Augo Photograph & Essay

An old photograph of my brother @eljosharino placing an order at Lisa's Radial Cafe. His ability to place a perfect order at a restaurant is worth beholding. Wednesday October 18 is his birthday. I implore everybody to celebrate it today and everyday with beverages and food that please your soul. And for the love of everything good and pure, be more like Big Aug! Calm down, be smart, do the right thing, believe in the virtue of making sense and accruing knowledge, watch a ballgame and enjoy kind-hearted buffoonery. The world needs 10/18 to be a planet-wide Be Like Big Aug Day.



Happy Birthday, love you brother.

It's been three weeks now so maybe everybody's looking ahead to the next one, but here's a shot of the moon and sun's big dance from my old tired canon at the top of a hill in an alfalfa field. My favorite part was the 360° first-light-of-dawn on the horizons.

Almost a decade ago, just exactly when I needed it, these guys extended a hand of friendship to me and it changed everything about my life. Ringo and Josh and their Annas have propped me up physically, emotionally, financially, and in so many other ways. The friends and bandmates I've made through them have similarly supported me in countless ways. But most important is they revealed to me and reinforced something about who I am that I had previously shied away from. Around them, I was able to feel like my full self, know my full self, and believe in myself. A lot has happened in 10 years, and on Saturday, in front of my loved ones, I married the most incredible person I've ever met. She loves me, and I feel I am properly equipped to love her in the deep way she deserves, and that would not have happened or been possible without these friend's guidance into my adulthood. And then! Our band played a packed Zoo Bar, which is my favorite thing to do with my friends. I just had the best weekend of my life, and I feel like I am going to be trying to find the words to say thank you for it to a lot of people for a long time, but I want to start here with the Kill County/Triggertown family. They showed me the way to this life. Love.

Very late on gathering the eggs today so we're gonna have breakfast at 11:30 PM to keep the cosmos balanced. You're welcome!

Love you babe. Two years has gone by so fast, and has kept my heart so full. I admire you. Prost, mijn Patatje ❤️ Everybody, look at this woman. She is a bright light in this world. If you don't know her I want you to. She is one of those people that makes you feel a little more complete, lucky to be alive, and happy to be awake and human. May you get the chance if you have not yet...

Outside fooling around on my telephone while Liefje sews decorations for a party we're about to throw. I am still approaching my to-do list with a big ol' 🤔.

Good to know we can tap into Kid County for back up if Bobby ever cuts his thumb off again.

I want to alert the world of a potential antidote to its problems. All everybody needs is a few moments a day to sit with Muss in a wheelbarrow, and, more importantly, to adopt a behavior focused around the forceful insistance that their neighbors experience daily peaceful moments with Muss in a wheelbarrow. Let the era of big-hearted kids asking Santa Claus for world peace end today!

To sit down, take a breath, look around, and recall that you are livin weird.

Barn /bärn/

A choice place to finish up the day.

If you work hard and do your best, when you're done, come on down to sit the slime bridge and swim the dog.

Thank you, Earth, for bringing friends together with turnips and beer. #earthday

You can't hear it by looking at this picture of a skylight installation (which I do not recommend any of my friends do unless you are interested in having fiberglass insulation in your underpants. Keep the insulation in the attic and the darkness in your living space.) but I was humming Flying Cowboys by Rickie Lee Jones when Mark burst through this roof like a giant living pitcher of #koolaid. Look up that music video to feel weird and have a happy Saturday.

@niespret and I planted a potato in my old boot. She is exactly my dream person.

That weekend felt more like a bathroom break, didn't it?

Well after 32 full years of drawing breath I'm still not sure what to do about anything but I'm pretty confident that I can ensure your deep inner calmness if you don't ruin anybody's day on purpose. Through this approach you may also find yourself amongst the greatest friends and family on earth everywhere you go. Works for me anyways. Thanks for the love everyone 😘

Free head massages all day at our parlor if you're a dog

Dear friends, I hope for a lot of things for you, and among them is a deep and sincere wish that you never have to put siding on a chimney.

