As an official SXSW registrant, your first task after checking in your hotel is to go to the Convention Center and pick up your official badge. Task 1B is to go downstairs afterward and pick up your swag bag.
Over the years, I have learned you can tell a fair bit about both the music business and the world from these giveaways.
Take this year's for example. For starters, it feels perhaps a full half-pound lighter than last year's. And then there is this:
Photos by John Nova Lomax
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KBR (Halliburton to the old-schoolaz) has had its share of troubles on its way to making untold billions of dollars of profit in Iraq.There's the rape and sexual harassment (Female and male-on-male!). There's the electrocuting soldiers. There's the dogs running around chomping on human remains intended for an incinerator.You know what's been missing in this bad-publicity extravaganza? Child porn.Not any longer!!Houston's US Attorney's office announced today a Seabrook resident is being held with
