Category Archives: austin
New Orleans food in Austin, Chapter I: Sambets
[Pre-disclaimer: This has been sitting in my unpublished drafts since before the BP oil spill turned so catastrophic. My heart isn't into writing anything like this at the moment but I figured since I already wrote it I'd put it out there.] [Disclaimer: For my Austin peeps, this isn't personal, I pretty much trashed most [...]
Too blue to fly
I’m sitting here in my bed poking around on the innerwebs, I hear a far off whistle, and I’m thinking to myself how nice it is to be close to the river again so that I can hear the sounds of ships at night, the sounds that I used to fall asleep to when I [...]
Chasing the dragon
OK, so, see, I am what you call powerless over ice cream, but have not hit the proverbial bottom yet, so I can remain mostly in denial while concocting ever-more-elaborate schemes to try to maintain some semblance of moderate ice cream consumption. I rarely eat it at home, I try not to eat it every [...]
DVD coinkidinks
We’re finally back on Netflix after taking a break for a couple of years, and the first two movies out of the gate both have weirdness to them. Terminator 2: Has anybody ever noticed that the predicted Judgement Day when the world is destroyed by nuclear war is August 29, 1997? Fucken weird. You’re Gonna [...]
Pain vacation
I just got back from a four-day weekend back in Austin, having Chris Trevino put the first eight hours worth of ink on my other sleeve. This one is cardinals, and will work around the existing celtic cross that Freddy Corbin did for me many years ago. I’ll have pictures up by Thursday, hopefully. I [...]
CERT simulation
I was grubbing around looking up volunteer search and rescue stuff and ran across a whole pile of pictures taken at the training simulation we did in Austin right before I moved here. If you’ve been reading my blog since then you probably remember reading about it here. The photos from the US-HERO training site [...]
The old country
I’m out of the country this week, back in America. Austin, specifically. It’s definitely a weird feeling here. Not so much the culture shock that other people report, more just a vague sense of homesickness. Not that I want to move back; if I still lived here I’d want to be in New Orleans. But [...]
Ann
In July of 1992, Gina and I flew into Austin from San Francisco for some job interviews. The city life in the Bay Area was starting to wear us down and we were both homesick for the heat we grew up with. In the Dallas airport, we ran across this issue of Texas Monthly: and [...]
Kinky can go fuck himself
I have his bumper sticker on my car. I signed his petition. I started to wonder about him when I found out that he voted for GWB in 2004, but I still kinda liked the guy. Then this: “The musicians and artists have mostly moved back to New Orleans now,” he said, according to KHOU-Channel [...]
Innovative uses of blog technology for disaster response
First, the Emergency Blogcasting System is the creation of a bunch of Austin techie activists led by Chip Rosenthal: The Emergency Blogcasting System (EBS) is an association of Austin-area weblog authors who will contribute to a regional disaster response through communication and citizen reporting enabled through blogging. The EBS is under development. Official release is [...]
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