Checking In

[thehefner]

Back safe. Exhausted from hardy partying and four hours of sleep. Full Boulder thoughts tomorrow. It'll be a long post, touching on the following topics:

--Overall impressions of Boulder and the Fringe Festival
--How my shows went
--People I met and how they influenced me, for good or ill
--Crushing depression and creeping disillusionment
--The horrible recurring question, when it comes to the Hefner name: To Exploit or Not to Exploit?
--The dread beast known as marketing (or: finding the guts to not be utterly terrified of handing out fliers)
--Facing the fact that some people really don't fucking like nor get solo performances.
--Finding dignity and grace in the best way that I--and only I--can.
--One of the most purely Hefnerian moments I dare say I've ever experienced. I'm still reeling (in that, "remember to see the humor in the situation" kind of way).

So, yeah, lots of thoughts to get out. If you're interested, huzzah, I look forward to your thoughts. And if not, well, I'll just leave you with this observation from my connecting flight in San Antonio, Texas. I'm not three steps off the plane, and what oh what do I see?

A goth cowgirl.

I fucking love it.

Much-deserved sleep now.

Comments

[pokeyburro.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Texas. Do enjoy a Taco Cabana dinner while you're there.

[scarydavedc.livejournal.com]

I second Taco Cabana. Sweet Tomatoes & Soup Plantation are musts as well.

Also, liquor from gas stations FTW!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Truly, it sounds like a magical land of dreams and wonder.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd actually spent more than a half hour there. Maybe I'll try to stop through there on my upcoming freaky beatnik road trip. We'll see how practical that is, since I've never spent any time in Texas. I'd love to hit up the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Austin. Also, I'm DYING for authentic Mexican food. Why is it only in Chicago (or when my brother's cooking) that I can get quesadillas and tacos made with soft corn tortillas?!

[pokeyburro.livejournal.com]

You could go to my childhood church parish and get authentic hogshead tamales. They're made by old Mexican ladies - can't get more authentic than that.

There's actually a place in Baltimore that's pretty good. Not Taco Fiesta, although they're good too (they're more "fresh mex").

I've been working a theory in my head regarding city size and the Standard Cuisine Set (SCS). The Set so far includes Mexican, Hunan, Szechuan, Japanese, Korean, French, Greek, and Italian. There's a stable situation building in the US where a city can be said to be "large" if you can find authentic food for anything in the SCS there; a cuisine becomes permanently part of the SCS if an authentic version of it can be found in any of the ordained "large" US cities.