yep, one of the fun aspects to my living in Austin all those years was watching the entertaining folks all around the State of Texas!
Huge population, diverse and plenty of eccentrics, like California. But Texas also has lots of braggart saints and sinners, plenty of conservatives and the only liberal city is Austin (because it's dominated by the 75,000 students and faculty of Univ of Texas). The unofficial slogan of the city is "Keep Austin Weird".
like Stanley Marsh III, the legendary West Texas eccentric millionaire famous for making wierd large scale art, most famous is the Cadillac Ranch: 10 tail-finned late 50s, early 60s Cadillacs half buried at an angle in a hay field alongside Route 66 outside Amarillo.
In Angelo, in W. Texas, is a famous old whorehouse open for tours. It has a tunnel going into the bank next door, which was used by many customer and the ladies.
You see plenty of stories like this "Texas Teacher Gets
5 Years in Prison in Group Sex Scandal"
In Texas you can use your conceal and carry permit as proof of ID to vote, but not your university/student ID.
the late Molly Ivins used to love writing about all the fun quirky Texans, even tho a huge liberal, she was very liberal-minded when it came to funny people, and the hypocrites caught with their pants down.... here is just a little excerpt from one of
her columns:
The Fun's in the Fight
Even when you can't kick the bad guys where it hurts, you can still have a real gas trying.
?By Molly Ivins
May/June 1993 Issue
Austin, Texas--I've been talkin' to a bunch of the fun-lovin' freedom-fighters of Texas lately, and we all agree that there's one thing we need to pass on to all of y'all from the few of us before I take a leave from these pages. (I'm takin' a leave of absence on account of I have to write a book, and time has become both scant and precious.) The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water--which is known to have lithium in it-- because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the Great Men this country has ever produced. While Sam was president of the Republic of Texas, he was visited by a French ambassador. This Frog was quite the wonder of frontier Austin; he minced along the wooden sidewalks wearing a silk suit with lace at the collar and cuffs, with a gilt epee, no less, slung along his side. Though Sam had a perfectly good fine house, he elected to receive the Frenchman in a log hut with a mud floor. By choice a sometime Indian, Sam wore only fringed leggings and a blanket around his big ol' hairy chest.
While the French ambassador held forth grandiloquently, Houston, who was himself a magnificent orator, replied only with an occasional, "Ugh."
Our Texas freedom-fighters have been prone to misbehavior ever since. A recent Ku Klux Klan rally in Austin produced an eccentric counter- demonstration. When the fifty Klansmen appeared (they were bused in from Waco) in front of the state capitol, they were greeted by five thousand locals who had turned out for a "Moon the Klan" rally. Citizens dropped trou both singly and in groups, occasionally producing a splendid wave effect. It was a swell do....
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