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Going Places
Oops!
In our article about the labor dispute between Bomax Contractors and
by louis Carpenters Local Union 1266 (“Prevailing Wage Doesn’t Always Prevail,” Jan. 20) we
said that Bartlett Cocke was hired by the Texas Facilities Commission as the general
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A metaphysical jumping-off point contractor on the Dewitt C. Greer State Highway Build ing renovation. The construc-
tion firm was actually hired directly by the Texas Department of Transportation.
for a return to the good fight
Who answered. I had interceded in Ranger Alex “Rocky” Jones and his tribe of
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Many weak men lied at least the my son’s behalf, and talked the super true patriotic Space Cadets. In an
They came to God in secret front half of powers into letting us have him for effort to indicate the enormity of the cold-
And though they left Him nourished the car across a time more, Thank God.” blooded, anti-human callousness of the New
They would not tell who healed before that I went a lot of places in my end- World Order and Quilting Circle, he argued
Though mountains danced before them awful black noise black less, rolling, free-form, dreaming that both the Nazis and the Japanese did
They said that God was dead running on a track madness in the hospital. As Bob Dylan not initiate campaigns that in their scope
Though his shrouds were hoisted red with rusted neglect sings, “You’re gonna have to serve some- included large number of civilian casualties
The naked God did live ripped away everything from body,” but you can do that without getting all until the Allies did it first, citing the Allies’
This I mean to whisper to my mind the backdoor back and sent the rest spin- mystically mushy about it. I knew where to bombings in Germany proper and the
This I mean to laugh within my mind ning on down West Q.” go, and I went there. And so it was – there Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
This I mean my mind to serve He thought of his son: “The train was where I went inside myself (outside myself). Arguing dates here is doomed to failure,
Till service is but magic stopping somewhere behind me. Where Just because this column has brought up the entire supposition being preposterous.
Moving through the world was Jed?” Kesey, I think it is well worth noting that But if we accept that Super Jones does not
And mind itself is magic Kesey found him, “picked him up and the left, quite properly, embraced One Flew deal in opinions but only facts, and there-
Coursing through the flesh carried him into the Walkers’. He didn’t look Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, but Sometimes a fore all the recorded histories have been
And flesh itself is magic hurt anywhere but oh he was such desolate Great Notion – his second, more neglected obscured to cover up the truth, still he is
Dancing on a clock heaviness in my arms. I sat down in a chair, novel – argues for the two as Libertarian evidently giving Japan a complete pass on
And time itself holding him. … My ear found no beating at masterpieces. I’m not advocating Libertarian its activities in Nanking (1937 – Doolittle’s
The magic length of God his chest. I looked up. There I sat across the politics, but I always do love to mention raid was in 1942); Nazi Germany’s ethnic,
– “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot,” room in the Walkers’ big diningroom mirror that the best and most devoted novel political, personal preference, and religious
Leonard Cohen holding my dead son in my arms.” expressing the author’s political beliefs not cleansing (Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, lefties,
Kesey had a head wound but, looking at written by Ayn Rand is Sometimes a Great labor organizers, gay people, etc.); and
I his son, thought, “‘If anything ever counts, Notion. Read it. I’m not kidding. Italy’s misadventures in colonial Africa.
After my congestive heart failure at the this counts,’ then I closed my eyes on my I would love to add that given the amount
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hospital, in the depths of my illness and reflection and called aloud: of misperception and interpretive manipu-
madness, draining body and healing sores, “‘O dear Lord, please don’t let him die.’ Now, we all have to serve somebody, but lation one finds when dealing with modern
hallucinations and chaos, I remembered a “Then things became completely calm,” the act of serving does not legitimize the history and politics in general, the argu-
piece by Ken Kesey that appeared in a 1971 Kesey continues, “opening my eyes I leaned forces and/or beliefs served. In the hub and ments that the good Ranger and his armies
supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog. back to Jed and began to give him mouth- ho, bubble and trouble of health chaos and of stalwart followers make perhaps don’t
In the piece, he remembers traveling in a to-mouth resuscitation. The ambulance hospital soothing, I forgot to get out my seem like much, being only a bit more of the
car “on old west Q Street,” where the “house drivers came in but made no move to inter- annual messages to all my beloved kin in same. But explaining and justifying geno-
where my mother and father and brother rupt me … while I worked over Jed. Finally the conspiracy community. cide against the Chinese, Jews, labor lead-
and I lived all our school years until Chuck Jed sighed again. We are now so many years past the Kennedy ers, Catholics, Ethiopians, Gypsies, lefties,
and I left to get married,” which he consid- “I knew I had participated in a miracle and assassinations, the Oklahoma City bombing, nationalists, etc. is just beyond the pale.
