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Jann Alexander
Dec 112 min read
The Next Best Thing To Time Travel
When you’re researching historical fiction, it would be so much easier to just rev up the Time Machine. My Time Machine was in the shop ,...
Jann Alexander
Aug 8, 20152 min read
Top 5 Things To Do With A Fractured Fibula
What’s Beneath My Feet: My Aircast Boot | iPhoneography by Jann Alexander ©2015 Ever since I fractured my fibula (left lateral distal...
Jann Alexander
Apr 28, 20152 min read
Turning Silver at the Saxon
Vanishing Austin? On Guard at the Pub by Jann Alexander ©2012 “One night, on the stage at the same time, there was Bonnie Raitt, Eric...
Jann Alexander
Mar 18, 20152 min read
Back By Popular Demand
Now Appearing at Lady Bird Lake: Stevie Ray and The Cranes | iPhoneography by Jann Alexander © 2015 Born again! Backed by a new band,...
Jann Alexander
Jul 25, 20141 min read
Bring On The Heat, Austin!
Made in the Shade by Jann Alexander © 2014 It’s summer in Texas, so you make for the shade to find your favorite hammock, and let...
Jann Alexander
Jul 16, 20141 min read
If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Wordless
Blessings for Johnny Cash by Jann Alexander © 2013 If it’s Wednesday, it’s wordless . Those are the rules. God Bless Johnny Cash, who...
Jann Alexander
Mar 12, 20142 min read
How to Deal With the Loneliness of Creativity
Why is creativity so lonely, even when we’re part of a team? Creativity is pre-destined to be lonely. We are all alone with our ideas,...
Jann Alexander
Mar 7, 20142 min read
Welcome to Austin. You’re Gonna Love It!
You’re Gonna Love Austin by Jann Alexander © 2014 Welcome to Austin, all ye visitors to SXSW. You’re gonna love Austin. We all do....
Jann Alexander
Jan 29, 20142 min read
Making Texans Proud Since 1964
Texas Proud Since 1964 by Jann Alexander © 2013 Broken Spoken Here. The Broken Spoke offers dining, dancing and development. Owner...
Jann Alexander
Jan 26, 20144 min read
Unexpected Pairings
Light meets design makes shadow creates pattern bathes piano attracts musician rides bike brings color makes music becomes art =...
Jann Alexander
Dec 29, 20133 min read
There’s an App for That: Achieve Your 2014 Tech Resolutions
Get your tech affairs together so you have more time for creativity in 2014. It’s nearly 2014. The year will begin with experts’ columns...
Jann Alexander
Nov 5, 20132 min read
Blessings for The Man in Black
Blessings at the Spoke by Jann Alexander © 2013 A broken-down bus that long lived at Austin’s famous honky-tonk shows some respect for...
Jann Alexander
Oct 3, 20133 min read
Reflections on Making a Mark
Lightscapes / On the Lake, Austin by Jann Alexander © 2013 . . . There’s a complex explanation in physics for reflection....
Jann Alexander
Sep 18, 20132 min read
Singing the Moody Blues for Antone’s
Moody Blues by Jann Alexander © 2013 Antone’s, the club whose name is perhaps most synonymous with The Live Music Capital of the World...
Jann Alexander
Aug 21, 20133 min read
Getting My Weekly Wacky Fix
As a self-defined seeker of the wacky , I’ve cultivated a number sources I follow online to get my Weekly Wacky Fix. These are some of...
Jann Alexander
Jun 28, 20131 min read
Boots That Are Made for Walkin’
Walk in Allens Boots by Jann Alexander ©2013 Allens Boots is a place I steer all of my Austin visitors to, direct from the airport, so...
Jann Alexander
Jun 21, 20133 min read
On Art + Magic
“ It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene,...
Jann Alexander
Jan 1, 20122 min read
Get Your Tech Affairs in Order for 2012
Mail thinks this is junk. Mail is right. Welcome to 2012. The day that experts’ columns appear with abandon, advising us on New Year...
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