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TAMU/ASU went from an actual game to a funeral really fast in the 4th quarter. A&M offense didn’t look nearly as good as the score would make you think.

Texan pro tip: bring your own hot sauce if you’re going on a cruise. Valentina black and some el Yucateco is coming in my bag with me if I do another one.

At the Sam Houston horse track and the Uma Musume cosplayers and fans are out in force. I knew this was a thing, but not this much of a thing.

If you have a window with bright, indirect light, there’s really no reason to not have an orchid. Year 2 of this HEB purchase blooming again. They are so much easier to keep alive when they come potted in wood or bark instead of moss. You can water every week without worrying about wet rot.

Purple and gold garden photo. Mystic blue spires salvia and purple kale, and native rudbeckia/coreopsis flowers plus a few squash blossoms. And a volunteer pumpkin coming up in the back corner bed.

I found 3 very hungry pipeline swallowtail caterpillars decimating the Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe in my backyard. Hopefully this means we’ll get to enjoy some beautiful butterflies hanging around the garden this summer (and it entices the Dutchman’s Pipe to go into overdrive putting up new shoots).

I was hoping to help a hummingbird or two that might show up in the back yard, but I don’t mind the honeybees getting a snack if they were this desperate for sugar and water.

Some light cloud-cover, some light gardening, and some light beer. Solid Saturday afternoon.

Socrates would put this talking-bag-of-millet in a chokehold.

More US citizens dead in one plane crash than died in Benghazi

It’s a red chili sauce kind of night. Pork shoulder was $0.89 for the first time in forever and I am going to stew down some deliciously spicy chunks of pork this week. #arbol #guajillo

Why grow asparagus fern when you can just grow asparagus instead?

I feel like Houston would be the city to be in to find Omurice with a guajillo red chili sauce.

Governor Newsom proclaims Dr. Hannibal Lecter Day When asked, Gov. Newsom said that Dr. Lecter "had a great taste in people". He then went onto Ben Shapiro's podcast and agreed with him on everything.

And thus: the symbol becomes the real

A good day for college football and creative ways to finish off leftover spiral cut Christmas ham.

It’s December 28th and I’m harvesting tomatoes from 2 plants growing in the back yard.

Hope to see you at the Texans game tomorrow, and hoping it goes down like this. #Houston #GoTexans

Truth Before Dare is exactly the kitschy fun song I needed to come across for the start of December. Give me all the Deep Thrills and The Dare content.

East Texas is the South, north Texas is the central great plains, west Texas is the Middle East, central Texas is California, and South Texas is where the tex meets the mex (like the food).

Big fan of the 3 bedroom, 2 and a half and a half and a half and a half and a half bath layout.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

- So what are you serving for Thanksgiving dinner? - AI slop

Signs with threatening auras

The A&M game is hilarious because they gifted 17+ points off of turnovers to a 3-6 team to be down 30-3 before the half, but are also good enough to score 21 unanswered points right after the half and make the game stay competitive.

Davis Mills led that massive comeback on the Jaguars and then trolled Trevor Lawrence by falling down at the goal line on the 2-point conversion, savage

No one is above the law. The public deserves transparency & accountability from government leaders. We'll be in court to get answers.

@jtjag.bsky.social I bet you're glad you went to the game now

Sunsets and starry nights around west Texas wind farms.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Hegseth up there like

Retire in Peace to Ron Washington, a man who is apparently not dead despite what Angels social media would lead you to believe. Anyways, this reminds me of the best tribute to Ron: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

Totally not a bubble.

I cannot overstate how happy I am to see the Texans regular season start up again.

Someone has been nibbling on my tomato plants 😡 I wonder if they will metamorphose before a hungry bird finds them.

🚨There is a secret episode of Game Changer out now on Dropout -- the one @samreich.bsky.social doesn't want you to see! Go watch it now before he demands it needs to be taken down! It's the one we've all been waiting for!!! #GameChanger

Sometimes I still play wordle. WTF man Wordle 1,522 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"The reasons behind the buffalo's aggression remain unclear. " 😂 So anyways, Pete, there I was, minding my own business, when a buffalo just decided to attack me for no reason.

How… how does she think that turned out, for everyone involved?

Rest in Hell you fcukin scab. #HulkHogan has always been a POS #jesseventura interview about #unionizing #wrestlers #union #unionstrong

An all time classic.

It’s still not clear to me if Sam Reich is Robert Reich’s son or if this is just a long college humor/dropout bit. (I refuse to use the most simple of internet search options to resolve this, because it’s funnier not knowing).

What started out as carving out a little space in the sunniest part of the yard for an herb garden has turned into what I can best describe as a pocket food forest. It’s been a great source of a variety of flowers, herbs, and fresh veggies throughout the spring and early summer.

Note to self: If you’re going to commit a crime on camera, do it while blasting a Disney copyrighted song so it gets immediately deleted before the courts can get it.

Hoppy 713 day, Houston (a day early). Time for lucha libres at Eureka Heights.

A bottle of cab and trimming up a brisket, solid way to end an evening.

I have spent the last 24 hours looking at media reports and social media posts about the Texas Hill County tragedy and being appalled by the level of misinformation I am seeing. I have tried to put together an updated, more reasoned summary I hope you'll read. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...