Biannual roundup of what you are reading on this blog

You have done it again. No wonder I wander around flitting arbitrarily from subject to subject. My readers flit, too.

During the past year, you have remained as Alamobsessive as I, particularly focusing on the guns  Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson let be drawn in front of the Alamo. You joined me in remembering my father-in-law, George Spencer, and photographer Rick Hunter. You have demonstrated your interest in photography by two artists, Richard Nitschke and Sarah Brooke Lyons. You have let me take you traveling to San Miguel de Allende, and shown interest in the reign of Maximilian and Carlota in Mexico.

You refuse to let two old posts, one about David Sedaris’ “Nuit of the Living Dead” and one about Sandy Skoglund’s cheesy “Cocktail Party,” fade off of the top 12 list. It makes me particularly happy that you still show interest in the San Antonio Song and have given life to my true tale providing a ghost to inhabit Brackenridge Park.

The number in parentheses represents the rankings from six months ago:

1. Please come and take them away from San Antonio, (1) 2013

   

2. George Hutchings Spencer, 1923-2013 (3), 2013
3. The State surrenders the Alamo; Run for Cover, (4) 2013
4. Richard Nitschke: Seeing Agave in a Different Light, (8) 2013
5. Please put this song on Tony’s pony, and make it ride away (10), 2010
6. Sarah’s faces more than a thousand times better, (11) 2013
7. The Madarasz Murder Mystery: Might Helen Haunt Brackenridge Park?, 2012
8. “Nuit of the Living Dead” (9), 2010
9. Postcard from San Miguel de Allende: Sun rises again at La Aurora, 2014
10. The Tragic Rule of Maximilian and Carlota in Mexico, 2014
11. Cheez Doodles as Art (12), 2011
12. Rick Hunter lives here. And many other places., 2013

Thanks for hanging out here some and for giving me permission to keep on rambling on about whatever I’m currently pondering.