ered “home in my sentimental mind,” was I was absolutely amazed. As the days went by and 9/11. The conspiracy hobbyist collector Junior, novice, and trainee “Lost Boy”
just up ahead. He remembered that “a little and Jed drew out of danger in the hospital I gang still insists that I’m the closed-minded, Space Rangers, remember: Ranger “Bucky”
logging train used to come … [through] a few found that it wasn’t the miracle that had scared idiot and that they are the fearless Jones represents the truth, and I gleefully
times a week at 11:45 P.M. and then fewer amazed me. That returning sigh will sound “patriot” Constitution-loving truth-seekers. work for the lying devils out to destroy us
times and fewer times until, well, I guess it’s through all the rest of my life and I will be Yet for the hundreds of thousands, and likely all. It is probably going to work out that in
been clear back in high school I can last ever thankful. What amazed me, though, was millions of hours invested in research, they order to stop us, it will be best to extermi-
remember hearing that whistle, lying there that when the chips were down I knew where have not a solid indictment to show. Cotton nate us before we “kill” you all off. At least
blinking out past the coon cage at my myste- to call, and that I knew Who answered. I had candy, whipped out of sugar and air, seems that is the logic that has driven almost all
rious futures, thinking, ‘Someday I’ll go interceded in my son’s behalf, and talked the substantial till you put it to tongue. modern campaigns of genocide. Get us in
someplace on that train ….’” powers into letting us have him for a time I can practically promise that way too our beds before we get you in yours. Not
The train had stopped running, only it more, Thank God.” (©2002 Point Foundation, much research is worse than no research at that I care or know where you live.
hadn’t. Kesey goes on, “Now, here it is, ten ©2002 Gale Group) all when it comes to obscuring and neglect- Foolishly, while doing the devil’s work, I
feet away coming across the road and the The sentences to note: “What amazed ing the history being considered. feel like all I’m really doing is supporting
Bonneville is already on the tracks and for me, though, was that when the chips were My favorite historical reporting this year and defending the United States
once added power is important and I tromp down I knew where to call, and that I knew was by Super Wing Commander Space Constitution. How silly, right? n
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AND ALL THE MERRY WASSAILERS …
Dear Editor,
A big thank you from all of us here at Wassail
2011 for your support of our December event.
Thanks in part to your media donation, we had
a packed house at Spider House and raised
$3,000 for the Kids for Kids charity helping chil-
dren in the Darfur region of Sudan. Our $3,000
donation purchased 24 goats, four donkeys, 100
trees, two water carts, 100 vaccinations, two don-
key ploughs, farm tools, and solar lanterns for the
Sudanese. Thank you, Austin Chronicle, and all
the merry wassailers who attended our event.
Best wishes,
Darrel Mayers
ARGENTINIAN, NOT MEXICAN
Dear Editor,
Re: “South-of-the-Border Speculation” [Books,
Jan. 20]: I was startled to read Roberto Ontiveros’
opening line, which began, “The notion of Mexican
science fiction may, to some minds, go no further
than that Borges story ‘There Are More Things.’”
Surely Ontiveros is aware that Jorge Luis Borges
was not a Mexican. He was an Argentinian.
Jesse Mischel
[Roberto Ontiveros responds: Thanks for bring-
ing up where Borges, one of my favorite writers,
is from. I was attempting in my introduction to
point out the invisibility of Mexican science fiction,
by noting a Latin American parody of a Lovecraft UPDATED DAILY austinchronicle.com/postmarks
story that begins in North America, ends in South
America, and somehow skips Mexico all together.]
with your road-trip book and whatever other ven-
HAPPY TO SEE VENTURA STILL WRITING
tures you undertake on the endless road.
