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1 hour ago, TexPx said:

 

Sounds interesting.

 

‘God Save Texas' Richard Linklater Leads Powerfully Personal HBO Docuseries About the Lone Star State’

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/god-save-texas-review-richard-linklater-leads-powerfully-personal-hbo-docuseries-about-the-lone-star-state/ar-BB1hdhLV

 

I’ve had Wright’s book sitting by the bedside collecting dust (ever since finishing Harrington’s A Big Wonderful Thing several months ago).
Good push to pick it up and finally read it.

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9 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I’ve had Wright’s book sitting by the bedside collecting dust (ever since finishing Harrington’s A Big Wonderful Thing several months ago).
Good push to pick it up and finally read it.

Haha same. I grew tired of the maid missing the same place over and over again. So I finally put it up on the book shelf. As always, I'll wait for the movie before deciding to finish it. 

2 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Haha same. I grew tired of the maid missing the same place over and over again. So I finally put it up on the book shelf. As always, I'll wait for the movie before deciding to finish it. 

I see we have good taste in nicknames for our significant other 

Just now, UTexasFight said:

I see we have good taste in nicknames for our significant other 

I wish. I think my wife has cleaned the house exactly once in 3+ years. 

Love Lawrence Wright and the book. It’s a great read. I’ll definitely tune into the series.

10 minutes ago, Stringer said:

Love Lawrence Wright and the book. It’s a great read. I’ll definitely tune into the series.


The book is great. I love that scene where G.H.W. Bush and Barbara decide to go eat at some swanky restaurant in Houston.  The Secret Service goes in first to clear out any guns that may be there among the patrons and all these blue-haired, old, River Oaks ladies are forced to reach into their purses and hand over their pistols. 

1 minute ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


The book is great. I love that scene where G.H.W. Bush and Barbara decide to go eat at some swanky restaurant in Houston.  The Secret Service goes in first to clear out any guns that may be there among the patrons and all these blue-haired, old, River Oaks ladies are forced to reach into their purses and hand over their pistols. 

What restaurant? I know they liked The Palm, the old location on Westheimer. 

13 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

What restaurant? I know they liked The Palm, the old location on Westheimer. 


I don't think Lawrence Wright mentioned the name of the restaurant, but it's been about six years since I read it.  I've got it but it's at my studio about 50 miles from where I am currently.

Guess I need to pick up this book. Absolutely loved The Looming Tower, and didn’t read Going Clear but saw the documentary and it was fantastic.

8 hours ago, Stringer said:

Love Lawrence Wright and the book. It’s a great read. I’ll definitely tune into the series.

This

I could of sworn I read the book, but the River Oaks story doesn't ring a bell. I know I read at least part of it. Remember some story about bikers cycling across the country for some cause and the rough and tumble Panhandle folks at the diner throwing money in the hat.

Larry Wright, Stephen Harrigan, and Richard Linklater are absolute Lone Star Treasures and don't get enough appreciation of their storytelling craft.  Well, I guess a Pulitzer for Larry does, but otherwise...

They come around UT and TBF all the time and I love every time I get to interact with them.  I'm not from here, but each and every time I hear them speak or read what they write about Texas...it's like I've always know this place and its past.  I imagine it's what it must have been like for people who knew McMurtry or just saw him writing at the Marimont Cafeteria.  Through fiction, non-fiction, and cinema---these folks just weave a tale through the centuries, curators of the stories that bind---and separate---us.  And  they all three take it very, very serious and to the point of being nearly consumed by it.   Can't wait to watch this Docuseries on HBO.  

1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

I could of sworn I read the book, but the River Oaks story doesn't ring a bell. I know I read at least part of it. Remember some story about bikers cycling across the country for some cause and the rough and tumble Panhandle folks at the diner throwing money in the hat.

*could have

13 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Haha same. I grew tired of the maid missing the same place over and over again. So I finally put it up on the book shelf. As always, I'll wait for the movie before deciding to finish it. 

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14 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


I don't think Lawrence Wright mentioned the name of the restaurant, but it's been about six years since I read it.  I've got it but it's at my studio about 50 miles from where I am currently.

 Ouisie's or Confederate House, imo

  • 3 weeks later...

I watched the first one tonight. Pretty interesting and sad all around. Looking forward to watching the other ones tomorrow. 

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I watched the first one tonight. Pretty interesting and sad all around. Looking forward to watching the other ones tomorrow. 

Yeah. Very well done. Pretty powerful at times.

My pops used to handle legal work on George Russell’s real estate deals. I remember he had a car that wasn’t able to shift into reverse. 

I've read the book 3 or 4 times. We're worse off than when it was published but it's a great book. 2nd only to Looming Tower from him.

I rented a house from George Russel in college once. He was bat sht crazy.

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Kinda weird that when I was watching this Ivan Cantu was executed in Huntsville.

Haven’t watched but I’m about 3/4 through the book and while it isn’t narratively linear like I’d hoped it feels like a series of great insights and snippets from someone who loves Texas but is objective and, obviously, very smart. He gets it and wishes “it” wasn’t so bad in the state and is it’s a well crafted perspective on the ways and degrees that/to which Texas is a national political barometer.

PS - god help us.

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