Brooke

Lawyer, eventual rancher, corgi steward. Opinions/bad jokes are my own.

[Brooke @BrookeBohlen95]

Boy, do I have the book for you.

https://t.co/1GlgH2b8lz

[@ratlimit @ratlimit]

We have non-alcoholic beer. Why can’t we have non-lethal hunting, for those of us who are interested in the sportsmanship… but sickened by the thought of an animal actually dying after you injure it?

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light, Texas, February 3, 1948

[The Associated Press @AP]

'SNL' show creator Lorne Michaels donates archive to University of Texas https://t.co/Wlkv0j36kE

[Adam Ruffin @ruffinappeals]

Easily the best table of contents ever filed in a SCOTUS brief

[1926 Live @100YearsAgoLive]

A new method of washing cars in Chicago: at the “Auto Wash Bowl,” autos can splash around to their amusement and satisfaction.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

On this day in 1959, introduced by Johnny Cash, 13-year-old Dolly Parton makes her Grand Ole Opry debut singing George Jones' "You Gotta Be My Baby." She receives three encores.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:

Medina County is home to a regional meat dish/product called "Parisa." The recipe calls for raw lean sirloin/venison mixed with cheese, peppers, onions and spices and it is one tasty treat. The meat is chopped, not quite to a pate' texture, but getting there. Parisa originated in Catroville and in in the early 1900s and is reminiscent of a steak tartare, a dish in the Alsace region of France from which the founders of Castroville immigrated. It is usually accompanied by saltine crackers or butter crackers but I think some eat it with a flavorful bread, like a rye. I've also heard that some folks pan fry it, but that defeats the purpose in my opinion. If you're in Castroville you can stop at Dziuk’s, get you some, and go out to your car and eat it. Like the king you are.

This photo of Dzuik's parisa courtesy Daniel Vaughan's amazing and authoritative Full Custom Gospel BBQ website.

[Dave Wilson @dwil]

50 years ago today, Robert Earl Keen’s car caught fire at the second Willie Nelson 4th of July picnic near College Station. Here’s the story from his “No. 2 Live Dinner” album in 1996, paired with video of the fire from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.

[neoltitude @ctrlcreep]

If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's pink striation—the pupil of the goat

[KHOU 11 News Houston @KHOU]

In 2022, Texas saw a 22.9% increase in the number of infant deaths tied to pre-term birth defects, whereas the rest of the U.S. saw a 3% increase. https://t.co/GNQRiENPx0

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

reading about this WWII soldier (with possibly the world's most British-sounding name) famous for bringing umbrellas into battle and really using them

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Diane Davis graciously sent in this 1949 photo of her mom, Bettye Frisbie on a date with a man named Cliff. Cliff's last name has been lost to history but no matter: it's a wonderful snapshot. The sign still stands. Or, at least, another sign with the same message still stands.

[Alex Griswold @HashtagGriswold]

Lincoln was shot 159 years ago tomorrow. The original AP report was just *slightly* guilty of burying the lede.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

A man gathers prickly pears to feed to cattle during a drought in South Texas, 1939. I've seen ranchers do this on many occasions. They burn the cactus spines off before feeding them to cattle, of course. Good Lord what a sensational image

Taken by Luis Marden for National Geographic.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day is in regard to the church shown in this photograph, taken by Traces of Texas reader Bill Traylor in D'Hanis, Texas a few years ago. This is the ruins of the St. Dominic's Catholic Church in D'Hanis, which is a small Medina County town about 40 miles west of San Antonio. The congregation of St. Dominic's was formed in 1847 with the founding of the D'Hanis Colony by settlers from Alsace, France. In 1853, when the town became a mission parish, this limestone church was built, using timber hauled by ox-wagon from the Medina River. Upon the arrival of the first resident pastor, a sandstone extension was added in 1868. But the church was abandoned in 1914 when a new church was built in "New" D'Hanis (1 1/2 miles west). The cemetery, dating from the burial of children of colonists in 1847, was used until 1893, when a new cemetery was started following a diphtheria epidemic.

Thank you, Bill. Gorgeous!

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Post-speech exchange on C-SPAN:

JERRY NADLER: No one's gonna call you cognitively impaired now!

BIDEN: I kinda wish sometimes I was cognitively impaired.

(Am not joking about this, roll the tape.)

[Brooke @BrookeBohlen95]

ON APPEAL?

[Michelle Strowhiro @strowhiro]

It happened again

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

your honor those cases were real to me