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We're sorry for the radio silence this past week but we have been busy as Harry Potter house elves researching and writing a special Gay Pride pull-out in this week's Austin Chronicle on Austin's queer history. LOOK FOR IT! YOU'LL LOVE IT! QUEER ARCHIVES! WE NEED ONE!Enough shouting.This year's Austin Pride Parade and Festival are being organized by one organization (a first!), the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.But we can barely contain our excitement about the Gay Pride festivities this weekend. Yesterday we attended a vendor/participant meeting, and although we behaved like rotten schoolchildren at the back of the bus (we were drawing obscene pictures and making up cheers about assimilation), it was truly inspiring to see so many community leaders all in one space. Beyond this promising foreplay to the official festivities, we here at the Gay Place are uber-excited because we have got some Ree-DONK-you-lus throws for the parade this year. I'll give you a hint: it rhymes with Shmunicorn Shmurse.So without further ado we present to you the places and spaces that we'll be this Friday and Saturday -or- GPx3 (Gay Pride Game Plan with the Gay Place):

This Week's Waste of Time

Crunch Time for the Aztex

The Austin Aztex, coming off a 3-1 win over Puerto Rico last Friday, have three home games this week: regularly-scheduled USL-1 tilts Friday and Sunday against the second-place Charleston Battery, plus a first-round game in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Tuesday evening, hosting the PDL Mississippi Brilla. June 5, 7, 9: Friday, 7pm; Sunday, 6pm; Tuesday, 7:30pm; Nelson Field, off Berkman, just north of U.S. 290.For more on the Aztex and the U.S. Open Cup, see "Crunch Time," Sports, June 5.The Aztex U-23 squad has a home game in Bastrop this Thursday, hosting the Houston Leones at Bastrop Soccer Stadium, June 4, 7:30pm. A rough, emotional 2-2 draw last week against Rio Grande Valley has the Azteclets right in the middle of the very tight PDL Mid South Division.Below: World Cup Qualifying, Cruz Azul-Tigres to play at UT

Aztex Stadium/Aztex Station at Highland Mall

Young, Thin, and Naked

If you ever find yourself disgruntled because high-fashion uber-futur ensembles for men perfectly match your personality, but are unsuitable for your admittedly non-model body type, count yourself lucky. I may be thin enough to wear Prada, but that doesn't mean I'm within a mile of being able to afford it. As much as I'd love me a JUUN.J draped trench circa 2052, I'm equally unprepared to max out another credit card.Life presents an interesting challenge to the modern thin male. There are seemingly droves of new trends to adopt, but few within budgetary reach. You're also persona non grata to the likes of Banana Republic if your waistline resides anywhere below a 30. In short, you can't buy clothes that fit (because you can't afford them), and you can't buy clothes that are affordable (because they don't fit). So what to do?You actually have myriad options, they just require a little more ingenuity:First: Get acquainted with women's clothing. I'm not talking about wearing dresses or the latest additions to the ladies department of Ross Dress for Less. And please don't ever, ever think that capris are trending for males, even if you spent last summer in Spain. No, you're going to have to accept the fact that American clothing manufacturers have banished your waist-size into the 2-4-6 domain of women's sizes and live with it, especially for denim. The good news is that ladies' denim can be ridiculously cheap. A skinny pair of size 4 black denim from Just USA can run you under $40. Try Goodie Two Shoes (1111 S Congress, 443-2468), where more than a few skinny male musicians have been outfitted. Yes, I have shopped in the Nordstrom Juniors Department and I am no longer ashamed to admit it. Be prepared for the sales associate to shuttle you over to the men's dressing room for the sake of cultural norms. Also, keep in mind we're talking about trendy, hipster-style digs. You will not find textile bliss in a Lane Bryant.

MP3: Followed By Static “AADC”

Followed By Static is getting ready to press its debut 7-inch single, to be released later this month by Rare Dust Records, the Austin-based label behind the Strange Attractors and Koreans. By way of introduction, the local duo offers up the b-side “AADC,” a dark, heavy-psych missive that credits the Golden Boys’ John Wesley Coleman III “on howls and hollers.” A release party is slated for Wednesday, June 17, at Mohawk with the Golden Boys, Black Shirts, and Baltimore Harbor.[audio-1]

At Least Five Things You Should Know About, I Mean, If You Were Counting

The hardest working man in the seafood business, Austin's Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears has had one hell of a year thus far thanks to the release of group's soulful Lost Highway debut, Tell 'Em What Your Name Is . Black Joe Lewis is currently on 20-date tour with the New York Dolls, including a stop at Emo's on Saturday. Here's the video “I'm Broke,” which was directed by Daniel Gibbs and nods equally to Stevie Wonders' Songs in the Key of Life and Seventies spy flicks.[video-1]

Something in the Air

There must be something in the air. While writing about Jesse Sublett’s Howlin’ Wolf tribute at the Continental, it made me smile to see Kathy Valentine and Walter Daniels on the bill (Jon Dee Graham had to cancel). Along with Sublett, they were veterans of Austin’s original punk scene, whose survivors have gone on to create astonishingly diverse music.Layna Pogue zips into Austin this weekend for the re-recording of “Do You Have a Job for a Girl Like Me?” with the never-say-die Delinquents, reports both Brian Curley and the lovely Miss Pogue. I must be among the 563 people who remember that song, a divine bit of jittery, Farfisa-driven punk rock from about 1979. “Alien Beach Party,” on the flipside, was pretty catchy, but didn’t match the joy of screaming “I blew out my brains on LSD!” along with the lyrics. Hope it comes out on vinyl again.And if you remember the Delinquents (yes, Lester Bangs was their next lead singer), maybe you remember the Reversible Cords. The Re*Cords, as they were better known, were an anarchic quartet, given to street performances and occasional scrapes with the law. Vocalist Lynn Keller gave them their powerful voice back then, and in the early 1990s, she formed a short-lived but memorable group called St. Cecilia.