Category: Texas

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    Another Bull Balls Sighting – With Photographic Evidence

    Wrote a bit about the bull balls phenomenon here and here some time back. Another sighting today in the parking lot of our local supermarket, this time the ball wearer was sitting still (probably ran in to pick up a few more carbon offsets for his 4X4 Hemi) so I was able to whip out the MotoPhone with it’s whizbang technoglitterati .0075 quatropixel camera…

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    A Taste of Austin

    Pulled back into the Semitough Love Ranch compound Sunday evening after a four day tour of our lovely state capital. One of the things that I love about being in Austin, especially downtown, is that you’ll be driving around looking for a street or just making your way from one place to the next and all of a sudden you…

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    Remembering Dallas When It Was Dallas: Follow up

    A few weeks back I posted asking readers to post their memories of Dallas back when it was still a “small” town and got some great responses. Reader Barclay Kleese remembered: My Grandfather started a radio show called the Early Birds. It aired every morning. Kind of a music, skit kind of thing. I was only six or seven at…

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    Remembering Dallas When It Was Dallas

    All right. So I opened up a can of worms when I posted about Dallas radio back in the day. Seems friend Scot Duke and I may have habited some of the same haunts. My radio story plus last Friday’s Stevie Ray Vaughn funkishness post prompted this outstanding story from Scot in reply: Since we are stirring memories of Dallas…