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Anytime you hit the highway in Texas you're bound to drive by a dead animal in the road. You're also just as likely to drive through a town with a really weird name.

The Villain Never Dies: Jason Jägel Honors MF Doom March 02, 2021 | in Magazine We think youll like When MF Doom released Operation: Doomsday in 1999 (and the split EP with MF Grimm on Brick Records), the record’s complex significance blew my mind. It demanded my scrutiny. I came to think of the MF Doom character and Operation: Doomsday as an alchemical equation that solved the twin tragedies of losing his brother and closest collaborator, as well as having their record, Black Bastards, ki...

How would you like to live in a place called Nameless? Don’t mix up Dime Box with Old Dime Box. In honor of Texas Independence Day, we return to the primal subject of Texas place names. Some of you have seen the following correspondence about Texas towns and cities in the introductions of the past two Think, Texas free digital newsletters. Today, we share with a wider audience, including the print readers, responses to the Feb.1 story, inspired by “Texas Place Names” by Edward Callary wit...

  Places To Go Some of the best white bass fishing in the spring can be done from the bank and while wading in the upper reaches of tributaries. County road maps available from the Texas Department of Transportation, or “The Roads of Texas” (Shearer Publishing, Fredericksburg, Texas (800)458-3808) are invaluable for locating some of the access points described. Always get permission from the landowner if you cross private land to enter a river or stream. Topographical reservoir ...

List of Central Texas resuming school following winter weather By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team Published  AUSTIN, Texas - Many school districts, colleges, and universities have decided to resume their operations following Winter Storm Uri. This article will continue to be updated as more schools make decisions based on their communitys recovery. Austin ISD is tentatively planning to provide remote learning only on Wednesday, Feb. 24th, and Thursday, Feb. 25th. Friday, Feb. 26th will be an asy...

What is the Best Named Town in Texas? God Bless Texas. I moved to this state just over 5 years ago and I love living here. Even if I do live in the area that the rest of Texas doesnt really consider a part of Texas. Another great thing about the state of Texas is the name of some of the towns. Here are some of the more creative and interesting town names in the Lone Star States. Gun Barrel City, TX Dime Box, TX Bacon, TX Uncertain, TX My favorite out of all of these? It has to be Bug Tussle. Th...

By Jane Sumner Special to the American-Statesman Those of us who gathered to say goodbye on the grassy slope of Republic Hill at the Texas State Cemetery on May 12, 2009, thought we’d heard the last from legendary author Edwin “Bud” Shrake. We were wrong.  Eleven years later, Shrake, dubbed “the lion of Texas letters,” has come roaring back with a crisp, wild and witty novel inspired by his real-life manic adventures as a screenwriter in 1970s and ‘80s Tinseltown. A riveting read...