It’s not quite business and it’s not quite pleasure — and in just a few short hours I fly to Texas for 5 days. Not sure how much updating of ye olde blog I’ll be doing from the road. . .but maybe in between outdoor barbeques and capital punishments I’ll make it to a computer.
Hook ’em horns!!!
Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
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trivia – “Don’t mess with Texas” started out as a anti-littering slogan. The campaign was pulled, however, once someone pointed out that throwing empty Pearl beer bottles out of your pickup at road signs is a right enshrined in the Texas state constitution.
I sucked back my first Shiner Bock in a long time just a few moments ago. Someone later asked if we would play Texas Hold ‘Em. Don’t you think they should just call it Hold ‘Em here?