{"id":1566,"date":"2009-03-18T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2009-03-18T18:41:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T01:41:21","slug":"big-ideas-about-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/big-ideas-about-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ideas About Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After just a few days in Austin, I think I know what Texas is like. I&#8217;m probably wrong, but what the hell. Here&#8217;s my list of Texas generalizations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texans are a boot wearing people, even when it&#8217;s warm there are guys wandering around with their jeans tucked into their boots. The gals seem more practical, going for the boots and miniskirt or boots and shorts look. Even that 60ish cross dresser I saw downtown, you know, the guy with the full facial hair, the cowboy hat, the tights, and the miniskirt, was wearing boots.<\/li>\n<li>Texans can not run out of time to chat with you about where you&#8217;re from, what you ought to see next, who they know that lives where you&#8217;re from, how the place you&#8217;re from is awfully nice, but while you&#8217;re here, you really ought to can I help you and if you need ANYTHING, really ANYTHING&#8230; there is nothing they need to do that&#8217;s more important that making sure you are a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">victim<\/span> recipient of their overwhelming hospitality. And when they have gone out of their way to help you, they will apologize for not doing enough. Got somewhere to be? Too bad, because that Texan is not done talking with you yet and you would not want to be rude.<\/li>\n<li>Texas is dry, too dry, in fact, what with the drought, lord knows we needed the rain and it&#8217;s not enough. The air smells dry and woody, no, really, it smells like fresh cut wood. I guess it&#8217;s all the live oaks, but I couldn&#8217;t be sure.<\/li>\n<li>Texas birds are just as talkative as the human occupants of the Lone Star State and they seem just as social, standing up on a traffic light or tree over the bus stop or other slightly elevated view of the top of your head. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re asking about where you&#8217;re from and telling you what you ought not to miss and offering to have you round the nest or telling you that they get off work at 5 and if you need a ride ANYWHERE, you really should just call, they&#8217;d be happy to fly down and pick you up.<\/li>\n<li>Texas is meat-tastic. While it&#8217;s totally possible to eat good veggie chow in Austin, hippie town that it is, meat is what&#8217;s for dinner. Grilled and four legged, preferably. You want BBQ sauce on that? Of course you do! That turkey sandwich from the take out place in the DFW airport? Wow, surprisingly delicious.<\/li>\n<li>Texas is <a href=\"http:\/\/magliery.com\/Texas\/shapes.html\">Texas shaped<\/a>, as are many other things in Texas, like buildings and potato chips and belt buckles. If it&#8217;s not shaped like Texas, it probably has a picture of Texas on it, be it the news stand or socks or bbq sauce, of course.<\/li>\n<li>Texas is totally worth your time. I am sitting here in Seattle thinking about how freakin&#8217; great a big old road trip to Texas would be. I would like to leave tomorrow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just a few days in Austin, I think I know what Texas is like. I&#8217;m probably wrong, but what the hell. Here&#8217;s my list of Texas generalizations: Texans are a boot wearing people, even when it&#8217;s warm there are guys wandering around with their jeans tucked into their boots. 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