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FIRED UP As the world crumbles, one white parent of a black son tries to make sense of it all.

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Since the legalization of hemp farming in Texas last year, politicians and law enforcement officials have struggled with a straightforward problem: how to tell if someone is lighting up a joint with THC (the illegal psychoactive agent in marijuana) or CBD (the legal medicinal agent found in hemp).

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Static Bartleby Is Dead

Though we had worked for the same company for two years, I didn’t know him very well. He kept to himself. I don’t know what he thought of me, and I wasn’t exactly sure what to think of him. He was just a guy who came to work, almost like Melville’s scrivener Bartleby. In fact, that’s what I’ll call him for now. Bartleby.

I got the impression that life had not been easy or very kind to Bartleby, but he was always easy to deal with and kind to me. And always respectful. His father died not long after he first came to work with us, and in the last year or so, his best friend passed as well. He had a daughter who was attending a local college, and he was very proud of her — but I didn’t know her name. He preferred bowling to golf — on that, we both agreed. Neither of us was really “frat boy” material. Oh, and Bartleby had a nice smile. We didn’t see it often, but it was nice.

Beyond that, I didn’t know much about him.

Last week, however, I heard something that I couldn’t process. And I didn’t hear it from him.

Bartleby was in the Intensive Care Unit at John Peter Smith Hospital. He’d had open-heart surgery, and half his skull had been removed to relieve the pressure on his brain. One of his eyeballs had been shot out. He might never recover. He might never wake up.

To the untrained eye, hemp looks a lot like marijuana.

News stories said four Haltom City police officers responded to a “shots fired” report in the 2300 block of McGuire Avenue. In the middle of their “response,” Bartleby “came around the corner of McGuire Avenue and Nina Lane” in his grandmother’s compact sedan. It’s been said that Bartleby stopped in the middle of the road — presumably when he saw the Haltom City police cars — and yelled at the officers. It’s also been said that he then went to his trunk and took something out of it. According to the Dallas Morning News, “Authorities didn’t specify what the item was.”

Finally, it’s been alleged that Bartleby got back into his grandmother’s compact sedan and began “driving toward the officers.” Four of the Haltom City police department’s finest opened fire on Bartleby. He was struck by several bullets, and it’s been said that his grandmother’s compact sedan veered into a telephone pole. But in the pictures, at least, it looks like it rolled to a stop at the nearest curb.

I’d like to see the dashcam or officer camera footage of the incident.

Even though Bartleby and I weren’t very close, I’d like to know what really happened. Bartleby wasn’t a gun nut. Bartleby didn’t strike me as a troublemaker, much less a cop killer. In fact, he didn’t seem the least bit confrontational — even when others were confrontational with him. On top of all that, he’d just gotten a raise and seemed genuinely thrilled.

The newspaper and television reports almost suggest a scenario that resembles the last sequence in The

Vanishing Point (1971), where the antihero protagonist barrels full-speed into bulldozer blades the police have lined across the street to stop him. But I don’t believe it.

Bartleby was just a guy I worked with.

What it seems like is that Haltom City cops responded to a “shots fired” complaint and found somebody to shoot. I suspect that is the story behind the headlines that the Haltom City police dictated. The problem for them, I think, is that Bartleby lived on Nina Lane. He was probably leaving his house to run an errand or trying to return to his house after visiting a grocery store. I don’t think he had any idea what he was driving into.

Bartleby is dead now. His funeral date isn’t set because this man the police assumed was dangerous driving down the street in his grandmother’s compact sedan was an organ donor.

That news doesn’t surprise me. That’s the kind of guy I think Bartleby was.

Bartleby was the last person I ever expected to perish in a hail of gunfire. In fact, I think if I’d have asked him if he would have liked to be mistaken for a threat and gunned down in cold blood by the Haltom City police on Memorial Day weekend, I am certain he would have responded just like Melville’s Bartleby. I envision him saying calmly and politely, “I would rather not.”

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Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

Hemp cigarettes and CBD vape pens may soon be verboten in Texas.

galized hemp farming in Texas, allowed for the sale of smokable hemp products but did not allow for the manufacture of pre-rolled hemp and other smokable hemp products in Texas. To untrained eyes, hemp and marijuana buds basically look and smell the same. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is preparing to rule on a proposed ban on smokable hemp, and hemp supporters are sounding the alarm.

The health benefits of CBD are well documented. Many children and adults use the non-psychoactive drug to control seizures or to manage chronic pain, among many other uses.

Tim Blackwell said the proposal will effectively strangle Texas’ new hemp market. The owner of Fort Worth-based Zen Alchemy Labs, which specializes in CBD products, said smokable hemp has many advantages for people who struggle with chronic pain and anxiety.

When smoked, CBD “is absorbed into your lungs and directly into your bloodstream,” he said. “Ingested CBD products are damaged by stomach acids and filtered by the liver.”

Blackwell said 50% of his customers buy hemp flowers, largely for smoking purposes.

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“Hemp is still very new in Texas,” Blackwell said, and lawmakers “are stifling it before it has a chance to get off the ground.”

Last March, the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) began accepting applications for hemp-growing licenses and permits. That step allowed Texas to join 46 states and a global $4.7 billion industry.

According to data provided by the TDA, as of late May, 19 hemp licenses have been granted to businesses located within Tarrant County. There are three outstanding applications in the county. The 22 licenses and applications include 15 hemp producers located in Fort Worth. Several Fort Worth hemp growers have facilities in nearby cities like Azle, Grand Prairie, and Waxahachie.

Texas Hemp Growers recently launched an online petition that calls for “DSHS to back off Texas businesses and leave hemp alone.” The hemp advocacy group is also preparing a lawsuit to challenge the proposed ban. Zachary Maxwell, Texas Hemp Growers’ president, said that any ban on specific forms of hemp products violates state and federal law, specifically the federal 2018 farm bill that legalizes the regulated production of hemp.

“The proposed rule would be the equivalent of permitting a rancher to raise cattle for sale while prohibiting them from selling steak or permitting a farmer to grow corn while prohibiting sale of corn on the cob,” Maxwell said. “The flower of the hemp plant is the most lucrative part of the plant for both Texas farmers and retailers and could provide much needed revenue to the state of Texas. The most predominant usage of hemp flower by consumers is for smoking, and DSHS’ proposed retail ban forces Texas farmers to send their business out of state by seeking out-of-state buyers for their crop, rather than being able to sell their flower crop in state.”

