On Graffiti Park
Look, I’ve been in Austin 9 years or so now and I’ve never once played the “It’s not as good as it used to be”…
Advice for Austinites in Winter
So, summer's over. It's going to starting getting cold again. Sure, it happens (almost) every year at this time, but we're always surprised, right? A…
On Port Aransas, TX
Port Aransas holds a complicated place in my heart. For one, it's the first place that my now-wife and I went on vacation together; on…
Quicksand warning sign
Beware of quicksand? My childhood fears come true, here in the land of the free? Absolutely.
Scooters and Shooters
In the Venn diagram center of "Scooters" and "Shooters" lies this bar. Bikers also welcome. I can only hope that the games of pool are…
On Sugar
Like a playboy about to head into a monastery; like a drug addict about to spend hard months in rehab, I was a man about…
Emergency toilets of Texas
I'm not an actual Texan, of course, so it's hard to be certain. But this looks like the epitome of social-realist design. Look, they know…
