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Texas Food Explorer: Chile con Queso
A story of melting pots
Apr 6, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
Texas Food Explorer: Breakfast Tacos
One of the things that is most annoying about being a modern day Texan is sharing the state with an increasingly obnoxious City of Austin and its…
Mar 29, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
Townes Van Zandt and the Demise of Moe the Rooster
Roostercide in the countryside
Mar 19, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
Boogie Friday
A treatise on a subgenre of African-American music.
Mar 10, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
The Power of Place on Mental Maladies: My Own and Others
The source of my long-gone anxiety attacks.
Mar 6, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
The Smurfs: the fiercest Houston street gang that never was
A few teenage knuckleheads managed to terrorize an entire city and make national news for doing teenage knucklehead things.
Feb 25, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
Texas Food Explorer: The obscure origins and cruel history of the watermelon in America
How a marvelous feat of Sub-Saharan horticulture became weapponized as a racist trope.
Feb 20, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
The United States of Expedia
A prose poem
Feb 10, 2023 • John Nova Lomax
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