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Shales of Storytellers
Thom Woodruff
He is writing a history of gays in Texas
She is writing about Jews in Texas
Willy Nelson sings about dope and Texas
Kinky Friedman writes detective stories based in Austin
Jesse Sublett writes about Austin music venues
But Austin is too many stories - historic vs contemporary
And those stories change faster than governments
You could write about politics or economic dynasties
About oil, gas, cattle, Empires and the men/women who ruled
you could focus on scandals and crimes or the writers themselves
from O’Henry through those three Philosophers stones at Barton Springs
You could pick musical luminaries like Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray to cast light on a specific time
But all those times are gone - just as Austin is going/demolished to make way
For High Rise Generica. Soon we will all be history - and who reads that?
