Archive for June, 2009
Fishing is my war. My Sunday football game. I have my charts, I check the tides, I check em again. I check the wind forecast. I check the moon phase. I choose my target. I would usually go to a place on the west end of Galveston. As soon as it was light enough to [...]
Did I ever tell you about the time I saw a shark attack? Well, I didn’t just see it, I was in the water, not more than ten feet from the guy. I had just come back to Houston after a month or so of working on an oil rig down in South Padre Island. [...]
Did I ever tell you about the coolest thing I ever did? Ok, well we were in this record store turned surf shop in Houston for some reason, and I was inquiring about a job. Not that I was really looking, I mean, hey- I got my check every week, but they had a help [...]
I’m not sure about this, but I think I read somewhere that the mighty Colorado river used to empty into the Gulf of Mexico. Now it empties into the Gulf of California. Did all that change when the damn was built? Or was it when the Rocky Mountains lifted themselves from the dust of the [...]
Across the sea from me the sky is glowing orange
and there is something in the water telling me to be cool.
But this cage is floating, grey, and adding contrast to my view.
I hear the flying fish sound like a hummingbird
before it’s drowned out by a destroyer man’s words,
“you see the seagulls fly, they hardly flap [...]