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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 doesn't 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. That sounds like a town that would be the setting for 

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, "Hollywood Mad Dogs" is the same kind of  “eyewitness fiction” as his superb incendiary novel...