Sage, Helicopters, and Aguas Frescas

Monday I received an email from Deborah that our friend Ramon had suffered a heart attack the previous Friday. He was scheduled for open heart surgery Tuesday morning. Ramon Vasquez y Sanchez is well known in San Antonio as an artist, culturist, Chicano activist, and a spiritual leader and elder of the Tap [...]

Shot Through With Blue

Earlier in the week I attended an advanced screening of Chris Eska’s “August Evening.”  It’s a smart, beautiful, and sensitive film (and not deserving of the shit review it received from the San Antonio Current).  I’m going back again tomorrow (Sunday) to show my support.  The distributor is waiting on the opening weekend audience numbers [...]

Standing in the Cockpit, Dickin’ Around

I’m littering my day with chores of procrastination.  It’s eleven pm and I’m writing a blog.  Things must be desperate.  What I’m supposed to be doing is working on my Artist Foundation grant proposal.  Oh, and preparing film proposal submission guidelines for the 2009 Luminaria Arts Night.  But, nope.  I’ve rearranged my living room.  I [...]

Sappy and Tacky

It might be hurricane season for those poor saps living in the gulf coastal regions, but in my neighborhood it’s clearly sap season according to the pecan tree arching over my driveway.  My truck is currently encased in a mottled veneer of syrup.  Tonight I got out of my truck and leaned over the side [...]