Why Austin is a Good Place volume two

You can drive around late at night with your windows down, a big sky hovering above your sunroof. You can listen to ‘Ride of the Valkyrie’ at astonishing volumes in the clear darkness. As you hoof your Saab around the tarmac, road signs appear. A diversion is in the works. Only they aren’t regular road signs, the ones that you might see in Europe. They are road signs from the ‘US of A’, most often seen by the grinning European Saab-pilot in the movies and video games. This further steals any sense of reality from the situation as the pilot steers around the orange and white striped obstacles. He bears on towards his destination, a party, “with a blue light, a DJ, and an illuminated gnome,” scoring imaginary points in this fantasy land.

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