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We are here at the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium and it is officially after noon. Generally the internet is supposed to be up and running by around 8:00 AM. Not today. Sure we could get something going in the Abilene prison venue, but not here in beautiful downtown San Antonio.

I have been trying to find something interesting of weird about San Antonio, but the only thing I can come up with the fact that this is the home of The Alamo. And in case you were wondering…

James Taylor of Tennessee and James Brown of Pennsylvania were among the Alamo’s defenders in 1836.

The words of most of Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.”

And Furthermore…

The proper name for the people of Texas seems to be a matter of doubt or contrariety: some calling the Texians, while others speak or write Texans, Texonians, Texasians, Texicans. We believe that, both by the Mexican and American residents of the country, the name commonly used is Texians; the Mexicans giving it the guttural sound of the Spanish language, as indicated sometimes by x and sometimes by j, Teghians. The sound is not used in the present mode of speaking the English language, although the Irish use it in the word lough, and the Scotch in loch, a lake. The nearest approximation is in such words as Christ.

Texians is, therefore, the correct name of the people of Texas; and besides being short, it is perfectly analogous to the usual mode of forming the proper name of nations by the termination in n; as Greece, Grecian; Persia, Persian. It may also be considered the euphonious abbreviation of Texasian. But Texonian and Texasite are absurd epithets.