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Leaving The Alamo

Posted on August 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Leaving The Alamo

My self-published book of short stories, available for free in pdf in the upper part of the sidebar on the blog’s main page, or for a mere eleven bucks in paperbook at the link above it, has a new fan. Lucky for me, he even posted an appreciation on his own blog. Thank you.

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Buy Miss Mermaid’s book

Posted on August 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Buy Miss Mermaid’s book

MissMermaid, stormcarib.com‘s hurricane correspondent from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, is laid up in the hospital. Her legion of fans are passing the hat and urging purchases of her book Hurricanes and Hangovers.

For a Booksurge product it’s doing very well in Amazon sales, and their amateur critics speak highly of it. If you ever wondered what life in the islands was like, she tells it. My interest stems from reading stormcarib every summer for the latest in the latest hurricanes. None yet this year.

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Alamo Chapel

Posted on August 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Alamo Chapel

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For those who have never been there, or have been but have forgotten what it looks like inside. No Texas blog can have too many pictures of the Alamo. Although I believe this was taken before the souvenir-trinket cases at the far end behind the camera were removed to a separate building elsewhere on the grounds. Then, the flags of all the states and countries the defenders came from were scrunched into a tiny room to the left of the entrance. They now line the walls here in the outer room. More such pictures, inside and out, old and new, some you’ve probably never seen, are available here.

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Miscellaneous

Posted on August 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Miscellaneous

 * Not sure how CGHill gets "Land of Cheerfulness" out of Terra Vigoris, but I like it and the moon shot is awfully nice.

* From wedding meme to divorce parody in one week! Must be an intertubes record of some kind.

* Ann has done some supremely weird things with the look of her blog, but this one is nice. I still can’t get into her comments, however. Curse Google forever.

* Tikirobot has some strange stuff, but, so far, none are funnier than this bicycle river jump video.

* Not many people (I would guess) know that the Marx Brothers got their comedy start in Texas.

* And, speaking of Texana, it’s pretty cool that my old friend Texas archeologist Tom Hester has given Birdie Rose, who died one day shy of her ninth birthday in 1879, a special kind of immortality on the web.

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Dorothy D. Hoft, R.I.P.

Posted on July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Dorothy D. Hoft, R.I.P.

Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft has written a touching obituary for his dearly departed mother. Worth a read.

Via Power Line.

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Inspired Bicycles

Posted on July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Inspired Bicycles

Amazing, crazy amazing, Brit bicycle stunts. Fun to watch and imagine. But, uh, do? Uh uh. Not me. My thighs could never take it. Not to mention the rest of me. (Makes sense, too, that you would need a special machine to withstand all the punishment.)

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Tire art

Posted on July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Tire art

Best use for old tires. Besides selling them. Most of us don’t have this much talent. But for them as does: get. it. on.

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