Cleveland, Texas-based Happy Hippy Haus Dispensary may be hit hard by the proposed hemp restrictions. Dispensary owner Sam Martin said in a public statement that “with an overwhelming support for smokable hemp by many Texans, we have to come together to help our farmers, manufacturers, processors, and retailers.

Let’s make this ban go up in smoke.”

Blackwell said that an attack on any part of the hemp industry is an attack on everyone who is involved in the growing, processing, and selling of hemp products.

Hemp farmers “are frustrated,” he said. “If a good part of their market is cut off, the value of their product goes down.

It’s not really doing anything except stifling Texas farmers from a large market.”

DSHS, which is taking public comments on the proposals through Monday, June 8, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. l

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FIRED UP As the world crumbles, one white parent of a black son tries to make sense of it all. this because he won’t. Bunker Baby Boy will continue being divisive, continue blowing racist dog whistles from atop Mt. Twitter, and continue being the racist, sexist fool we’ve all come to despise but –– alarmingly –– who we just accept. A change of heart for him is still fun to think about. I actually pray for it. And I know I can’t be the only one.

George Floyd’s murder –– by four police officers, not just one –– and the murders of countless other African-Americans by cops are making all of us, black and white and in between and beyond, as sick as a case of the ’rona. As most whites are clutching their pearls about the looting (“No, not Whole Foods!”), the rest of us are concerned about policing, race relations, and justice moving forward. Black lives are at stake.

Based on a recent analysis by the advocacy group Mapping Police Violence, African-Americans are nearly twice as likely to be killed by cops as a Latinx person and nearly three times more likely to die at the hands of police than a white person. The overall numbers are just as scary. Police kill all kinds of Americans, not just blacks. The next James Scott, Daniel Shaver, Brandon Stanley, or other white person to be murdered by law enforcement could be one of those pearl-clutching school marms pretending to be outraged by the destruction of Whole Foods but really just angry at African-Americans for being born African-American and for not expressing dissatisfaction with the status quo in a polite, calm, quiet manner, because that’s what white people do when they’re rowdy. They’re polite, calm, and quiet. They don’t pile into the streets, turn over cars, and torch them (Denver, 2014) or destroy property, steal shit, and torch buses (San Francisco, 2012) or torch and turn over more cars and destroy property (Vancouver, 2011) or dance on flipped-over cars (New Hampshire, 2014) or just riot over sports or just because (Lexington, 2012; Tennessee, 2012; Happy

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“independent voters” who got us into this mess in the first place. Even I would begin to entertain him. Even I would begin to listen to him. Understand, I would never vote for Bunker Baby. A little something to do with the two-dozen credible accusations of rape and sexual assault against him and tons of terrible policy decisions. However, I know that since just about everyone in this country has come to accept him as a monster, NBD, just about everyone would vote for him if he denounced white supremacy and acknowledged black America’s pain. That should be the GOP playbook moving forward.

Landslide victory and control of the courts for the next four years and beyond would be guaranteed.

Simple math. Simple human behavior.

Simple simpletons.

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truth. Police violence impacts African-Americans more than any other demographic.

To answer why, look only to the suffering that African-Americans endured during two centuries of slavery and are still facing now nearly 160 years after emancipation. Whites in authority discriminated against blacks before passing down that authority to more discriminatory whites, who continued passing down authority to more discriminatory whites all the way up to the current occupant of the White House, a well-known racist. That guy, whose name I will no longer say and which has become a curse word in my household, could win the 2020 election unanimously, I’m talking nearly every single popular vote, if he were to come out and simply say, or tweet, “I reject any and all support from white supremacists, and my condolences go out to the black community that has been ravaged by police brutality, and worse, since the first slaves were ripped from their native lands and brought to our shores in 1619.” Just about everyone would vote for him. Perhaps all of those finicky battleground-state schlubs and

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Valley, 2011; Boston, 2004; the list goes on). They’re civilized, right? Right.

In some cities, Mapping Police Violence found, the rate at which police killed black men was higher than the U.S. murder rate. The group also discovered that little connection between the police killings and violent crime existed. “Some cities with high rates of violent crime have fewer police killings than those with higher violent crime rates,” the group said, “a situation that can make police killings feel wanton and baseless.”

And also unstoppable. Almost as

bad as the killings themselves, the stark lack of accountability will ensure that the relationship between cops and the community they have sworn to protect may never improve. From 2014 to 2019, Mapping Police Violence said, 99% of police killings did not result in charges against officers, which also means there were no convictions. Of the 351 accused cops, four were charged. One was convicted. Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray –– no one has been convicted of murder for their deaths. It’s almost like we’re begging

for another civil war, like maybe that’s been the plan all along.

I don’t know what to tell my son. All my wife and I are hoping for is that Bunker Baby loses in November and that life goes back to normal before A. starts asking questions. Unlike my wife and me, who are white, A. is black. We adopted him from West Africa when he was a baby. He is 8 now, and he is a good, sweet kid. I mean, the sweetest. Like, alarmingly sweet.

Funny story. We mowed the lawn together the other day. He’s been helping me mow since he was able to walk. He would push his little play mower behind me as I would operate the real one. Now that he’s a big, strong little man, he steers and pushes the mower, the actual mower, on his own, with me guiding him, either standing in front to show him the path or beside him to navigate tricky spots. The other day, I let him tackle a few pieces we had missed by the curb out front. The machine fell downhill a little, the blades kerrang-ing against the concrete.

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The Fort Worth protests have been relatively drama-free, unlike in many other cities, except for the skirmish on the 7th Street Bridge Sunday night.

“All my protests on Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday were peaceful,” said Donnell Ballard, a cofounder of United My Justice, the group organizing the marches.

After a 30-minute standoff, in which peace officers fired tear gas and smoke

bombs to disperse the large crowd trying to cross, Ballard asked protesters to return downtown to the Tarrant County Courthouse, Ground Zero for all of the marches. “I told my protesters, ‘Let’s go.

We made our statement.’ ” Some protesters weren’t budging.

“Some of the others didn’t want to leave and stayed there,” he said.

One was later arrested.

United My Justice will continue to protest downtown but will not try to cross the bridge again, Ballard said. The protests will continue for the foreseeable future.

As I am writing this on Tuesday afternoon, Monday night by the courthouse came close to exploding. That’s because

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“Let go!” I shouted, rushing toward him.

