A Blog Post Riffing Off Of One of My Columns
Back in the old days, people would send a letter to the editor when they loved a column, or maybe leave your editor a long phone message when they were touched. Nowadays they might...
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Creativity: Not Just for “Artists.”
For a long time it made me really uncomfortable when people described me as “creative.” Raised in a small town outside of Houston by an engineer father who would have loved for me to...
My Fave Moments at South By Southwest 2013
The annual South By Southwest festival is a lot like the Indian parable of three blind men describing an elephant: one man, feeling the tail, describes the elephant as, “Thin, like a rope.”...
Vintage Treasures From Deep Inside My Brain.
As a few of you may have noticed, this web site has recently had a redesign. As part of this, I spent some time delving through my hard drive, looking for saved copies of...
Time to Return to the Well of Elvis Costello-ness.
Just days after I moved to Austin, I walked into the now-defunct Sound Exchange on the drag. It was so long ago, that Daniel Johnston hadn’t even painted what was to become the iconic...
Scare For A Cure at Eeyore’s Birthday
You may be aware that Austin’s annual hippie festival, Eeyore’s Birthday Party, was held in Pease Park this past April. You might know about the hordes of costumed revelers, some of whom attended the...
Romance Readers Social….at the University Hills Library
Bad timing and helping my friend Byron move at the last moment killed this post for Austinist…but if the people in it ever Google themselves, they might see this! Maybe…. Valentine’s Day is a...
Chuckie and the Health Care Debate…
The reality of our national health-care crisis was recently brought home to me in a sudden and dramatic fashion. In mid-October, our sweet family member Charles (aka Chuckie to his friends) was struck with...
Cronocrimenes at Fantastic Fest
Tim League of the Alamo and Nacho Vigalondo during the Cronocrimenes Question and Answer session following one of the first screenings of the movie in the United States (2007). Growing up in the...
Why Austin Shouldn’t Move the Animal Shelter
In April, a tragedy occurred in our backyard. After years of stalking and chasing, one of our dogs finally caught our neighbor’s white cat, Emma, who had slipped though our fence. The result– 120...
