Boomerang Days: My White Whale
In which our intrepid columnist takes one last wistful lap around the Forty Acres in search of a majestic beast. I’m in search of a legend lurking among the oaks...
Author Archive: Owen Egerton
Boomerang Days: A Sip of Winedale
A Longhorn does college all over again. Longhorns have made an art of surviving the heat of a Texas summer, from Shiner slushies and tubing the Guadalupe River...
Boomerang Days: Home Game
A Longhorn does college all over again. Softball?” Jodi asks. “Is that the one with nets?” I’m not exactly sporty. As a UT undergrad in the 1990s, I was...
Boomerang Days: Dancehall Days
A Longhorn does college all over again. I’m not a strong dancer. I’m more likely to catch a rare disease than the groove. Watching me on the dance floor is...
Boomerang Days: The Clean-up Crew
A Longhorn does college all over again I am not a tidy person. There are aromas in my bathroom that would put a burning cheese shop to shame. The family of opossums...
Boomerang Days: Raising Hell
A Longhorn does college all over again. I don’t like football. I know this strikes many readers as sacrilege, but I don’t really care how the Longhorn football...
Boomerang Days: Nightcrawler
A Longhorn does college all over again. My favorite hours as a Longhorn were spent between midnight and dawn—those deep, dark hours when all good people are tucked...
Boomerang Days: Radio Head
A Longhorn does college all over again. In my early years at UT I found a community of underground music rascals, pioneers of the Austin airwaves, and communicators...
Boomerang Days: Barfly
A Longhorn does college all over again. Dear Reader—oh, the things I do for you. I hurl my body into the fires of youthful celebration for you! Though safely...
Boomerang Days: Spring Breaking Bad
A Longhorn does college all over again. Spring Break! It’s a time to abandon all sense of responsibility, academic accountability, and make complete asses of...
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