“I’m sorry!” he said, standing there with one flip-flop on –– the other had come off during the drama. “I didn’t mean it!”

“It’s OK, my man,” I assured him.

“No biggie. Just be a little more careful, OK?” He said OK, and we mowed over our last strip. He mowed over our last strip.

I told him I wanted him to finish strong.

A few minutes later, as I was parking the mower in the shed in the backyard, A. came over to the machine and started petting it, as if it were a puppy. I thought he was joking. When he looked up, tears were streaming down his cheeks. The poor kid thought he hurt the lawnmower, this inanimate object we use to cut the grass and that we never think about six out of the other seven days of the week. He began sobbing. I told him the newly christened Mowie the Mower was fine, that he was OK, and not to worry about him. A. eventually calmed down. He went inside the house, blew his nose in a tissue, and asked for some water. I told him that his sweetness would always be a positive. I told him that people may make him feel bad for his sweetness or use it against him but that he shouldn’t listen to them.

“I’m telling you now,” I said, “you need to keep that sweetness about you for the rest of your life, and I will make sure that happens.”

My wife and I will do everything we can, until our last breaths, to rage against that dying of the sweetness. We know it won’t be easy. A. goes to play therapy, which is common for kids like him. Deep down in their amygdalas resides a lot of pain. For A., it manifests itself mostly in the form of running out of class or becoming easily frustrated. Mostly. We know the good him, and it’s the good him that we nurture, because there comes a time, an age, when black boys can go from incredibly adorable to potentially

would not have survived growing up in the projects. Violence would have taken me early. Maybe at the hands of another gang member. Or maybe a cop.

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threatening. It’s a phenomenon that my wife and I learned about from an AfricanAmerican woman with two sons.

“The light just drains out of their eyes,” she said, once these beautiful children of God reach a mature age and become constantly judged by adults. And I’m talking about white adults, who bring to their perspective everything they think they know about black men (poor, violent, uneducated –– thanks, pop culture!) instead of everything that white America has done to African-Americans since 1619 to perpetuate the cycle of poverty that continues to cripple them. I’m your average white guy, and all I know is that with my temperament and emotional frailties, I

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SWAT was called in mistakenly. If you’ve ever been to a protest, the sight of heavily armed police in riot gear is unsettling.

It criminalizes and dehumanizes you instantly, as if all you had to do was look at one of those cops wrong and your life –– this precious corporeal vessel full of love, hopes, dreams, memories, hopefully delicious food, mostly bad gas –– would end. Just like that. Thankfully, Police Chief Ed Kraus and Assistant Chief Julie Swearingin stepped forward and knelt in front of the courthouse steps. The top cops began to pray with some of the marchers.

The Star-Telegram said Kraus told the departing crowd, “You just showed the nation how to do it.”

I’m as angry as everyone else –– everyone who isn’t a racist –– about the deadly relationship between police and the black community in this country. I also need to say that I’m offended when I see people who share my anger make the demonstrably false claim that all cops are racist. It’s not only unprovable but hurtful to any sort of truce between the people trained to protect us and the unarmed African-Americans who come across police. It’s making it worse. The Fort Worth cops haven’t been the only ones kneeling with protestors. It’s happening all over the country. Please stop saying they’re all racists. It’s ignorant. And it’s offensive to me.

One of the nicest, sweetest (white, male) kids from my old neighborhood back up north became a cop, and while we’ll never know what Officer Paul Sciullo would have thought of Floyd’s killers –– my friend was gunned down by a deranged white man along with two other Pittsburgh cops, Eric Kelly and Stephen Mayhle, in 2009 –– I would like to believe that Paulie would have been the first in line to punch Floyd’s killers square in the face. Paul was not a racist –– I’m still best friends with his best friend, who was also his cousin –– and when you say all cops hate minorities, you’re saying that my dear friend did, and if you know me at all, you’re not going to want to say that to my face. Paul was one of many good cops. There are lots of them.

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I understand there is no limit to the anger we all feel watching some MAGAt and three of his offensively gutless fellow officers kill an unarmed black man over a minor infraction, especially when George Floyd is just another unarmed black man in a long line of them whose life was cut short by a cop. The layers of pain are almost too much to bear. The white, racist cops do not realize that when they see yet another black man accused of yet another crime they are looking at centuries of oppression manifest in the form of one person instead of just another criminal who clearly doesn’t know right from wrong, whose sense of criminality must be inherited, genetic.

The reason armed whites can take over government buildings (and barbershops) and scream and spit in cops’ faces is that cops have been trained by colonialism to accept white faces as responsible and reasonable and that black or brown (or red or yellow) ones are in need of the crushing heel of authority, are in need of being placed in the Other category.

I see abstract racism all the time.

My beloved oldest brother is not a racist.

Lenny has worked with and befriended and promoted black people his entire fruitful life. He has never said the n-word, and he never would. He is a nice, smart, and (he would want me to say) “handsome” guy, one of the nicest on the planet. There’s only one reason I can think of that he’s a Trumpanzee, because he is.

It can’t be because my upstanding brother actually likes that orange stain. No one can. DT is a naturally repulsive know-itall jackass who squandered all the millions he inherited from his KKK-loving father on failed business deals and whose only contribution to the history books will be the dismantling of democracy itself. I also would like to think my brother wouldn’t let any of his three adult daughters be caught alone in a room with that creep. The only thing I can think of is abortion. As I’ve told my brother millions of times, “You would

vote for Hitler if he were the only pro-life candidate.” Being pro-life –– more like “pro-fetus,” because I doubt my brother is anti-death penalty –– is the one line item that seems to determine every vote

Lenny casts. He has also said that abortion is the greatest genocide in the history of mankind. Since he’s pretty interested in economics, I’ve been meaning to ask him who’s going to pay for: A.) taking care of pregnant women until they’re able to give birth, B.) arresting and prosecuting women who refuse to carry their pregnancies to term, and C.) taking care of the babies after the women are forced to give birth.

I haven’t gotten around to it. Too much reality to deal with.

I’ve made the sensible argument before: Why not Mike Pence? An honestto-goodness Republican and actual Christian who actually goes to church and actually believes in the word of God? I never heard an answer. Or a straight answer. Trumpanzees have a way of deflecting questions. “What about her

emails?” “What about Benghazi?” “What about Grandpa Joe sniffing girls’ hair?”

All just a smokescreen to distract from the hard truths. Now that smokescreen is made of actual smoke and the truths are fighting for justice.

