News from Hico

Teaching test I put this up on Facebook, and then remembered that some of you have managed to avoid becoming ensnarled in that black hole of...

Just a few things: I surprised myself by watching a good portion of the Oscars on Sunday. This is mainly because I was reading a blog that w...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech and coach Mike Leach agreed Thursday on a new contract after months of contentious negotiations. Leach signed ...

I followed a link yesterday to a speech by man named Dmitri Orlov, who's written a book called "Reinventing Collapse." Orlov ...

So why do this review now? Because the film has been out a couple of years and everyone who is going to see it has done so. I'll just br...

Fiddler on the Roof's been on my mind since reading about it a couple of days ago. The sound isn't great and he's out of costume...

At least as the word "interesting" relates to the old curse, "May you live in interesting times." Eh, things weren't...

You can never find bok choi when you're looking for it. Is anyone else bugged by seeing kids riding around in shopping carts? I'm no...

Woe is us Raiders The contract negotiations between football coach Mike Leach and Texas Tech turn ugly. I won't give any analysis here, ...

Congratulations to my brother, Scott, on the birth of his third girl, thus completing a set of "Angels." Her name is Scotlyn, and ...

It was Meredith who pegged it. "You're just really burnt out, aren't you?" And I asked myself, "How does an unemploye...

Part 1 – Joining Facebook The last few years, I had been happy to stay off of Facebook the way some people had been happy to not have a mobi...

Just kind of cocooning right now. (You know. Thinking about stuff, like things, you know.) Enjoy the Star Wars trilogy told by someone who...

Starbuck calls her "Stardoe" Goodness gracious. Dirk Benedict, the original Starbuck on the original Battlestar Gallactica, rips t...

John sent me a blog post from the Dallas Morning News Technology Blog(?) on coffee. It seems that drinking coffee can stave off alzheimer...

Jeremy sent me this ad for -- great blessed Shatner -- a keyboard that uses Klingon. Funny how Klingon would develop 26 letters, just like ...

The other day, me and my wife were discussing the outster of Tom Craddick as speaker of the Texas House. (We usually discuss these things be...

A story sent to me by Scott, detailing an incident in my alma mater's hometown: 30-pound marijuana brick delivered to wrong address in D...

It's one of those things where I haven't written for so long, I got too much stuff on my mind and not enough energy to write it. Fir...

A lot of things have been happening lately to keep me distracted -- we've been dealing with the holidays, I've been trying to cram i...