Saturday, January 31, 2009

January 31



A lovely dinner of mountain oysters.

Wikipedia: Rocky Mountain oysters (sometimes called prairie oysters) is a North American culinary name for edible offal, specifically buffalo, boar, or bull testicles. They are usually peeled, coated in flour, pepper and salt, sometimes pounded flat, then deep-fried. This delicacy is most often served as an appetizer.

In case you wondered.


Elko, Nevada


Friday, January 30, 2009

January 30



A giant polar bear, a casino called the Commercial - how could it be ANY better?

Elko, Nevada

January 29


So, a guy leaving this bar invited us to go with him to ANOTHER bar - a titty bar, he explained.  A FUCKING titty bar, he further elaborated.

We turned down the invitation.

Elko, Nevada

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

January 27


We had winter today.  It will probably be gone by tomorrow.

And that's the way I like to have winter (if you have to have it at all).

Monday, January 26, 2009

January 26


Downtown alleys are more interesting than downtown streets.

Lubbock, Texas

Sunday, January 25, 2009

January 25


This is my favorite sight at the pool:  no other swimmers!

Lubbock, Texas

Saturday, January 24, 2009

January 24


The way I look at - if it makes you laugh right out loud in the antique store AND costs less than ten bucks, you must purchase it.

And that is how I came to possess this duck creamer.

Lubbock, Texas

(creamer found in Llano, Texas)

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

January 20


So, I am really a dork:  every day I print out the blog and put the pages (in chronological order, of course) in a binder.

And then, TAKE A PICTURE and post it. 

Lubbock, Texas

Monday, January 19, 2009

January 19


If you are passing through Brady and want to spend the night, this looks like a pretty nice place, what with the refreigerated air and vented heat and all.

Brady, Texas

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Saturday, January 17, 2009

January 17


Exhibition clogging.  EXHIBITION clogging.  

Oh, and mountain dancing.

Who knew?

Llano, Texas

Friday, January 16, 2009

January 16


Before it was relocated, the bus station had the most memorable address in all of Lubbock - 1313 13th Street.

That building is for sale, so if you want a cool address call your realtor.

Lubbock, Texas

January 15


Las Vegas is ridiculous.

You can't tell what's real, what's not, what's just a mirage.  (It's easy to tell the Mirage, however:  there's a sign.  And a volcano, of course.)

Las Vegas, Nevada

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

January 14


Las Vegas is ridiculous.

Everything is busy to the point of being frantic.  People at the bus stop tell you all about their other visits here ("Last time, we was staying up by the Stratosphere - all the way up there! - and there was one a them temperature things and it was 104 degrees at midnight.  I wouldna believed it but my brother-in-law tole me."*).  And, even though conventional wisdom says Las Vegas is on the skids because of the economy, it is still full of people.

Las Vegas, Nevada

* Yep.  That's an actual conversation that I tried to avoid being a part of.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

January 13


Las Vegas is ridiculous.

On the elevator, a hairy guy with his shirt unbuttoned one button too far - to better showcase his gold medallion - asked me if I was going to see the Donny and Marie show while I was in town.  He looked very sad when I told him that my schedule would prevent it.

Maybe... it was Donny Osmond?

Las Vegas, Nevada

Monday, January 12, 2009

January 12


I like it that the Big Spring book is subtitled The Casual Biography of a Prairie Town.  It was written in 1942; my version was signed by the author in 1947.  Also, the book jacket tells us that the book "makes no pretence of being a literary masterpiece."  And, the author sketches in "pungent" details.  No wonder I am afraid to read it.

Lubbock, Texas

Saturday, January 10, 2009

January 10



All the hammers face the same direction. No one knows what would happen if one of them faced the other direction. And we're scared to find out.

Lubbock, Texas

Friday, January 9, 2009

January 9


"Pearl held in black fingers

Is the moon behind dry trees."

from "Use Me While You Can"

Bruce Cockburn

--

photo of moon and pecan trees

Lubbock, Texas

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

January 7


DONT TAKE STUFF... and don't make me tell you again.  Or use an apostrophe.

Texas Tech University Campus

Lubbock, Texas

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

January 6


I like how the word "Victor" and the word "photography" are spaced differently so they take up the same amount of space on the windows.  And how the center pane must have been replaced after the words were put up, because the photographer's last name is missing.

Lubbock, Texas

Monday, January 5, 2009

January 5


Of course I keep a Smile-on-a-Stick in my pencil cup.  Doesn't everyone?

Lubbock, Texas

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Saturday, January 3, 2009

January 3










The cat is already in black and white, except for her green eyes.

Lubbock, Texas

Friday, January 2, 2009

January 2









Every day for, say, fifteen years, I have seen this church from the freeway on my way to work. Today, I exited one exit early to take its picture.

Lubbock, Texas


Thursday, January 1, 2009