News from Hico

Folks: I'm going to not be posting anything for the rest of this month and probably all of February. Main reason is I've got too muc...

Anyway... John sent me this bit last night with the following comment: 5 Komodo dragons born at British zoo By ROB HARRIS, Associated Press ...

To explain for the folks who haven't been paying attention, which will include just about everyone except maybe Coddlemeyer: In a Tech/O...

I'm resorting to cat graphics ... http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/rsc/

Sometimes whatever well you've been drawing from runs dry. I got very few things in my head (Ha!) nowadays except for work and wait for ...

Update: Apparently I got my Beckhams and Becketts confused again. Sorry. But I'm going to take a wild leap here and guess that you reall...

"At a U2 concert in Dublin, Bono asks the audience for some quiet. Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands. Holding th...

Actual joke I made in college: "Yeah, with a North Texas journalism degree, you can get the finest pizza-slingin' jobs out there....

Scene: FedEx Kinko's, downtown Fort Worth. It's 7:30 a.m. in the morning. I rush in with a booklet and accelerated expression. Me: I...

My wife’s sister recently put up a page on MySpace (No, I’m damn well not putting up a link) and this has led to some interesting conversati...

Celebrated my wife's birthday today. She was present. The woman often tries to tease me by reminding me that I am roughly three weeks ol...

Now that New Year's has passed, and those of us with bowl teams are either standing, mouth agape at our failure or deluding ourselves th...

Lordy, to be in Bleacher's Sports Bar sometime within the next week. They'll be playing the game, over and over, and it's not li...

It's kind of strange that the older I get, the more Christmas eves I spend on the road. Y'all take care.

Dropped Meredith off at the airport today. Will eventually follow. But for a few days, I'm home alone, and you know what that means: Uni...

I work a good deal of the day in a refrigerator. A refrigerator that has music piped in. It obviously isn't music of our choice, as such...

I got a call on my phone when this happened: You may recall several postings I did over this hunk of garbage directly across a dangerously n...

Got Thursday off, took the chance to take an overnight trip to the farm. I still have some unfinished business to take care of out here, tha...

This pattern tends to repeat itself a lot for me: Person makes some general statement on subject. I chime in with some half-assed, generally...

We all know the death of newspapers is coming. Here's a pretty good guess as to how it happens. (It's out of date a bit, but still ...