I’m not one of them. I’m sort of ashamed to admit it. The extent of my protest now is wearing a mask in public.

I’ve been waiting for an affront, waiting for one of the many conservatives around whom I live to shoot at me one o’ dem dere Fox News talkin’ points: “You know that won’t protect you from getting sick?,” “You know the flu kills more people every year?,” “You know it’s all a deep state ploy to destroy business?” My dream, one of my dreams (I have many), is simply to angrily reply, “I’m not wearing this mask to protect me, moron. I’m wearing it to keep me from getting you sick, though since you’re such a self-centered dotard, I’d be happy to cough in your face if it’s all such a hoax.”

We have heard from some friends and family members about the riots and my family’s contextual place in them. Not many but some. I still don’t know what to tell A. I’ve thought about bringing it up with him. I’ve thought about telling my son that, hey, maybe your best friend, whose parents we adore, maybe they don’t agree with us. Maybe they think black people should protest and feel anger and pain in some kind of polite, scripted way, handed down from Jesus himself or something. I still can’t burden my sweet kid with more sadness, knowing how sensitive he is and how fucked his generation of black boys also is. He would not know what to make of a protest. He does not need to come in close contact with the kind of existential dread that follows people who look like him. Not yet. Please, not yet.

As the father of a black boy, I believe there are some statements I’m allowed

to make, no offense to any demographic, but since this is my party, I have to do the talking. The biggest to me is that you guys need to stop saying, “All lives matter.” We all know that when you tweet or post that, you’re simply trying to give the middle finger to African-Americans, who created the similarly titled Black Lives Matter as a response to the systemic, institutional injustice perpetually visited upon black people. We all know that “all lives matter” is just another racist dog whistle. All lives indeed matter, of course they do, but not all lives are being killed by police seemingly every month or have been the victims of racism and injustice since 1619. Saying “all lives matter” unironically is one of the richest, most irritating forms of white privilege there is, usually typed or spoken from the cozy confines of a nice house in a comfy white neighborhood. Or a trailer park in the sticks.

“All lives matter” is not the only phrase you can stop saying. You can also STFU about looters and Antifa, a nonexistent group that’s just a boogeyman whipped up by right-wing talking heads to scare white America. I went off on my mother, my dear, sweet mother, the other day after she sent me a voice text (her vision is pretty bad) to share her pain and confusion. My poor, sweet mom spent two minutes talking about the looters and Antifa before even mentioning George Floyd’s name. I wrote her back in a certain way, primarily to help her be

able to read the message but also, I admit, to help me release some of my pent-up anger: “IT TOOK YOU TWO MINUTES TO MENTION GEORGE FLOYD. I DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT ANTIFA. THEY ARE NOBODIES WHO RIGHT-WING ASSHOLES TRY TO PIN FOR CRIMES. WHAT I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT ARE THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN BLUE AND THE WHITE SUPREMACIST IN THE

WHITE HOUSE WHO SUPPORTS THEM. END OF DISCUSSION. THANK YOU FOR CALLING.” I’ve seen some posts on social media to the effect of “You see dem dang protestors?

They’re makin’ things worse!”

My untyped, unsent response that I’m sharing now: It’s not the protestors.

It’s the bad apples warping the protestors’ mission. Sort of like the bad-apple cops who keep murdering citizens. Does

that make all cops bad? Criminals are opportunists. With the police preoccupied and with anonymity almost guaranteed, criminals can infiltrate peaceful protests and indeed make things worse. There’s also a well-documented effort among white nationalists to stir up trouble under the guise of protesting.

I can also understand the hot desire to just break shit. Now as two recent presidential elections have proved –– when two candidates who won the popular vote lost the election –– late capitalism has won.

Our voices at the ballot box don’t matter.

The only voices we have are as consumers.

We’re going to boycott your shitty business and, if we happen to be walking past your storefront during a march for justice, maybe even take out one of your windows.

That’s how controlled we’ve become, all of us –– black, white, red, brown, yellow, all mixed –– by corporate forces.

I don’t know if peaceful protesting is intrinsically good or bad, but I’m going to go with saying it’s good. Looting is a bad look, even though it’s centuries of oppression breaking the windows, spray-painting the bridges, and stealing the Gatorades rather than genetically predisposed knuckleheads who weren’t raised right. I wish the cops could see that.

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Feeling cooped up? If you’re an apartmentdweller right now, the Wednesday answer is probably yes.

At 11am, you can learn to stop renting –– my words, not theirs –– at the free Virtual Homebuyer Orientation Class hosted by the Housing Channel based right here in Fort Worth (4200 S Fwy, 817-924-5091). It’s live via Zoom, and you fill out an intake form before beginning.

Per their event page, the class is meant to “inform the public of the opportunities of homeownership.” To sign up, go to HousingChannel.org/Classes.

All day every day, today through Sunday, Downtown Arlington Thursday is celebrating local restaurants with a Drive-In Restaurant Rally. Participation is simple, according to the Downtown Arlington folks: “We’re asking you to come to Downtown every day of the rally and patronize one or more businesses.” From well-known places like J. Gilligan’s to the hot new spots like Hurtado’s Barbecue, all of the

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participating businesses will offer specials for this four-day event. Part of the proceeds will benefit Mission Arlington, a nonprofit providing emergency assistance to families in need. For participants and specials, visit DowntownArlington.org/Events/Rally.

Call 817-303-2800.

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During lockdown, I’ve managed to marathonwatch every season Friday of Rescue Me. There are seven. Everything I know about firefighting came from Denis Leary.

That can’t be good. For a different –– and more realistic –– perspective, join the Fort Worth Fire Department’s free livestreaming event Chat with the Chief at noon. FWFD Chief Jim Davis gives the latest news on the FWFD and fields questions the first Friday each month.

To see the live feed, go to Facebook.com/ FortWorthFireDepartment. Call 817-3926812.

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My coworker Clint has a pet snake named Jolly.

Tracking down mice for Sunday Jolly has been difficult during the recent economic crisis. Good thing he doesn’t eat very often. Jolly, that is. Clint eats just fine. My coworker could learn a thing or two at the Lone Star Reptile Expo at the Knights of Columbus Hall (2625 S Cooper St, Arlington, 214769-3039). Opens at 10am daily Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $10 at the doors for adults ($9 presale), $5 for kids, and free for children 6 years or younger.

Ticket info is at LoneStarReptileExpos. com.

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Nothing.

