Category Archives: Texana

River Cats 6, Express 3

Posted on July 26, 2008 | Comments Off on River Cats 6, Express 3

We spent a fun evening at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock, but it would have been more fun if the Express had won. But the Sacramento River Cats just plain outplayed them. The Cats had the first pitcher, a reliever, that I ever saw with a full beard. It’s like the nineteenth century is making a comeback.

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Ray Wylie’s anthem

Posted on July 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Ray Wylie’s anthem

Everytime this little weiner dog from Ohio, and the other dork from Michigan start whining about how they’re gonna impeach W for his "wrongs"–instead of getting off their pampered rears and allowing some drilling of American oil to bring down gas prices–I think of a song: Ray Wylie Hubbard’s 2003 favorite, to be exact: Sc**w You, We’re from Texas.

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Going to bed Remembering the Alamo

Posted on July 24, 2008 | Comments Off on Going to bed Remembering the Alamo

That’s what kids around the world are doing these days, thanks to the Handbook of Texas Online: "…a trailblazing resource about all things Texas." It’s also, just plain fun to read. And more is coming. Watch the video, pard.

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Brownsville radar

Posted on July 23, 2008 | Comments Off on Brownsville radar

Here’s the very best view of Hurricane Dolly to watch today, and local stations to check on for news and weather. The Brownsville Herald is updating quickly.

UPDATE:  By 9:30 a.m., tornadoes were already popping up on radar west of Corpus Christi. By 1 p.m., Dolly had grown to a category 2 hurricane, its eyewall was moving ashore a bit north of Brownsville and it was pounding the coastline with hundred mph winds.

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Fort Worth light bulb’s (alleged) hundredth year

Posted on July 21, 2008 | Comments Off on Fort Worth light bulb’s (alleged) hundredth year

I won’t go into any of the crass names that Fort Worth has been called, even by Texans (maybe, especially by Texans). But I truly doubt the Stock Yard Museum’s claim to an antique light bulb that’s been burning since September, 1908. What, no power outages in a hundred years? Bosh. When it comes to municipal brag, I prefer such as lowly Hutto’s claim that it is the Hippo Capital of Texas with, almost certainly, the largest concrete hippo in the world today–Henrietta, by name, weighing in at 14,000 pounds–not to mention diverse others.

Via Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub.

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9/11 air crew memorial

Posted on July 18, 2008 | Comments Off on 9/11 air crew memorial

While New Yorkers and the feds still argue about what to do with the hole in the ground in lower Manhattan, a memorial has finally been raised in Texas to the flight crews who were among the first to die on that terrible morning that still resonates in the mind’s eye of most Americans. It’s complicated, and a bit strange, the statue at Grapevine, just outside Dallas-Fort Worth International, but it holds your attention.

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Rangers sweep the All-Stars

Posted on July 16, 2008 | Comments Off on Rangers sweep the All-Stars

Mr. Boy had to regretfully go to bed before the eighth inning, so he missed seeing the game drag on through fifteen innings and the Rangers’ Michael Young finally put it away, 4-3, with an RBI. Neat. After Hamilton’s record-breaking, homer-hitting performance the other night, Young’s ending the game for the AL’s twelfth victory in a row, kept the focus where we wanted it, on the Rangers. Now let their pitching improve (please, Lord) and may their second half of the season be as sweet!

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