Brian is founding member of The Barbed Wire team. A longtime Texas journalist, he has written for the Austin American-Statesman, the Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas Monthly, and more. He was also a writer and producer at Rooster Teeth.
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Video game streamers are our most problematic “celebrities.” They get famous for doing something inherently pointless and, invariably, they think their micro-fame means that the rest of us want to hear their opinions about other things. With that in mind, meet the latest gamer to land himself in hot
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was humiliated on his 82nd birthday Sunday when the Detroit Lions came to town and thrashed his team — and he took it out on some local radio hosts. The ass-whipping was so bad that the Lions repeatedly ran trick plays just to try and
Crime & Justice
Turns out, allegedly “staging” an arrest for a reality TV show wasn’t the smartest idea. Williamson County officials are learning that lesson the hard way, after they agreed to shell out $2.5 million to a Cedar Park resident whose arrest was apparently made more dramatic for the reality
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In yet another reminder of how we all dance to our corporate masters, Dell has told its sales employees to get back to the office — immediately throwing lots of people’s lives into chaos. It’s not clear how many people have been affected, but Round Rock-based Dell has
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The top-ranked Texas Longhorns face the underdog Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. And for a game in October, it is going to be unseasonably hot. Temps are expected to hit 96 degrees in North Texas — that’s just a degree away from setting a
Crime & Justice
UPDATE, Oct. 8, 3:55 p.m.: Robert Roberson, the father who is scheduled to be put to death on Oct. 17, has been granted a hearing by the Anderson County District Court on a motion to vacate his execution warrant, his attorneys announced on Tuesday. The motion to vacate
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As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, one Texas mayor has a novel idea about how to deal with it: Nuke the damned thing. In a since-deleted Facebook post, Bobby Lindamood, the mayor of Colleyville (a Fort Worth suburb) wrote: “For the amount of destruction this next hurricane is
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Jonathan Van Ness, the most famous of the five “Queer Eye” stars from the Netflix series, spoke out on Instagram on Monday morning after they were featured in a pro-Donald Trump attack ad, just weeks before the presidential election. The ad, which was posted to YouTube over the weekend,
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Imagine being part of a grid that doesn’t completely collapse during a crisp breeze! That could be in Texas’ future, since the federal government is giving us a bunch of money to force us to grow the fuck up and join the rest of the country. The U.S.
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If there’s one truism in life, it’s that people on the internet will take any opportunity to act like assholes. Case in point: A bakery in Flower Mound has received death threats for daring to make a cookie with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s face on it.
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In what sounds like the grossest water show ever, a geyser of salty, possibly oil-laced water is blasting 100 feet into the air in West Texas, where earthquakes caused by wastewater injections have been shaking things up lately. We don’t know the source of the geyser yet; a
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Last year, I realized I had opinions about Taylor Swift. And not just “she sucks,” which would have been my go-to before having a daughter. But over the years of driving to and from daycare, swimming lessons, school, volleyball practices, basketball games, playdates, doctor visits, dental checkups, vacations, road