from Gene’s Notebook …love of pre-dawn, started when my father would tickle my heels to awaken me before we’d leave for chicken buying in steamy Miami, a Miami that was surrounded by mon and pop chicken farms …I know, it’s impossible to imagine swamps, fruit trees and chickens in its 2008 freeway culture of three [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Munseetown Bag ladies are this season wearing field-jackets gleaned from K-MART shoppers and KEDS cast off by charioteers on skateboards fleeing from the cops; hooded and rope-cinched at their waists (doomed matched-pairs shuffling westward), vespers et matins in their quest they toss and comb the city’s trash, each empty [...]

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A note from Virginia Gause The Texas Film Commission – Office of the Governor, is looking for photographs of Texas towns circa 1945-1960. A feature film project has contacted our office looking for reference photographs of Texas during the 1950’s oil boom, so we are putting together a research package for them in hopes they [...]

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