It's not just kids drinking household goods. My parents bought a ranch about 20 years ago; apparently the previous owner was a real boozer and his wife was a real bitch about it. On top of this, it's a dry county. My dad and I were exploring some of the outbuildings shortly after he moved in, and in the well pump…

This is not Nam, Smokey. There are rules.

Heartbreak Ridge.

Size matters!!

He'd love to be the Gilded Colonel, no doubt about it.

But it's veddddy interesting.

Born in Brockton, dad joined the USAF when I was 3 so I likewise was gone at an early age. Work at Hanscom AFB (out by Lexington) takes me up there, but I don't mind because my cousins are real cool and fun to hang with. I think the first time I was ever in Boston proper was 15 years ago at age 42, and have only been…

I guess it's good that you're not me, since they are the two poles of my current existence! (I did like it more when my job took me to Europe every couple months, but nothing lasts forever…)

Although I recall a few years ago there was a movement to put "The Friendly State" as the logo on TX license plates. There was quite an uproar about that, I guess folks thought it would make us look like a bunch of pussies.

I lived in Houston 1978-79 and 1995-96 and would rather jack off a mad lion than live there again. Lot of neat stuff there, good concerts and restaurants and bars and museums and sports, but getting around is such a hassle and the weather, man, 110% humidity 75% of the time and the rest of the time it's raining. No…

I agree, though rail wouldn't affect me. I live north of town in Bulverde and can just blast up 281 and cut over on 290 to Austin, no I-35 bullshit whatsoever (although 290 traffic as you get into Austin after about Dripping Springs is getting to be a little problematic).

It's funny, I was talking about this with my cousin when she came down from Massachusetts to visit. She and her husband and their thick-ass chowderhead accents drove all around the Hill Country and everywhere they went everyone was nice as hell to them. But when I go up and visit Massachusetts, people aren't nearly…

The cool part about living in SA is that you can drive an hour to go see a good concert up in Austin, drive home afterwards, and not have to put up with the horrific traffic and other headaches of living in Austin. Tom Petty, May 2nd, here I come!

West Texas is awesome, because the ratio of Texans per square mile is so low.

Came here to say this. A friend of mine wanted to come visit me in San Antonio and go up to SXSW to see a number of different bands. The bands were all playing at different times at different venues ranging from S. Congress through Sixth Street, with others sprinkled around town. I told her that we would probably…

Or Fartandsloppy, for that matter.

Yeah, the incidence of earthquakes has skyrocketed in OK. But the oil industry says it has nothing to do with their activities, so I guess we have to look further afield for a reason. Maybe it's Graboids, like in that Tremors movie.

I doubt if it's a full time job, either. In TX, the legislature only meets for 140 days a year.

EAT MOAR CHIKIN.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.