Monthly Archives: April 2018

Delight & Melancholy

Driving down a lonely New Mexico highway at dusk listening to “Wicked Game” filled me with a Lynchian sense of melancholy. My favorite feeling is delight.  But I’ve also always found a certain delight in melancholy.  Not all melancholy, perhaps, but … Continue reading

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Godrays II

More godrays, this time over Texas.

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Archive

I had never heard of the Texas Archive War.  And all over whether Texas’ capitol ought to be in Austin or Houston.

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Valor

With all the Civil War sites I’d visited on this trip—between Manassas and Gettysburg and Chickamauga and Chattanooga and Petersburg and Appomattox Courthouse—the idea that “both sides showed valor” was reiterated ad nauseum.  After seeing the flag of the Confederate … Continue reading

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Lone

Toured the Texas State Capitol building.  Flanking the entrance are statues of Sam Houston (who was notably the president of the Republic of Texas and, as governor of Tennessee and then Texas, also the only person to ever be governor … Continue reading

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Lawgiver

I’m a big fan of the Alamo Drafthouse theaters.  Apparently, each one in Austin is themed differently, Fry’s-style.  The one in northern Austin near where I was staying was decorated with Planet of the Apes memorabilia, including this statue of … Continue reading

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Cowboys

Visited the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.  Where else are you going to find a room full of rolling racks with hundreds of different kinds of barb wire on display? I understand this monumental plaster statue called End of … Continue reading

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Militia

With the recent upsurge in domestic terrorism, it was sobering to wander the sight of the Oklahoma City bombing.

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