If you’re not total­ly Com­cas­tic, you can check out most of my SXSW cov­er­age at Head Games, the offi­cial blog of Game Inva­sion. Hats off to my pro­duc­er and ven­er­a­ble video team for help­ing me learn some of the video com­mu­ni­ca­tion basics. It’s hard to believe that all of our work could be cut down into two minute snippets.

Oh, and I’m still tweet­ing. ‘Tweet­ing?’ Real­ly? Really.

I still have a few more wrap-up posts due over at Blind­ed by the Hype, but then I’ll be back here post­ing about how few bands I actu­al­ly saw in Austin. I feel like the only sou­venirs I picked up in Texas were stress, exhaus­tion and a ter­ri­ble sunburn.

And I’m twit­ter­ing. Check it out, if you’re into that sort of thing. It’s like a writer­ly safe­ty valve thus far.

Why is it that now that I own an iPhone, I sud­den­ly think the iPhone com­mer­cial theme is the same as Motel 6? Have these awful, painful Apple ear­buds dri­ven me to mad­ness? I think that’s entire­ly possible.

So a lit­tle while ago I splurged and bought a pair of Ety­mot­ic Research 6i Iso­la­tor ear­phones. They’re excel­lent. But I’m not writ­ing to extoll their virtue on the basis of per­for­mance alone. No, I’m writ­ing this morn­ing because I ran them through the laun­dry — washed and dried — like an absolute dunce. I was sure they were fin­ished, but lo and behold they remain in per­fect work­ing order.

I am grate­ful to Ety­mot­ic Research’s team of engi­neers and the man­u­fac­tur­ers who ensured that they were water­tight. Thanks.