Loading tweets...Where I come from, deep within the pine thickets of East Texas, this is how we celebrate Black Friday. This video clip was shot by a friend on “Black Friday”, at the Wal-Mart in Atlanta, Texas. Another reason I do all my Christmas shopping online.
Category Archive: East Texas
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Nov 07
A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On…
For the third time since Saturday, Oklahoma –yes, “where corn is high as an elephant’s eye” Oklahoma–has been hit by an earthquake, and once again, tremors were felt here in the Metroplex. I’ve lived my entire life within 150 miles of the Metroplex and do not recall ever hearing reports of earthquakes, even minor tremors, …
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Nov 07
I Saw the Sign…
As a Texan, I am accustomed to having my Friday night Facebook and Twitter feeds awash in high school football updates. It is part of our culture. However, I normally don’t pay too much attention to them, but on Friday night, my sister called me to see if I had seen a picture a friend …
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Sep 06
East Texas Wildfires
I don’t know what it is about awesome weather in early September that seems to be such a bad omen. I remember distinctively the weather on September 11, 2001. It was a lot like today–perfect–cloudless, low-humidity, and unseasonably cool (tonight the low is expected to be in the mid 50′s). We all know the tragedy …
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Jul 29
Friday Night Lights Gets the High-Brow Treatment
In my farewell to FNL, I noted that the show seemed to be far more popular among the Elite–that is the intellectual crowd of the East and West Coasts–than among folks in rural Texas, where the series is set. Now the series (and the movie & book) has been reviewed by The New York Review …
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Feb 08
The Truth About Texas
This week, in honor of Governor Rick Perry’s “State of the State Address,” we take a look at the “The Truth About Texas,” an examination of a series of article from progressive publications examining the Texas economy. 20110208 Truth About Texas 000001
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Sep 23
One Thing I Miss About East Texas
Hard to believe that almost six years have passed since I packed up my things and moved to Dallas, hoping to break free. I viewed East Texas as a snow globe—you know those glass globes with a scenery and snow that when shaken gives the illusion of a snowfall. I felt trapped in an area …
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Nov 28
What's the matter in East Texas?
My good friend, Brian Cuban, recently penned an article for his blog regarding the “death of small town America.” In the piece, Cuban opens with details of his recent trip to celebrate Thanksgiving in East Texas and laments the condition of one specific town, Atlanta, Texas, but extends the content of his post to small …
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Nov 16
Top 5 Sports Moments from Weekend
I realize that I’ve been on a top 5 kick lately, but it’s just the mood I’m in. Let’s keep it rolling with the Top 5 moments from a busy sports weekend: 1.) SMU Becomes Bowl Eligible – For whatever reason, I’ve been a SMU fan from my earliest days. I have never attended school …
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Sep 03
November Spawned a Monster
I just recently purchased a new laptop and I’m the process of transferring all of my files from my old laptop to an external hard drive for easier access. I found some of my old poetry I hadn’t read in a while, especially a poem I’ve had a couple of requests for…. Looking back, it’s …
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