been out of pocket
Broke spring with the Sirens in San Antonio. Nice city, they haven't torn down all their past. Do we remember that big gummit built the riverwalk under FDR?
We parked the wagon downtown and rode some mass transit to a jeu d'hockey. Next morning while the girls did some market research, I lingered at the shrine, locating the walls that were, and listening for the stones to speak.
Went next to the Menger Bar for more siege mentality. Tried to steer the conversation to the battle of Medina (1813, hasn't anybody heard about that one? The biggest and bloodiest ever fought on Texas soil, it's where Arredondo taught young Santa Anna to put everybody to the sword) but instead a French Canadien gent lectured on the battle of the Plains of Abraham(1759) that lead to British control of French Canada.
We found authentic food to eat this week; mex at Jacala, wurst at Shilos, and diner at Tip Top.
This qualifies as more history. These three joints total over 200 years old. Calorific!
And now we're back in Space City, making the big bucks and raising the curve. What's President Chucklehead been up to?
-judge chief charly hoarse
posted by Julia B. @ 2:55 AM
2 Comments:
Judge,
I could be wrong, but the Battle of Uvadle (1818?) might have been the bloodiest, when Generalisimo Ugalde march from San Antonio with 600 combined Spanish soldiers and friendly indians and were massacred near Nuecas Canyon by Commanchies posing as Apaches. I'll look it up.
LD
I heard 13hundred first texas republicans fell to the spanish
hegemonists and they must have taken some with them. That was a web truthy, but i think the aggie brands' lone star nation was where i first heard of medina, also the rep. of fredonia, 1 century before duck soup.
-jcch
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