AROUND THE HOUSE

Bucky comes looking for a snack.

Goodbye Christmas Boot! See you next year!

Time for the Christmas Boot!

Seeing friends in Texas

My old pal Dan Plunkett in front of his record store in south Austin.

Bootmaker Lee Miller, Jen & former Austin mayor Lee Cooke, who is picking up his repaired boots from Lee & his wife Carlin's shop in south Austin.

Jen & I visit bootmakers James Morado Jr. & James Morado Sr. in their shop in north Houston.

Some boot brushes in Morado's shop.

Jennifer June Honored

The Forbes.com article on expensive cowboy boots that Jen was interviewed for turned out pretty good.

Jen wanted to go to Santa Fe for the Southwest Design Conference. She's a cowboy bootmaker, proprietor of the #1 cowboy boot website, and soon-to-be author of a book on the iconography of cowboy boot design, to be published by Rizzoli in 2007. Because of all this, she often goes to interesting places & I try to tag along when I can. Here she is while we're waiting for lunch at Cowgirl Hall of Fame restaurant.

While we were there, I interviewed a few artists, all of whom had recently relocated from the Bay Area to New Mexico. My interview with Mary Bennett may never see the light of day, but the one with Ines Kramer is currently up on the front page of stretcher & in the archive there's one with Mary Tsiongas. There's also an essay of mine that I like, archived on stretcher, called Lebensraum