The two best post-SXSW things I read: a rip on the SXSW blow-by-blow (which makes me feel pretty crappy after having just written one, but since my eyes rolled back in my head reading some others, that doesn’t mean he’s wrong); and a hysterical review of SXSW band mp3s. It’s long, but worth the time.

Oh, and in the first notebook dump, I recounted an exchange between James McMurtry and a fan over the military leader who stepped down. I swear he said Peter Pace from the stage, but when he delivered a similar introduction to “God Bless America,” he mentioned Admiral William Fallon as the man who stepped down as the head of CENTCOM because he didn’t want to invade Iran. It was Fallon (I’m just now getting to the news), and in his resignation statement, he said he was stepping down not because he disagreed with Bush but because the perception that he did was becoming a distraction. Believe what you will.