Strange Attractors
First time I've been in Austin during the summer months. I like how the pace of things slows down here. It feels like when I first watched Slacker and what the city must have felt like 20 years ago. Of course, everybody who is transplanted into Austin, regardless of when they come, always hears stories from old-timers about how the city used to be back in the day. I haven't encountered many other cities with that quality, possessing some sort of permanent nostalgic shine about it. Regardless, the days go by lazily, between my time in the work cube, I've been entertaining myself by going to improv acting groups, riding bikes with housemates Aga and Cristen, grilling meat, meditating on futility with my attempts to flesh out a one-act play and watching free outdoor movies.
I decided to become politically active recently and volunteered to work with the Kinky Friedman for Governor campaign . I figure if politics really is a farce, you might as well have a satirist leading the show. It has a certain honesty about it. Amongst Kinky's platform positions is that he supports gay marriage on the philosophy that homosexuals have just as much of a right to make themselves miserable as everybody else. That type of level-headed poetry could serve Texas and humanity quite well.