Nada.

Zip. What’s going on today?

Heck, if we know. You tell Monday us. The event landscape is littered with events that were cancelled (but not Facebook cancelled), postponed but still popping up on the original date, and some that are actually really happening. It’s hard to tell the difference. Clubs are open. Or not open. Events are cancelled. Or whatever.

Help me help you. Please email your event information to Jennifer@fwweekly.com.

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This place is a zoo.

Tuesday is our deadline day. If I could get away Tuesday with it, I’d go to the actual zoo instead. Yes, the Fort Worth Zoo is back open. Purchase tickets online three days in advance and pick 9am, 12pm, or 3pm for arrival. Some indoor exhibits are still closed. I’m fine with that. We’ll just hang out in the savannah. Tickets are $16 for adults or $12 for children and seniors.

For reservations, visit FortWorthZoo.org.

Call 817-759-7555.

By Jennifer Bovee Learn about the ocean from inland, on your couch.

Oceanic Problem Solving

Sea turtles. I intend to save them all single-handedly myself by saying “no” to fast-food straws. This is my plan at least, after seeing that meme –– you know the one –– about a million times. In reality, our oceans are plagued by a variety of problems big and small.

At 1pm Thursday, June 9 –– and at a variety of times daily through Thursday, June 11 –– take a virtual crash course in oceanic problem-solving with inlandbased Earthx (4311 Oak Lawn Av, Ste 325, Dallas, 214-310-1200).

The three-day virtual conference EarthxOcean: Protecting the Life Support Systems of the Ocean features more than 30 speakers and is free to attend.

Topics include high seas initiatives, coral reef restoration, ocean plastic solutions, sustainable fisheries, and more.

You can register ahead of time and see the agenda and the speakers’ bios at Earthx.org/EarthxOcean.

your knitting to the next level with the class Intro to Lace Knitting with Striations taught by Alissa Barton, Knitting Fairy. The class is held at JuJu Knit (552 Lipscomb St, 817-854-9276).

You can get your supplies there –– contact JuJu by Wednesday –– or you can just bring your own. Cost is $75. For a supply list, see the event page at Facebook.com/ JuJuKnitsFW.

Jeremy Joel and Jay Wilkinson’s “Bobby on Drums” (2015) led to the show that led to the art space on Race Street.

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(November 2018); EYE FOR ART, the gallery series cocurated by Joel and Wilkinson and hosted by BLK EYE VODKA (July 2019); and all this spaghetti, a Fort Worth Community Arts Center show featuring new works by Joel (July 2019).

His last show never came to fruition due to COVID19-related closures. 80 Proof Doo Wop, which was slated to feature 18 artists, promised to be Spring Gallery Night’s unofficial pre-party. When describing 80 Proof Doo Wop to me, Joel was excited to be serving the art community he loved. Every step, every break he had as an artist, in his mind, was simply a new opportunity to help others.

Toward the end of our chat at the bar, and possibly because he had processed much of his life during our interview, he paused to gather one last thought.

“Do you know that I’ve tried to leave Fort Worth so many times?” he said. “I’ve never been able to figure out what I’m doing here. Shows like Pass the Peas, that’s my purpose. I can add to other people’s life. This is how I can contribute.”

Joel is survived by his father Greg Joel (who remarried Margaret Joel), mother Jennine Loux (who remarried Paul Loux), brother Adrian Joel, and three children: Baillie, Izabella, and Lucas.

Donations can be made toward memorial costs for the Joel family at Gofundme.com/f/memorial-for-jeremyjoel. l

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organize Apples, an immersive night of dance, music, and installations that featured 14 visual artists.

Joel met two kindred spirits, painter Jay Wilkinson and carpenter Brandon Pederson. The trio organized Bobby on Drums, the May 2014 show at Shipping & Receiving Bar that featured around a dozen visual artists, live music, and ample booze. Bobby on Drums led to an art gallery of the same name soon after. Located on Race Street, the gallery/event space gave Joel the opportunity to curate his own shows. In 2017, he transformed his home in the Fairmount neighborhood into SAM Gallery, which soon began to have a life outside of its Fairmount walls. SAM Gallery was Joel’s brand, and he used it to launch Pass the Peas in May 2019. Joel had exhausted the possibilities of art shows that relied on a party atmosphere. As he told me during our interview at that bar, Fort Worth needed to step up.

Joel was well positioned to curate a show that featured local, national, and international artists. He had recently signed with Fort Works Art, a newish gallery in Arlington Heights. His first solo show at the gallery, A Beatbox Caviar, sold well and garnered critical acclaim in May 2018. Weekly writer Dee Lara called it a “brilliant, outsider-y riot” that spotlighted Joel’s “casual genius for darkly comedic narratives.”

Other notable recent shows include I’d Rather Be with You, the group show curated by Joel at Mañanaland

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Last Friday, messages began circulating that Jeremy Alan Joel had died. The details surrounding the 37-year-old artist’s cause of death have not been made public. Many in the community are still trying to comprehend the enormity of this painful reality. For me, those attempts have involved revisiting past interviews.

“I believe that I’m in the perfect time and place to do what I want to do,” Joel told me last year as he was trying to put one of his most recent projects into words while we sat outside a local bar.

“Austin is stagnant,” he said. “Dallas, there’s too many cooks in the kitchen. This is the perfect place to do it. I feel like Fort Worth is a great place to call home and a place to bring my adventures back to. I feel that I have purpose because of that.”

That Saturday, Joel was launching a new biannual art show. What set Pass the Peas apart from anything in recent memory was the emphasis on bringing national and international visual artists to show work in Fort Worth.

“Fort Worth has been kinda slow,” he said. “I’ve been doing [house shows and underground events] for six years. That’s fun and everything, but it’s going to become tiresome and boring. Everyone needs to raise the bar. I’m happy for the challenge. Let’s rise up!”

Joel had unbridled optimism for where Fort Worth was heading. The father of three was a self-taught artist who rose from street graffiti to white wall gallery representation within the span of a decade. He was born in 1982 during a historic Christmas Day blizzard in Denver, Colorado. He moved to Fort Worth in 1998. Joel’s first professional endeavor began in 2007 as a member of Fort Worth-based F6 Gallery. The collective’s aim was to create a space where work could be shown without fear of judgment or discrimination. In the years after, Joel began to gain popularity, if not name recognition, as a muralist for several buildings and businesses throughout his home turf on the Near Southside.

