The quality of humans living in Austin has gone way the hell down the last ten years. It’s now to the point where I almost can’t tolerate living here for the sheer number of ignorant, uncultured and downright stupid morons that call my city home. Want some examples of what I mean? All you have to do is read the comments on today’s News 8 Poll concerning the opening of the Blanton Museum. Not only do many of them seem to just hate art in general, they aren’t even aware enough of what the museum is or how it came to be to know they didn’t have a damn thing to do with paying for its collections or construction. Yeah, no taxes were used, so stop your griping. We’d never expect the unwashed and art-hating masses to contribute to anything more cultural than a new baseball stadium or horse racing track.

This museum is a big deal for Austin. We went from having one small modern art museum downtown and a few dark floors at UT to show off the Blanton’s collection to having the largest university art museum in the USA. Hell, even the New York Times is talking about it!

Will I visit the museum more than your average Austinite? Quite likely, seeing as I am an artist, and I love art. Do I ever go to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum? No. I have a pretty firm grasp of Texas history, have been to one too many Texas history museums, and I find them incredibly boring. But did I complain when my tax dollars went to the construction of the new Texas history museum here? No. It’s good for the city, the state, and the local schools … and the tourists seem to love it. So what right so the local art-haters have to gripe about a museum they had no part in building, art going to have to pay for and don’t have to go visit if they don’t want to be exposed to anything more cultural than NASCAR or Starbucks? None whatsoever. Shut up and ignore it, you artless heathens!

I really am starting to hate this town. It used to be such a wonderful artsy, musical, fun-loving city full of culture on every corner. Now it’s getting full of people with tiny brains griping about things they can’t even bother to inform themselves about before complaining … and they want to suck all the fun and color out of life in Austin. This is what happens when you get listed on too many of those “Best Places to Live” lists and unhappy people from all over the country move here, and then try to turn their new home into an exact replica of whatever it was they left behind … and then they still aren’t happy.