Shorts and Stops From Wilson County (Texas) and Beyond
Residents of the Arrowhead subdivision in northwest Wilson County complain of “blood-brown” water that has plagued their neighborhood for nearly three years.
According to the residents, they have been dealing with this problem ever since Central States Water Resources-Texas took over the Arrowhead Water System in their small neighborhood. Since then, residents of Arrowhead have been consuming, bathing in, and cooking with discolored water.
In addition to being discolored, residents say that the water emits a strong chlorine odor, which they feel isn’t safe to drink. Customer service representatives are telling residents to flush and run the water first, but that doesn’t fix anything, one resident said. After recent rate increases, which residents say they protested, to no avail, many have seen a 100 percent increase in their bills.
Carrie Willcoxson said she stopped paying her water …
Night Moves
There’s a reason why the characters in the song never quite do it
Is America, also, fated to end in the middle, undone by the contradictions of adulthood?
Love doth fade, and so doth beauty. But there still ain’t nothin’ like a fine Segar.
In late 2019 I was feeling a bit bored with whatever was playing in the car, and my mind settled on Bob Seger. After a quick search on Apple Music, “Night Moves” filled the space in my gray Dodge Journey. The song wasn’t new to me, but after the fadeout, I played it again. And again. For weeks afterward, I listened to “Night Moves” over and over, an obsessive and mysterious journey down a rabbit hole I didn’t understand.
I’d known the chords of the song since I was a teenager. But my new obsession with “Night Moves” was far different than anything I’d ever encountered. If I had something to learn from Seger’s song, the message wasn’t at all clear, and I had no idea as to how I might articulate where it was taking me.
Seger begins his story with a clearly identified first-person narrator: “I was a little too tall, could’ve used a few pounds.” And later, the wistful singer tells the …
Already Gone
The Gentle Con Artistry of the Eagles Goes Hard Sell at the Sphere
Welcome to the Las Vegas Orgasmatron
With Joe Walsh as the Cryptkeeper
A dark sun waits at the desert’s edge. The Sphere’s pictures on its outer skin are visible from miles away, that’s how clear and perfect they are, how good the resolution is. As you approach, it’s like sitting before a giant digital snow-globe, 16,000 pixels by 16,000 pixels, which is far higher resolution than your home TV set, with your favorite band strumming their instruments at many hundreds of times human size while flying through space. A monstrous jukebox.
Do I hear $7,500 for a front-row ticket to see the Eagles, those who are still alive, and remain in the band — being the greatest home-grown fairgrounds attraction of the 1970s? You can charge it to your credit card, or withdraw it from the nearest ATM. Either way, your money will never leave this place. So why not be amazed? The Sphere is powered by one-hundred-and-fifty Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs, each of which has over 10,752 cores, …
