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[dallasobserver-blog]

This Chicken-Fried Steak Place Serves Free Beer, You Guys.

From the outside, Tom's Burgers and Grill looks a lot like most Middle America diners — the ones built during a time when car doors shut with a satisfying thud and the use of seat belts was just a suggestion. The

[texasmonthly-blog]

This week, to say the very least, has been a rough one.

Stay strong everyone.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.

[exiledintejas]

This is a graph of just how windy it is today in central Texas.

[fuckyeahtx]

Damn nature, sit down, you’re drunk.

[neighborhoodr-dallas]

(via Dallas Does the Harlem Shake - Dallas - Slideshows)

[txdrivebyshooting-deactivated20]

Dallas, Texas - “Mass Transit”

Begun August 1994, Finished Dec 1994 

120ft Tall 215ft Wide

Created by Mr. Chris Arnold, of EyeCon Studios, a nationally renowned muralist.

[ass-over-class]

She’s in paradise!

[granadatheater-blog]

We’re Really Really Excited of the Day: Cue un-containable feelings about tonight.

[dallasobserver-blog]

There's finally legislation to make the pecan pie the official State Pie of Texas.

[daddyspleased]

Texas weather for you (Taken with Cinemagram)

[txdrivebyshooting-deactivated20]

Richardson, Texas - China Town

[granadatheater-blog]

Love is about to be all up in the air.

Last chance for tickets! Entries due February 1st.

More info here.

[dallasobserver-blog]

Dearest The Mayor, As an Irish, I'm first and foremost confused by the idea that the Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade could be any more family-friendly than it already is. What is more family-friendly than holding a toddler in one arm and a yard of beer in the other?

--Alice Laussade, from her letter to the Mayor on making the St. Patrick's Day Parade family friendly.

[fuckyeahtx]

[txdrivebyshooting-deactivated20]

Dallas, Texas - 2am Taco’s

The best after hours taco’s in North Dallas!

[nprfreshair]

“I am so sorry,” the young woman said with compassion, and nudged the tissues closer. Then, after a moment’s pause, she told me reluctantly about the new Texas sonogram law that had just come into effect. I’d already heard about it. The law passed last spring but had been suppressed by legal injunction until two weeks earlier. My counselor said that the law required me to have another ultrasound that day, and that I was legally obligated to hear a doctor describe my baby. I’d then have to wait 24 hours before coming back for the procedure. She said that I could either see the sonogram or listen to the baby’s heartbeat, adding weakly that this choice was mine. “I don’t want to have to do this at all,” I told her. “I’m doing this to prevent my baby’s suffering. I don’t want another sonogram when I’ve already had two today. I don’t want to hear a description of the life I’m about to end. Please,” I said, “I can’t take any more pain.” I confess that I don’t know why I said that. I knew it was fait accompli. The counselor could no more change the government requirement than I could. Yet here was a superfluous layer of torment piled upon an already horrific day, and I wanted this woman to know it.

-“We Have No Choice: One Woman’s Ordeal with Texas’ New Sonogram Law” by Carolyn Jones in The Texas Observer. Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe V. Wade. Jones will be on the show today to talk about her experience and the series of articles she wrote for the Observer about the changing landscape of women’s health and family planning regulation. (via nprfreshair)

[ourpresidents]

Lyndon B. Johnson died forty years ago today.  A photo of people lined up to pay their respects, as LBJ lay in state at his Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.  January 23, 1973.

LBJ Library Photo D4869-23A, public domain.

[ptilopsis]

When I say I’m from Texas. This is the picture that needs to pop into your head.

It’s so dry here our earth is cracking open.