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Dancing in the dusk

By Matthew Rutledge on 09.06.2009

These have been, over­all, rather depress­ing times for me, but, like the economy, this is a moment in time that needs to happen. It may as well happen during a crush­ing reces­sion. I am unem­ployed, I am penni­less, I don’t live in the city I want to live in, yet I find myself […]

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July 2009: Photographic month in review

By Matthew Rutledge on 08.02.2009

It looks like I was jetset­ting in the insu­lar Club Med that is Travis County, but in real­ity, it was one of the most diffi­cult months of my entire life.

Posted in Austin, Photo | Tagged Austin, depression, difficulties, gallery, july, month in review, personal, photos, summer, texas | Leave a response

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Make The Sunshine indeed

By Matthew Rutledge on 07.16.2009

That was a draw­ing of mine from 1990 or so, back when everything had spiky hair, sunglasses and earrings. And back when Texas had normal temper­at­ures. Or did it?
For example, on July 16, 1990, the high temper­at­ure in Austin was 78, and the low was 68. That’s actu­ally well below normal, but then again, […]

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United Texas Emirates

By Matthew Rutledge on 07.09.2009

Seriously, if I thought the heat would have been this bad, I would have become a panhand­ler in Portland like every­one else is doing. For the record, the aver­age high in August (i.e. next month, and there­fore a warmer month) is 95. We have hit 100 degrees or more 23 times this year, […]

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