Throughout the last decade of his life, Joel, who never married, supported his three children through work as a server at Spiral Diner & Baker, a muralist, and a carpenter and by performing odd jobs. By 2014, he had largely transitioned from murals to canvas and oil-on-wood paintings while retaining his signature street art-inspired style that featured personal cryptic images. In 2014, Joel began organizing a fruitful string of arts events up until his death. On New Year’s Eve of that year, he helped

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Pouring Glory 1001 Bryan Ave www.PouringGlory.com We are the off Main Street, hole in the wall, craft beer joint that serves not just bar food but freakin’ awesome bar food. Offering individual heat and serve meals to go. Pick up a growler of craft beer, a bottle of wine, cans of hard seltzer, cans of soda or Topo Chico to compliment your meal. We are also open for patio dining only on our back lot.

PARK PLACE VILLAGE Music Junkie Studios 1601 Park Place Ave Suite 106 www.MusicJunkieStudios.com MJS employs eight local working musicians and serves this community through top level music education. We are now offering online music lessons for voice, piano, guitar, bass, drums, ukulele, violin, and music for Littles. Gift cards are also available.

Urban Yoga 1706 8th Ave www.UrbanYogaFW.com Our instructors are carefully selected, passionate about their teachings, and highly certified. Due to the Covid closure, we are currently offering virtual yoga, nia, barre and meditation through Zoom and have online class packages to choose from.

Art Room 120 St. Louis Ave #117 www.ArtRoomFW.org Art Room is a Fort Worth-based 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to educate, inspire, and support underrepresented youth and adult artists in the Fort Worth community through a sustainable, programmatic offering of arts education.

Black Cat Pizza 401 Bryan Ave Suite 109 www.BlackCatPizza.com Black Cat Pizza is a Fort Worth original restaurant serving brick-oven made pizza, whole or by the slice. We make everything in house: nothing comes frozen. We have a walk up window already built in to our space, making it really easy to pick up a slice or whole pie while maintaining social distancing.

Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. 701 Galveston Ave RahrBrewing.com Curbside Beer to Go! $5 six-packs / $20 a case. We also have specialty 4-packs and are selling wristbands for $10 that can be used at future Thursday and Friday Taproom tastings for 3 pints of beer. $5 of every wristband sales goes to support our furloughed co-workers and ALL TIPS go to support our furloughed co-workers as well.

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Ramblin’ on the Southside

Things got a little nasty on the interwebs about this new Magnolia bar/ restaurant with the beautiful patio.

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I have a generally high tolerance for risk, at least where food and drink are concerned.

In college, I survived weekly doses of (Greek organization name redacted) Death Punch: full-sugar fruit punch powder, any alcohol my buddies had at hand (brown or clear, it made no difference), and Everclear.

This led to my superpower: I know when a drink is spiked with Everclear because my nose goes numb.

I’ve gotten food poisoning at least once in the two decades I’ve been a professional eater. Maybe it’s the iron stomach or my double-strength bile and excessive spleen, but most enteric bacteria appear to be a little afraid of me. Between that, doing time as a shucker in an oyster bar in my 20s, and regular visits to the old Pour House downtown, I think I may be immune to many things.

But now that we’re faced with a respiratory virus that can make a person sick if you cough three tables away and the AC is blowing just right, well, let’s just say that I’m nervous. One of the biggest pleasures of my life is sitting on a patio during happy hour, drinking and consuming mindless calories. Rogers Roundhouse (1616 Rogers Rd, Fort Worth, 817-367-9348), I miss your loaded tots and your $4 well drinks.

We’re crawling toward reopening our restaurants and bars –– apparently crawling way too slowly for a certain subset of the population. The Texas Restaurant Promise, brought to you by the Texas Restaurant Association, is a combination of best practice suggestions and wild hope.

Masks for staff are not mandatory –– despite the evidence that masks keep saliva

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When patio weather starts a-callin’, don’t forget about The Southside Rambler.

and goobers in. However, social distancing (in lines and at tables), “health checks” for employees, and sanitizing stations, plus disposable menus and cutlery and single-use condiments, are recommended.

As I perused this document, I realized that there are things I will never miss at a restaurant again, including salt shakers and the sneeze-guarded salad bars. All this, of course, is voluntary. No restaurant has to comply with any of these best practices.

My spawn recently pleaded for pizza from Cane Rosso (815 W Magnolia Av, 817-922-9222), and picking up the pie gave me the chance to see some of The Promise in action last weekend. Cane’s patio is open, although there was only one table of two women, deep into their bottle of wine and their cell phones, during the dinner “rush.” One side of the patio was closed. The chairs had been tipped forward against the tables –– an averagesized kindergartener could have “opened” that side of the restaurant. The maskwearing staff intervened as I opened the door and requested that I hang out on the patio while awaiting dinner, so I couldn’t see if there was any hand sanitizer about.

Although we few folks gathered to pick up our takeout had definitely staggered ourselves, there was no enforcement of social distancing while waiting in line.

But another Magnolia Ave property consumed all my bandwidth this week.

Local critics fell all over themselves before The Southside Rambler (1264 W Magnolia Av, 682-255-5442) actually opened, and the bar/restaurant’s delayed opening week was eventful, with some critics complaining that it was more bar than restaurant. Given the breadth of the menu, that complaint seems frivolous. The Rambler is co-owned

by Julia and Kevin von Ehrenfried, who also co-own Arlington’s Tipsy Oak (301 E Front St, 817-962-0304). As it happens, before Julia locked down her Facebook page to public view, it was loaded with posts about her disbelief in vaccines, her views about public health’s jurisdiction in individual lives, and whether COVID-19 precautions are necessary for months.

And that became cause for discussion in the context of opening her restaurant. In contrast, Kevin’s FB page mostly promotes the Rambler and Tipsy Oak.

Though Julia’s page is not currently public, she lists herself as “Epidemiologist, Sales Superstar, Credit Expert, Entrepreneur, Science Geek [and] Brand Ambassador.” I am too lazy to look up a claim that someone graduated with a degree in epidemiology. Also, an epidemiology degree and $4 still won’t buy me a cocktail at the Rambler.

Apparently, the polarizing commentary about Julia’s personal views reverberated through the Fairmount ’hood, and the ugly rhetoric caused one of the unofficial neighborhood FB gathering sites to go on hiatus. The official Fairmount National Historic Site FB page remains blessedly free of unpleasant commentary, although the site is touting its Facemasks of Fairmount event.

