The other day in a post I mentioned that I don't mess with Texas. Mostly because I heart Texas but partly because while there in the seventh grade on a mission trip I ordered "crayfish" at a restaurant because I thought I was cool and they brought out a medium sized mountain of crawdaddys on a newspaper and called my Yankee bluff. I was terrified by the prospect of any food that requires you to eat the tail and suck the head. I digress. Robyn, who is awesome, sent me a jpeg of a mention the Dallas Morning News gave this site today. Good stuff.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Texas, I love you.
The other day in a post I mentioned that I don't mess with Texas. Mostly because I heart Texas but partly because while there in the seventh grade on a mission trip I ordered "crayfish" at a restaurant because I thought I was cool and they brought out a medium sized mountain of crawdaddys on a newspaper and called my Yankee bluff. I was terrified by the prospect of any food that requires you to eat the tail and suck the head. I digress. Robyn, who is awesome, sent me a jpeg of a mention the Dallas Morning News gave this site today. Good stuff.
You're so dang popular and cool. Can I be you for a day?
ReplyDeleteCongrats and page 10B is the holiest of all pages. Sure is! I mean there were 10 Commandments afterall. God loves that number!
Heidi Reed
Heidi -
ReplyDeleteI assure you I am neither of those things. It is Saturday night. My wife is ironing little tote bags she made for our daughter's birthday and I am reading a book I plan on posting about early next week. If we were cool we would out doing the fresh dance moves we regularly learn from the program, "So you think you can dance."
Jon
I'm currently sitting at my parents' house watching the Food Network describe a machine that measures the crunch of potato chips.
ReplyDeleteSeriously.
You just wish you could be me.
The Dallas Morning News put three f's in the URL.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, Saturday night....I am printing off Quechua vocabulary so that when I go to Bolivia in November, I can Outwit/Outplay/Outlast my Team.
ReplyDeleteAND order edible food and find a bathroom. The chick with the lingo gets the perks! NOT that I'd view short term mission work as a GAME, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I just want to be the one who provides food and shelter so they don't vote me off.
That, and waiting for my sweet children to stop yammering and go to sleep.
When the kids fall asleep I'm going to watch FtG and work on my Jessica Simpson scrapbook.
See how I made this post about you being "blog of the week" ALL about me??
That is cool though!!
i'm from texas. and every time you mention it, i feel happy.
ReplyDelete"There is but one Texas, and for Texans there is need for nothing more."- Donald Miller
"...I remember, if there is one thing that all this empty pride produces, the crop that all this land harvests, it is good music. I don't think there is any better music than the music that comes out of Texas." - Donald Miller
yeah. that's what i took away from all of donald miller's books.
Jon, congrats on the shout out.
ReplyDeleteI have to say this, however: I can only celebrate your joy with you to a point, because I'm from Oklahoma, and I do mess with Texas. Frequently.
Thumbs up! Very exciting.
ReplyDeleteWe saw a church van today that you would have appreciated. The name was nine words long and the logo was an eagle.
ReplyDeleteI just balanced my checkbook, and my husband is playing PS3.
ReplyDeleteI feel very ambivalent about Texas. I used to be prejudiced against it, but in recent years (since I've actually been there a few times) it's grown on me.
question... I thought that the blog started in January, but I also noticed that the first comments are in March. How did that work?
ReplyDeleteTexas loves you too, Jon.
ReplyDeleteThank you for not messing with it/us/the beautiful utopia that it is.
I'm done now.
speaking of texas, i'm pretty interested to hear what all of you think about the education stuff going on there right now.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Texas! While I was born here...and have lived here all my life...I still cannot bring myself to eat "crayfish"....mainly because I cannot eat anything that needs to be "evicted from their home by me" before I eat it. Now, if they are already "evicted from their homes" - and cooked up in a great sauce - no problem! Ha! Ha!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you heart Texas, what's not to love? But to associate crawfish with us is a snub to our cajun neighbor, the great state of Lousiana, who make even the most disgusting things taste delicious. Boudin (boo-dan) and cracklin' (deep fried pig fat) just to name a couple.
ReplyDeleteTexas is reknowned for its barbeque. And of course, the true all-American favorite: Mexican food.
