The Growling Texas Beer Bar

09/18/2026

09/04/2026

"If you really want to win, then you have to not play."

-Manny

08/28/2026

In no way.. do I think

that I know
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anymore.

(an ee cummings inspired poem)

08/21/2026

If you're making a record and you're looking at lights like these, probably a favorable sign...

08/14/2026

I am always celebrating life. Good or bad, happy or sad. It doesn't matter to me.
But celebrating it does.

What else is there to say?

08/02/2026

"The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls:
Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren, the "Secret Name"
- This corresponds to my Director.
He directs the film of your life from conception to death.
The secret name is the title of your film.
When you die, that's where Ren came in.

Second soul.
And second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: energy, power, light.
The director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons.

Number three is Khu, the guardian angel.
He, she, or it is third man out.
Depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light.
Sort of thing you might see on a
screen in an indian restaurant in Panama...

The Khu is responsible for the Subject and can be injured in his defense -- but not permanently.
Since the first three souls are eternal, they go back to heaven for another vessel.
The four remaining souls must take their
chances with the subject in the land of the dead.

Number four is Ba, the heart -- often treacherous.
This is a hawk's body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist.
Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba.

Number five is Ka, the Double.
Most closely associated with the subject.
The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the land of the dead to the Western Lands...

Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow. Memory... Your whole past conditioning from this and other lives.

Number seven is Sekhu, the remains."

- William S. Burroughs

07/26/2026

If I have a beer they call me an alcoholic, but if I have a Fanta, they don't call me fantastic.

Go figure.

07/19/2026

I think this whole thing is easy. All of it. All aspects of life. It just takes about 20 years of torture and an additional 20 years of contemplation in order to even begin to see and understand.

Lesson there.
- Manny

06/30/2026

Strawberry Moon tonight is appropriate.