David Talbot
Jul 20, 20182 min read
Talbot / Left Wing of the Possible
"I'm a radical...(But) I want to be on the left wing of the possible." That's how activist-author Michael Harrington, co-founder of the...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Jul 12, 20187 min read
Ventura at 4AM / THIS USA: Origins
Each sluggish turn of the world has such disinherited to whom belongs neither what’s been nor what’s coming next. Rainer Maria Rilke, The...
David Talbot
Jul 2, 20182 min read
Talbot / The New Democratic Party?
The most exciting, most encouraging political development in America today is, without a doubt, the wave of new energy in the left wing...
Clay Coppedge
May 31, 20188 min read
Fool’s Gold
My own experience verifies what cops have told me — that 10 percent of the criminal population commits 90 percent of all the crimes they...
George Rains
May 15, 20189 min read
Ft. Worth Underground
Part 3 of 'Cellar Dweller' The original Cellar was a raunchy coffee house in a refurbished basement on Houston Street in downtown Fort...
Michael Ventura
May 14, 20189 min read
Ventura at 4am / March 24 2018: History As This Afternoon
Note: My first draft was written on the afternoon and early evening of March 24th. Pneumonia intervened. The piece was completed in May....
Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com / Photos Tracy
May 3, 20183 min read
Jon Carroll / High Desert Gothic I: Artifacts
It all started with a mistake. In the 70s, when we lived in Los Angeles and worked against deadline, we often spent weekends at Joshua...
Clay Coppedge
Apr 16, 20189 min read
Cop Karma
Before the meter clicks even more time on my taxi memoirs, let me take this opportunity to express my gratitude and appreciation to...
Frank Browning
Apr 3, 20184 min read
Still Life Transformed
We call it Still Life. Our Roman and Renaissance ancestors used the starker term Nature Morte. Nature Dead. Probably the best known...
James BigBoy Medlin
Mar 25, 20182 min read
WHY NOT? / Crazy About Trump
Please help me! I fear my mind is going and I am suffering from a terrifying delusion. It seems like this fellow Trump is part of every...
Clay Coppedge
Mar 9, 201813 min read
Bozo’s Wheelman
The passenger I would know only as Bozo turned out to be the only Anglo I ever picked up at the Green Spot, the only hippie and the only...
Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
Feb 26, 20183 min read
Jon Carroll / Beetlemania
The last time I was thinking unhurried oatmeal thoughts was at the Bug. Our friend Tom told us about The Bug. We asked him about it....
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Feb 18, 20187 min read
And Thy Right Hand Shall Teach Thee
Here We Go Yet Again… Nineteen years ago – May 28 1999 – The Austin Chronicle published a Letters At 3am column concerning the Columbine...