SUBSCRIBER: Quentin Crisp.
FROM THERE TO HERE: A BIOGRAPHY
ALMOST 15 MINUTES
In 1991 — during a Zellweger undergrad semester — I was a Texas rockstar. For about 15 minutes.
My name first appeared in the Dallas Observer on April 11, 1991.
Well, almost.
"Kusner" was spelled "Kossner."
That semester, The Daily Texan profiled my Austin band.
Just like Walter Cronkite's profile about Gertrude Stein.
Just like Walter Cronkite's profile about Gertrude Stein.
KUSNER: Feb. 12 1991, left, CRONKITE: March 22, 1935.
FUN FACT
In 1935, Wally, Gert and Alice enjoyed a three-way at The Austin Motel.
In 1935, Wally, Gert and Alice enjoyed a three-way at The Austin Motel.
Afterward, Cronkite raced for the morning deadline.
"The prince of verbal swat and the traveling companion Alice B. Toklas."
The Daily Texan's 1991 "B-day girl" headline transformed me into an androgynous figure.
In Don Graham's American Lit, a wry classmate observed, "Kusner flounces around campus like a silky haired Michael Hutchence."
PRINT TRANS4MATION: From rockstar handbills to magazine covers.
Inside the Cactus Cafe my Austin band, Radio Hairdo, waltzed through Texas with "Frozen Lullabies."
My ’90s magazine, SPREAD, enjoyed a three-way inside The Austin Motel.
When Poe sang, "A rose is a rose is a rose..."
HI THERE, GERTRUDE: Miss Poe Not Out for Show, But Knows What She Knows
40 ACRES TREND
Jimmy Fallon and Matthew McConaughey in burnt orange.
