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The Limerick Project

June 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

A comment from Stan
The clerihewvian experiment was quite a blast for us–such an outpouring of creativity and good humor and excitement. We could hardly wait to check email to see what new thing someone had created or to be prompted to a new burst of creativity ourselves. There were forty-two entries, all told, and even [...]

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Tags: Brownsville · Poetry · State of the world · art · comedy · myth and mythology

Street costs still unestablished; City Secretary silent on info requests

April 23rd, 2008 · 13 Comments

An opinion
I’m sorry to come back to Brownsville’s streets as a topic. The poetry and literary discussions on the site are much more to my liking and the readership seems to have broadened out and deepened quite a bit since the shift.
I started this series—not knowing it would be a series or at least thinking [...]

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Tags: Brownsville · Economy · Politics

More on the Streets of Brownsville

February 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I received a note from Carlos Cisneros this afternoon, closing our correspondence on the streets. He told me I was welcome for his help and to contact him if I had other concerns. So I wrote back forthwith as follows:
Mr. Cisneros:
Thank you for your help in beginning to assemble some information on the [...]

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Tags: Brownsville · Economy · Politics

A Day on Brownsville’s Web logs and at a City Council Meeting

February 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A good deal of today was spent looking around Brownsville’s highly assorted crew of web loggers* with some good results. On the Art of Brownsville, Gabriel Treviño has set up a weekly display for collaborative art. I sent him the cover art for a chapbook I made a couple of years ago and told him [...]

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Tags: Brownsville · Politics · State of the Web Log · State of the world