We let you down, Austin Music Network. After enjoying 11 years of your faithful service, we let a true light on Austin television go dim. After more than a decade's struggle through the morass of dumbfounding city and telecommunications hoo-haw, you muddled through, always presenting quirky, offbeat visuals to accompany the soundtrack to Austin life. And then, just when you finally got it right, when your budgets sustained and your programming was the most community-focused and innovative thing seen on local airwaves in ages, we let the powers that be come in and pull the plug. To the peeps at the Losers Lounge Show, you will never know how many Fridays you kept us rapt with your teenage kicks, your goofball antics, and your sheer adoration for all things musical. Nadia, what can we say? You've come and gone on that frequency with a frequency that tells us you'll be back and bigger than ever. Clay, we watched as you held your tongue and your dignity at all those ridonkulous city meetings in front of so many clueless bureaucrats who just didn't get it. And we, the press, let you down the hardest. Not rising to our role as the advocate of cool, and you were the coolest. We are so sorry. But we take comfort knowing you'll be back. Somewhere, somehow. And when you are, we promise, we'll be watching, and more importantly, we'll have your back. Lastly, a message to Louis: Hang onto those tapes, buddy, hang onto those tapes.
