I am so happy you enjoyed it Garry and thanks for being a paid subscriber! Your subscription helps me consider myself as a writing professional. Sorry to cause so much comedic pain and suffering but that better than cronic or catastrophic suffering! I had great fun writing it. I had posted a long comment on Texas Monthy Magazine but it got so long that they should call me for the full article. So this morning I deleted it off of Texas Monthy and uploaded a condenced version of the whole story. I am saving all of these to have material to post in this undoubted upcoming controversy.
But wait, that's not all. In my imagination I started traveling down to the designated part of west Texas concerning my proposal and ended up in Wink, Texas and hung out with a new charactor by the name of Billy 'the Snake' Schytte, a native of Wink and he was telling me he has a completely different take on things. I'll do an exclusive report on that later. It is quite a story with 'legs'.
For 22 years we've flown 90 minutes to El Paso, took a car to "La Posta" in Mesilla for lunch and arrived in Silver City in the afternoon. Beginning in '24, we decided to start doing the previously unthinkable: drive across West Texas. Flying was no longer an option. Crazy people off or on their meds ... pieces of airplane coming off in mid-flight ... now, a quarter of your day just getting on a plane, etc. changed our minds.
If it wasn't for music in the car and the occasional road construction, we'd be out of our minds in ennui except for that combo of gritty dryness, smell from cow pens on the side of the road, and that nauseous stank of the Permian Basin that will surely take 2 to 7 months off of your life every time you drive thru it.
The only plus points along the way of this 800 mile drive are Big Spring (hard to believe, but "Hotel Settles" and "Joe's Italian"), Las Cruces/Mesilla, and Silver City - otherwise, we wouldn't continue doing this (twice(!) in the last 6 months), but the 5 to 7 hour drives to reach these outposts can be pretty brutal.
I have been to big bend, and el paso a couple of times, and Alpine and Fort Davis, and I was a ringbearer for my uncle's wedding in Marfa many years ago when he maried a local girl named Clare who I thought was so beautiful and elegant when I as a kid. A dusty, mostly hispanic little town in those days, I guess late 1960's.
I've often been told to visit Marfa, but even with the Juddisms, the jazz musician Rob Mazurek, and the possibility of Marfa Lights, I appear to want to keep my relationship with Marfa as minimal as Marfa is. There was a time when I developed the idea of a conceptual Community radio station located there (because every arts community needs one) and created actual hours-long shows that you could listen to directly from my desktop Mac. I used to archive them on Mixcloud. This went on for a couple of years until I made the discovery that they actually *had* an NPR station there and that my show/station - as a conceptual one - would never catch on. I did make 2-hour edited versions for the station I'm at now, so they didn't go to too much waste.
Cecil,
I have been reading aloud to my wife about your brave plan for New Mexico. We laughed; she broke one rib and my hernia tripled in size.
I am one of your new fans. Actually ran into you in the Asemic realm, then your splendid collage realm.
Now stand up comedy. One guy shouldn't be this talented. I look forward to your comedy tour schedule.
Now off to the emergency room to deal with smart ass, damn true, comedy injuries
Garry Grayson
I am so happy you enjoyed it Garry and thanks for being a paid subscriber! Your subscription helps me consider myself as a writing professional. Sorry to cause so much comedic pain and suffering but that better than cronic or catastrophic suffering! I had great fun writing it. I had posted a long comment on Texas Monthy Magazine but it got so long that they should call me for the full article. So this morning I deleted it off of Texas Monthy and uploaded a condenced version of the whole story. I am saving all of these to have material to post in this undoubted upcoming controversy.
But wait, that's not all. In my imagination I started traveling down to the designated part of west Texas concerning my proposal and ended up in Wink, Texas and hung out with a new charactor by the name of Billy 'the Snake' Schytte, a native of Wink and he was telling me he has a completely different take on things. I'll do an exclusive report on that later. It is quite a story with 'legs'.
For 22 years we've flown 90 minutes to El Paso, took a car to "La Posta" in Mesilla for lunch and arrived in Silver City in the afternoon. Beginning in '24, we decided to start doing the previously unthinkable: drive across West Texas. Flying was no longer an option. Crazy people off or on their meds ... pieces of airplane coming off in mid-flight ... now, a quarter of your day just getting on a plane, etc. changed our minds.
If it wasn't for music in the car and the occasional road construction, we'd be out of our minds in ennui except for that combo of gritty dryness, smell from cow pens on the side of the road, and that nauseous stank of the Permian Basin that will surely take 2 to 7 months off of your life every time you drive thru it.
The only plus points along the way of this 800 mile drive are Big Spring (hard to believe, but "Hotel Settles" and "Joe's Italian"), Las Cruces/Mesilla, and Silver City - otherwise, we wouldn't continue doing this (twice(!) in the last 6 months), but the 5 to 7 hour drives to reach these outposts can be pretty brutal.
Teleportation can't come fast enough.
I have been to big bend, and el paso a couple of times, and Alpine and Fort Davis, and I was a ringbearer for my uncle's wedding in Marfa many years ago when he maried a local girl named Clare who I thought was so beautiful and elegant when I as a kid. A dusty, mostly hispanic little town in those days, I guess late 1960's.
I've often been told to visit Marfa, but even with the Juddisms, the jazz musician Rob Mazurek, and the possibility of Marfa Lights, I appear to want to keep my relationship with Marfa as minimal as Marfa is. There was a time when I developed the idea of a conceptual Community radio station located there (because every arts community needs one) and created actual hours-long shows that you could listen to directly from my desktop Mac. I used to archive them on Mixcloud. This went on for a couple of years until I made the discovery that they actually *had* an NPR station there and that my show/station - as a conceptual one - would never catch on. I did make 2-hour edited versions for the station I'm at now, so they didn't go to too much waste.