Tag: Texas
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My Saturday and road trip to Corpus Christi with Chicano hipsters
This entire day was unreal. I woke up in bed with a gay man and my dog. Luckily, I didn’t over sleep. I was supposed to give a class that morning and had stayed at my friend Louie’s place the night before watching bad movies and drinking wine. I gathered my things and went home…
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What do you think about homeless people working for advertising agencies as wifi hotspots during SXSW?
This might sound like a joke at first but when you think about it, it’s a pretty good idea. I saw this photo while browsing Instagram the other day and I had to take a second look. It reads: I’m Dusty, a 4G hotspot SMS HH Dusty to 25827 for access www.homelesshotspots.org What a concept!…
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Walking with Orbison part four
I like like things together. Alliteration gets me giddy. Symmetry makes me smile. And I think know I’m obvious about it. This was taken in Nuevo Laredo while I was visiting my mother’s sister’s family. These things are an inch and a half tall. This is the second year I see these at Soriana. They’re…
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Another new year’s resolution blog and this past year in pictures
Every day, I want to do something I’ve never done before. I know this might sound ambitious, and it is, but it will surely lead to some interesting places. Did you notice how incredibly vague this resolution is? I’m not a fan of boundaries. That being said here are some of the things I want…
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Walking with Orbison part three
The leaves finally changed. This was actually at the Arboretum in Houston but I felt like it set the mood of this walk with Orbison. It also finally rained. It’s been raining all week. Orbison hates showers. He acts like I’m trying to stick him in a boiling cauldron and maneuvers himself so forcefully into the crevasse of the wall. But…
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Walking with Orbison part two
I reached the end of the street. It curved and I saw a lonely blue house on the tiny block that was made by the curve. It was the only house on that block and there was a field surrounding it. I got to see how alone and out of place it looked when I…
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Nightmares and witch doctors
If you were in Ohio yesterday, you may have thought you had stumbled onto the set of Jumanji for a minute. Dozens of exotic animals were set free in the middle of stormy weather. This morning started off like a nightmare too. Earthquake in a small town in Texas and Gadhafi is found and brutally…
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Twitter and telepathy
This morning I had a nice Twitter conversation with one of our readers. He thought we could have compared boot fest to a different festival instead of Austin City Limits in a recent editorial. He had great ideas, but if you don’t use Twitter, how would we know? Telepathy was the only thing I could…
Jessica Puente 