Boomerang Days: All of Me
A Longhorn does college all over again. Being a Longhorn is all about stepping outside your comfort zone: meeting friends, exploring subjects, posing nude in front...
Author Archive: Owen Egerton
Boomerang Days: Final Fantasy
A Longhorn does college all over again. I’ve been returning to the UT campus for over a year now. I’ve explored the dorms, worked out in Gregory Gym, and strolled...
Boomerang Days: From Here to Fraternity
A Longhorn does college all over again. When I attended UT, I was proud to be unaffiliated with a fraternity. I was a confirmed hippie with slightly liberal leanings...
Boomerang Days: Reptile Rampage!
A Longhorn does college all over again. I hate snakes. As a rule, I avoid them, steering clear of zoo reptile houses, skipping the early chapters of Genesis, and...
Boomerang Days: Ghost World
A Longhorn does college all over again. It’s an eerily quiet night on campus. The moon reflects off the darkened windows of the aged granite buildings and a...
Boomerang Days: It Tolls For Me
A Longhorn does college all over again. I have my UT fantasies. Skinny dipping in the Turtle Pond, tattooing my face on Bevo’s underbelly, trapping and eating...
Boomerang Days: The Dark Crystal
A Longhorn does college all over again. Coffee. The nutritional cornerstone of my college diet, my morning must, my class companion, my loyal studymate. Today...
Boomerang Days: Drag King
A Longhorn does college all over again. Les Amis Cafe is a Starbucks. The original Texadelphia sits empty behind boarded windows. Daniel Johnston’s iconic frog...
Boomerang Days: Gregory’s Pecs
A Longhorn does college all over again. Thinking back to my college glory days 20 years ago, I find myself strangely eager to revisit that gloomy temple of fitness,...
Boomerang Days: Infinite Jester
A Longhorn does college all over again. I was a student at UT a few years ago … a few more than a few … maybe much more than a few. OK, let’s be honest, more...
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