scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
Rita’s Ragtime Rain Raged,a Purgatory of Rags & Rafters
ragtime: syncopated American popular music
Was is reading Farenheit 451 at a tender age that engendered my loathing for the destruction of books? Or is it something that was engrained in a non-internet generation? I went to Half-Price Books determined to find a book worthy of mutilation and […]
Dontcha hate seeing one of these in your mailbox? I’ve been looking forward to this day (ha!) for over a month. I was listed as a “standby juror” on the summons; instead of reporting to the Central Jury Room at 8 a.m. I was supposed to wait until 11 o’clock, call in, and find out […]
The Houstonians are winging their way back although from the looks of southbound I35 yesterday it looked to be slow going through Dallas. It’s one thing to see the hordes of suitcase-packed vehicles on the newscasts, quite another to see it first hand. I’m glad I was going the other direction.
I’m wondering if life […]
Were the inhabitants of Galveston blissfully oblivious of the approaching dome of water in 1900? Did they know it was a storm to end all storms as the wind picked up and the sky darkened? Until that hurricane hit, Galveston was equally as important a city as Houston. After nearly being flattened, and losing 8,000 […]
Some more practice from my art journal. I was prepping some pages with crimson and bright yellow and experimenting with ways of washing the pages. I liked these drips that were flicked from the end of the brush; they reminded me of raindrops on windowpanes. I want to learn to draw better, just to be […]
The gray-haired hippie waylaid me just ten feet from the vending machine. After quaffing that too-sweet Dublin Dr Pepper the other day I was craving the bite I knew I could only get from a Diet Dr Pepper. “Do you have just two minutes? I want to ask your opinion about my new bio.”
I […]
A friend recently found a place in DeSoto that sells Dublin Dr Pepper and he was kind enough to give me a bottle of the sweet elixir. And I do mean sweet! This particular Dr Pepper comes from the Original Dr Pepper bottling plant in Dublin, Texas and they still use Imperial cane sugar, not […]
I had an accident yesterday. My neck is stiff and my body feels it’s been dealt a few swift kicks. It’s othing serious but I’m provoked because, as is the nature of most accidents, I never saw it coming. You rarely see it coming.
Webster defines “accident” as (among other things) “an unfortunate event resulting from […]
Cooler weather is on the way!
…At last, at long last, just when I think I can’t take the heat, the heat that hits you like a blast furnace when you crack open a door to the outside, the heat that settles on your shoulders like a weighty backpack when you walk about, the heat […]
Phoebe’s dog dream came true; she finally caught and killed a squirrel. Sunday night she was unusually hyperactive and didn’t want to come into the house as she usually does. Midnight came and went and instead of curling up on the sofa and drifting into doggie sleep, she haunted the far corner of […]
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