By matthew on 2009/09/13
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 [...]
Posted in Austin, nostalgia, texas Tagged 1940, 1953, 1956, analysis, Austin, city, development, growth, historic, historical, maps, texas, urbanization
By matthew on 2009/09/06
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 [...]
Posted in Matters Tagged cars, depression, friendship, loneliness, Quarter-life crisis, summer, texas
By matthew on 2009/09/04
Being unemployed means that you pay attention to useless nothingness while avoiding the actual task at hand, i.e. finding a job. So here I was, randomly Google Mapping the city of San Antonio, a place I don’t particularly care for, when I discovered a subdivision who must have had a fairly massochistic master developer. [...]
Posted in Cultural Ephemera, Screenshots Tagged alfa romeo, automobiles, brands, car, european, fiat, google, google maps, hillman, nostalgia, renault, retro, rootes, san antonio, texas
By matthew on 2009/08/20
It’s amazing how much energy you invest into something you don’t even believe in – that was the last 4 or 5 months for me. I need to get back to New York – I haven’t been happy more than a day or two in a row since I left 2 years ago. [...]
Posted in Matters Tagged Austin, depression, new york, texas, unemployment