News from Hico

Update : OK. Correction in comments, followed by another comment by me, followed by another correction. At this point I'm giving up on e...

Per this request – “When are you going to post a review of the new Home Furnishings and Decor shop in downtown Hico?” -- I’ll be happy to wr...

Whoa. It's been a freaking week since I was here. Sorry. I've been going through a caffeine purge, so the main thing on my mind at 7...

From Brian in Abilene, posted with no comments... No actual offense is intended to any Buddhists (current or in future incarnations) who may...

From Jeremy in Oklahoma: Yeah. One day I'll have a camping story that includes the sentence: "And then Scott killed a bear with his...

So I watch the newscast that NBC is going forward with a new show based kinda-sorta on "Friday Night Lights." (To be called "...

Have come up with my next Hico project. I’ve spent the last couple of days working on my Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It’s a typical Ne...

Went to a psychologist for the first time in my life last week. There's nothing weird going on here that isn't normally associated w...

My friend Todd just sent me a link for the perfect T-shirt : Yep, perfect for the wedding reception. The great thing is that I don't nee...

I know that whining about how it’s not football season is a Texas cliche. Cliche on the level of male-college-student-listening-over-and-ove...

I've been gone for a while, but I have to say the last week was extremely lame. Damn rabbits. I've added what turned out to be an ep...

We left at about 6:45 a.m., and immediately stopped at the Koffee Kup for breakfast. This is probably not the way to start a long drive that...

Arrrrrrr. There can be only one. Ouch my head. I originally thought this wasn't well known, but a quick google search proved me wrong. ...

In recovery mode after camping. A quick summation of how this trip compared to the Segrist standard backpacking weekend:  Put friends in li...

Story in the New York Times Sunday thing: Wagging the Dog, and a Finger ON a sun-drenched weekend last month, cafes from TriBeCa to the Uppe...

I'm probably scaring the neighbors with my habit of going shirtless around the house, but (a) when you see the sun as little as I do, yo...

Not getting the Axe "Game Killers" campaign. The problem is the ads look like they’re possibly going to be funny. You introduce th...

I never got why the whole Natalie Maines thing was a big free speech deal: She can say whatever she wants, other people can tell her she...

– The word "Butt Crack" is used nonironically. – Singer was briefly married to Rene Zellweger – He asked Rene Zellweger out, and w...

Sent in March, last one before blogging began Folks: So it’s taken a couple of months since the last note, but things tend to come up when p...