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March 2023

Texas Food Explorer: Breakfast Tacos
One of the things that is most annoying about being a modern day Texan is sharing the state with an increasingly obnoxious City of Austin and its…
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Townes Van Zandt and the Demise of Moe the Rooster
Roostercide in the countryside
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Boogie Friday
A treatise on a subgenre of African-American music.
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The Power of Place on Mental Maladies: My Own and Others
The source of my long-gone anxiety attacks.
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February 2023

The Smurfs: the fiercest Houston street gang that never was
A few teenage knuckleheads managed to terrorize an entire city and make national news for doing teenage knucklehead things.
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Texas Food Explorer: The obscure origins and cruel history of the watermelon in America
How a marvelous feat of Sub-Saharan horticulture became weapponized as a racist trope.
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The United States of Expedia
A prose poem
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January 2023

Texas Food Explorer: How the hell did pralines end up a Tex-Mex Staple?
Answer: hell if anyone knows, but it's an amazing story anyway.
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25 Years Ago: The Wig Shop Murders
An excerpt from the book Mike Vance and I co-wrote: Murder and Mayhem in Houston.
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Clemency from my Grandmother
An epic high school disaster and the merciful consequences.
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Texas Food Explorer Volume 5: "French Doughnuts," or beignets
Crossing the Sabine for the first time to bring in this sweet Gulf Coast staple.
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