Study Steer

Entering Texas with the greeting: drive friendly -- the Texas way. Perhaps driving diagonally across three lanes of traffic at 90mph in a one ton truck is that way? Hard not to feel you're not in on the joke. 93.3 FM starts out promising in Houston and another station with the same call letters veers off into platitudes by the time one rolls into Austin. Radio is a perfect gauge of culture when signals cross. When breakpoint disappears in the contamination of Can I Kick It? which itself samples Lou Reed. Radio. Radio or cows. Shall we try other Texas ways? Cows have learned this: Gather together under the shade of a tree. Rise when movement or sound is perceived. Stare directly at its souce. Disperse slowly. (November 5, 2017)