Xmas Lights

The economy has tanked, the world is a mess, and we’re headed to hell in a bucket.

However some traditions must go on. A recent tour down Austin’s 37th Street proved that insanity and madness is still there. In a good way.

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The most fetching image and its point about the limits of the hardware – I was using my iPhone – but the images didn’t turn out as well as I hoped . There was one, the final frame, a 20-year old Ford truck. Not dead, but not alive. Ever see the wire-frame deers? Or better yet, the wire-frame deers with lights and the bobbing head? One of those was stuffed into the front seat of the truck, and the deer? Its little wire-frame and lights, the paws were on the truck’s steering wheels. All lit up.

Maybe Austin really is weird.

Weirder.

About the author: Born and raised in a small town in East Texas, Kramer Wetzel spent years honing his craft in a trailer park in South Austin. He hates writing about himself in third person. More at KramerWetzel.com.

  • ssmith04 Dec 22, 2008 @ 9:39

    Weird. My kind of town. If I ever leave southern CA, I’m seriously going to consider Austin. What’s the weather like in the summer?

  • Kramer Dec 22, 2008 @ 15:25

    Got two seasons: summer and Easy Bake.

    Summer’s hot, but it’s a wet heat, you know?

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