Keeping San Antonio Lame, One Blogger At A Time
Most of us are aware of the Keep Austin Weird bumper stickers and t-shirts (dare I say movement?) that have been around for awhile. Fewer people are aware of the Keep San Antonio Lame bumper sticker/movement scene.
A friend of mine from high school, Jones, is doing his part to keep San Antonio lame. And I mean that as a good thing. San Antonio has a lot to offer, if you know where and how and where to look. And you need to know a diamond in the rough when you see one.
The lameness to celebrate stems from the fact that it is a quiet, slow, humble lamness. Compare that to the arrogance and glitz of Dallas. I'll take San Antonio any day over that.
So Jones writes for The San Antonio Current which is that city's equivalent of The City Pages. He rides his bike around the city, takes lots of pictures on these rides, and goes to music and art shows. What he does is uncover all those diamonds in the rough that keep San Antonio so beautifully lame.
Maybe I find the lameness so wonderful because as much as the city is getting bulldozed and developed, there are still pockets of it here and there, that will never change. They will stay frozen as I remember them being from 1976 to 1990.
Click here for his latest entry. Even all you non-San Antonionians should check it out. He has a pretty interesting take on MLK Day.
Another reason to check out his post: he got a pretty cool picture of The Pancho Villa Lounge. If you scroll to the pictures at the bottom of the blog, it is the third from the last picture. I swear I've driven by that building about a hundred times on my way out to my sister's place in St. Hedwig. If that is indeed the building (it has to be), I will say this: no other building has ever held such intrigue to me the way that one has. What the hell was that place like before it closed?
A smaller, rural version of (a great San Antonio bar) La Tuna?
I guess my challenge to Jones is to find another Pancho Villa place that is still open. If there is one left in this country, I know good and damn well it's somewhere on the outskirts of San Antonio.
