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It’s still hot in Texas Yes, I’m still in Texas. And yes, it’s still hot as fuck.

Really, I could deal with all the other things about Texas if I absolutely had to move here, but oy vey! The heat!

By the way, this was going to be the ass-kickingest post of all time… then I accidentally deleted all my notes from my Blackberry. I blame the heat. Fries my wee little brain. I’ve developed a simple formula that just might help you understand the relationship:

Justin + Heat = Tard

So instead of my Tolstoyian epic that was set to completely fuck your mind, you just get this crap. Sorry.

I had dinner at a steakhouse tonight recommended by some of my local coworkers. Totally disappointing. I had these lofty expectations of a gen-u-ine Texas slab of beef, something that would melt in my mouth and satisfy my hunger while by-the-power-of-grayskulling me into some sort of man-beast. Haven’t been this disappointed in an eating experience since my Italian food in Rome.

Ok, so it was the one in Georgia, not Rome Rome. Whatever. The lasagna still sucked and I got stuck with the worst, most annoyingly apologetic waiter ever. He should have been fed to the lions, regardless of which Rome he was in.

So the mission for tomorrow is to find some good barbecue. The coworkers told me that all the BBQ joints are in “the bad part of town,” which I’m sure was code for “where the dark people live.” Unfortunately, nobody wanted to tell me exactly where that is, so I’ll just have to drive around downtown Lufkin tomorrow shouting “Yo, where all the black people at?” to random cowboys. Just imagine the Bizarro version of this:

That’s not to say I think all the people down here are racists. In fact, I’ve actually seen an Obama bumper sticker on one big ol’ 4×4 and an Obama sign on a lawn (in the good part of town, even), but not a glimpse of any rah-rah McCain propaganda. If that keeps up, I may just be able to forgive Texas for Dubya.

Maybe.

Some day.

After my Alzheimer’s kicks in.

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2 Responses to "Yep, still here…"

1 | Jacob

May 29th, 2008 at 6:44 am

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I was so going to make a crack about it being dumb to go to Rome, GA for Italian food and then you did it for me. The really weird thing is that about half of your commenters lately have spent multi-year stints in Rome. Every person I personally know on my blogroll except the computer geek one went to school at Berry College in Rome and most of us worked at the Rome News-Tribune at one time or another. They’ve got a really nice Thai place there, however.

And if you’re wondering why the South took longer to catch up to the north in industrializing, it’s because it took until the advent of affordable air conditioning to keep us from suffering from the same heat-related symptoms you’re finding in yourself. There’s a reason that sidewalks in the south don’t seem to be as full as those in Yankee citied between the months of March and October.

2 | mickey

May 29th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

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I don’t know anyone named Jacob.

But I can point you to some good barbecue in Rome, GA, incidentally.

I will always mess with Texas, those pretentious assholes.

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