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"I heard you were well-accompanied at the Tequila Fest," Olivia texted me.

Someone must have seen me with a young thing who is nothing more than a friend. We have played music together and she has a boyfriend.

"I'm too old," I texted as well as adding the extra information.

"Who would want to be with you?" she answered. "You don't have a car. You don't have a house. You live in a cheap apartment with no furniture. You have nothing."

I am sitting in El Hueso de Fraile drinking a Topo Chico as I read my cell.

"I don't need anything," I responded. "I have my money. There are plenty of women who want a companion who wines and dines them and treats them with respect. If I fall in love again, she will be a middle-aged professional with everything. I will find a space in her closet and hang my clothes. She will know that I have my money. By then she will know that I am a generous person, so I will be in a position to lessen her financial burden and provide the extra cash for entertainment."

"You're a loser!"

The Brownsville Vulture's Robby Williams-Cardenas, who calls himself Brownsville's only unbought blogger, wrote that I suffered from a poor self-image. If he had made that remark when I was ten, he would have been right. I was skinny with big ears and freckles. Everyone would say that I looked like Alfred E. Neuman, the anti-hero of Mad Magazine. I hated that comparison.

But as I live my 70th year, I am content with myself even with my anxiety and depression. I drink too much and abuse Xanax. There is no pleasure without Viagra.

Among my many talents as a writer, I am at my best when I am in confessional mode. I have the ability to objectify myself. The same unforgiving style I bring to my journalism, I bring to myself and those who occupy my world. But it's not about me. It's about finding a fount of inspiration in order to compose prose that has substance. My good friend Robby, as is his wont, is too quick to jump to conclusions. 

As a product of the late sixties and seventies, I took away one important lesson: There was no reason to compete with the Joneses. I have never sought fame nor fortune. I am the nominal leader of the anti-materialistic movement. As I have stated in earlier posts, I am living a solitary existence with my clothes, my laptop, my guitar and my tennis racket. I want nothing but money in my pocket so I can buy a nice-looking chick or my sons dinner whenever the moment presents itself. And I jump at the opportunity to buy a round for the table.

"It's so embarrassing for me to see you walking down the street," Olivia would yelp at me. "'Why doesn't Tommy have a car?' everybody keeps asking me."

I have been chronicling the fall of a local politician. He was materialistic. He wanted to be a somebody. He wanted something that would substantiate his existence in the eyes of others. For those who aren't blessed with artistic or athletic talents, power fills the void. If he were more like me, he would be a happy man today. He had everything.

Olivia is yearning for me, but I have little desire for her. She is an easy screw. She knocked me off my feet when I first met her, but my many sources informed me that she had slept with half of Brownsville. It is a sure bet that she had pleased a guy or two since I last tickled her. A man conquers many women and he is held in esteem. A woman gives herself to many men and she is held in contempt. I may have no morals, but I find easy women to whom I attracted repulsive. 

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