Kip Austin Hinton

saturday april 1 is the 14th(?) quasi-annual miss southtown pageant. miss southtown, the only all-gender pageant in texas. i may or may not be a member of the planning committee. i did produce and edit a short video (3 minutes), based on the ourvoir (how you spell that?) of a certain singing cowboy. don't wanna give anything away, think of it as a qualitative analysis of supressed sociocultural issues within mass media. the pageant is at Oscar Alvarado's " Wiggle Room ," on south presa. between the tracks and the HEB. what time? maybe 10pm. sepa la mo. pero be there and be square.

i was asked - last minute - to play at Jump-Start theater on saturday. no problem. i can play guitar and sing with little preparation. i just don't not very often. too many commitments. ni modo. it went well, dressed up like eddy arnold and played country stuff. a minor key variation on "comin' round the mountain." this was my grandpa's favorite song, but i changed lyrics asi: _________________ she'll be drivin' six white hosses when she come. drivin' six white hosses when she come. drivin' six white hosses, menfolk filin' for divorces. she'll be drivin' six white hosses when she come. _________________ yeah we'll all come out t' meet 'er when she come. all come out t' meet 'er when she come. all come out t' meet 'er, lak a whisky-soaked saint peter. yeah we'll all come out t' meet 'er when she come. you get the idea. it was fun. i also did "en tu birthday te diste mi troca," (for your b...

this week i had so much -- finished analysis of my Alamo tour guide ethnography. i had 11300 words of data. that's quite a bit. in a nutshell, the Alamo is struggling between two paradigms: to celebrate the heroism of white people (the old model), or present accurate evidence while promoting inclusion (the new model). they truly used to avoid things like "history." and now, some people are trying to avoid racist (anti-Mexican) language while pronouncing the spanish words correctly. especially with Latino tourists. interesting situation. i'll put my powerpoint up here. also got Ph.D. applications turned in this week. surviving the process should be worth course credit. to three programs so far. they're all interesting, y con clima razonable, but i can't go unless they offer some funding. i need to look at contingencies. i like teaching, i could be happy as a public school teacher-- were it not for the standardized tests. no hay que hacer. es tan facil endura...

just back from a planned, yet unannounced, trip to florida. my parents house, to introduce them to my girlfriend (y vice versa). lots of fun, middle of the swamp palatka crescent beach san augustine (mobile) ocala -- my grandparents' farm. "stancil's pineywoods farm." the road that was a dirt road until a few years ago, named "stancil avenue." cuz it only went to grandpa's sandpit and my cousins' trailer, nothing but stancils. anyway, they're widening it to four lanes, eminent domaining a large chunk. the future se viene. uncle harold had to run fence along the new edge. and the entrance, with a wooden sign my grandpa hung there 60 or 70 years ago. being moved. because too much traffic. they (my mom, her brothers) don't want to sell the farm./ but it makes no money, no money in florida cattle anymore. no money in hay, all the farms do horses now. import special stuff from canada. and the city is coming. every month more. every year the ta...

i read at Amalia's new " Urban Verses " poetry night. at urban-15, my neighborhood. it was fun, i heard stuff by a few new people. i even liked eduardo's stuff. and oliver grimball was lots of fun to hear (but no, i cannot agree that he's the absolute best in the city). there was a casual slam, i won. a travel litebrite. actually, i had a real busy day. got a new website database idea to work for the bicultural/bilingual website. started the new afternoon class with unam, worked on writing ideas (mythology vs. history) for my thesis. then evening class at unam. tried to sort out some financial stuff for when i gotta pay for my computer and tuition next month... not looking forward to that. in fact, i'm uncertain how i'll make it work, maybe another student loan?

talent or lack thereof aside -- i'm performing in MadMedia's theater production Revolution/Revelation at the guadalupe theater . saturday 25th of june. i'm doing some social issue "poetry". and an extended solo piece -- called "revolutionary pedagogy: the psychometric invalidity of high-stakes testing in Texas". it's a comedy. yes that's true. i play an educator giving a cheesy powerpoint at a conference. then kind of goes off -- about systemic ethnocentrism and overthrowing the testing corporations. it gets pretty weird, should be fun. meanwhile i'm working 3 jobs while theoretically starting my thesis.

thats what i gotta pay to work on my thessithis summer. just to work on it. meet with a professor once a week. get guidane. la profe would do it for free, but if i'm not enrolled, i couldn't graduate in december... i need to take 2 semesters of thesis, and sequentially, not simultaneously. and i couldn't keep my G.A. position if i don't enroll at least 3 hours. that's so they know they're getting the cash back from me. working as a graduate student, its not so good. better than trying to not work, cuz this shiot is expensive. but i feel taken advantage of. i was recruited to work of an academic paper (Arts education) turned out i was ineligible,i end up on a relate project but doing a website. that's kool and all. but if i'm doing a website i can go private sector and earn twice as much per hour. i just hope it can balance. thing is, i'm going to be short of cash. not just a little, either. my tuition will go on a credit card i will hopefully pay off...