News from Hico

Sam: Picking up heavier and heavier stuff. And throwing it farther and farther. And usually at the cat. Cotton Bowl: I'm nervous. Tech t...

A paper shuns the web. Publisher says putting content on the web for free is stupid. And the paper is making double-digit profits and just p...

Vanity Fair talks to some of the people behind perhaps one of the worst things ever to be on TV, the Star Wars Holiday Special. Some interes...

This one was too much fun not to pass on: Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/Procedure/Process and ...

With the great Texas song writer Robert Earl Keen ... Hmmm ... Robert Earl seems to have put on a little weight.

No wonder the prairie dogs have been actin' funny. Along with other fields and playgrounds across the nation, Odessa's famous footba...

Arguably the greatest quarterback who ever lived passed away Wednesday in Rotan. I don't have a personal Sammy Baugh story, and I didn...

Guess where this happened ... Highlight below for answer. Brought to you by Queensland, Australia. Always wanted to go there. Seems kinda li...

I heard the news a couple of weeks ago that my favorite living writer has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Terry Pratch...

Update: Mules win . For another West Texas town. Muleshoe is playing today in its first state championship game. This is a long-odds, never-...

The man they called "Hoss" would've been 80 years old Wednesday. Dan Blocker's hometown O'Donnell , which I understand...

You know, in some parts of the state, people may say that hell really has frozen over. Not me, of course. Just some people. In some parts of...

So my wife read me perhaps the most doom-laden "If your birthday is today" bit I've ever heard, in this morning's Star-Tel...

Greatness in the Wall Street Journal, on the rash of violence at Chuck E. Cheeses. "The biggest problem is you have a bunch of adults a...

And the rest were about Christmas costumes for dogs ... Standing in the Wal-Mart checkout line the other day, looking at the magazines and t...

These were taken at the annual family eatathon in Hico. At which Sam got his first look at two of the funnest things in the whole wide world...

A site called Typealyzer will tell you what blogging personality you have by analyzing your language, or something. My personality, the ...

Signs that things aren't going well for Tech: The announcers begin the fourth quarter with an argument over which Beyonce song is the be...

About half an hour before bed time. Playing with a camera. We get ... Sam, Boy Toddler of Action He's fast enough now that walking no lo...

Bad news for the children of America. Funny how that works. Schools face growing shortage of male teachers. But that's a big reason why ...