“In their faces–plenty of them were handsome, but ruined–I’ve seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.”
― Richard Ford, Canada
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense. Smooth white skin (covered by only a perfunctory amount of hair) with fragile blue blood vessels visible through it; a soft, unprotected belly; ludicrous, impossibly shaped genitals; gangly arms and legs (just two of each!); a scrawny, breakable neck; an enormous, misshapen head with a tangle of stiff hair on its crown; two absurd ears, jutting out like a pair of seashells. Was this thing really him? Could a body so preposterous, so easy to destroy (no shell for protection, no weapons for attack), survive in the world?”
― Haruki Murakami, Samsa in Love
Dragon Park, Dallas, Texas
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
― Oscar Wilde
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
Billy stands
All alone
Sinking sand
Skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses
Wherever they may roam
—-Echo & the Bunnymen, Bring On the Dancing Horses
Design District
Dallas, Texas
“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
The land of lakes, volcanoes, and sun. A painting I bought on my last trip to Nicaragua.
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, Dallas, Texas
Well, that’s making a big assumption about “all” – it’s really only a bunch of fast food. Still, interesting.
Deep Ellum Brewing Company’s Lineup
Yeah, I know it’s still a long time away. So sue me.
Magazine Street, New Orleans
Stylish bike rider, French Quarter, New Orleans
My Xootr Swift folding bike in the cool bike rack in front of the Cold Beer Company
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
City of Dallas – Bicycle Parking Guidelines
Car fire just north of downtown, Dallas.
James Dean in a Mercury ’49
Junior Johnson’s runnin’ in the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in a black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac ranch
—-Bruce Springsteen, Cadillac Ranch
Old Guys Rule
Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark
Shiny and black
Open up your engines, let ’em roar
Tearin’ up the highway like a big ol’ dinosaur
—-Bruce Springsteen, Cadillac Ranch
“She was not one for emptying her face of expression. ”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
Design District,
Dallas, Texas
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
― P.G. Wodehouse
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
Bill Chance 