around the texas state capitol building in austiin.usin. thank you, brian. sid first he said i didn t evenroct. introduction. then he gave me a hell of an an introduction. thanks for that very kind wordse i want to first of all thank ta methodist church nk the methodist church. methodism has a way of being broad minded. i appreciate it. i think it s the beginning of the book festival. when the book festival started 15 years ago, i remember it well. laura bush was very nervous about kicking off the new enterprise. we had endured months of planning and discussion and careful foundation and building. she was a little nervous about how it would come up. and i remember the party at the governors mansion the night before with kinky friedman who went around handing everybody a tar pick with an invitation to call him if he wanted to know more about guitar. only he could get away with a lousy pick-up line like that. i only enjoyed the first five years of the book festival. [inaudibl