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Discovering Enough
End-of-year thoughts at the start of another day
BY LOUIS BLACK
’Tis the season of odd emphasis and side- No matter how good you get Over time, the dominating emo- always being who I am, but the overly conscious
show/hall-of-mirrors distortion. When think- at whatever it is you do, if you tional tone is not one of the elec- me is always getting in the way of everything.
ing about one’s life during these heady and care about it, the stress never page tric buzz saw tearing of flesh and That “me” is always there, but the more it is
hoary times, it is usually a good idea to really lessens. The insane edges nerves nor the volcanic upheaval involved, the harder the going gets.
consider just how much this holiday creates a smooth out, the monstrous two of stomach and soul but some- Over the past dozen years or so, I’ve found
context that refracts, amplifies, inflames, com- fears that eat your gut and thing else. If you love what you that one of the best ways to clear my head is
presses, expands, and misrepresents one’s puke out nightmares all night do, if you believe in what you to load up on audiobooks and start driving.
experiences and memories. Way too often, shift to a much lower gear, but do, then stress is not just all stress The road, the books, the tonal undercurrent
failure and despair prove a comfortable refuge, caring means you never relax, that but is shadowed by the satisfaction of a voice reading combine into an almost
never disappointing, while enjoying a sense you can’t and won’t. Even when you’ve of confronting and solving problems, of abstract experience – cruising through Texas
of satisfaction and accomplishment conjures done something week in and week out for the way work can be enjoyable. listening to great stories while moving through
the fear of begging fate to step in and screw decades, each time you venture forth to do it What does so often get to you, as blessed the unending openness of it all. Mostly I listen
it all up. It probably isn’t as bad as you might again, what you’ve done in the past doesn’t and lucky as you might be getting to do what- to and love detective novels, but no genre of
think, though if saying that causes outrage, excuse the present. ever it is that feeds you, is a kind of weariness. fiction is completely out. Still, when a four- or
that reaction may well be worth thinking The last couple of days have been overcast, Many of us still expect to turn some chrono- six- or eight- or 12-hour book is over, you
about during these festive and infested days. with sporadic drizzling. I pretty much love rain logical corner and find that life will somehow don’t just plunge into another one. You have
The holiday season is often one of the in any form, and overcast days create a kind of make sense, that all its patterns will finally to clean the palette, so to speak.
warmest and highest of times and the most warmth and harmony that is so welcome. This be obvious. But there is really no moment of Once I listened mostly to music and then
cold and alienating as well. The end of another is not to say they indicate or celebrate despair, revelation. If you have one, it almost always later as much music as narrative, but these
year, the celebration of the holidays creates a that the gloom of the day matches the gloom turns out to be a mirage. You never pass “Go”; days mostly I listen to a few old radio shows in
stark context that exaggerates or minimizes of my heart. It doesn’t. My heart has rarely you never collect your $200. As much as between books. There are still times, however,
considerations and feelings – often both – in been nearly that gloomy. Still, for those of us experience provides clarity and knowledge, it when music works its way in as well.
some kind of alternating, high-density, manic- who navigate ever forward but are always a bit also makes you face just how much you don’t A tough, tough year, one crammed full,
depressive strolling. uncertain and more than a bit nervous, over- understand or don’t get. When you look back with some highs and some lows but mostly
cast is comfortable. It lets you be who you are, at your life – your friends, family, accomplish- the endless vista of plateaus, now comes to an
but it also allows you largely to disconnect. ments (both triumphs and disasters) – there end. Right before Christmas last week, I hit the
Next Year, Y’all The all-the-time stress is like a low-grade may be some peace, some sense of having road. I needed to. You can’t escape from your-
fever that sometimes flares but is usually done well, but there is no feeling of finality, self. As Satchel Paige cautioned: “Don’t look
The Chronicle will observe the following even-keeled – or at least as even-keeled as one no sense at all that the task you’ve undertaken back. Something might be gaining on you.” A
holiday schedule: might imagine stress could be. But if the stress is somehow complete. Triumphant moments great road trip is being in that place where you
The issue dated Dec. 31 will be dis- accelerates or gains force by accumulating, if pass even more quickly than disastrous ones, are there, looking neither forward nor back.
