#Texas Alamo Cowboy

[farlydatau]

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[betatrolls]

#post #poll #state poll #texas #america #texas poll #tagging everything for reach #texas state fair #big tex #guns #the alamo #remember the alamo #cowboy #horses #PLEASE YALL

[decadebattle]

Reblog for a bigger sample size.

Say in the tags what you voted for and if you live in or outside of the US

#state poll

[timmurleyart]

Lone star state. ⭐️🐂🌵🐴 🔴⚪️🔵

#lone star state #remember the alamo #alamo #border towns #border patrol #border wall #Laredo #san antonio #dallas cowboys #Dallas #cowboys nation #cowboys #houston astros #houston rockets #Houston #el paso #Austin #marfa #west texas #marfatexas #sxsw 2023 #sxsw #poster art #monoprint #printmakers on tumblr #printmaking #printmaker #folk art painting #texas ranchers #texas rangers

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Texas, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#texas #the united states #north america #country polls #polls #not a country

[lemonlyman-dotcom]

*he does not realize the sexual innuendo until Paul & Marjan begin mercilessly razzing him

**TK gets the tattoo because he loses a bet, Mateo just wants it. Carlos cries a bit and immediately begins researching tattoo artists that specialize in coverups, but TK enjoys joking about his jiggly ass

***when they wave @ each other the toasts wave back

Thank you to @guardian-angle22 for helping me brainstorm these truly stupid tattoo ideas (Let’s hope Ronen does not see this and take it as tatt inspo 😝)

#reblog and let us know how you voted in the tags and comments!! #tk strand #mateo chavez #tarlos #911 lone star #911 lone star rewatch 2024 #rewatch polls

[floating-above-sea-level]

Some Ness focused headcanons cause me and the SecurityWaiter/DreamTheory Discord server have been COOKING (projecting onto him)

Heavily surrounding my headcanon that he is southern

-Ness is southern (specifically Texan cause I’m Texan and that’s what I know)

-he doesn’t have a very thick accent, but saying certain words or phrases, being extra angry/excited/etc., speaking in a lower or lazier voice (like morning voiceee 👀👀👀), being around other people with thicker acccents, etc. will trigger his accent to thicken up (again more projecting this is just me core LMAO)

-he has absolutely worked at a Cracker Barrel. Has gotten all the stars on his apron, is absolute god tier at that peg game, steals the biscuits, the whole package

-southern charm king, brags abt it

-knows so much Texas trivia, like our state things (tree, bird, mammal, etc.), history, tourist junk, etc.

-has a Texas flag pin that he puts on his bag and apron

-genuinely tweaks when someone pronounces pecan like “pea-can” (I know both pronunciations are common in the south but where I’ve grown up/with all the people around me, it’s always be “Puh-con” NOT “pea-can”)

-makes great pie 🤗🤗🤗

-dr pepper + Diet Coke addict

-“wdym you don’t know the story of the Alamo…” “what do you mean you’ve never had what-a-burger…” “what do you mean you’ve never been to the dr. Pepper museum…” etc. /hj

-likes country music 💔💔💔

-I mentioned before theyre a swifty…loves her country era…

-LOVES SQUARE DANCING !!

-has fun cowboy boots and cowboy hats cause I say so

-loves the rodeo

-god I am just making them a stereotype I CANT HELP IT THIS IS MY HOME 💔💔💔 DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS 💔💔💔

-“oh no, Texas sucks…but if anyone SAYS Texas sucks-“ becomes Texas #1 defender

-GOD I CAN SEE HIM WORKING AT SEA WORLD TOO. HED DO THE SEA LION SHOWS I KNOW IT 💥💥💥

-Mike makes fun of them for being southern but then they just exaggerate it to annoy him

-BEGS MIKE TO GO WITH HIM TO THE RODEO ONE DAY PLEASSEEE (Mike will NEVER agree…unless-)

-takes Mike and Abby to the San Antonio river walk and Abby absolutely loves the rainforest cafe. Mike genuinely despises it so much like he sits there plotting Ness’ murder the whole time

-scratch the dad thing my mom suggested that Ness’ aunt and uncle run the diner and that actually works better with some of my headcanons so yeah

-Sparky’s is still named after a family dog though

-always points out farm animals when driving

K that’s it for now love them sm 🫶🫶🫶

#the fandom decided his main nickname for Mike is Sugar ofc he’s southern #securitywaiter #dreamtheory #fnaf #fnaf movie #mike schmidt #ness the waiter #queer #trans #neurodivergent #audhd #headcanons #southern ness

[yeeyeeclan]

Well howdy pardner! I see you found yer way to YeeyeeClan, the most rootin' tootin' shootin' cats in all of the Eastern Plains. Why don't you take a gander 'round our humble prairie, ain't no strangers here.

