Oh joy. I’m back in Texas. There’s a country song that crows about how “God blessed Texas,” and I think it’s because Texas needed God’s help: it’s full of Texans.

But I kid. Texas is great. No, really. Honest. Bush, Delay, Rove, No Child Left Behind, Enron, Clear Channel, etc… Texas has a lot to be proud of, God bless it.

Anyway, here’s the crowd-pleasing favorite feature, The View From Here:

…and that upstart newcomer, The Room From Here:

Surprisingly enough, I haven’t seen a single Waffle House on this trip to the heart of Waffle House-land. But I’m cool with that because directly across the street from my hotel — and by “directly across the street” I mean on the other side of eight lanes of interstate highway and two one-way frontage roads, one on either side, that makes it a 3 hour/30 mile journey through Deliverance country to get there — is a Pappadeaux restaurant. And that means Crawfish Etouffee and Sweet Potato Pecan Pie for dinner. And that makes me a happy man. Fat, but happy.

God bless Texas.