*I have always loved datelines and stories from the road – “14,500 feet up in the High Andes above Cañar, Ecuador, South America” is always a much more promising starting point than “Staring at the brick wall above my incredibly messy desk…”* So: Dateline: APR 15… MEACHAM FIELD, Fort Worth …
For those of you who haven’t encountered Art Cars before, They look sort of like this, sometimes. Imagine if you will an automobile (ranging from fairly new to very old, very broken, and barely functional, about six or eight steps past “jalopy”) acquired by a human (ranging from barely able …
Rumors of our demise are somewhat overstated. But the next piece here has some learning and some more research to be done, so it’s taking longer than I thought. Learning comes slower these days; I think my brain’s getting full. Or stuck. Or something. Anyway, here’s a sneak preview. And …
Decided last week that cabin fever was settling in and I needed to get out again, so I sorted through the various events and places on my “gotta do this sometime” list and eventually settled on A Plan. In Four Parts. Part One: catch the time machine back to the …
It’s like St. Patrick’s Day, but without the green beer. It’s what a national holiday looks like when it’s celebrated in another country by large groups of people, most of whom have at best a marginal tie to the Auld Sod or La Patria Hermosa. In short, it’s an excuse …
Once again I headed over to the San Jacinto Day Battle Re-enactment. Once again, the Mexicans held to their old failed tactics. Once again, the Mexicans lost. Badly. I talked to a couple of the survivors after the event and they told me they were hoping to deploy some secret …
I made it about 50 yards before they got me. I’d stopped by the side of a food booth, which was selling things I couldn’t pronounce, talking with a elderly gent I’d met somewhere before. We were both trying to sort out “where do we know each other from?” when, …
Went to MECA yesterday for the Dia de los Muertos festival. Took Cameras. And Pictures You should look. Some of them are fairly nice. Words may follow once I’ve recovered from my own cooking. !
A week after the Renaissance Festival run ends, the Galveston Historical Foundation holds their festival, Dickens On The Strand, a single-weekend street festival celebrating the city’s Victorian-era history and trade. The appeal is similar to the Renaissance Festival, and I noticed several Renaissance players following their seven weeks of work …
First up: The Texas Renaissance Festival. I could rattle on at length about this place: One of the earliest Renaissance Festivals in the country, by their account the largest AND one of the biggest, etc., etc. It’s been going on rain or shine (or both sometimes) for nearly 40 years …