a score is 20 years

     In the twenty-plus-two days since last reporting for duty, 

I have done a few things many times over.

The bandits in the kitchen of Más Tacos Por Favor

have taken me as one of their own.

I spend the daylight hours learning the trade and testing the tacos.

 By night, I creep about below the floorboards

fixated on affixing bones to metal to wood. 

Learning to "appreciate the impermanence of the human condition." -droot

Between the taco stand and mi casa, there are homes.

There are lives and people and everything that happens

will happen today.

Durante los 22 días de mi ausencia,

he repetido poquitas cosas varias veces.

Los bandidos de la cocina de Más Tacos Por Favor

me han secuestrado para ser una de ellos.

Me la paso aprendiendo su oficio y probando los tacos.

Por la noche voy trepando debajo de los pisos

enfilada en fijar hueso a metal a madera.

Aprendiendo a "apreciar que la temporalidad de la condición humana." -droot

Entre el puesto de tacos y mi casa, hay hogares.

Hay vidas y personas y todo que pasa

pasara hoy.

leave what remains

For those of you who speak Spanish, or those of you who wanna brush up on your reading skills en español check out Heads Off.  Along with music reviews and art critiques you will, ever so often, find cute pictures of kittens. Another fun fact: I was asked to do the banner for June! So, after a quick flashback to your high school Spanish class (pantalones, cerveza, donde)  click over and check out this insider view of the world as we know it.

water aerobics

I am in the process of reassimilation.  

The East Park Community Center has helped immensely.  The beautifully maintained facility has quite an impressive offering of activities that fit within my [currently-job-hunting] budget.  It is near enough to my house that I can ride my bike and so I get to count that as a warm up when I arrive to take water aerobics in the indoor pool.  There is a walking track, a gym with exercise equipment, a kids summer program and group classes like yoga, boot camp and Zumba. 

Emily and the ladies that come to her water aerobics class have welcomed me warmly and have already been a great inspiration to me. If it weren't for them I would never keep up an exercise routine that requires an every-other day bathing schedule.  Their personalities and enthusiasm have also offered me a grand source of motivation for my paintings.  

lean like a chola

Things got pretty real when they began to erase my eyebrows. 

The strapped on those white sneakers and the transformation was complete.

Check out the June issue of this online magazine:

Revista Cultural ALTERNATIVAS

You may not immediately recognize one of our very own 

Mavericks hiding among the pages, so look carefully.

Bohème Collectif

Spend tonight, the second Saturday of June, on the East Side.  Nashville is a great town to be if you are into the arts; music, theater and visual artists thrive in an environment as alive as this one.

And after all of the other shops near 5 Points have closed, come spend the evening at the Bohème Collectif.  The five dollars at the door gets you a drink for each hand to make the DJ's music that much sweeter and the paintings that much more profound.

maverick face

We are everywhere!

See what is going on at Tienda Clausurado in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Maverick Radar and Terrapin Branch Ironworks

are coming full force in Middle Tennessee.

Check in often for updates on shows, flea markets

and new goods in my etsy shop.

lighting up the dark

I found it in a palindrome.

My purpose, I share with the moth.

in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

we go wandering at night and are consumed by fire

Lo encontré en un palíndromo. 

Comparto mi proposito con la polilla.

in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

vamos girando en la noche y somos consumidos por el fuego