James Coney Island

I like hotdog places.  They all have that kind of carnival feel to them.  Bright colors and outgoing people working beind the counter. And then they sell hotdogs, so what’s not to like? The James Coney Island is a Houston hotdog place that started doing business 1923.  For some reason a couple of Greeks opened a New York style hotdog joint in Texas and I’m glad that they did. I had a couple of Sonora Dogs and those were pretty sweet.  This is a hot dog that is pretty popular in Mexico, hence the whole Sonora thing.  It’s a hotdog…

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Running With Scissors

You know, memoir is not court stenography. Memoir is not a video on YouTube. Memoir has a narrative. Memoirs, a good memoir, is a person’s experience, their memory, and how that experience mattered to them, emotionally and psychologically. Augusten Burroughs I’ve always liked memoirs, though I didn’t always know that I was watching a memoir. A Christmas Story is a fairy tale memoir. Little Big Man was a fake memoir. Most of the brilliant writing of David Sedaris is in the form of memoirs. Oprah yelled at James Frey for making stuff up in his memoir A Million Little Pieces.…

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