Celebrating Individualism and My Texas Readers
by Joshua Minton
UPDATE: If you know any hilarious Texas sayings, please include them in the comments section--we've been getting some great ones from readers kind enough to take some time and leave them for us.This blog has more readers from Texas than any other state in the union. I keep pretty detailed stats of all my web traffic, not to be some kind of big brother overlord but to keep my finger on the pulse of what people respond to so I can do more of it. I'm not interested in driving tens of millions of people here but I am interested in attracting an organic audience of intelligent and passionate individuals who come back on a consistent basis and add to the culture of this site.
We are in the middle of a war against symbolism--whether we are killing for the symbol of money, a national symbol or a symbol of god--the heart of man is deeply involved in a spiritual war of symbols and this war can only be won when the individual finally breaks free of all symbols and stands completely alone which means to be free even from the symbol of themselves (an idea of self put together by the mind through time but which has no external substance outside of the mind which composed it).
I am talking about absolute freedom here and nobody in this world knows more about absolute freedom than the citizens of Texas because they enjoy more individual freedom than anyone else on this planet.
If someone trespasses on your property in Texas--you can shoot their ass.
It has been rumored that people have smoked joints whilst walking the streets of Austin and have flicked the nubbed out roaches at cop cars as they drove by.
People in Texas have balls--even the women who are sexiest specimens of brilliant femininity the world has to offer.
Two of my favorite bloggers, Antimedia and JD Allen, are from Texas.
George Strait is from Texas and that man has the smoothest voice ever to lay down and wiggle over a steel guitar.
So I just wanted to take a moment and thank all my readers from Texas who, even though they got their asses smoked by my beloved Buckeyes this year; still represent the best of humanity in this country and embody the spiritual hopes for the freedom of the future of man.
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This blog was originally posted on October 24, 2006
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Guest are encouraged to leave comments here; you do not have to register an account. All that I ask is that you be respectful of the other readers of this site and its host. Stick to the ideas being expressed and you should be okay. Get personal and you might not like the results. Thanks for reading.Oh, and we're the source of more good sayin's than any other place I know - like - a heavy rain is often known as "a frog-strangler" or "a turd floater" - "opened up a worm farm" means you died - "hotter than a fur coat in Marfa" means, well, Marfa's pretty damn hot in shorts......- "windier than a fifty pound bag of lips", "so dusty the rabbits are diggin' holes six foot in the air", "he could talk a gate of its hinges", "he's got a ten gallon mouth"...well, you get the idea. We've got a sayin' fer everthin. And when something is really big, we say it's "big as all hell and half of Texas besides". :-)
"All hat and no cattle" (big talker with no substance)
"Uglier than the north end of a south-bound mule"
(I don't live in Texas, but I've been there.)
There's three great things right there.