

James BigBoy Medlin
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / What is Real?
Editor's Note: Due to a software glitch, this piece will appear both here, as a stand alone article and also as a part of the Coronavirus...


Various People
- Aug 3, 2020
- 5 min
Coronavirus Chronicles / Reactions in a Time of Plague
An Ongoing Series A compendium of thoughts, reflections, asides or just whatever from a variety of writers, artists & everyday folks,...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
WHY NOT? / Nothing Happening, So Much Going On
(not a poem, just a prattle) ~ with apologies to Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel ~ Who's that guy with the red tie on? Some folks call...


Austin Sun Staff
- May 28, 2020
- 0 min


Charlie Loving
- May 17, 2020
- 1 min
The Loving View
Charlie Loving is an artist, cartoonist, spelunker, authentic eccentric, Veteran, world traveler, and the former Sports Editor of the...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Apr 8, 2020
- 9 min
WHY NOT? / BigBoy's All Something or Another Baseball Team
As of this writing, we have no baseball season. No one knows when, or if, the season will start. The ritual, distraction and meditative...


James BigBoy Medlin / Art by Dan Hubig
- Mar 23, 2020
- 8 min
The Florida Years / Chapter III & Virus Vexation
When I lived in Texas, no one ever cut my throat — although I was twice threatened with such action. My throat was completely off-limits...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Feb 26, 2020
- 9 min
Flickers
— or A Salute to Character Actors — or How Hollywood Screwed Up My Life Before I Even Got There On November 20, 1944, the whole world...


H.H. Howze
- Nov 21, 2019
- 5 min
A December Night on the River: A Cautionary Tale
Be prepared. – Boy Scout motto I didn’t intend spending one of the last Saturday nights before I turned 70 trying to stay warm on a...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Oct 28, 2019
- 8 min
The Florida Years, Chapter II
When moving to a foreign country (in this case Florida), adjustments must be made. First up — getting one’s papers in order. The local...


James 'BigBoy' Medlin / Photo: Dan Hubig
- Jul 1, 2019
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / Hell to the Chief
He who calls me THE ugliest of writers shall have not his name spoken. Nor of the publication nor broadcast nor streaming service failing...


Bob Brown
- Jun 16, 2019
- 11 min
The Rent Horse Kid
At some point during my fourteenth year I decided I wanted a life on the range; riding a horse, chasing dogies, strumming lonesome cowboy...


James Medlin / Art: Dan Hubig
- May 15, 2019
- 8 min
'WHY NOT?' / The Path to the Florida Years
From the Writer Formerly Known as "BigBoy" Yes, I was born on a mountaintop (no longer there) in Santa Anna, Texas. No, I was not ridden...