effing blog:

all this talk of squid is making me thirsty

It is cooler today, ooo.

Congrats to the lovely Susan Briante for the acceptance of her book for publication at Ahsahta Press. Fall 2007, honk honk. At Hotel San Jose last night for drinks to celebrate they brought her a cake that Farid had arranged complete with candles ablaze and the words "that's right bitches" scrawled in icing. But we hadn't thought of what to sing. I proposed "happy bookday" but we didn't sing anything, we just all kinda of sat there and held hands like we were singing in our minds together. Then Farid said something nice. And so the patio onlookers figured us for foreigners or Christians. Good cake though. Dense i think someone called it. Oh yeah.

100% Beauty Beauty Beauty

what was it

I wanted to leave w/ my bad impression

backwards is how so

my service economy breaks down hurling thru the plastic air

all sorts of stuff has hit the fan

if you want it you can stand poised and i'll be in the shade

haven't yet got to the part about regret

pickled in culture i'm ordering plane tickets and another scotch

if i hold the marbles in my mouth one more night i win

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it's purported that the first cool front of the year is to happen here tomorrow. we'll see. today the heat index is around 110^oF. painful.

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thinking of getting drunk if you are interested.

thinking of getting interested if you are drunk.

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dream

Wr3_1

i'm in the corner of the room, baby

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but if I were to go to the ACL festival I'd probably see these acts:

Lucinda Williams

Bob Mould

Arcade Fire

Death Cab for Cutie

Built to Spill

~~Franz Ferdinand~~

Tortoise

The Walkmen

Spoon

The Bravery

Mates of State

Doves

The Fiery Furnaces

Ambulance Ltd.

Who'd you see?

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Houston, we have parking lot

My man Justin Ulmer is documenting the freeway madness in Houston with his camera. Check his flickr account here. I particularly like this one and it's commentary. I've heard of it taking some people over 24 hours to drive 150 miles from the coast. That's fucked. There are certainly a lot more cars in Austin right now and the hotels are completely booked, but that is also from the Austin City Limits Festival that started today at Zilker Park. Out of 150 people there are only about six of us here at the office today. Oh, there goes a seventh. I suspect an early departure for me today. And no, I am not going to the festival. Been there, heard that. I think I can live without seeing Coldplay with 50,000 of my closest friends. And the summer heat is still very much here. It's supposed to be 101 degrees today.

Here is Justin's account yesterday afternoon. I suspect like my family and other people I know in the Houston area he's lost phone and internet service to the sheer volume of traffic on the lines:

"Empty".

This seems to be the word of the day. Towns, businesses, gas tanks and fuel stations. Roads, cellular batteries, noisy restaurants. They're all empty. Overnight, this place has been forsaken and the only evidence of our passing is the freeway.

Interstate 45 has become a creeping, volatile exodus. Automobiles are everywhere. An army of Jed Clampetts are bumper to bumper for 100 miles. Steam and smoke languish over dozens of dying cars, and their owners' only hope is that they will no longer be in them when the storm crawls through in hours. Whole families have abandoned their vehicles and carry only babies or water. Their heads are down and the sun is up and no one knows how far they need to go. Only that they need to go farther.

Something wicked this way comes. And the whole world knows it.

Justin, if you can read this, please be safe and take care of your people and when the shit clears, please be careful with that axe/chainsaw, Eugene. And if you could check in on my family I'd really appreciate it. Doesn't look like they're in the flood plain as north as they are, but there's a good chance the pines are gonna fly.

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photo montage by Philip Trussell

I have uploaded 31 images to one album that can be viewed here. There is also a permanent link in the right hand column of this page toward the bottom.

These images are rendered by Philip Trussell using cameras, photcopiers, and cut n paste collage methods. They were made between 2003 and the present.