ON SILLIPHANT Best wishes,
John M. Whalen
Hi Mike,
Re: “Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road’s End”
‘CHRONICLE’ DISPLAYS AUDACITY
[April 22, 2011]: Glad to see you are still remem-
bering and writing about Stirling Silliphant and PLACING STORIES NEXT TO EACH OTHER
Route 66. Your newest piece last April (which I
just discovered on the Internet) was pretty hard Dear Editor,
on him, but it was honest. Quite a good piece of I would like to respond to two articles placed
writing. Amazing the influence he had on a gener- next to each other on p.12 of the Jan. 6 Austin
ation of people, which no one ever writes about. Chronicle. The first being about the death of
Your notion about his characters having ideas James Clayton [“Bicycle Thief Deceased,” News],
and that the ideas shaped them I find intriguing. where you begin the story with the phrase, “In a
A good analysis. I don’t know why but I find it hard strange conclusion to a strange Austin news story
to analyze or be critical of his work. It seems too ...,” this “story” being an article printed in 2009
close, too emotionally stirring for rational analy- about James Clayton pleading guilty to bike thefts
sis, but I’m glad others can. His work influenced [“The Bicycle Thief,” News, April, 10]. Your current
me enough to write a novel which is dedicated to article of 2012 is about his untimely death by
both him and David Morrell, another writer who heart attack at the age of 39. This is a man who
became what he is today because of Route 66. spent time in prison paying for his crimes and
My novel is science fiction, a space Western, to who no longer lived in Austin. The 2009 and 2012
be precise, but a careful reading will reveal many articles have nothing to do with each other, thus
hidden and some not-so-hidden references, riffs, I don’t see how his death is a “conclusion” to a
and outright rip-offs of some of Stirling’s ideas, separate story done on him about bicycle theft
characters, and themes. Meantime, good luck years ago. If his death is somehow a conclusion
to your 2009 article, this seems to imply that his
death was somewhat justified.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must be signed with And then you have the audacity to place this
full name and include daytime phone number, article in a box within the article about Esme
full address, or email address. Letters should
Barrera’s tragic death [“Barrera Death a Great
be no longer than 300 words.
We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Loss,” News]. You have disrespected both of
Letters may not be edited, added to, or these deaths by placing them next to each other
changed by sender once we receive them. because both of these persons’ stories have noth-
General email address: [email protected] ing at all to do with each other. I don’t know either
Postmarks forum: of these people, and I’m not religious, but I simply
austinchronicle.com/forums/postmarks have an old-fashioned belief that the dead cannot
Mailing address: The Austin Chronicle, PO Box speak for themselves. So it is our responsibility to
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try, as much as it may pain us, to remember them
as if we knew and loved them, if their crimes were
in any way forgivable. My thoughts and prayers go
out to the Barrera family, as well as every one that
has been graced by her life.
After having written all this, it now occurs to
me in a nutshell – the article on Esme Barrera
is quite rightly written in a tone that suggests
an unjustified death, while the article on James
Clayton is quite wrongly written in a tone that
suggests a justified death.
Nic Walker
WHY NOT MORE ON TOMMY TAYLOR
AND ANDY SALMON
Dear Editor,
Interesting article about Christopher Cross [“The in position to claim (and begin) a larger career. such scorn, despite their doing great everywhere phone the arrest of a woman on North Lamar for
Reluctant Celebrity,” Music, Jan. 20]. I was sur- Christopher Cross was a band name. Like my late else, is a mystery to me. alleged intoxication.]
