Boomerang Days

 

Boomerang Days: Final Fantasy

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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 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

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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

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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

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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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