Appearances notwithstanding the staff and crew here at The Other Texas are not actually deceased. We’ve been on an unintended, unexpected, and undesired leave of absence, but we’re still here and are now busily rearranging, dusting, sweeping, and spiffing up the offices so we can get back to work. Now …
*I have always loved datelines and stories from the road – “14,500 feet up in the High Andes above Cañar, Ecuador, South America” is always a much more promising starting point than “Staring at the brick wall above my incredibly messy desk…”* So: Dateline: APR 15… MEACHAM FIELD, Fort Worth …
For those of you who haven’t encountered Art Cars before, They look sort of like this, sometimes. Imagine if you will an automobile (ranging from fairly new to very old, very broken, and barely functional, about six or eight steps past “jalopy”) acquired by a human (ranging from barely able …
For several years I’ve been driving past this little sign just off Holcombe Boulevard… “Houston Maritime Museum –>” and, for several years, I’ve been making mental notes: Go Check This Out. But mental notes are of limited use when you’re in the habit of losing your mind every week or …
Well, not all of us. But the last several months have been fairly, well, unstable, depressing, and generally unpleasant, and as I …
Rumors of our demise are somewhat overstated. But the next piece here has some learning and some more research to be done, …
Decided last week that cabin fever was settling in and I needed to get out again, so I sorted through the various …
When the Texian Army swarmed the Mexican camp at San Jacinto, the afternoon of April 21, 1836, they terrified the Mexican soldados …
(Or words to that effect, since I don’t speak Mandarin…) The actual translation is more or less “Best wishes and Congratulations. Have …
It’s taken a wee bit longer to get to this than I’d planned. Life does that. I talked earlier about Las Pastorelas; …