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Rick v. Kay, or Godzilla and Mothra on the Mall
Posted on October 2, 2009 | 11 CommentsToday we begin a new educational feature: Fun with Rick and Kay. The series will provide a continuing look at the antics of our favorite cheerleaders, engaged as they are...
Teabaggers Versus Starbucks: A Caffeinated Controversy
Posted on September 30, 2009 | 6 CommentsStarbucks has a new ad which mocks the loony townhall teabaggers, and the teabaggers aren’t taking the steeping satire so good. The headline at FoxNation reads, “Starbucks Ad Goes After...
Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone
Posted on September 30, 2009 | 16 CommentsIt’s Willie Wednesday, a good day for a sneak preview of my tribute to Poodie Locke, which will be in the Austin City Limits Festival program this weekend. Thanks to...
When LBJ Met Candy
Posted on September 29, 2009 | 1 CommentIt’s about 225 miles from Alvarado, south of Fort Worth, to Stonewall, west of Austin. Driving south, you cross the Brazos, ascend the Edwards Plateau, and keep going until you...
On “A New Literary History of America”
Posted on September 26, 2009 | No CommentsFour pounds and 1,128 pages of essays on the songs, sermons, novels, movies, political speeches, landscape paintings, characters, con men and geniuses of mad America. Edited by Greil Marcus and...
Hard Times, Hard Times Come Again No More
Posted on September 25, 2009 | 5 CommentsThis no-tell motel sits just north of the famous Threadgill’s Restaurant, which opened up as a gas station in 1933 and quickly became a popular place for drinking, live music...
Nudists Walk in the Black Forest
Posted on September 24, 2009 | 1 CommentLions and tigers and….bare? That’s right. Nudists now have their own hiking trail in Germany. I support this. The trail’s not actually in the Black Forest. It’s in the Harz...
Willie Wednesday – The Tao of Willie
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsAfter lots of response to my Willie Nelson post last Wednesday, I thought I’d share a few thoughts on the man every Wednesday (as Willie generally does on his XM...
Shoeshine Man — Back By Popular Demand
Posted on September 20, 2009 | 12 CommentsI can only conclude that he is made of something we could all use a great deal more of — laughter and love. American hero and visionary political leader Willie Nelson gives us all a great laugh... because we need one.Ray Charles Sings Cash’s “Ring of Fire”
Posted on September 20, 2009 | No CommentsLove is a burning thing.