Time Travel Weekend Party
In many ways this past weekend in Austin has felt like a stop on the time travel train. I’m convinced that sometime in the future, time travel is a functional thing, much the way...
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Sex and the Secret Service
I suspect that you’ve heard about the Secret Service sex scandal where President Obama’s advance team in Cartagena, Colombia allegedly hired prostitutes, then failed to pay at least one of them. While the investigation...
ACL: I’m Excited About Seeing Twin Shadow Again!
Twin Shadow is one of the acts that I’ll totally be seeing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, 2011
Eating in the airport
Thanks to a summer of discount travel, I’ve spent a lot of time in airports. Since I’m too cheap to buy a first class ticket–and too impatient to put up with long layovers–my frequent...
Oh look, more pictures on the Internets!
When I told my sweetie that someone else was using some of my pictures to illustrate an article on Latvia, he quipped that it must be the cousin of one of my friends there!...
It’s strange how much of my past is on the Internet.
When I was looking for something else I’d done, I found my book review of 1997’s “new” Anne Rice that I’d totally forgotten about writing. It’s the bottom half of this two-part-er! I actually...
Don’t Move the Shelter!
In April, a tragedy occurred in our backyard.After years of stalking and chasing, our Shepard-mix Duke finally caught our neighbor’s white cat, Emma, who had slipped though our fence.The result– 120 lb pup vs. ...
The Time I took my Father to Structure House
For those who have asked, here is an article about the time I took my dad for an Intervention at Structure House in 2004. It originally appeared in an Austin, Texas print-only publication called...
