Grit in the Gears

I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.

Monday, 13 May 2013

Old Cars, and Texas Junk

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Cruising around San Antonio, I spotted this black beauty lurking in a backyard. And down a quiet street by the railroad tracks... Si...
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Friday, 3 May 2013

So, When You're Not Demolishing Things, What Do You Do?

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    This is what those wooden stairs were resting on. Moth-eaten steels.   Here we have an old industrial building. Pretty ...
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Saturday, 27 April 2013

People ask, "What is your Favourite...?"

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And I am always struggling to answer. My favourite music? My favourite food? My favourite author? Film? Story? I can't answer. Th...
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Friday, 26 April 2013

The job was supposed to take a couple of hours.

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Put up temporary supports, cut the steel rods with an angle-grinder, working off ladders. (oh, and go get the generator, grinder, spare blad...
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Pierre Bensusan

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Sunday, 21 April 2013

Mr Fix-It?

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xxx!
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Saturday, 20 April 2013

Austin, Texas, "Keeping Austin Weird".

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We just missed the Lonestar Roundup, due to work requirements, but there were still plenty of interesting old cars to look at, a few days ...
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Shoes...

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It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Red Dirt Girl and I share some laughs over shoes. Her blog, the one I first read, posted p...
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