prised more mention wasn’t made of Andy Salmon friend Willy DeVille (né William Borsey), Mr. Geppert Mandy Mercier
or Tommy Taylor, who, whether they agreed or took the band’s name unto himself, while those
RON PAUL FAILS TEST
declined to be interviewed, were a huge part of the who helped put him on the map in the first place
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, ‘AUSTIN
band’s success, and who each remain a vibrant and are certainly as vibrant and significant contributors Dear Editor,
important member of Austin’s music scene. Tommy to music and specifically Austin. They have made CHRONICLE’? Mrs. Jordon gave us a 10-question math quiz
tours with Eric Johnson and has several other proj- lemonade out of bitter lemons after being left in once a week. One incorrect answer and you got
Dear Editor,
ects including the new band 86’D. Andy plays regu- the lurch – whether at the urging of management, a B; two wrong answers were a C; three earned
You’re just not going to cover the Antonio
larly, including with Stevie Ray Vaughan songwriter record label, or in some cases, an “artist” believing you a D; and four were an F.
Buehler story, are you? It’s like it never hap-
Bill Carter, whose latest gig was attended (and had the group’s success to be his (or hers) alone. Sixty percent is failing. This is why Ron Paul fails.
pened. Twenty years ago, the Chronicle would
a sit-in from) Johnny Depp – a week or two ago. As far as the sound of the band, I liked it His wrong answers: the Christian nation; the war
have been on top of a police brutality and corrup-
James Fenner, the great percussionist, who was a before I moved to Austin in 1980. I came from on Christmas; no separation of church and state;
tion story like gravy on the rice. What happened
huge part of the band’s sound, wasn’t mentioned at New York where I worked and hung out with Steve desegregation of private business is bad; the EPA
to you, Austin Chronicle?
all. It was fair to quote the gifted Rob Meurer, who Forbert, the Roches, Paul Siebel and others in a is bad; OSHA is bad; equal pay for women is bad;
Richard Boland
however still enjoys a working relationship with Mr. singer-songwriter scene. But I liked lots of other all abortions are bad; the Civil War was unneces-
[Editor’s note: For the record, Antonio Buehler
Geppert. But as so often happens, the person out stuff, and to me, they just sounded like great sary (the North could have bought the slaves from
was arrested on New Year’s Day, allegedly for inter-
front is perceived to be the “artist” while the band California-style rockers, like the Eagles or Beach the South – that’s a good one). It’s a long list.
fering with an arrest and resisting, both of which
gets kicked over the side – often after years and Boys, whom they each admired. Why so many in Will Barack Obama bomb Iran or support Israel if
he is contesting. Buehler was recording on a cell
even a decade or more of effort to get the “artist” Austin hold the band (and certain other artists) in
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Newt Gingrich shows a history of conflict in
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true Libertarian, which has always hindered him
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a difference.
Jon Huntsman represents an enigma from
Utah, who professes to be a conservative, but
many of his views appear moderate to liberal.
As for Rick Perry ... he may be the worst
governor the state of Texas ever had. Perry has
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nomination. He accepted $7 million from the
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3) Rick Perry’s got a great smile but changes
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Headlines
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City Council meets today (Thursday, Jan. 26),
with a morning quarterly briefing from Austin
Energy (expect proposed rate schedules to be
more than subtext) and a debate over how best
to readdress the misinformation provided by
local crisis pregnancy centers.
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Specifically, two items on the agenda concern
revising or repealing an ordinance requiring
crisis pregnancy centers to publicly post infor-
mation about their operations – namely that they
do not provide abortion-related services or birth
control (or much more than anti-abortion propa-
ganda). In response to the 2010 ordinance, sev-
eral local CPC operators sued, claiming the ordi-
nance violates free speech protections. The
city’s legal department is recommending repeal
pending resolution of national litigation.
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It never rains, but it pours. Heavy storms hit
Central Texas Tuesday and Wednesday, carrying
hail and several inches of rain, causing numer-
ous outages, and flooding Barton Springs Pool
– which is temporarily closed.
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The Austin Police Department is looking for help
to identify a burglar in West Campus. A woman
awoke in her apartment Tuesday to find a man
crouching at the foot of her bed; he fled when
she screamed. She was unable to give a descrip-
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H tion, but police have reportedly said there is
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B nection with the Jan. 1 murder of Esme Barrera
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J (see “Excited About Life,” Jan. 13).
