you'll know when the accordions and fiddles start to play
UNDER THE SIGN OF THE DOUBLE DISTELFINK


 
Oct. 2002/Aug. 2005
Being an attempt to cobble a non-work related website together: your car alarm is going off and they are stealing your
Blaupunkt:

 Seguro que hell yes!
el vato tuerto

Feb. 1998

 

 
Illustration from THE WRITER'S BARBECUE:
SPFLD, IL, circa 1987-1989
 canned goods
   Mejicolandia y mucho mas

 Blogs of some VISUAL merit:

Far Cartouche
Middle-Fork
Revernd Bubba

Blogs of some VERBAL merit:

Tim's/ blog

MUZAK & stuff...

Doug Sahm: His grave

The Tejas Reviews I (From Richmond, VA, etc.)
Bill Kirchen (a great guy as well as a fine musician)
Terry Allen
I see Les Paul
Zouk, soukous,

 


maps and cartography

UniGraz
U of Texas Perry-Castaneda Map Library
 LoC Map Collections
Oxford, Bodleian

Google EARTH (googlemapmania)

Map blogs
Cartography (canuck)
The Map Room

Choice poetical and literary links

Clancy of the Overflow (by Banjo Patterson)

Robert Service
Carl Hiaassen
Roy Blount, Jr.OKRA
Salman Rushdie
Cormac McCarthy
Thomas Pynchon
Cactus Ed Abbey
Peter Matthiessen
Lee Smith
Barbara Kingsolver
Annie Proulx
Larry McMurtry
Charles Simic
Louise Erdrich
W.G. Sebald
M.F.K. Fisher

books, reading, 
R.A.B.ble

Visit scenic Archer City, the Hay-on-Wye of the Shortgrass Prairie.

 Comida
 
Ed with cabeza de vaca

Adviso por barbacoaistas 

Barbacoa de cabeza

barbeque: from whence the name?

Hell, I'll bbq pert near anything, 'cept tofu...

...roadkilled nutria, what have you.. nearly any dead critter will do if'n
it ain't too ripe...

"that sure is some fresh deer meat.."

B's biscuit recipe:
Mix together
2c.flour
1/2 tsp salt 
4 tsp baking powder 
1/2 tsp cream of tartar 
2 tsp sugar
Cut in 1/2 shortening with pastry blender.

Add 2/3 c of milk, Stir well, turn out on floured board,
knead lightly.
Roll dough 1/2 " thick, cut in rounds.
Bake on ungreased sheet at 450 F for 10-12 minutes.  

Austin Ghetto

The Trailer Park

Virginia looks not unlike a pork chop.  
So do a number of other states. 
I'll name them. West Virginia, Maine, The Carolinas. 
Maybe Illinois and Iowa. 
In fact, the two Virginias look not unlike a chine of pork in cross-section.
What cut of meat does your state, province, oblast, or country resemble?

In the wilds of New England (May, 1999) on my way to NYC.

EL FIN! the time for frivolity is over  

Dec. 2002 
    
Write,  if you get work!!!!

Contact the instigator of this page at tbsamsel@infionline.net

It should be noted that some of these links are inactive and shall become active in the immediate future. But don't hold your breath

 

09/21/2005