Boomerang Days

 

Boomerang Days: My White Whale

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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...

 
 

Boomerang Days: A Sip of Winedale

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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

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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: The Clean-up Crew

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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

Boomerang Days: Raising Hell

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

 
 

Boomerang Days: All of Me

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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...

 
 
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