Monthly Archives: April 2025

April 26, 1981 – Key West – Journal Entry

April 26, 2025 – 10:50 am

FOTO – Capucine and Hiram Keller in Fellini – Satyricon (1969) Last night in Key West. Hiram and I go to the Monster, a notorious gay disco celebrating the Sexual Revolution. We drink to excess, dance, huff poppers with abandon. I strip to my undies to Sly’s TAKE ME HIGHER. No one asks me to […]

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Texas Guide to Life – 2011

April 26, 2025 – 10:49 am

Here’s some very useful Texas wisdom. Don’t squat with your spurs on. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. There’s two theories […]

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Biloxi Wintah January 1975

April 26, 2025 – 2:37 am

An hour after sunset we passed through Ocala. The cowboy town looked mean and I drove the speed limit. Florida was a big state at 55. I joined the Interstate after Lake City. Old Bill drunkenly bitched about the trucks. “Not many other options.” I wasn’t keen on driving through the backroads of the Panhandle. […]

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Yee-Hah Texas

April 25, 2025 – 1:01 pm

In 2010 Texas executed eighteen men. Their punishment was ordered by the state for the crimes of murder. The next up on the injection table deserved the ultimate punishment for the heinous murder of a black man in 1998. His crime had been to man to drag his victim behind a Ford pick-up truck to […]

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41 BLANCO STREET AUSTIN by Peter Nolan Smith

April 25, 2025 – 7:37 am

In late January of 1975 I drove a blind piano-tuner in a Delta 88 from Miami Beach to the East Texas. Everyone at the Sea Breeze Hotel on Collins Avenue had warned me about Old Bill’s driving. I thought that the old coots had been kidding, but outside of La Grange the blind man ordered […]

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