I’ve been obsessed with watching weather videos on Youtube lately. Metafilter is partly to blame, as is The Awl, but the real culprit is El Nino*, which is responsible for the worst winter Houston had in the past 30 years and also the fact that we’re probably gonna have one helluva hurrican’ season. I also [...]
Rick Mitchell + Jeff Corwin = Hank Schyma, my new crush. We bonded over tornadoes at the Art Car Ball. This one makes me miss Oklahoma.
The old hometown paper, of all sources, broke the story about Jack White’s planned collaboration with Miss Wanda Jackson. The Oklahoman also posted a short documentary about the OK native who proves yet again the old maxim the Okie girls are the shit.
Via JD.
NPR had an interesting story today about Fort Sill, Skull and Bones, and the descendants of the Apache Geronimo.
Props to wherever I saw this first (I forgot who posted it) but I flipped when I realized it was from Oklahoma. Please, fellow Okies, report back to me if you have eaten here!
I know the election was, like, two months ago but I just want to bring this to your attention: Texas vs. California. Just for kicks, here’s Texas’ Hat. I get to break out my old fist bump badge again today. Later this morning I’ll be live-blogging the Inauguration, hopefully from the Harris County Democratic Party’s [...]
The truth is that I haven’t written in a while because it’s taken some time for me to process the events of the holiday season. Our trip to Oklahoma was as depressing as ever. Especially in winter. CLH had just come home two days before we left again, and on this particular trip I discovered [...]
I am barefoot, in the first neighborhood I remember from my childhood. I am playing basketball with the neighborhood boys in someone else’s driveway. There is no net, and it is the latest I have ever been allowed to stay outside at night. The sun is still out, it’s dusk, yet it feels like it [...]
We at Rule are currently enjoying freezing rain and bone-chilling temperatures in Oklahoma, while weather forecasts in Houston call for an 80-degree weekend. We left our home Friday evening with 90 percent of our boxes still unpacked in order to attend our maternal grandparents’ 55th wedding anniversary in the state of our birth. The snow [...]