The siren call of the patio is proving irresistible to many of us, and the Rambler, in the location formerly occupied by La Zona, has a gorgeous, partly covered gem of an outside seating area. When I swooped by for some takeout, I noted that the Rambler’s patio was about twothirds full with very little social distancing between tables. Unlike the patio at Cane Rosso, there was no attempt at creating any kind of distancing. When I walked into the empty dining room, none of the staffers were wearing masks. Most had not mastered the 6-feet-apart stance yet.

However, there was an industrial-sized jug of hand sanitizer by the door and another at the bar.

This past weekend, the Rambler made itself popular with locals wanting a bit of sun and some live music in the evening.

Locals who live nearby got a crash course in the finer points of the city’s noise ordinance, which limits the sonic volume coming out of a business after 10pm to 70 decibels, roughly the noise made by a household vacuum cleaner. Of course, Fort Worth police had bigger fish to fry.

Should an establishment owner’s personal beliefs interfere with his or her business? Ask Carlo Galotto. The former owner of Zio Carlo’s (now Fort Brewery) said some allegedly drunk and disorderly things in 2011 and doubled down with an I’m-not-really-sorry apology. You can learn a lot about someone by what they say when they think only their friends are listening.

On May 24, The Southside Rambler’s FB post read, “We are, as always, taking every single health precaution, based on science and facts, to keep ourselves, our Staff [sic] and guests safe. Health and safety is always our number one concern, along with our food and customer service.”

I’d like to believe that restaurant managers value their employees and want them to be healthy and working.

Ultimately, I am saddened that these days, the health and wellness decisions for servers are based on hope, and not in their own hands. l Contact Chow, Baby at chowbaby@fwweekly.com.

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The coronavirus pandemic continues to run its course, and we’re all dealing with it in our own ways. To help keep the adversity in perspective, a couple of our recent guests have described overcoming obstacles in their lives.

Today, Molly L. Prince describes going head to head with cancer. Molly and I met around 2010 at the White Elephant

Saloon. She was promotions director at 95.9 The Ranch and invited me to judge at a Battle of the Bands contest. It was fun, and I returned to judge many more Ranch contests over the years.

In 2013, doctors diagnosed Molly with stage III invasive lobular carcinoma –– breast cancer. Molly lost her mother to cancer at 48 and a sister at 51 and knew well how lethal the disease could be.

Molly had no health insurance benefits and little money. Her future was bleak, but she isn’t the giving-up kind. She was referred to The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders and received generous donations from Texas Cowboys Against Cancer and the Careity Foundation.

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She endured chemotherapy treatments, lost her hair, and suffered nausea, migraine headaches, nosebleeds, and other setbacks. After months of treatments, doctors told her the cancer was gone. After a double mastectomy, however, the tumor remained.

Molly endured 33 rounds of radiation and prevailed again. She describes herself as a survivor and has returned to The Ranch as an account executive.

Molly is fearless –– except when it comes to singing. She quakes in her boots

at the thought of performing a song but gives it a try…kind of. Anyway, we have fun strolling through the deserted Stockyards in the middle of the day and belting out an old country-Western song that always makes me feel good. Thanks for the good times, Molly!

Watch the video recording from this Toast & Jam session at fwweekly.com/blotch.

National Cancer Survivors Day is this Sunday, June 7th. This Toast & Jam is dedicated to Molly and all the other survivors out there.

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In April 2019, Joe Savage carried his Martin backpackers’ guitar and walked across the north of Spain for 500 miles in solitude for 31 days. Trekking the stretch of land known as the Camino de Santiago (“Way of St. James”) convinced the Fort Worth singer-songwriter to continue his way of life as a C&W musician, and he is set to release an album inspired by his journey at the end of the year.

Starting in Irun, Spain, in the Basque Country, Savage experienced the first two weeks as cold, tiring, and rainy. Eating mostly lentils and sleeping in nearby hostels, he followed the coastline through mountains and valleys while in prayer, connecting to his spirituality.

“This pilgrimage dates back to Alfonso II in the year 800,” Savage said. “I did it to challenge myself. It’s one of those great journeys people talk about making in their life.”

Savage has released two singles to tease the release of El Camino, but he said his trip was a needed break from reality.

After reading Paul Coelho’s 1987 The Pilgrimage, the 36-yearold Fort Worthian looked at the mystical and magical ideas of the Camino as a step toward what he wanted his next 35 years to be. Knowing the trail existed, Savage took the trip to be able to reflect on his mental and spiritual condition and said he wanted to regain his lively spirit again.

HearSay All Clean’s Invisible Hand

Zachary Edwards has had enough.

Contrary to his friendly, nice, smiling personality, his band All Clean may make you want to burn shit down, pretty appropriate now since the country is burning down all around us. Or, like 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, should be.

On All Clean’s recently released EP The Invisible Hand, a collection of three demos of songs to be included on the full-length delayed due to the pandemic, the darkness is all-encompassing. Edwards, who has played in large local acts Son of Stan, Oil Boom, and Ice Eater, goes after unnamed yet plainly identifiable targets on “This Pointless Work,” “High Priest,” and “Terms of Service.” On All Clean’s Bandcamp page, Edwards dedicates The Invisible Hand to “wage laborers everywhere.”

Since forming not long after the orange stain’s ascendency, All Clean has been pounding out the kind of dark,

nihilist industrial rock that’s usually associated with dark, nihilist countries like Denmark and Norway. I’ve seen Edwards and company live, at one of our recent Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards Festivals, and they’re just as ominous on stage as they are in the studio. This is music for the moment.

On The Invisible Hand, Edwards’ desire to quietly rage is thrown into sharp relief by the growling, deadly simple basslines, swishing metronomic beats, and bleeding walls of atmospheric synths and guitars, his voice blended almost to the point of incomprehension by echo. Like a scene from a horror film when the bad guy is walking patiently toward the hideout with a weapon in his hand, opener “This Pointless Work” comes on tensely before dissolving into a fury of washed-out noise, its black timbre matched by Edwards’ hate letter to Corporate America: “Just a little bit of my time,” he sings in his greasy baritone, “will make the world work / Just fine / Just a little bit of my soul / Will take hold and let go.”

The two other songs are equally jittery, loud, and unsettling. They’re also angrier.

