The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko is on my bucket list.

“When I find myself without a spoon, I sometimes like to eat applesauce via a straw. I suspect this is psycho behavior, because I would be embarrassed if someone came across me doing it at my workplace.”

If I leave my hair up and then put it under a shower, that’s not rinsing it; that’s using it as a sponge. If I want to rinse it and keep my scalp happy, I put it down. If I put my hair up, it’s because I want it dry.

He’s saying the director has nothing but commercialized and calcified imagery, themes, and stories to work with, and so he could not possibly have made this movie lively without bringing on the ire of the fans, who he has cast as religious fundies protecting the holy text from heretics.

“As the show begins, the hosts have begun to exhibit erratic behavior as the result of a software update. By the end of the first episode, it’s clear that the synthetic hosts are in the early stages of widespread self-awareness.”

I read it in David Attenborough’s voice and got the same effect, but I’ve been on a BBC Earth kick lately.

IT depends on state or city laws. Where I am, If I park illegally in a public space or easement, I’m likely to just get a ticket. I think the traffic enforcement officers have certain circumstances under which they can call in a license private tow company, like excessive tickets, but I’m not sure what those are. But…

The properties actually on the beach are more likely to be leased from the state, yeah. Upcountry land is likely to be owned. Before anyone buys a condo, they should see if they are actually buying the land or just the sticks on top of it. Whether the condos can renew their leases will be up to the state as each…

As a Texan, I intend to use that phrase, because Baylor really is an orientation. No Baylor person is attracted to anyone who isn’t a Baylor person; it’s embedded in their DNA.

In the high pitched Chip Gaines voice from the commercial, “Shiiiip-layup! Shiiiip-layup!”

They keep shtum on some important details, too. I was watching Hawaii Life, and I have just enough knowledge of Maui that I called my mom and asked her hey, what is up with the beachfront condo in a nice neighborhood for just a couple hundred thousand bucks? That land does *not* go for that little. Oh it’s simple, she…

I highly suspect they are working overtime on all that explosive expansion, and the stress was showing. You could tell they were working harder to be “on” all the time.

Except when she hands him one of her unmeasured, half-formed sketches. Those drive him pretty berserk.

I have spent the last fourteen years of my life cleaning kitchen crud out of the grout between tiles. I dream of solid granite, soapstone, or concrete.

I guess if they replat it they can create deed restrictions? You do not F with deed restrictions in Texas or you will suffer mightily in the courts.

Ah, I figure that’s like not watching the Kardashians and still being aware that one of them has a child named North West. That kind of thing gets around.

Ding! He also gives them both elbow room to spend their own time alone in spite of the number of business hours they spend together - he has built enough room on the farm for baby goats, chickens, and shelter puppies, and he makes her a greenhouse for her gardening, and so after a day of on-camera “I love you but...”…

Isn’t it Table Guy who just plain moved out of his house and rented it? He said it was because the house was right next to his business and he couldn’t separate work from life. But maybe his wife got ticked every time he sighed wistfully at the shiplap.

You know, I’ve never been to a Baptist funeral. Methodist, Catholic, evangelical... but not Baptist. I think I’m glad. That sounds like a Flannery O’Conner novel right there.

I’ve heard this stuff happening in the U.S. before (example at bottom), so no huge surprise there. But what’s interesting to me is the absolute opposition of responses. Two assault stories, both times the alleged victims were unreliable narrators for rather obvious reasons. Both times the alleged victims were held by…