It's standing room only on the Totescast, as Richard Whittaker stops by to discuss his cover story profiling Austin's big three music bookers – C3 Presents, Transmission Entertainment, and Direct Events.

The good news? The University of Texas will not lose a football game this week. I think you know the bad news. Texas fell apart early against an OK but not great Oklahoma team and the Burnt Orange couldn’t find its offense in time to survive in a 28-20 loss.

Representing the sparse attendance today at Chronicle HQ, the Hustle's throwing up a light post today. For you weekend revelers, check our Austin City Limits street closure breakdown from earlier this week. If that's not enough, be on the look out for Spy Kids Downtown this weekend.

Ugh! I can not work on my dissertation any more today. It's eating me alive so I've been thinking a lot about Christian Holstad's Big Drag (2004). Not that a metallic purple hyena devouring a scraggly pink flamingo needs any help but… oh who are we kidding? Let's Blingee the shit outta this!

Blingees. What are they? Who makes them? Where do they come from?
Answers. Awesome, me, and Planet Unicorn (heeey). This week I've taken Deborah Kass's 2003 painting Cojones (a riff off of Jasper Johns' work) as a background and *cough cough* enhanced the message. Hope you likey. No homo.

Before prying into the heart of what's gone wrong in the State of Texas football, it is only proper to spend a few moments paying tribute to one of the all-time greats of the game: George Blanda (September 17, 1927–September 27, 2010).

Looking at the 130 playable games on Increpare's website it's difficult to fathom that Stephen Lavelle has a day job. Maybe cutting-edge game designers get a stipend in the UK (God knows how they do things over there). Regardless of how his creations get funded, they generally sit somewhere on the fun/interesting/confounding continuum.

This week's Biznasty focus: Today is the 15th annual celebration of the creation and advocacy of the Texas Freedom Network, one of Texas' best voices for LGBTQIA issues.

Inspired by the recent suicide of queer kiddo Billy Lucas, sex columnist Dan Savage created the "It Gets Better" project, a series of video testimonials from the queer glitterati telling troubled kids that it does, indeed, get better.