nostalgia
Home (away from home)
All that Google Mapping last night made me quite nostalgic. And a bit depressed.
This is where I was mugged, in Bed-Stuy, in Brooklyn. The tan townhouse, in the little front stoop area.
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This is where the handlebars fell of my bicycle, I hit a car head on, and flipped into the road, and […]
A drive down Austin memory lane
Austin has grown fast, but it has grown from a tiny urban core — meaning that we have less pre-World War II buildings than probably any other city our size in the South. Many neighborhoods quite close to downtown were developed in the 1960’s or later — the city basically ended 3 miles in […]
It’s raining today, but once there was summer and you
It actually is raining today, a serious, soaking rain, the first in probably 5 months. And there’s always a song to go with these moments — and this one is perhaps one of my absolute favorites of its genre. This is a classic impressionistic love song , a story in a song, written the way […]
Die Matt-rosen
God I just love this song. It reminds me of exactly two things — my old roommate/friend Elizabeth Skadden and the trip I took in November 2006 to Bogota, Colombia. Both remembrances put me back to a time in my life when I was truly happy. Those endless summer nights at Barton Springs, or watching […]