The exception is apparently when Joanna makes a “special piece just for them” - the wall art in the musician’s study, the special tables, the laser etched metal she was doing in season two, those pretty mod primitive pillows she made from a grandfather’s old curtains, for example.

Southside Barbecue, but I was raised a Luling City Market-etarian.

I figure that if it’s not interesting enough to even be a side trip on “The Daytripper” or a barbecue destination on “Franklin” then it’s pretty freakin’ dead.

Texas is not. But yeah, they’re clearly rehearsed. Every call bar one seems to fall within the $10-20K contingency you see in most building situations. I wish they’d quit acting like they don’t have one.

I thought embroidered, distressed cowgirl boots with a beat up straw hat were the new rhinestones of Texas? How am I going to find a shiplap dress in time for rodeo?

I like this show, sorry, but I’m not here to argue that. My question is, am I the only HGTV watcher who’s made a game out of counting the number of fix-it and flipping hosts who wear flip-flops and sandals to active job sites? Like, who is going to lose a toe or get tetanus first? Joanna? Tarek?

It’s the tax effect. Texas has no income tax; it only has property taxes. I don’t know why some (not the majority, but a few) people brag about this, as it simply means our property tax rates are higher to make up for the lack of income tax. Anyway, this means that people’s taxes don’t rise with their ability to pay,…

Yes, that was obviously really her biggest concern. That was not sarcastic humor at all. Neither is this.

I’m an io9 reader. This article is 10 out of 10, would come back regularly for more.

*coulda, woulda.

Fun Fact: Kids born in the 2000's don't spend time outside on lawns, for fear that their mothers will come along and make them mow.

Crystal radios.

Oh, in De4dspin. I saw the trailer - looks great.

What a fine illustration of the difference between ‘simple’ and ‘easy.’ Method #2 is the one I’ve always been taught, though I’ve never had to apply it. If the pliers in your tacklebox are the kind with wire snips in them, you’ll be ready for this occasion.

I'm so glad for your friends.

The song was written by Prince.

We lost. President Obama won. I’ve got a lot of opportunity to disagree, but the Constitution, in my view, puts an obligation on me not to replace my judgment for his, not to think of the hundred reasons I would pick someone different... I view my duty as to protect the Judiciary and to ensure that hard-fought…

“But he's the ooooooooone! He's different! And he's stuck with that awful woman. It's entirely her fault." Or some variation.

Heck no. Not quoting her would be terrible journalism.

Sanitation. Definitely public sanitation.