The fishing team trio take their fly rods down to the Mueller development to find the elusive yellow perch.
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Austin Fishing Team explores Shoal Creek from Cesar Chavez up to Ninth Street. We find cichlids, bass, warmouth, Mexican tetra, and one fast snake.
I don’t think I mentioned yet that my story “Scenes from Monster Beach” is available at Bourbon Penn. You can read it for free at the Bourbon Penn website, or you can buy the very affordable paper version which you can see pictured. Partially it’s taken this long for me to report about this publication
I’ve bought mukhwas before. There’s a bag of colorful sugar-coated anise in my drawer at work, for those occasions when I want to make certain that my breath smells particularly interesting. I’d heard that Indian cuisine used edible silver as a food additive and a decoration, but pricing considerations had prevented me from exploring the
An afternoon urban assault ride through Waller Creek. Taking only our fly rods and our bikes, we plumb the depths of this cosmopolitan waterway.
As Much Ethiopian as I Could Eat
There are times in life when moderation is called for, and then there are those times when you’re eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. A big group of folks went up to “Taste of Ethiopia” in Pflugerville. All the meals were served on giant platters lined with injera bread, with scoops of spicy bits and greens
A crack of dawn fishing expedition to the much hyped Granger Dam leads to many carp and no white bass.
A Heaping Bowl of Jewfish
I’ll admit, at first I felt a little embarrassed about eating something called jewfish. So I bought this, on the strength of the name, and then it sat in my freezer for months. But the day finally came when I had nothing else to eat. So I fixed the jewfish with your general sort of
Sichuan Austin Eating
Way up on 183 is a Szechuan restaurant called A+A Sichuan Garden. It’s definitely a different sort of Chinese food than we were normally accustomed to. All the dishes came marinated in spicy red oil. I of course ordered the dish with the white gelatinous chunks that tasted slightly soapy. But the menu items that
Futuristic Dome Habitats Today
If you’ve gone up I-35 between Austin and Dallas, you’ve probably seen the giant concrete dome caterpillar at the same exit that has the concrete dome starship-shaped gift shop. I looked it up. It’s a group called Monolithic that makes buildings by schmearing concrete over giant balloons. As you might imagine, their website claims that