James BigBoy Medlin
Apr 8, 20209 min read
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...
H.H. Howze
Apr 7, 202011 min read
Honduras Otra Vez
Honduras, 1997 “All those Olancho Rivers have gold in them,” Salem explained as we peered into the dinner plate full of river sand...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art by Dan Hubig
Mar 23, 20208 min read
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...
Danny N. Schweers
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / May 2020
My hope now is that we can slow the spread of the coronavirus so our hospitals are not overwhelmed, so that everyone who needs it can get...
Bill Bentley
Mar 19, 20209 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / March 2020
Michael Doucet Lacher Prise Beausoleil’s Michael Doucet is surely one of the high priests of Cajun music, and has been for a very long...
Danny N. Schweers
Mar 2, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / April 2020
Sometimes everything seems perfect. Sometimes all the pieces fall into place, as though an unseen hand were guiding our hands, as though...
Bill Bentley
Mar 2, 202011 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / February 2020
Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band Just Like Moby Dick If there is a renaissance person alive in the world today, better make it...
Michael Ventura
Feb 28, 20206 min read
Ventura at 4am / Impressions II – Democrats debate in South Carolina — February 25, 2020
They’re Trump-bit. His teeth-marks are all over their behavior when together on a stage. Warren, Sanders, Biden, Klobuchar, Steyer — they...
James BigBoy Medlin
Feb 26, 20209 min read
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...
Danny N. Schweers
Feb 23, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / March 2020
My wife and I, excluded, stand on the wrong side of a frosted-glass wall. It separates us from those on the other side who are enjoying a...
Michael Ventura
Feb 20, 20204 min read
Ventura at 4am / Impressions - Democrats Debate in Las Vegas, February 19, 2020
Who did we see? A gay guy. Two New York Jews age 78. A no-nonsense hard-working Oklahoma woman and a no-nonsense hard-working Minnesota...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Feb 14, 20207 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Most Integrated Space in the U.S.A.
1: Some data A majority non-white U.S.A. is widely predicted in more or less a generation. That doesn’t mean someone in 2045 (my...
Danny N. Schweers
Feb 13, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / March 2020
They took away my Kodachrome but gave me Photoshop instead. Now I can make the colors as bright and sunny as I want. The mute image now...
H.H. Howze
Feb 11, 20205 min read
Interview with Leon and Babette Hale
After he got out of Texas Tech in 1946, Leon Hale made his living listening and writing. He has written two memoirs, two novels and...
Bill Bentley
Feb 6, 20209 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / January, 2020
While 2020 hasn’t really turned on the musical heat yet, have no fear because there is a handful of releases from the latter months of...
Danny N. Schweers
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / February 2020
At the party we were alight with joy. “Thank you! Thank you!” we said. We said we’d remember the moment always and, having experienced...