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N Austin Police Association President Wayne
A Vincent has asked the city to investigate who
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D leaked confidential information from a Citizen
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Carter; see “Who Leaked Police Info?” p.14.
Corey Williams (with pitchfork) and Kris Sleeman (in clown face) join in a street theatre performance that involves trying, sentencing, and
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executing a piñata representing “corporate personhood” as part of Occupy Austin’s Bank Action Day on Jan. 21. Travis County Constable Bruce Elfant kick-starts
his campaign today (Thursday, Jan. 26) as a
Democratic candidate for tax assessor-collector.
This year’s property taxes are due to interim
Shameless and had no tangible effect on the candi-
tax assessor-collector Tina Morton by Tuesday,
date’s dismal vote totals. It simply ampli-
Jan. 31; monthly payment plans are available.
fied the list of his tone-deaf moments,
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Mayor Lee Leffingwell last week joined
highlighted by the “Oops!” when he couldn’t
100-plus mayors from across the nation in sign-
Perry hands the torch to a kindred spirit remember his own talking points, and run-
ing the Mayors for the Freedom To Marry pledge,
ning the gamut from describing the United an effort toward ending marriage discrimination.
There aren’t too many good ways to admit Somehow, I don’t think that’s the way States’ Turkish allies as “Islamic terrorists” ›
Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential aspirations col-
you committed the fatal turnovers and lost Gen. Houston would have played it. to declaring he would return American
lapsed Jan. 19 when he announced he was sus-
the big game. Indeed, “retreat” had not previously troops to Iraq – a proposal as politically stu- pending his campaign and endorsing Newt
Saying farewell to his bungled presiden- appeared in the Perry campaign lexicon – pid as it is militarily unthinkable. Gingrich. Democrats are now asking that his
tial campaign, Gov. Rick Perry called on (in he was too busy engaging in arrogance, bel- campaign refund the $2.6 million Texans spent
order) Newt Gingrich, God, and Sam licosity, grandiosity, and flat dishones- Spewing Poison on his security detail during his abortive cam-
Houston, and suggested his ty. The Chronicle’s Richard Whit- What Perry’s most embarrassing moments paign. (See “Point Austin,” left, and “Cain: 6,324
… Perry: 2,494,” p.18.)
national embarrassment might taker has catalogued with rel- generally had in common was their reliance
›
be only temporary. “As a ish the embarrassing domi- on hard-right code words calculated to rile As the legal tussle over Texas’ redistricting
Texan, I have never shied BY MICHAEL noes of Perry’s final col- the Republican base – an understandable maps continues (see “The Texas Map Morass,”
p.17), Attorney General Greg Abbott is getting
away from a good fight, lapse (“Cain 6,324 … strategy, since the peak of his popularity
POINT into another fight with the Department of Justice,
especially when the Perry 2,494,” p.18), and coincided with his debate identification as this time over Senate Bill 14, the voter ID bill
cause was right,” Perry the tone of Perry’s the Texas Executioner, and his downfall passed last session. He has asked a three-judge
said. “But as someone entire campaign was federal panel in D.C. to bypass the DOJ preclear-
who has always admired AUSTIN aptly represented by continued on p.12 ance system and approve the law.
a great Texas forefather his notorious December
– Sam Houston – I know TV ad: “You don’t need
when it is time for a ‘stra- to be in the pew every
KING “It’s time to apply the same
tegic retreat.’” In fact, Perry Sunday to know that QUOTE
hadn’t known that at all. He there’s something wrong in rules from top to bottom:
first decided to quit the race this country when gays can No bailouts, no handouts,
after the debacle in Iowa, then serve openly in the military but of the
and no copouts.”
undecided (reportedly after a morning jog our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or WEEK
and a family chat), then vowed to fight on pray in school.”
– from President Barack
through South Carolina (while ignoring Widely mocked as both gay-bashing and
Obama’s State of Union
New Hampshire, which returned the favor), false – schoolkids go right on praying and
address Tuesday
then redecided that South Carolina wasn’t celebrating Christmas, whatever Perry says
worth the good fight after all. – the ad marked the campaign’s desperation
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