tributed on its regular weekday: it makes you crazy, if it drives you mad, well, but both leave you at the start of another day But heading home after a great Robert
Thursday, Dec. 30 (today). that is that, and it is all pretty much finished of doing it again. Parker Western tale, the day overcast, the rain
The Chronicle offices will be closed when you reach that point. One should love there and not there and there, I decided to
and take pride in his or her work, but it’s best Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time trying listen to some music. I put on an album by
Thursday and Friday, Dec. 30 and 31.
not to let it kill you. to shake me, to get away from myself, to just a friend of mine, one almost but not quite
We will resume regular business
If you push through and keep on going, the not have to hear my voice in my head droning
hours on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011.
stress can’t be banished, but it can be tamed. on endlessly. There is no way to work without CONTINUED ON P.8
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half-a-century old. The album, though I’ve rarely as tragic or flawed as it might seem. In a
listened to it at least a thousand times, always sense, memory tortures us by creating a con-
sounds so fresh. Knowing the singer and what text that is inaccurate and fictional; at best, it
the songs are about soothes. It brings back offers a too-often hopeless confusion of life
memories of a time of innocence – though it and dream, of reality and illusion. Nothing
must be noted that innocence is just a lack of ever exaggerates and distorts as outrageously
knowledge and owes more to ignorance than as ongoing, immediate experience. We know it
to transcendence. There is nothing inherently was better in our past and in history, though it
sweet or better about the innocence of youth probably was never any better and quite likely
except the way memory pasteurizes it. was much worse.
Those long-ago days of innocence allowed The car, the road, the rain, the endless
for endless daydreams, unrestricted possi- landscape, the story, and the voice are
bilities, and the constant potential for the so often enough, if not in fact much more
extraordinary. At the same time, they acceler- than enough. (cid:78)
ate insecurity, wrapping everything in uncer-
tainty while multiplying the already raging and
nonspecific emotional storms. Over time, one Oops!

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smaller than you once might have dreamed. MoPac Proposals,” News, Dec. 24, we
The sweetness of the voice and the intimacy mistakenly attributed the following
of the songs reminded me that one just keeps quote to the League of Bicycling Voters:
on keeping on, that there is no moment of “It’s understandable that much of the
glorious revelation nor any transcendence of focus would be on cars, but it seems
the mundane as one obtains the magnificent. extremely shortsighted and out of step
with the stated goals of multi-modal
Currently, there are so many who claim we
transportation that there is no mention
are in the worst of times – or, if not all of us
of bicycle or pedestrian accommoda-
are there, at least the person who proclaims
tions.” Actually, the quote came not
this belief is in a time so lacking in meaning
from an LOBV press release, but from
and hope as to be a historically and person-
Elliott McFadden in his Austin on Two
ally unique nadir. The idea is that, whereas it
Wheels blog, in a post about the
might not be as fantastic as one might have
league’s proposal.
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one of those “old faithful [called] back into We happen to think that Edward Cullen is a or any Republican running in Travis County. Why slogan on them, where the slogan is “Keep
the fold.” Loved your review! – cpw pasty, creeptastic stalker, and the only 10 we bother? Apparently, your ace political reporter Austin Weird”?
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“Texas Platters,” Music, Dec. 24 In YA we trust, He goes on to describe Gale as in obvious Awstin Wierd”?
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Dear Editor, ‘KEPE AWSTIN WIERD’? Dear Editor,
a transgendered woman living in our culture,
While we deeply enjoyed being featured in the Re: the American Apparel ad that ran in the
she had feelings of isolation and rejection and
Chronicle this week [“Arrested Development?,” Dear Editor, Nov. 26 issue: I don’t generally complain about
perhaps, just maybe, she wasn’t totally out of
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touch with reality.
tion to offer. In Melanie Haupt’s description of Dunbar’s characterization of Jennifer Gale in after all, it’s free – but still, what the hell is this
And he further characterizes as a “polite
our book report system, she wrote that Edward the Dec. 24 Chronicle [“City Hall Hustle: Gather about? Surely this is gonna piss people off. What
fiction” that she was a quirky figure of “Austin
Cullen rated a 10 on our swoonworthy scale. Round Yon Virgins,” News]. good will that do?
weirdness.” Beyond the fact that Jennifer was
While she may have simply meant to include He describes Jennifer’s campaigns for public Just wondering,
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