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Listapalooza: top ten summer songs
Nothing says summer like record-setting heat and drought—nothing, that is, except possibly the Beach Boys. As this apparently endless summer drags on (and on, and on), I thought it might be fun to do a top-ten list of all-time favorite … Continue reading →
Listapalooza: top ten coolest Texans
Fleeing the oppressive heat and drought of Texas for a few days, Heather and I spent last night at gorgeous Temple Farm, in Dutchess County, New York, with our dear friends Nigel and Julia Widdowson, proprietors of the Red Devon … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ann Richards, Barbara Jordan, Bill Moyers, Doug Sahm, Ed Harte, Jessica Hobby Catto, John Graves, Lady Bird Johnson, lists, Molly Ivins, Naomi Shihab Nye, Willie Nelson
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Listapalooza, holiday edition: all-time top tens
Like Rob Fleming, the protagonist of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, I seem to have a strong taxonomic impulse. Longtime readers of this blog have already seen several manifestations of my obsession with list making, but Heather and the kids will … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Gopnik, David Quammen, Dennis Lehane, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Henry David Thoreau, Kenneth Grahame, lists, Nick Hornby, Richard Bradford, Tracy Kidder, Wallace Stegner, William Cronon
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Listapalooza: top ten Austin restaurants
Yep, another one of those crazy lists. This one, of my ten favorite restaurants in Austin, was a real toughie. The one clear choice was Texas French Bread (pictured above), our absolute number-one favorite dinner spot. After that, however, things … Continue reading →
Listapalooza: summer reading
It’s the end of July (or, as we call it in Texas, “late spring”), so I’ve been thinking a lot about summer reading, which has almost become a sort of cliché. There’s a lot to be said for curling up … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, baseball cards, books, Dennis Lehane, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Kenneth Grahame, Larry McMurtry, lists, peaches, Richard Bradford, Tracy Kidder, Wallace Stegner
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Listapalooza: top ten Texas movies
Yup, another one of those crazy lists. This time we thought we’d offer our ten favorite movies about (or set in, or somehow related to) Texas. Pass the popcorn, and turn off that damn cell phone! Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 … Continue reading →
Listapalooza: top ten books about the environment
And now for the next installment in our internationally celebrated series of lists… and what could be more appropriate from the proprietors of a place called Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing and the Environment than a list (in alphabetical … Continue reading →
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Tagged Annie Dillard, books, David Quammen, environmentalism, Henry David Thoreau, John Graves, lists, Mary Oliver, Michael Pollan, Paul Hawken, Wallace Stegner, Wendell Berry, William Cronon
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Listapalooza: top ten songs about Texas
Hi, buckaroos. We’ve got something different for you today. Every so often, when we’ve either run out of original things to say or are just feeling too damn lazy to write a “real” post, we plan to use this space … Continue reading →