The Texas Coast Aesthetic

20Jul09

Taken at Shorty’s dive bar, Port Aransas, TX – July 17th, 2009. More photos on Flickr.

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Dispatches from small town Texas

30Apr09

I went to high school in a small town near the Texas-Oklahoma border. It was very Friday Night Lights-ish. There is a lot to be said for going to high school in a rural small town. I never feared any of the things that plague so many urban schools: gang activity, drug deals in the [...]

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How to spend sunday afternoon in Austin, TX

29Mar09

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Lux goes to SXSW

23Mar09

So it happened.
After much going back and forth, cussin’ and discussin’, I made it to a little bit of SXSW this weekend.
And it was everything I hoped for.
My favorite part was Mess With Texas 3 at Waterloo Park. I made two awesome discoveries:
Thao Nguyen:
Also known as “Thao With the Get Down Stay Down,” her voice [...]

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Reading

02Mar09

Our Founding Fathers died in bed, many on their huge plantations, full of age and honor. The leaders of Mexico’s 1810 revolution from Spain were executed by firing squads, then most of their heads were cut off, and and put on public display. While democracy and growth, in territory and wealth, increased steadily in the [...]

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Reading

11Jan09

Austinites sing their city’s praises ceaselessly, and they would live nowhere else–although they usually disagree on how the city should be run, what price progress, and even whether they want it to grow or not.
Grow it did in the seventies and eighties. The metropolitan population nearly doubled from 442,000 to 749,000, making Austin “a ’sunspot’ [...]

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