What a long, strange trip it’s been…and I’m only talking about this weekend. The past month has seen some changes in my life. The biggest is that my live-in galpal and I split. She left our Oak Cliff house earlier last month, leaving me with no furniture (I gave it up, y’all) and all alone….
Skittles Leak
This is old but it makes me laugh everytime I see it…
Diving the Oriskany
Dateline: Florida. G Michael G and I set out from Dallas on Friday morning, August 3rd for Pensacola to dive the much-discussed ex-USS Oriskany wreck. We had been planning the dive — set up by Layne Hedrick as a package trip out of Tom’s Dive and Swim in Austin — for a couple of months…
Adios Comic Books
I started collecting comic books in earnest back in 1982. I was always interested in reading them and kept a few issues of Batman or Spider-Man under the bed — usually with coupons clipped or covers torn off. A friend named Jeff Sternal turned me on to the idea that comics could actually be of…
Laszlo Kovacs – R.I.P.
Award-winning Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs passed away at his home in Beverly Hills this past weekend at the age of 74. Kovacs, who lensed such films as Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Ghostbusters and Say Anything — as well as contributing photography to Close Encounters of the Third Kind — actually cut his teeth on early…
Kansas City Confidential
Kansas City Confidential (1952)Directed: Phil KarlstonWritten: Harry Essex, George BruceStarring: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston FosterMGM/ B&W / 1:33 / 99 m. Let us now turn our attention to all things NOIR…Got my mitts on a brand-spanking new DVD of the recently released B-programmer Kansas City Confidential. Unfortunately, this rough little gem has been languishing…
Generation Chickenhawk
Gen. Chickenhawks from huffpost and Vimeo. This video by Max Blumenthal illustrates the hypocrisy and willful ignorance of the “elite wannabes”. Suck it, Wingnuts! If you like the war in Iraq so much, why don’t you grab a gun and get your ass over there? Plus, it’s got the “Totally Not Gay” dude!
Mamie Van Doren
For your amusement: 76-year-old sex symbol Mamie Van Doren.
Mexico City Part 5 — The Final Chapter
When I was plotting our trip to Mexico City, I knew that by the end of the trip we’d probably want to totally chill in style. With that in mind, I booked us a night at the fancy-schmancy La Casona boutique hotel in Colonia Roma. The one night we spent at the La Casona cost…
Mexico City Part 4
Taxco, a colonial silver mining town, lies about 2 1/2 hours southwest of Mexico City by bus. After packing up our bags and saying goodbye to the Hotel Posada Viena, Tiffany and I walked to the Cuauhtémoc station and took the metro to the Autobus Terminal South. I had already spied the station when we…