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Happy Birthday To Suburban Guerilla
Hard to believe it’s been a year since my first post here in this space. What started as a sort of personal experiment has become something much larger. It has grown way beyond what I thought it would be, the real surprise being just how much work it takes to do this even as unevenly as I do. I’ve definitely come…
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The Road to Houston
The Energizer Buddy Summer 2007 tour took us to Houston this past weekend. Budman left on Monday and we hit I-45 early Friday AM. Site of athletic competition is former SWC member, University of Houston. Cougar High is somewhere in that downtown Houston morass shown on the left. We were able to navigate our way through and got there just…
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Another Bull Balls Sighting – With Photographic Evidence
Wrote a bit about the bull balls phenomenon here and here some time back. Another sighting today in the parking lot of our local supermarket, this time the ball wearer was sitting still (probably ran in to pick up a few more carbon offsets for his 4X4 Hemi) so I was able to whip out the MotoPhone with it’s whizbang technoglitterati .0075 quatropixel camera…
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Friday Funkishness
Freddie King-Boogie Funk Haven’t done any Friday Funkishness in awhile, but got the urge tonight after ruminating all week on the awesome vintage concert posters plastering the walls at Threadgill’s World Headquarters and Scholz Garten in Austin. One of the posters near our table was this one circa 1970 for Freddie King. I saw Freddie in 1976 at the Tarrant…