It’s raining tonight in San Antonio. I love the sound. It’s a light rain, gentle. And the smell is nice. Something soft and gentle and difficult to define. San Antonio is a city filled with plants. You don’t really smell the plants. But you also don’t smell hard concrete the way you do in some […]
Swallows live in the building I have just moved into. There are three nests over the balcony. (This makes placing the little camp chairs I have out there a judicious choice mainly dictated by spots that are not directly under Swallow spots.) The swallows like some of the pipes that run through the really high […]
Happy New Year, ya animals!
Got to watch the best fireworks ever from the roof here. I’m right downtown and on the roof, the whole city is laid out around you and there were fireworks shows ringing the city. It was very cool. Also went out with friends and neighbors. It was a fun night. I hope yours was good too. Smooch!
I went to the Battle of the Flowers parade last night in San Antonio. High school marching bands are impressive these days. Jeez. Those bands are fancy. And good. Also, people here shout to people on floats, “Show us your shoes!” And people on the floats show them their shoes. That is a new one […]
The wind is smoking my cigarettes again. It does that. San Antonio is windy. Or where I stand to smoke my cigs is windy. We wrestle. Me trying to smoke. The wind trying to smoke. Me trying to smoker faster than the wind can steal my smoke away. I live a little in fear of […]
I went to a building event tonight. It was an outdoor movie on the amenities deck. It was the new Top Gun movie. It was fun. Also Tom Cruise has totally stopped aging. I don’t know how. I so want to talk to his dermatologist. I don’t usually mention ghosts to other people here. Not […]
I have a new ghost. I figured out something was up when right after I moved in the elevator told me the building was on fire [it wasn’t] take the stairs [I didn’t] and then the doors in the trash bay loading dock locked me out on the loading dock. You could say these were […]
I went out today on my own downtown. I haven’t left the building since I got here except once with a colleague to go see the studio. That makes heading out on my own walking through downtown a big thing. I’ve always been some agoraphobic. I got more that after locking down two years. I’m […]
I got bat email today. This is my favorite line: “The bats will enter your apartment and hide until dark, which is when their flying party starts.” Bat flying party! Woo! Also: “Our maintenance team can do a lot of things, being BATMAN is not one of them.” Did you know bats are protected? I […]
I got up early today. It was for a parade. Not just any parade. A rodeo parade. This is totally out of character for me but the parade was going down my street in front of my building and if San Antonio is going to deliver a parade to my front door it would be […]