCO would refresh your memory. Going into the fanciest hotels with friends is optional but, if you can get in without questions being asked, it’s easy after that.

The Paramount Theatre is somewhere you should go to for a certain reason. Not for a concert, even though that’s one of the best places to see one, but to see a movie that you’ve already seen at least 100 times. There’s always showings of good movies on the weekend.

 

Supporting your local businesses  is a big one when it comes to Austin. Even though you have that Whataburger gift card, Sandy’s is next door. Fast food isn’t really the sort of thing we’re aiming for when talking “local businesses”, but you can get the idea. Shopping for some cool clothes on SOCO is more of what we’re talking about, or even grabbing a neat snack at a food trailer will work. A way to get down there would be riding a bike. When it comes to riding a bike, some people feel that they can’t ride a bike or that they’re just not a bike person. Taking a pedicab would be plan B in a situation like this. So you can sit back and not worry about getting sweaty and riding around with your Walmart bike. Spending a couple hundred dollars on a new bike doesn’t hurt you in the long run, especially if you bought it from a local bike shop. How? They’ll always have your back when your bike isn’t working right. Maybe even if you’re a regular, they’ll fix it for free!

Prince Harry: A name to fear

Recently, Prince Harry has been bragging on his somewhat first kill.He arrived home today from Afghanistan and says he's "not normal" anymore.

Prince Harry had supposedly gotten a girl killed on his last day as an Apache gunner. The reason he's even in the helicopter shooting down Talibans in the first place is because he said he "plays Playstation a lot." In the video of him talking with abc news, he seems to be getting a lot of experience with guns while playing Call of Duty. 

The prince, says a lot on how he doesn't think anything is normal because since he's in that uniform, whatever they tell him to do, he has to do. He also points out that he wants to do this and is just like any other soldier and is just doing his job. 

"When I am wearing the uniform, I continue to be a soldier and I continue to be a soldier when I am not wearing the uniform," he said.

As for now, the prince is in the UK, being interviewed for doing his job, just like everyone else. 

This just goes to show, if you've ever played a videogame, you can be just like Prince Harry.

The straight dope.

              Recently, Lance Armstrong has been making a comeback into the media, rumored to confess his doping in pretty much every race he's ever participated in.

                       Oprah Winfrey has even gotten a spot to interview Armstrong about confessing, in his home here in Austin. Armstrong was against the charges filed by the USADA for quite some time. (USADA, not USDA) The reason he's doing this in the first place is in short, to get him back in racing.  Getting back into racing won't be the only thing that could happen if he admits. He could also get his sponsors back that he lost in October, like Nike, RadioShack and Trek. He could even go back to Livestrong if they open their doors to him, maybe not as a chairman but sweeping the floors is a start. Most people are already saying that he confessed and should just go home, others say that Armstrong should make a new start and "forget the haters".

                       Armstrong has already told many people he is thinking about confessing anyway because he really has nothing to lose anymore. 

                        "When, and if, Lance has something to say, there won't be any secret about it," said Tim Herman, just one of Armstrong's lawyers. As for now, the world must wait for Lance Armstrong to come out of the closet, of lies that is.

                    Some say they'll forgive him, just not for the continuous lying he did, denying his doping many times.