SAL Ovation! Take a Bow, Darlene Miller!

It was killer weekend for film events in San Antonio.
Friday there was a screening of one of my favorite movies, Bajo California: El Límite del Tiempo, with the writer/director, Carlos Bolado, in attendance. I only found out about this Thursday. It was at the Instituto Cultural de Mexico in the Hemisfair complex. [...]

Slacking Beats Working Every Time

I didn't have to work today. Ah, yes. I remember this sweet freedom. Work, it's really for rubes. Really.

I met Dar at the Aztec Theater. She was there with Adam, a volunteer who is helping to promote the SAL Film Festival. We were waiting on Bryan and Druck. [...]

I Dub Thee Ostrich Tree!

It's a dull grind sitting day after day shackled to a computer making money for a hoard of faceless assholes I will (thankfully) never meet. How the hell can you folks do this?
Five days out of seven. Eight hours out of 24. Why the hell aren't the suicide rates higher?
My current assignment [...]

Art: Cards, Cacti, and Garbage

Last week I attended an art opening of one of my neighbors. Marlys Dietrick. She has a show in the Blue Star Arts Complex. It runs through this month at Three Walls Gallery. The show is called “Win, Lose, or Draw.” Marlys had a show earlier in the summer at [...]

I Can't Get Enough of Tuscany Fondu

At seven Sunday morning I awoke to the moving van in my driveway. My new neighbor was moving in. I'd fallen asleep on the sofa reading. And, as it was way too early to face the day, I limped into the bathroom, downed some aspirin (I'm beginning to resemble Robert Blake in [...]