MY CONFESSION

My friend David still introduces me to everyone he knows as the person who hates squirrels.  As if reading a script, he clarifies that statement by saying, "it's not a funny hate, he actually hates them."

So it was last week I was reading off the list of things I hate to a friend.  She shook her head and felt I had made it up just to get a rise out of folks.  It was then, in a brief moment of insanity, I made a confession. 

Of all the things on the list, there is actually one that I really have grown to secretly love.  With this knowledge, I was told I would have to tell people, and I knew she was right.

While staying in Kerrville with my friends Marty and Charles a few months ago, we would wake up and cook as full a breakfast as we had time for before starting to paint on the mural.  Marty and Charles cooked up bacon each morning, while I wolfed down a couple bowls of cereal.  I was the last one to leave the house one morning when I grabbed some waters from the fridge.  On the stove was a plate of bacon sitting on a greasy paper towel.  I was still a little hungry, and grabbed a couple of slices and ate them fast.  They were delicious.  Crunchy, greasy and good, I sipped some water and made sure I was done chewing before heading out to work.

I haven't had any bacon since, and still don't really think I'd go hog wild eating it on everything like most Americans, but those tasty strips that I had may have started me on a dangerous path.  So I must rescind all those horrible things I said about bacon and will go forth with a clear conscience and some exciting new tasty combinations in the morning.

+  BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS
Austin's biggest art show of 2009
+  JESUS CARRIES A BIG STICK
A look at my painting for the New Testament Show
+  REALLY SMALL, STILL REALLY WHITE
My friend sculpted a miniature Vigilante!
+  VOLUME THREE: TURNING THE CORNER
Laying out the third RWV comic book
+  2008 HERO OF THE YEAR
Who is Zina Saunders?  Find out now!
+  PINATA TIME!!!
the White Vigilante meets his match
+  A4 PAPER: HOW I LEARNED TO HATE REAGAN
I finally figured out what bothered me all these years...
+  KANSAS CITY BBQ TAKES ON AUSTIN
a gift from the BBQ capital of the universe to Texas
+  AUSTIN CRITICS' TABLE AWARDS
a surprise nomination, win, and a speech or two
 

MY COMIC BOOK SIDE PROJECT:
TALES OF THE REALLY WHITE VIGILANTE #1 the satiric tale of one young man's attempts to stop the gentrification of East Austin by becoming a superhero in a Mexican wrestling mask.
TALES OF THE REALLY WHITE VIGILANTE #2 the tale continues with the White Vigilante teaming up with Dos XX during Austin's largest music festival to fight a new, more menacing threat to Austin.

GALLERY

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