Vanishing Austin

12/19/2024

It's been a minute and look how many Austin icons have vanished? Over half featured on the Endangered Species of Austin poster have gone P**F!

05/20/2023

When obstacles are blocking your path, where you look matters.

Life provides obstacles. Where to look matters.

04/26/2023

The hard work isn't really writing the novel after all. It's cutting it

I spent six years writing 205,000 words. Looks like I’ll be cutting half of them.

04/20/2023

I wrote a poem while under the influence. (Of Yoga and The Artist's Way)

When an old poem strikes my creative chord, it’s new again.

04/12/2023

Can you say ? It's that time of year...

When you’re in a creative drought, just hit the road. Literally or virtually, you can juice your creative flow and find new ways of looking at old things.

09/18/2018

“We may be stupid and lazy, but at least we know how to spell Austin, and it isn’t spelled Austonian” —Micael Priest, renowned for 1970s Armadillo World HQ-era Austin music posters, who died last week at 66

10/20/2017

Little City no more.
Matchbook from a funky homegrown coffee shop forced to leave Congress Ave back when Austin lost its soul

08/21/2017

On the street where I live there were no birds singing but the trees put on a street dance

08/10/2017

Historical research leads you down some strange rabbit holes. Like Russell Lee's 1939 FSA photo in Waco. Why didn't that catch on?

08/03/2017

You really won't be able to look away...
1936 footage from the Texas Expo at Fair Park

Film documentary from the 1936 Texas Centennial.