So I’ll write about me. But I might also be writing about you. I cast my first vote on a poster sized paper ballot which I marked with a pencil, provided by the county, and then folded and stuffed into a black wooden box similar to the one LBJ had stolen some thirty six years […]
Notes on A Playlist Fellowship Hall Sound ~ Selections from 2020 by Jason Weinheimer My main job as producer is to invite the right people to the party ~ and step aside while they realize a song’s full potential. To that end, my favorite production process is to assemble a full band and record live […]
By Jesse Lynn Madera http://www.jesselynnmadera.com Last December, while we were decorating our tree, our eight-year-old son asked me about Santa. “Mom?” “Yes, George?” “Is Santa real?” Oh god. Here it is. That was sudden, but aren’t most natural disasters? Every article I’d read, or piece of advice I’d been given, flashed through my mind in […]
by Katie Cole https://katiecoleofficial.com Starting a new year usually means to refresh, renew your enthusiasm for your chosen career path and to institute a step-by-step plan of what you want and how you’ll achieve it. Success is all about planning and using spirit and sheer will to achieve your dreams right? It’s all about aiming […]
At midnight all the agents and the super human crew go out and round up every one that knows more than they do . . . —Bob Dylan, from “Desolation Row” Dr. Fauci has an unenviable position. He knows more than Donald Trump. He knows more than most any of us about infectious disease. And […]
By James McMurtry Let’s say you’ve got a brand new custom 1911 .45 ACP pistol with all the bells and whistles, except a muzzle brake. You don’t think you need a muzzle brake because you are a real man, you can handle recoil. But you and your new pistol just can’t seem to knock down […]
Trump’s pardon of Roger Stone trends at the top of google news as if no one saw it coming. Houston is out of ICU beds. ERs are directing ambulance crews elsewhere. Trump’s pardon of Stone dominates the headlines. Who really gives a rat’s ass about Roger Stone? We have real problems that need to be […]
So now the President wants a “National Heroes Garden” eh? I guess he’s been studying fascist dictators again, has moved on from Mussolini, and discovered Francisco Franco’s “Valle de los Caidos” up the hill from Madrid, The Valley of the Fallen, which Franco billed as a national act of reconciliation after the Spanish Civil War, […]
By James McMurtry Our President cares an awful lot about statues commemorating officers of the losing side of our civil war, a conflict that occurred before either side of his immigrant family reached our shores. He’s not known for admiring those he calls LOSERS!, and he has no roots in the conflict. My father and […]
Dispatch from Not Quite Rural Texas It must be Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, because, from my back yard, I can hear cattle in the auction barn on U.S.183, south of the Lockhart Airport. The sale starts every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. and the cattle don’t sound happy about this. The days are running […]
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