Category Archives: texas
Ladybird
Ann and Molly. And now Lady Bird is gone. Are there any grand dames of Texas politics still living, other than Liz Carpenter? Willie don’t count. (Yes, I’m in Austin this week. No, I had nothing to do with this.)
Why We Fight
I’m heading back to The World for the weekend, for my Class of ’86 Reunion at Rice. Yeah, Houston. I know, I know. I’ll be wearing full colors so any Bushietown fuckmooks that want to give me shit, bring it, bitches. I’ll show you how we play in the murder capital. On a more positive [...]
Ann
In July of 1992, Gina and I flew into Austin from San Francisco for some job interviews. The city life in the Bay Area was starting to wear us down and we were both homesick for the heat we grew up with. In the Dallas airport, we ran across this issue of Texas Monthly: and [...]
Kinky can go fuck himself
I have his bumper sticker on my car. I signed his petition. I started to wonder about him when I found out that he voted for GWB in 2004, but I still kinda liked the guy. Then this: “The musicians and artists have mostly moved back to New Orleans now,” he said, according to KHOU-Channel [...]
How to make a Texan homesick
In a word: tacos. The taco trucks that are ubiquitous all over Texas have arrived in New Orleans to feed the new Latino labor force here, and since it’s been a few weeks since we’ve had any Mexican food at all, we needed to try one out, so Liam and I headed up to the [...]
FF E HO
Our travelling companion is a little stuffed creature that Cassidy made for us. We named him Ignatius. I’ve driven this stretch of I-10 a bazillion times and it gets more boring every time. Houston to Lake Charles is especially dreary even on the most beautiful days. Except for the lack of kid noise in the [...]
Prop 2 by county
Burnt Orange Report has an Excel file with the per-county totals for Prop 2, and they slice and dice it to come up with some Top 10 lists. Travis County topped the list of counties against the initiative, with 59%. Sadly, Travis was the only county to vote against the initiative. A shrinking blue speck [...]
DeLay indicted
Delay indicted by a Travis County grand jury. Yes! The article states that he may have to step down. Ha! As if. I think it’s more likely they’ll send armed FEMA agents to take over the Travis Co. DA’s office to protect them from Rita.
How Texas does it
Yesterday Gina had to listen to more smug comments from some guy she works with about how “Texas knows how to prepare for a hurricane”. This guy has spent the last three weeks badmouthing Ray Nagin over this mistake and that error, and yesterday he was saying “Watch how Houston does it.” Well, ain’t that [...]
Hurricane fatigue
what of the people who don’t have what i got? are they victims of my leisure? to fail is to be a victim to be a victim of my choice maybe partying will help After a frenzy of activity yesterday, it appears that Rita has pulled farther east, so Austin likely won’t feel much more [...]
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