My Friends Helped Austin While Ted Cruz Vacationed
Before Covid hit, Austin, Texas was a party town. We had festivals and events and a town where people had the skills needed to create a temporary city from scratch. We even had a...
Category: politics
The Soul of America
by Jason T Sparks Perhaps you’ve noticed that we have just lived/are living through an intense moment in American history? A pandemic hovers over everything, as does our recent election, which has weaponized seemingly...
Bad News Outside The Bar
On the Saturday where Space X became the first company to launch astronauts into orbit while my friends were out protesting the murder of Floyd George, I was out on an errand between Houston...
From the public outcry at the Trump Inauguration
When I was in D.C. for the Women’s March, I saw a lot of protesters during the day of the Trump Inauguration. It’s amazing how much has happened since then. These pictures are stark...
On “Colossal” and Korea
Today’s column on the movie “Colossal” and what it means to us now in the Dallas Morning News can be found here. You can see more photos from the film’s screening at Fantastic Fest...
Why I broke my commitment to personal laziness to attend the Women’s March
Last November I had no idea that the presidential election would lead me to a packed Washington D.C. metro car full of pink-hatted people speeding towards the Women’s March on Washington, singing me a spirited...
The Edge of Fifteen
Like a lot of people, I’ve taken the news of Donald Trump’s election victory quite hard—harder than the results of any other election in my life. Since the heart-wrenching returns came in I’ve been...
Check Out Today’s Column on Positivus
If you haven’t already seen today’s column in the Dallas Morning News on Positivus and Latvia and Donald Trump, click here.
Trump plan to weaken NATO obligations is unfair to the Baltic countries that had our back
In July I headed to the Positivus music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia. It’s on the border with Estonia and not far — as the tanks roll –from Russia. This was the 10th year of Positivus, and...
The Orlando Shooting + Our Blood Supply
Waking up on Sunday morning to the news of the tragedy of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida, my first reaction was to text my brother-in-law in Florida. Mr. Martin is an elementary school...