As a budding transatlantic family, Liesbeth and I feel deep compassion for all the families so drastically affected by the rash pen flinging in DC. We understand well the inherent difficulties in a familial relationship that requires extensive travel and border crossings, and we know the realization that the forces of good arising from such a relationship make every ache worth it, and that by extension of that worthy goodness found in familial love, the world improves and grows more united in the effort to nourish humanity and virtue. Our understanding of how goodness prevails makes yesterday's news extremely distressing. Generalized compartmentalization of an individual's capacity to share and exemplify the efforts of peace based on their nationality is not an effective strategy against real or perceived threats. A pursuer of peace employs open hands, open ears, open hearts to all--always has been and always will be the case. Thoughts are with those families in shock today. Hoping for better news soon.

Peace to those who didn't make it, health to those of us who carry on. Into the fog we go--hope you find what you're looking for.

Every morning this mama deer is eating a little bit closer to my new bedroom window. Today I tried to play my clarinet for her and she shuffled off in a hurry. 😕

Gelukkige verjaardag (Happy birthday) to mijn patatje (my little potato) ik hou van jou (I love you) je bent de mooiste meisje in de hele wereld! Liefje! xoxo

What you have to do if you really want to do it right is do it more like T and Bobby Dale would do it. Awesome to see you guys again last night @bonesandhearts @bobbydaletx

Mabel playing cops and robbers with the turks. Happy thanksgiving. Gratitude is the ultimate weapon against taking for granted. Utilize it. I have so many people to praise and shower with thanks--so many are looking out for me and my girl and we're overwhelmed with gratitude. We are lucky folks and people all over the world are owed our hugs of thanks. 😘



If you are currently beating up Sioux and others because they are grateful for their water supply and hold it in the high esteem it deserves, I beg you to discover the disgracefulness and shamefulness that anybody with a brain or heart sees in you. You're a disgrace to the badge, you're an enemy of liberty, and you're an embarrassment to your mothers. What compels this behavior in you? I do not know what you think you are or who you think you are serving, but I do know that every day you gear up in your psyco-cop halloween costume and roll out somewhere to beat up on the people who you're employed to serve, the joke that you are gets worse. I, for one, find bad jokes unfavorable. Grow up, shake a hand, and listen to your neighbor's concerns. Earn your tax-funded paycheck. Ain't a drop of oil on earth worth beating on people over. #standingrock

Was a real privilege to help the Steinhausens raise a mortise and tenon barn/dance hall today.

It's that time of year for turkey scout cookies. Keep some cash around.

Dealing with today: Remember to wake up whenever and stay off the TV today. Go to bed early if you feel tired. Avert your eyes from clocks and eat lunch and dinner exactly when you ate it yesterday in relation to the position of the sun in the sky. Write a letter to someone you love and take a walk at dusk. Don't think about what time it is or your level of hunger during the walk. Don't ever think about what time it is. Avoid naps. Avoid the schedules of trains and busses. Make a list of your favorite fruits. If you don't have a favorite flower, today is the day to determine a few contenders. Don't watch TV. Don't watch it tomorrow either or the day after that. Go easy on the caffeine. Hug your friend. Play a prank on a fascist.

Good luck. Have a nice winter. Don't watch TV.

A trudge through the prairie.

Barely slept due to huge all-night coyote rave. At dawn I was up with a 5000-robin orchestra who had stopped by on their way out of town. Substantial color adjustments in some of the grasses occurred over night though some species remain bright green. Was able to goad Mabel into another fence-jump portrait during a long walk after coffee. Now some thunder in the distance and a woman by my side. Gonna skip the news today.

Under the house with Turks.

Friends in Austin, I'm skipping town for a couple months next week, but tonight @killcounty plays at Hard Luck Lounge and tomorrow we're at Blackheart on Rainey. It'd be great to see you before I scoot! More bonfires when I return in December. And gasoline in the lawn. Hold it down til then...

Sunday afternoon. Right there between last week and this week. A good time to get down. @ringoatringo

Really can't get a better evening for a swim.