Vanishing Austin

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!

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

Where You Look Is Where You’ll Go Life provides obstacles. Where to look matters.

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

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

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

Renewed Inspiration In An Artist’s Poem When an old poem strikes my creative chord, it’s new again.

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

When in Doubt, I Hit the Road 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.

“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

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

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

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

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

TEXAS CENTENNIAL HIGHLIGHTS Film documentary from the 1936 Texas Centennial.