MARK GOODMAN/Blurb Book #1 [2015—2022 revised edition]. The 1980 punk rock scene in Austin, Texas centered on Raul's club, featuring the Big Boys, the Dicks, and their fans. BIG BOYS DICKS is a history and photographic portrait. From the afterword: My own life changed in July 1980 when I moved from New York, where I’d spent a decade photographing children in one small town, to teach photography classes at the university in Austin. I was in my early thirties, lived three blocks from the Drag, and regularly walked about the neighborhood carrying a 120mm twin-lens camera with a flash plugged into a 510-volt battery pack, asking people if I might photograph him or her on the spot. My brief encounters with punk rock participants were casual and unplanned. A student’s boyfriend played bass in a band (the Shades), and the night they played at Raul’s (along with the Big Boys), several of us went to see and hear them after class. On a Sunday afternoon, a “punk fashion show” was held at Blitz, “a secondhand clothing store—and more,” featuring short performances by the Stains and the Dicks; the “Torn Panties,” not a band, but a gang of girls who ran around with the Dicks, dressed in DIY costumes for the event. By chance, I photographed at the Dicks’ first record release party held inside Inner Sanctum Records (now, a Starbucks), just around the corner from the Drag and a couple of blocks south of Raul’s where the Dicks and the Big Boys and other band members (none of whom I knew anything about), fans, and college students congregated.