In the spirit of love and acceptance for all who read and comment on this site, I would like to discourage others from making comments about "messing with Texas". I, for example, would never answer the age old question: "Why doesn't Texas fall into the Gulf of Mexico?" with the obvious response: "Because Oklahoma sucks."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I would never say that...
we are grateful to have you here in the lone star state... and glad that the good people at the dallas morning news, specifically Tyra Damm, are wise enough to see the greatness...
ReplyDeleteso proud of you jon.
Ahhhh! Props too katdish for the shout out to Louisiana for makin food that makes you want to slap yo mama!! Crawfish! Holla!
ReplyDeleteYay! On behalf of the Republic of Texas, we heart you, too. Just make sure you Remember the Alamo.
ReplyDeleteSide note to Curtis Honeycutt: We know of your shenanigans and you're on our list. Watch your back.
http://angelajo1208.wordpress.com/
if only i had been to texas.
ReplyDeletei might enjoy it. i just don't know.
Yawn...
ReplyDeleteNow that I'm living outside of Texas, I come across lots of people who have some opinion of Texas they just have to share. They don't realize that those of us who are from there aren't bothered by it. I'm proud of being a Texan no matter what anyone thinks.
I think it's great you got mentioned in the Dallas Morning News. But I just want you to know I took a sharpie and wrote "Read 'Stuff Christians Like'" all over the flyers at the Piggly Wiggly AND on ALL the doors of the stalls at 3 (yes 3!) truck stops.
ReplyDeleteDon't even ask me what I had to do to get into the men's room. You can totally thank me later.
Next time I'm taggin' train cars.
Curtis,
ReplyDeleteThank you for leading the resistance. I also mess with Texas. Quite frequently. It's a blast.
Mistymorning-
FYI, Okies have a joke to counter that one.
That is awesome that Dallas is giving you props, Jon. It's arguably the buckle of the Bible Belt culture. Nashville, OKC, and ATL, I said arguably.
Stacy,
ReplyDeleteOne of your funniest comments. (And that's saying a lot.) Seriously, caused me a bit of incontintence. Gotta go freshen up now.
Being born, raise and living in DFW, I always assumed that ATL was the buckle of the bible belt,
ReplyDeleteEvery single time I go and get beer on Sunday morning and TOTALLY forget that I can't, I just think it is worse somewhere else. Like Atlanta. I just imagine that they can't purchase beer for the Sunday and that calms me down and soothes me.
Ahh.
(Don't tell me that it doesn't happen it like that. I just need to know that somebody out there can't buy beer the entire Sunday. Let me fantasize.)
Anyways, Jon, we love that you love Texas and Texas love you back.
BTW, I LOVE crawdads. I usually order 3lbs at time. Man, I wish they were in season now. *sniff. Thank you Louisiana for such a lovely export.
That is awesome!! How cool to get a mention in a big ol' Texas sized newspaper! I don't mess with Texas but my brother does. On a regular basis. Usually consists of him throwing nuts at the TV when the Dodgers play the Astros. I, on the other hand wouldn't dare mess with the only state that can secede and become it's very own country (again) if it wanted to.
ReplyDeleteAnd Kate, there are 3 fs in the URL. Two fs and stuffchristianslike dot com will get you to a lovely website where you can buy Testamints and Thomas Kinkade Bible covers. Which is lovely I'm sure, it's just not PJ and his wit. So Jon, was that "Stufff" with three Fs like hott with two Ts or just a typo?
Oh Jon, we heart you too here in Texas!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving a shout out to crawdads. I love em! My friend and I used to go to the creek when we were little and take string, safety pins and raw bacon. We'd fashion ourselves some redneck fishing lines, bait them with bacon and catch several crawdads that way. We never kept them to eat because it takes roughly two pounds per person to make it worth it. But it was fun to catch them all the same.
I'm glad you got props in the DMN. I hope it brings more sarcastic Jesus freaks (or wannabe freaks) into the fold of craziness we're all enjoying.
Texas will love you back for quite some time for including this post. Well played, Jon.
ReplyDeleteI'm from Texas, so I know.
Also, I may be a sweaty Philistine for this, but did anyone else find it ironic that this blurb about a Christian topic was by a person by the name of Damm?
sorry if someone already commented on this, but... did anyone notice her last name?
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