Dream DestroyerOut of respect to the people who found and drained the Hawthorn Suites pool at the intersection of I35 and Ben White, I have refrained from mentioning the spot on ASN pending its final demise. That day came sometime last week or the week before, so now I’m posting photos from an early session in the gallery.

An article in today’s Austin American-Statesman describes how the Travis County Medical Examiner has revised his autopsy on the recently deceased frontman from the Big Boys, Randy "Biscuit" Turner. Originally, the autopsy had stated the cause of death to be cirrhosis of the liver caused by alcohol abuse. Longtime friends of Biscuit had protested the report claiming Biscuit never drank alcohol. A second examination found that Biscuit’s cirrhosis was caused by hepatitis C. I would like the record to reflect that Austin Skate Notes’ coverage of Biscuit’s death never mentioned alcohol in the cause of death.

Progress on the Mabel Davis public skatepark is temporarily halted due to the afformentioned housing issues impacting the construction crew. The only availabile house opens up two and a half weeks from now. Until then, no concrete can be poured. I stopped by the site on my lunchbreak today and it pretty much looks like it did in August– a bunch of dirt piles.