News from Hico

Update: Apparently, it's not a complete hoax. Update III: Hello Illinois. (Following Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and East Texas.) (...

I can only imagine how weird it's going to feel Tuesday morning. I start classes at TCC. I don't feel any real excitement, just a va...

I've been searching for a decent place to get a haircut since I moved to Fort Worth two years ago. And I finally found a spot a couple o...

I'm officially enrolled, summer session I at Tarrant County College. Here comes algebra. The wierdest thing about the process was that i...

And I'm pining for an XBox 360 like dead parrots pine for the fjords.

So. The original plan was to let people know once classes started, but since it’s the main thing on my mind nowadays I’ll go ahead and annou...

Another week, another adjustment. We got scared of coming in every morning and seeing this: We were terrified that Sam would figure out that...

One day, the idea of relating virtually everything we come across into a Star Wars metaphor will seem old and outdated. And that will be a s...

Or Wanting to pull out the +3 battle ax for reality My freshman year at North Texas, I spent the majority of my time immersing myself into r...

A website that tells you what the No. 1 song was on any day of any year going back to 1891. Obviously, this is great birthday material. Dec....

Here are a few pictures of Sam, who seems to be very comfortable with the camera, and a short story. When I was working the gourmet case at ...

Always strange to see a hometown nobody much mentions for most of my life keep coming up. It's not always good, but it's fascinating...

In this one, the ghost of Sam haunts his parents for an unjustified nap time. (He's standing up in his crib, by the way. That's act...

I haven't been writing much lately for a lot of reasons. Mainly it has to do with me doing the once-a-decade-what-am-I-doing-with-my-lif...

A random thought brought on by a sad event: I've followed the Warren Jeff's cult thing (Fundamental Church of Latter Day Saints) wit...

Just saw this: Fox has given the green light to "Virtuality," a two-hour back-door pilot from "Battlestar Galactica" mas...

In Fort Worth, where the family spent part of Sunday. We have a few pictures. It's required. Everybody -- brides, prom girls, new engag...

It's been out there for a bit, but wanted to pass on a recommendation for Hulu.com. Besides sports, I watch almost no TV nowadays. But I...

A guardian critic reviews the latest Paris Hilton film. Actually, he doesn't review the film. Why bother, when you can instead write a l...

Folks always made fun of Tom Delay’s background as an exterminator. I’m beginning to see how the experience made excellent congressional tra...