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Short Cuts: Episode VI
The governor’s race in under three minutes, featuring profiteering, shady land deals, stormtroopers, treehuggers, and the president.
August 2010
Offering fine advice since 2007 »
Rude diners, fraudulent Texans, anniversary presents, and the problem with mail-order steaks.
July 2010 by David Courtney
The Texanist »
A fond look back at Temple, a.k.a. Ratsville and/or Tanglefoot, that fair burg wherein your dedicated advice columnist learned the location of the thin line between right and wrong.
June 2010 by David Courtney
The Texanist »
Ranch dreams; misbegotten handicapped parking placards; nonsensical-sounding Texas sayings; and what to do about a squirrel-hating, BB gun–toting elderly neighbor with a happy trigger finger.
April 2010 by David Courtney
The Texanist »
The trouble with black beans, an unnatural attachment to Texas license plates, the perils of striking up a conversation in the restroom, and the discomfort of two men riding together on the same Harley.
March 2010 by David Courtney
The Texanist »
Vegetarian offspring, a barroom dispute, maintaining the “Texas identity,” and whether anything can be done to cure a marriage-threatening case of snoring.
February 2010 by David Courtney
Inside Texas Monthly »
Showing a new intern the tricks of the trade.
February 2010 by Deg Ronilo
The Texanist »
Pink camouflage, Floridian “friends,” a bedtime dilemma, and whether or not it’s acceptable to mock Chileans for their flag’s similarity to ours.
January 2010 by David Courtney
The 2010 Bum Steer Awards »
It was a year of accomplice apes, bedraggled Bugattis, Christlike Cheetos, dim-witted deli-owning Democrats, egregious errata, fatal foreplay, gun-toting golfers, heartless high school hoopsters, ignoble implants, jackass judges, killer Kims, laughingstock legislators, miniature museum mummies, nincompoop ne’er-do-wells, overwhelming odors, pandering Perry, quazy Quaids, reassuring Riddle, shameless Stanford, territorial T. Boone, useful urine, vituperative vixens, weaponized waitresses, x-alted XXX clubs, yolky yahoos, and zero-tolerance zealots.
January 2010
Hedda Garbler »
Help! My voice recognition software is making me save airy funnel things witch nobody wonder Stans.
December 2009 by Sarah Bird
Sarah Bird: Podcast
Sarah Bird reads “Hedda Garbler.”
December 2009
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007 »
Can I wear a football jersey to church?
December 2009 by David Courtney
One Angry Woman »
Am I the only person who has always wanted to get picked for jury duty?
November 2009 by Sarah Bird
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007 »
What’s to be done with annoying neighbors?
November 2009 by David Courtney
Sarah Bird: Podcast
Sarah Bird reads “One Angry Woman.”
November 2009
Short Cuts: Episode I
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Texas governor’s race—in under three minutes.
November 2009
Rats! »
Turns out being a test subject for a dermatology research lab is not the best thing that could ever happen to a girl.
October 2009 by Sarah Bird
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007 »
Can I unfriend a Facebook friend?
October 2009 by David Courtney
Sarah Bird: Podcast
Sarah Bird reads “Rats!”
October 2009
Mammary Dearest »
It was the breast of times, it was the worst of times.
September 2009 by Sarah Bird
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007 »
Will hiring a yard guy make me soft?
September 2009 by David Courtney
The Texanist Unleashed
Will hiring a lawn service to do my mowing make me soft?
September 2009
Under Cover
Editor Jake Silverstein introduces the September 2009 issue.
September 2009
Ranch Blessing »
Or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love my formerly ugly, recently hip, linoleum-clad, mid-mod house.
August 2009 by Sarah Bird
Offering Fine Advice Since 2007 »
Does keeping a found twelve-pack of beer constitute stealing?
August 2009 by David Courtney
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