Category: Texas

  • semitough

    Chicken Fried Texas

    Texans are fond of fried foods. After all, fried twinkies, fried oreos, fried cheesecake, fried Coke are all part of the Midway fare down at the State Fair of Texas. However Bob Phillips of Texas Country Reporter having hit the highways and byways of this great state has located the penultimate, the Coupe de Ville […]

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    “Thanks Youtube!”

    Thanks for demonstrating why it sucks to be an Aggie living in Dallas on “Texas-OU” weekend. “Dallas Texas man!” h/t Jai Eugene @ Losers With Socks

  • semitough

    White Rain?

    Hold off on this month’s carbon offset allotment until I can figure out what this white stuff is on the radar. May need to send a dispatch up to my northern correspondent to find out which works better, table salt or kosher salt?

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    Independence Day

    Weary of broken promises from the government of Mexico, Texians engaged in an organized revolution against that government starting around October 1835. On March 2, 1836, with 200 of their countrymen beseiged by Mexican forces at the Alamo, Texian leaders gathered at Washington-On-The-Brazos, near present day Navasota, Texas to craft a Declaration of Independence. This is […]