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hotel with two trees, seatac
when i was a kid my dad always had the same dry answer when asked what he wanted for christmas/his birthday/father's day/whatever: "peace and quiet ( Read more... ) -
japanese hotel, san francisco
fillmore show cures tour depression. drive day, no time for anything. oh hey look it's a 42-year-old dad skateboarding down sunset boulevard in one-and-three-quarter-inch cuban heels
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hotel congress, tucson
okay so i just had a really fun night here hanging out in the tap room with brandon and trudy and the dudes from matthew e. white's band so maybe it's not so different after all. kinda wishing they hadn't put us in rooms directly over the club though. when do you suppose karaoke ends? hoping 2. have to be up at 8 ( Read more... ) -
hotel congress, tucson
man i've been coming here since the '90s, not always for work, and much of what i loved about it stemmed from its peculiar and remarkable resistance to the passage of time. had a strange intuition things would be different now coming back for the first time since 2008 and sure enough the entire neighborhood is physically transformed with fancy tall ( Read more... ) -
sprinternet, texas
leaving austin john reads tweet from jill sobule about juvenile road game of adding word "anal" to name of every car you see. squint to identify vehicle ahead of us. it's a chevy avalanche.
:-/
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sprinternet, oklahoma
mountain goats universally smitten with tulsa. cain's ballroom! my ex-gf wanette danced with morrissey on this stage. oh and the sex pistols played here. and hanks snow and williams, and tennessee ernie ford, and of course bob wills, basically everyday during the 1930s and '40s.
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sprinternet, oklahoma
woke up in fort smith arkansas. yelped vietnamese for lunch a mile away, 4 1/2 stars, sounds amazing. we pile out of sprinter, are seated, order. sorry we're out of banh-mi. you're out of bahn mi. few minutes later sorry we're out of tofu. out of tofu. food pretty dismal tbh. place not so clean, funny smell. wtf fort smith yelpers. john leaves to ( Read more... )
