La Marchanta — Day One

It's Halloween night. The kids were out in force on my block. Personally, I kept the lights off. However, I did wander over to Jerry and Becky's place to watch the festivities from their porch. Jerry has managed to rig a pulley system from his porch to the Toland's house across [...]

Expedition to the Valley

Yesterday I met up with Dar for lunch. She'd been contacted by Michelle Brower, a freelance writer, who wanted to write about the local film scene for a new arts magazine called Collapse. I gather Dar wanted some moral support. And I went a bit overboard printing up an eight page annotated [...]

The Edward Norton of Herpetology

Cool weather has arrived.
Monday night I checked the Weather Underground website (sadly, not a militant activist clearing house, but rather a weather resource). Eleven p.m., and it was 51 degrees Fahrenheit. Mild, to be sure, but I was fucking freezing!
The previous night (Sunday) at the Jump Start Theater, Monessa (who was working the [...]

Quinceañeras Still Give Color to Our Guantanamo World

For some reason, the newest neighbor in my little triplex house has fled. And I never learned her name. So, once again, it's just me in this building. She'd mentioned something about a job offer in another city. I guess she took it. This situation allowed another opportunity for an [...]

The Pariah Box

As I am currently on sabbatical from the work-a-day world, I certainly did not set my alarm clock to wake me Tuesday morning. But sleeping late was not an option. The city of San Antonio decided that the best time to begin resurfacing the 700 block of E. Guenther was seven a.m. [...]