On “High Priest,” Edwards goes after authority of, it seems, a more orange and rape-y kind. “I let it lie / Just so perfectly / You would not believe /But I would tell you stories / Of the blood I crave / From your wasted bodies / The trickledown / From your dumbfuck gaudy / Principles you know / Your hateful garbage / If Thy Will be done / You’d suffer the suffrage.”

Closer “Terms of Service” continues the cacophony with screeching feedback over thunderous beats before coalescing into a brief, fuzzy, siren-like riff and Edwards’ screaming, “In every way / You wanna say / I can’t believe my life turned out this way / But brush it off / You can’t win / So bless me, father / I have fucking sinned.”

Edwards said this song is his most personal of the collection: “It’s both about my strained relationship with my father and also my experience as a member of the working class and the depression and struggles of being poor and feeling hopeless for the future.”

Edwards said the tracks were meant only to be demos for the band. He did not intend to put them out, but since he

delayed the album’s release and since All Clean’s online presence had been “kind of dormant for a while,” he cleaned up the demos and released them. Like all of All Clean’s material, The Invisible Hand was recorded by Edwards at his home studio.

“And with our current political climate and the subject matter of the EP, it seemed like the right time to release the angriest songs we have to date,” he said.

Edwards is not sure when he’ll put out the full-length. He would like a proper release show for Failing in Full, the band’s eight-track album. The pandemic is hampering live music all over the world.

I asked Edwards if he accomplished what he set out to do with his songs.

“Well, like all my songs, they’re an outlet of my rage,” he said. “The failings of our country are definitely an inspiration. ... Real chipper stuff.”

Visit Allclean.bandcamp.com/ album/the-invisible-hand-2. –– Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at hearsay@fwweekly.com.

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C&W artist Joe Savage takes a spiritual journey of reflection.

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(Gollay, Shadows of Jets, Crooked “Playing too much in the scene Bones) with lead guitarist Glenn can be taxing,” he said. “I didn’t really McLaughlin, drummer Jon Mosig, realize how much it was wearing on and bassist Alex Sifuentes, with me. I wanted to pause that, and it was Savage on vox and acoustics. an overall self-help program to affirm “First Sight of Danger” is a my path as a songwriter.” brokenhearted country song, with Savage said he always loves a Savage expressing heartfelt feelings good adventure, from backpacking for a loved one’s uncertain and across European countries to his six questionable frustration. years spent in Oregon. The songwriter “Running at the first sight played his first open-mic and his first danger,” he sings in his deep baritone. paying gig in Fort Worth in 2013 and “Getting gone has always been plan now performs solo and with a full band A / You left an open tab down at the at local bars and venues in Fort Worth, local spot / You knew I’d feel obliged Dallas, and Azle. to pay / Where you going? / What As a poet, Savage frequented Savage: “Playing too much in the scene are you running to? / What are you nightly readings and jazz events at can be taxing. I didn’t really realize how thinking / ’Cause I ain’t got a clue / venues such as the Black Dog Tavern much it was wearing on me.”

I’m missing something / Oh, tell me in 2005. He traveled to Oregon as an undergrad working for a graduate degree but instead went the truth / What am I to do about what’s bothering you?”

The song pivots on a dually paced acoustic momentum to teaching before deciding to trek back home soon after.

Returning to Fort Worth, he found the music scene, which with Savage questioning his character’s obligation to love.

“We made a promise that day in the backyard / Did you he hadn’t known existed.

Savage’s favorite spots include the Flying Saucer really mean those things that you said? / I’ll work a little Downtown, The Chat Room Pub near Farimount, and harder to be better / I wish that you would understand.”

The lyrics lead the listener into a heartfelt problem Lola’s Saloon in the West 7th Street corridor. In Azle, he’s been hosting an open-mic at Split Town Tavern, and his left unresolved for the duration of the song’s 3:14 minutes, ending with the refrain “What am I to do about what’s full band has often played The Rustic in Dallas.

The songwriter consecutively released four albums bothering you?”

Savage’s more recent single is a take on the same starting in 2016, and El Camino will be his fifth album.

His latest singles, “Walls” and “First Sight of theme of a burdened heart. “Walls” was recorded in Danger,” are available at JoeSavageMusic.com. The songs February with engineer/producer Tatsch on bass and were released in March and April and are what Savage auxiliary percussion, Beau Brauer on drums, Mohamed calls his “quarantine singles,” set to be released on all Diab on electric guitar, and Savage on vox and acoustic.

The singer-songwriter tells a tale of falling in love digital platforms along with the album later this year on but is cautious due to countless heartbreaks.

Patreon.com/JoeSavage and on all streaming platforms.

“I’ve got my walls / They were put here to protect “I put the songs out for quarantine,” he said.

“Normally, I would wait until the album was done. That’s me / I built them up so long ago, and you could try / Yes, what I had done up to this point. I usually release full 10- you can try to look around them, and when they slow me down, you can let me know / But each brick you try to or 11-song albums.”

“First Sight of Danger” was recorded in September pick apart is building a pathway further from my heart / 2019 at Audio Styles outside of Austin with producer/ There are some things I’d rather you not see at all / I’ve engineer (and former Fort Worth guy) Taylor Tatsch got my walls.” l

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Now you can even sit on a bar stool. (Some restrictions were lifted). Here are some places to go. Because you can. (Unless there’s a curfew. Maybe call ahead).

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The TUB Bar 2500 E 4th St, Fort Worth Facebook.com/TheTubTX

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Wild Acre Brewing Company 6473 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth Facebook.com/WildAcreBrewing

Fort Brewery & Pizza 1001 W Magnolia Ave, Fort Worth Facebook.com/FortBrewery Funky Picnic Brewery & Café 401 Bryan Ave, Fort Worth Facebook.com/FunkyPicnic G. Willickers Pub 310 109th St, Arlington www.GWillickersPub.com The Home Plate Sports Bar 3137 Alta Mere Dr, Fort Worth Facebook.com/ TheHomePlateSportsBar HopFusion Ale Works 200 E Broadway St, Fort Worth Facebook.com/HopFusion Houston Street Bar & Patio 902 Houston St, Fort Worth Facebook.com/ HoustonStBarAndPatio

OPENING SOON The Rail Club Live (Open daily once curfew lifts) 3101 Joyce Dr, Fort Worth Facebook.com/TheRailClubLive Twilite Lounge 212 Lipscomb St, Fort Worth www.TheTwiliteLounge.com

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Gateway Church Church time is the BEST time! Join us for online church each weekend.

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