Tom Dodge Talks About Texas Radio Vignettes and Other Observations 1989-1999,9781556227790

Tom Dodge Talks About Texas Radio Vignettes and Other Observations 1989-1999

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ISBN13: 9781556227790
ISBN10: 1556227795
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Pub. Date: 2000-04-26
Publisher(s): Taylor Trade Publishing
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Summary

Tom Dodge is at his best when he talks about Texas. This collection of writings over the past decade includes his most poignant and provocative National Public Radio vignettes as well as longer pieces from newspapers and magazines. Here are the wry, sometimes ironic, observations on all things Texas his listeners are used to. His insights include a unique analysis of junkyards, railroads, bookstores, horned toads, sandy-land farms, and his grandmother's homemade grape jelly.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
1989
Grandchildren Make You Rich
1(2)
The Return to Estelline
3(3)
Back Home for the Hollidays
6(2)
Someone to Watch Over Me
8(2)
Making a Federal Case
10(8)
For Boys, It's Girls Over Ethics Every Time
18(2)
The School That Thrives on Sex
20(5)
The Tiger Jones of Footwear
25(2)
That Good-Tastin', Fine East Texas Muscadine Wine
27(4)
1990
Love Versus Oedipus Wrecks
31(2)
Mind Who You Shun: They Might Get Famous
33(2)
Big Splash in the Panhandle
35(3)
Give 'em Hell, Harry
38(2)
Big Shots Get Special Treatment---Pass It On
40(2)
The Man Who Lives on Weather
42(2)
The Graduation of a Drop-Out
44(3)
1991
Uncle Dock
47(3)
Look Upward, Angel
50(2)
Art and Patriotism
52(2)
Handicapped Parking Space Addicts
54(2)
Will There Be Life After Bingo
56(2)
Elvis and My Little Darlin's
58(2)
You Can't Go Home Again But You Can Bike to Grandview
60(3)
Whole Wheat Nonzense
63(4)
1992
The Warren Beatty of Dogs
67(3)
Shut Up and Watch Television
70(3)
When Superman Dies
73(2)
The Michael DeBakey of Machinery
75(3)
The Ghost of Christmas Future is Orange and Glows in the Dark
78(3)
1993
Put it on Cooksey's Bill
81(2)
Birthday Bard
83(2)
The Fender Skirt King of Texas
85(3)
Spitting Against the Wind of Change or The Town That Sprays Together Stays Together
88(2)
Topping Out on the Ground Floor
90(2)
Moving Mama
92(2)
Horned Toads and Politicians
94(2)
Classical Bones
96(2)
The General and the Teenage Queens
98(2)
Ain't Is to Die For
100(2)
A Seasoning of Life
102(3)
1994
Better to Reign in Hell Than Need a Car Part
105(5)
The Great Midlothian Sawdust War
110(2)
Grocery Values
112(2)
What Would Gordon Do
114(2)
The Double-Dog Days of August
116(3)
Football---That's the Ticket
119(2)
There's a Past in My Future
121(4)
1995
I Left My Parts in Oklahoma
125(3)
Small Town Values
128(2)
Old Is as Old Does
130(3)
How Small Was My Classroom
133(2)
Another Gift of the Magi
135(4)
1996
Man or Corporation
139(3)
Robert James Waller
Don't Be a Fool, Stay in School
142(2)
Washing and Irony
144(2)
Whiners Never Die, They Just Grumble Away
146(2)
Just Call 1-800 Walden
148(3)
Old Dog Walking
151(2)
Driver of Hard Bargains
153(4)
C.W. Moss
1997
Purple Press
157(2)
The Leaving of Bob
159(2)
Hard Hands, Soft Heart
161(3)
The Joy of Anagnorisis
164(2)
I Just Don't Want the Fax, Ma'am
166(2)
Where the Cactus Blooms
168(1)
There's a Clicker in Raymond's Drawers
169(3)
Shepherds Abiding in the Lawns
172(3)
1998
Sack and Save
175(2)
The Coneys of No Change
177(3)
What's a Three-Letter Word Meaning Anger
180(3)
The Jilting of Katherine Anne Porter
183(1)
We're Geezers But Not Wheezers
184(2)
Johnson County Dreamin'
186(3)
In the Beginning Was the Word But the Word Now is Profits
189(2)
Rockport's Guru of Granite
191(6)
The Lost Art of Play
197(3)
Good Man of Texas
200(2)
Gathering for Gladys
202(2)
Those Small Town Weird Investment Blues
204(2)
Touring the Cataract Factory
206(3)
1999
Upon What Meat Doth This Our Geezer Feed
209(2)
The World's Worst Poet
211(3)
Mother's Day
214(2)
Gainesville's Big Jungle Man
216(5)
Give Me That Old Time Mythology
221(2)
Give Me All Your Dismembered Men
223(2)
The Little Trolleys That Might Could
225(2)
Dead Preachers Society
227(2)
Picking Up Robert
229(2)
Reading For Freedom
231(2)
The Hieroglyphics of Spanky
233(1)
Rounding Up the Usual Suspects
234(2)
Getting a Railroad Town Back on Track
236(6)
Unlucky Dog
242(2)
Fort Worth's Man of Letters
244(3)
Index 247

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