News from Hico

The Rangers are actually going to have a decent second half of the season.

VmarksTheSpot pointed to an item at the end of the Anchorwoman article about the upcoming Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge , ...

This headline was at the top of an Associated Press story about Yi Jianlian, and his chances of being a star in the NBA: "NBA's gre...

Coach, 40, marries track student, 16. So, the feelings I will not comment on here are the ones that make me stare extra-long at women in com...

The story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram today deals with the problems when reality TV mixes with TV news (no, there is no difference, but...

Damn, you turn on the radio and find out that half the area is flooding . Strange day. We've spent our time doing what we normally do, b...

Got a random e-mail on Friday. (I like random e-mail on the blog. So far, I've got two, and one of them ended with me getting a free DVD...

VMarksTheSpot sent me Stephen Hunter's review of the latest Fantastic Four movie, tho it doesn't review the flick so much as provid...

Spears asks fans to name her new album In related news: Lohan asks fans to pick next disease. And Hilton asks cell block to name her either ...

Here's a chart in "The Economist" that shows drinking per capita*. I don't believe it, as Russia does not make the top fiv...

A cooking story with illustrations. So, I've made brownies from scratch. Pie with homemade crusts. Cake with with this greasy, plastic-l...

Brought to my attention by Todd ... Despite the near-unanimous opposition in the state legislature to the use of speed cameras, the Texas De...

Just saying, good stuff. When the brewery started business in Fort Worth, they had volunteers working at the factory. Like Bueno Heads, only...

I should first say that there is no way anyone will ever top the fire-fighting doggie. A story in the ContraCosta Times focuses on a new tre...

And the decade's getting close to done. Jeff Pearlman of ESPN.com , after Gary Sheffield made his "Black people are disappearing in...

Relation: Second-oldest nephew Start time 7 p.m., Texas A&M University coliseum thing, College Station 6 p.m.: Graduate’s father shows...

Last weekend, Hico had its annual "Texas Steak Cookoff and Tourist Trap" event. Yes that's a joke. The preview in the Fort Wor...

So I saw this at work today: From AP "Stone made news last week when the world learned of his massive kill, a 1,051-pound feral hog, wh...

I check my site counter every day for a couple of reasons: I'm a loser. It's cool to see who's stopping by. Who the hell do I kn...

For anyone out there who loved Mystery Science Theater 3000. Rexmous posted about RiffTrax earlier this month. The premise is -- well, there...