James BigBoy Medlin
Jan 22, 20185 min read
WHY NOT? / Three Notes Searching for a Tune
November: Befuddlement Perhaps you might have a cure for my case of Chronic Befuddlement. The first symptoms appeared after hearing...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Jan 17, 201816 min read
THE OBVIOUS, THE EVIL, AND THE E-STREET SHUFFLE / Ventura at 4am
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. The Obvious “Well, just so you...
Michael Ventura
Jan 1, 20182 min read
No One's Ever Made A Good Movie of Don Quixote
I am as full of sinning as Mack the Knife – I am as full of carelessness as Falstaff – I am as full of idiocy as Juliet on that balcony –...
H.H. Howze
Nov 18, 201714 min read
Incidents of Travel in Mexico and Central America With Doug Breeding: A Journal
“Dogs bark but the caravan passes …” Douglas Breeding was a true Austin original. Raised on the banks of the Colorado River, he partnered...
Jan Reid
Oct 31, 20174 min read
Spain's Troubles
Because my novel Sins of the Younger Sons delves into Basque separatism in Spain, several friends and readers have asked for my outlook...
George Rains
Sep 30, 201710 min read
Doug Sahm: Family Man & Night of the Living Blues
Family Man My friend Charley and I went to see Doug Sahm at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard. Doug was there with his band, The...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Sep 4, 20175 min read
The RAT File: Kurt Vonnegut
The RAT office nested among the still Jewish and Ukrainian tenements of East 4th street. A rumpled man tentatively opened the door. At...
Bill Bentley / Photos: JR Compton & Martha
Aug 31, 20177 min read
Margaret, A Friend from the Beginning
First of two stories on Austin Music critic Margaret Moser. When you're lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time, it's...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero / Photo: JR Compton
Aug 31, 20172 min read
Margaret
Second of two stories on Austin Music critic Margaret Moser. Margaret Moser certainly had a good run and she taught us all something...
Frank Viviano
Aug 17, 20172 min read
A Deplorable Situation
Another bone to the deplorable dogs: he's now on record that it's "foolish" to tear down Confederate statues. Once someone goes after...
Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
Aug 16, 20172 min read
Atheist Power!
Here I am speaking to imaginary religionists I have brought along to be yelled at from time to time. But, well, read Psalm 139. They...
James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 15, 20173 min read
Enchanted by Silver City
Thirteen years ago Lynn and I were living in the Los Angeles beach community known as Venice. One day we got a phone call from Lynn’s...
Jon Carroll / joncarrollproserose.com
Jul 7, 20174 min read
Jon Carroll / Manly Men
I’m writing this in order to find out what I think. I do not expect this to be easy. I am treading in weirdly dangerous territory, and I...
