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~ midcareer archive, 1977 – 2017 plus 2022

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Category Archives: TX

RPRZ Investigation of Coyotes Hunting Deer in Late 2017

25 Monday Dec 2017

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Snow in San Antonio

07 Thursday Dec 2017

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Untitled

29 Wednesday Nov 2017

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Patti, Autumn, Glo and Regallo

30 Monday Oct 2017

Posted by mtk in fauna, horses, TX

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RPRZ Backstory: Introducing the Recharge Zone

02 Wednesday Aug 2017

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Neotibicen Superbus

29 Saturday Jul 2017

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Red Sox v. Astros Road Trip

18 Sunday Jun 2017

Posted by mtk in baseball, TX

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plunge

02 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by mtk in poetry, TX

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I have lost my way

It lies somewhere behind me

but none of us can go back again

Will I find my way once more or

will time run out?

I ask, paused

astride the path

watching the maddened crowd.

Run to the current

rate of flow

plunge

into seething humanity

Mating Dragonflies

21 Thursday Oct 2010

Posted by mtk in fauna, TX

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I’m moving this over to the date it was shot, soon, but dug it up for blogger a french garden – this was 2010, in my father’s garden in San Antonio, Texas:

late on the Interstate

10 Saturday Jun 1995

Posted by mtk in Austin, poetry, TX

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late on the Interstate

leaving the Crown and Anchor behind us

and not yet in the Continental Club

between KGSR and KUT

I heard you speak beyond your words

for just half a second

It was like the voice I heard in Kenny’s kitchen

that time

the disembodied sound of love

unrealized and pains misunderstood

for just half a second I heard it

my only real evidence of phantoms yet

and I told you I heard it

but that you could take my hand and walk away

How happy I was when you pulled my hand

my arm, my whole body

up and over

and tugged me running breathlessly

through Klimten fields

of dandelion

and tall, green, flowing grass

barefoot

sweet and naked

sweet Phebe

stripped of the clothes we wore

in that car

late on the Interstate

and the lipstick you applied

outside the doors

of the Continental Club

 

 

(for Julie)

 

Al Gore at Trinity University

23 Thursday Apr 1992

Posted by mtk in Commentary, protest, San Antonio, self portrait, talks, thoughts, TX

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Senator Al Gore was on a book tour promoting Earth in the Balance. He hadn’t yet been picked as Bill Clinton’s running mate when I saw him at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, in April of 1992. He spoke for about forty minutes about the grave responsibility people around the world had to be more conscious of environmental degradation and then allowed for questions. I raised my hand and asked the Senator what he thought about the fact that the United States was the world’s greatest polluter and the greatest abuser of the earth’s resources.

I asked what the Senator thought of an editorial suggestion in the Houston Post that countries with large rainforests like Brazil and Malaysia should be allowed to tax the rest of the world for their usage of the primary resource they produce: clean air. (The idea was that the U.S. should be made to pay these countries not to deforest – the Post editorial had called it an Oxygen Tax).

I suggested to Senator Gore that the Global capitalist system – authored out of the U.S. and Europe – may have been the root cause for much of the irresponsibility he wrote about, quoting then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad, who had that year remarked that “Democracy and free markets are not magic. They do not make backwardness and ignorance disappear.”

In response, Senator Gore asked me if I was from Malaysia.

When I said I was not he replied, “Good – because they’re the worst!” and went on to complain about deforestation of the islands of South East Asia, ignoring the responsibility of facing the economic facts of environmental degradation.

When he’d finished, some grad students in the audience tried to pick up my call for greater responsibility to be placed on the demands of Northern and Western markets, but Senator Gore just didn’t want to get it. While Republican President GHW Bush was the one who’d said he would never apologize for the actions of the U.S.A., whether or not they were wrong, by the early 1990’s the Democrats weren’t much better at owning up.

Fellow Trombonists at Twilight

21 Sunday Oct 1984

Posted by mtk in photography, San Antonio, TX

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Matt Sherwoood and John Gentz, age 17

Treehouse Monopoly Record, 1981

30 Thursday Jul 1981

Posted by mtk in games, performance, San Antonio, TX

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Arbor Day, 1977

29 Friday Apr 1977

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M.T. Karthik

This blog archives early work of M.T. Karthik, who took every photograph and shot all the video here unless otherwise credited.

Performances and installations are posted by date of execution.

Writing appears in whatever form it was originally or, as in the case of poems or journal entries, retyped faithfully from print.

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