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Programming Note: Summer Lightning will be on a break till the new year. Thanks to everyone who has supported my writing in the last year. This is the…
Nov 29
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Airport Novel
Once upon a time, I wrote that airports are narrative deserts - places so sterile that narratives rarely unfold in them. But, under certain conditions…
Nov 22
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Barbershop Russian Roulette
I got my hair cut at the same barbershop for 10 years - right up until I left the country. When you went in there, they placed your head on a guillotine…
Nov 10
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#75 Saving the World and All That
I've been watching soccer games at a pub. It's on 4th St and is named The Pub. Named as if the proprietor consciously chose not to mythologize it. Most…
Nov 4
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American Ruins
I'm out on a long walk in Austin. My contemplation is interrupted by a question, one that I have become quite familiar with - is this a sidewalk or the…
Oct 29
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Velvet Rut
The first day of autumn in Austin always feels rather wistful. All through a brutal summer, I dreamt of the day it would cool down enough to wear a…
Oct 20
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Paper Trails of Time
Obituaries are a database of people who did all the right things in life and then died politely. When you were young, your elders told you to find role…
Oct 9
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Cool Realities
In the Spike Lee classic Do The Right Thing, radio jockey Mister Senor Love Daddy sets up the premise of the movie with the lines: "I have today's…
Oct 5
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