And for some reason it makes me less glum to see how pessimistic you are about the war and Bush's stupidity. I think I'm misery and I'm loving the company.
Friday Night Lights is an NBC show based on the book and film of the same name. Set in small town Texas, where the Friday night high school football game is of massive social, political, and financial importance. Not only for students but adults. It's kind of scary b/c it's based on reality -- my exposure to the Texas obsession with h.s. football was frightening. But also, it has Kyle Chandler playing the lead, and he just slays me with the puppy dog eyes. :sigh: I've had a crush on him for years. I caught an episode early in the season, but hadn't watched regularly. Caught up watching online and was pretty pleased with the show.
Oooo I read an article years back about a Texas town where a hs football player was accused of rape and the victim's family was basically run out of town. It was a scary-ass article.
Because of that article, when my husband applied for a job at a Texas university (I can't even remember which one) I announced he could move there on his own. Now I wonder if maybe I overreacted.
There are nice things about Houston and Austin (and probably other university towns), so you may have been overreacting.
My sister lives in a suburb of Houston. You know how in the In Death books, Eve Dallas thinks of suburbs as inhabited by pod people? Well, that's what I think of when I visit. I mean, I grew up in a rural area and now I live downtown, and I lived briefly in Columbia (Rouse's totally planned community) but I find the strangely uniform urban sprawl of Houston to be poorly planned and vaguely disturbing. And the high school football is mind boggling -- the stadium for the local high school is larger than the stadium for my university (which was not small). The athletic facilities are larger than the school proper. And this is suburban Houston. I can only imagine that it is the same only more so in small town middle Texas, in places like Midland, Odessa, etc.
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2007-01-01 05:20 pm (UTC)And for some reason it makes me less glum to see how pessimistic you are about the war and Bush's stupidity. I think I'm misery and I'm loving the company.
kate r
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Date: 2007-01-01 08:12 pm (UTC)Is there a club for us pessimists?
Friday Night Lights is an NBC show based on the book and film of the same name. Set in small town Texas, where the Friday night high school football game is of massive social, political, and financial importance. Not only for students but adults. It's kind of scary b/c it's based on reality -- my exposure to the Texas obsession with h.s. football was frightening. But also, it has Kyle Chandler playing the lead, and he just slays me with the puppy dog eyes. :sigh: I've had a crush on him for years. I caught an episode early in the season, but hadn't watched regularly. Caught up watching online and was pretty pleased with the show.
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Date: 2007-01-02 01:19 pm (UTC)Because of that article, when my husband applied for a job at a Texas university (I can't even remember which one) I announced he could move there on his own. Now I wonder if maybe I overreacted.
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Date: 2007-01-02 01:32 pm (UTC)My sister lives in a suburb of Houston. You know how in the In Death books, Eve Dallas thinks of suburbs as inhabited by pod people? Well, that's what I think of when I visit. I mean, I grew up in a rural area and now I live downtown, and I lived briefly in Columbia (Rouse's totally planned community) but I find the strangely uniform urban sprawl of Houston to be poorly planned and vaguely disturbing. And the high school football is mind boggling -- the stadium for the local high school is larger than the stadium for my university (which was not small). The athletic facilities are larger than the school proper. And this is suburban Houston. I can only imagine that it is the same only more so in small town middle Texas, in places like Midland, Odessa, etc.