This Thanksgiving I’ll probably spend my 4 day weekend in Sarajevo. I’m pretty sure there won’t be a turkey dinner involved, and more than likely I’ll have the same yearning. While in Shiner I yearn for global perspective, the smell, taste, feel kind — while out an about I long to hear the tree in [...]
lots of things circulating in the noggin’ Yesterday i went to the rodeo to record ‘los kolaches,’ what i’d consider i fusion between country, tejano and polka cover band small town crowd pleasing goodness. Driving through Hallettsville I was taken back to high school, it was the city where all the cool dances were, the [...]
tonight i think about a phrase seth godin said ‘what have you shipped?’ it’s been on my mind for months… what does it matter if you’re the first ever twitter user to capture the picture of lady gaga, or the 3rd person in line for the iphone, or you toil away at work 20 hours [...]
some of the things you recognize when you take a break from the zombie walk — how extraordinary it is to drive from downtown austin to round rock, and how mesmerizing party culture is in the developed world, take that to a hyper extreme, and you have austin — i’m glad to have participated, now [...]
doing a lot of shopping lately, coupled with seeing a lot of hipsters makes me think about two books that i find humorous and entertaining, ‘the mystery method’, and ‘the game’, both about the ‘pickup artist.’ one term present in the books is ‘peacocking’, which means you’re supposed to wear outlandish things and the chicks [...]
often while reading the manual or following the sop or digesting information, we forget those books of lamentations are old and stale, we forget to admire the questions, and we forget to follow our own paths. in pressfield’s book ‘the war of art’, he talks about ‘angels’ that help us find our way, josh ritter [...]
sitting at flightpath coffee in austin texas, remembering the times when i made a lot of time for blogging, before the 84 hour typical week and no stimuli in the desert. i think about the things that could potentially be out of the hands of god, and the redefinition of what a ‘crisis’ is in [...]
hitting relax mode in full swing for the next few weeks till I figure out what gets shipped to Italy. The company gave me a big amount for relocation, although I only have a few pairs of pants and shirts, some books and a laptop I bring back from Iraq. The ‘critical path’ of getting [...]
often I sit back and think the US has had its time with hegemony, but after a stint overseas and witnessing the fluidity at which people move in urban centers, I have to deduct that competitive advantage is still here. going through the passport renewal process, i think about the different things that take you [...]