This is one of my favorite photos. It’s my friend Reed and Karen. They went out awhile while living in Austin.
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Late 2001
I’m putting this here as a place holder so I don’t forget to address it. I’m not sure when I’ll address it. This was in Walla Walla, WA in 2001 at Club Minivan. It was a wonderful place to be 25. #clubminivan
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Icy Drives
I opened the door and walked out onto the porch. I took a deep breath of the new, freezing air. It wasn’t an unexpected cold front, I knew it was coming, so I prepared. I was ready. I stacked plenty of food and firewood. Deer meat and a half cord of live oak just a…
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Foggy weather.
A mattress, leaning towards the road, becomes heavy and damp. A mattress set aside in the fog, too long, gets too heavy to move. I wait until it’s foggy to throw out my old mattress. Yesterday the fog rolled by so I pulled my couch to the road. Later, I leaned my old mattress over…
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Sky Mattress
Even the sky loves the mattress.
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Review of Kitchen Confidential
Review of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain My 13-year-old son has become interested in reality TV shows focused on cooking. Hell’s Kitchen with Gordon Ramsay, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Top Chef, Is it Cake? and the like. He learned about Anthony Bourdain and asked if he could read his book, Kitchen Confidential….
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Mattress Stack
Sometimes you just have to get rid of all the mattresses.
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Central Avenue
I spend a lot of time on Central Avenue in downtown Belton. Jalisco’s has some of the best breakfast tacos around. The AutoZone is right next door so I can get oil filters for my tractor, mower or 77 GMC. Most of the time I go downtown to get a haircut. I’ve been going to…
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Review of the book Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Review of the book Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind This book has been sitting on my shelf for many years. Brand new, untouched. A few months ago, while watching an interview with Kurt Cobain, he mentioned it was his favorite book and that he carried it everywhere with him. He also…
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Chairs
Even though I’ve taken some nice mattress photos lately I stopped to take some photos of chairs as well. On a sunny day I saw the group of chairs on Loop 21 near where that crazy man with the eye patch and axe used to stand. The guy everyone calls, “Pirate Steve”. The pink chair…
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