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SXSW Ruin CounterJul 23, 2026

Eleven Lanyards and the Block They Ate

The kitchen drawer jammed on a fistful of old SXSW lanyards, so I ran an off-season audit: eleven Marches, one downtown block, and an itemized list of what each festival carried off and never returned.

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