“A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
Waco Downtown Farmer’s Market
Waco, Texas
Burning With Pure Cat Flame
Tag Archives: Texas
As True As Turnips
“It was as true,” said Mr. Barkis, ” as turnips is. It was as true,” said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, ” as taxes is.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Waco Downtown Farmer’s Market
Waco, Texas
All They Did Was Persist
“Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country’s fate. But they did not prosper… about all they did was persist”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Dallas, Texas
I Turned the Radio On
so I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up,
and this woman was singing my song:
the lover’s in love, and the other’s run away,
the lover is crying ’cause the other won’t stay.
—-Lisa Loeb, Stay
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Conversation
“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.”
― Guy de Maupassant
Denton, Texas
Being Crazy About a Woman Like Her’s Always the Right Thing To Do
“Is growin’ up always miserable?” Sonny asked. “Nobody seems to enjoy it much.”
“Oh, it ain’t necessarily misearble,” Sam replied. “About eighty percent of the time, I guess.”
They were silent again, Sam the Lion thinking of the lovely, spritely girl he had once led into the water, right there, where they were sitting.
“We ought to go to a real fishin’ tank next year,” Sam said finally. “It don’t do to think about things like that too much. If she were here now I’d probably be crazy again in about five minutes. Ain’t that ridiculous?”
A half-hour later, when they had gathered up the gear and were on the way to town, he answered his own question. “It ain’t really, ” he said. “Being crazy about a woman like her’s always the right thing to do. Being a decrepit old bag of bones is what’s ridiculous.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
Denton, Texas
Suzuki Windmill
Goat Ranch
Dallas, Texas
The famous Suzuki Windmill – new technology for an old purpose from the far east.
I have seen places in my lifetime where people took showers in little wooden boxes that sat underneath a windmill. Sort of a vintage romantic throwback… at least in the summertime.
A bitch in the winter, though.
The Only Acceptable Currency Is Pain
Gravity, velocity, and the ground; stopping is going to cost a fortune and the only acceptable currency is pain.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
The Goat Ranch
Dallas, Texas
There’s A Brand New Dance
There’s a brand new dance but I don’t know its name
That people from bad homes do again and again
It’s big and it’s bland full of tension and fear
They do it over there but we don’t do it here
—-David Bowie, Fashion
Main Street Park
Dallas, Texas
I Told Them the Truth
“I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn’t like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.”
― Frank Norris, McTeague
Recycled Books
Denton, Texas
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