by Phil Houseal | Apr 15, 2015 | All Articles, History, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
April 15, 2015–Readers sometimes ask what is the best show I have ever seen. Well, it happened in a dusty cattle barn on a cold January morning. My kids and I had taken in our three goats to be sheared in preparation for the stock show. We arrived at 7:30 a.m. so we...
by Phil Houseal | Sep 24, 2014 | All Articles, Education, History, Philosophy
Sept 24, 2014–I remember the year my dad took a painting class. It changed the way I looked at grownups. This happened around my fourth-grade year. My dad would have been in his early 40s then… a very old person in my worldview. At dinner one evening, he...
by Phil Houseal | Sep 3, 2014 | All Articles, Philosophy
Sept 3, 2014–I heard a piece on radio recently about “the last paperboy.” Some small town in the Midwest still uses paperboys to deliver the daily editions. It stirred ink-stained memories, so I dug through boxes and found my canvas newspaper bag, my collection book,...
by Phil Houseal | Aug 13, 2014 | All Articles, Events, History
Aug 13, 2014–When I played in a band at a bar in Riverside, Iowa, Earth, in the mid-20th century, I wish I’d known I was standing in the very room where Captain James T. Kirk would be conceived 250 years in the future. I would have drunk a toast of Talaxian champagne....
by Phil Houseal | Aug 6, 2014 | All Articles, Philosophy
Aug 6, 2014– I hate parties. More accurately, I hate the concept of parties. You go to a place you don’t want to be; to eat food you don’t like; with people you don’t want to talk to. Being at a party makes me feel as if I am performing. You are carrying on a...
by Phil Houseal | Apr 2, 2014 | All Articles, Education, Events, History, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy, Venue
“Money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” International celebrity and Hill Country resident Richard “Kinky” Friedman is seeking both money and love at his Concert for Utopia on April 13. The world knows Kinky Friedman as front man for...
