I am still working out the details of what exactly I will be doing with this blog. I may be moving the whole thing to another web address soon. I am still in Austin, Texas, watching as the masses are played like a well-tuned violin by the bored news media over the mostly imaginary swine [...]
Posts Tagged ‘austin’
Delays and Turbulence
Posted in travel, tagged austin, travel, writing on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Colonial Failures First Hand
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin, culture, politics, prose, sxsw on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The young man stands there hesitant, staring up at the old Jaguar god whose empty eyes have long watched over this strange cafe by the train tracks. Much of the free wall mural is now covered up with red and tan checkered boxes. Black hat tilted to the side, the young man is moving slow, [...]
Ob my darling Clementine…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin, prose on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At night in spring in the city of Austin, frogs croak from shadowed creek beds and fireflies dance green streamers through the mist drifting through the orange street light glow after the rage of an unforeseen thunderstorm. I walk up and and down hills through the shadows and the artificial light, watching the crescent of the Moon lazily drifting westward.
Sin Fronteras! May Day 2008 in Austin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin, immigrant rights, politics, prose on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was the beating of the drums and the strength of voices screaming in Spanish that seemed to shake the dust of jaded bitterness off of my political sensibilities. My feet were moving and I also was shouting in Spanish with the crowd holding up U. S. and Mexican flags, bilingual banners, and babies.
I am a time-traveling backup singer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin, shenanigans on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Day off from work. Mostly spent wringing water out of things and sopping up wet spots in the tent. Stupid thunderstorm, making the hill country pretty and green. The tent is infested with clover mites, which I had never heard of until today. Turns out something I assumed for years was a funny looking species [...]
Horrors of Evolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin, hollywood house on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two and a half inches long, and it fucking flies.
We killed six of them tonight, in the kitchen. They just… appeared.
Open Letter to the Force of Gravity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin, hollywood house, humor on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to your sadistic sense of humor, and the aristocratic level of dehumanizing entertainment you fancy yourself entitled to as a major force of the Universe and the inner workings of Newtonian physics…
Iconoclasty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am sitting at a downtown coffee shop listening to a girl with pink hair crouching on stage listing as a poem all sorts of random things from iPods to her bad grammar preceded by the word “fuck.”
Living on the East Side, Part II
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin, hollywood house on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Too long before dawn this morning my alarm went off, giving me about an hour to get ready to head out for the maze of a bike ride which leads to the temp job. In my less-than-conscious state I managed to turn the alarm off rather than hit the snooze button, which was my intention. [...]
The Lamb of God and Other Fantasies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged austin on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So there’s this naked chick with painted bronze skin walking back and forth with a suitcase and eating flowers who distracts me from pondering the actions of former Lubbock mayor Marc McDougal as a vampire. I have been drinking Negro Modelo, courtesy of a cute lesbian, and the potential for conspiracy eats at my heart. [...]