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We're a group of friends and a band of outlaws, documentin' the happenins 'round these parts. Keep an eye out for drawin', writin', storytellin', and all sorts of little bits of whatever. Come on in and have a cold drink while we introduce ourselves...

🎩 - If yer sick of the bad cowboy accents by now then I darn say yer in the wrong place, pardner, because they ain't goin' away no time soon. I'm Lynx, the one likely to be 'sponsible for the worst of what you gon' see here.

🐺 - Howdy! I’m Orion! I’m an Alamo enthusiast from deep n’ the heart ‘a Texas! Lover of all things rootin, tootin, and ‘specially shootin! Long time Warriors fan n’ clangen comicer”

🦋 - Howdy hey y’all! I’m Worthy, one of the rockin’ cowgirls on the team of Yeeyeeclan, nestled n’the corn fields of Ohio, and an og battle cats fan, excited to git out n’ draw for a project like this for once!

🐦‍⬛- Howdy! I'm Pic, the youngin' mail-order ranchhand from the far coast. Takes a likin' to books, paints, and bone orchards, but haven't touched a Warriors book in all my little days, so be patient on ma' gentle heart.

🌻- Howdy hey, welcome to the chaos folks! I'm Winn, and all y'all's gotta know 'bout me is I'm a SCAD Alumni from the lil ol Peach State, and the team's local autistic Warrior Cats Enthusiast. I am very incredibly normal about the books and these darn cats (blatant lie).

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#yeeyeeclan - General YeeyeeClan shenanigans

#yeeyee ask - Anythin' asked to any of the good cats of YeeyeeClan

#yeeyeent - Anythin' not made by us good folks

#yeeyeeart - Anythin' pertainin' to drawin'

#yeeyeewriting - Anythin' pertainin' to writin'

#yeeyeerefs - Anythin' with the official yeeyee cat designs

#lynx ask - Anythin' directed towards Lynx

#orion ask - Anythin' directed towards Orion

#worthy ask - Anythin' directed towards Worthy

#pic ask - Anythin' directed towards Pic

#winn ask - Anythin' directed towards Winn

#yeeyeeclan

[ficswithtacotuesday]

Never forget. Based on the tiktok below + bonus doodle

(If link doesn't work, a Texan is making sure he has everything before leaving his house only to realize he forgot about the Alamo)

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 engineer #tf2 spy #deep in the heaaart of texaaaas #don't you hate it when you forget your pride in the middle of battle? #drawing the alamo will always be the hardest thing for me to draw

[theharddeck]

texan!hangman headcannons that no one asked for

literally no one asked lol but my qualifications are (1) my father is Texan (2) every summer my parents shipped us off to Dallas to swelter at my grandma's house (3) I was in a sorority in Texas (4) I lived there for 5 years and also worked my first job there, okay let's discuss

so first of all, because I've been seeing some people say Jake's from upstate NY (??)-- the man is Texan

this is important syntax, people

there's from Texas (you were born there), there's lives in Texas (you currently are there), and there's Texan (your whole identity) and y'all he is the latter

his family has their pew at the First Baptist Dallas, whether they attend or not, whether they listen or not, they tithe on easter and christmas and when the pastor comes over for dinner, and no one sits in their pew

Jake saw The Alamo (1960) in IMAX when he was like 8 and it never left his subconscious

once, when Jake was being obnoxious about it, Payback was like hey remind me again what they were fighting for? At the Alamo?

Jake stopped bringing it up after that

but that movie was damn important, along with the rest of Texas lore, in determining his principles on independence, nobility, service and sacrifice

in the same way from Texas/in Texas/Texan matters, the part of the state matters

Jake is Dallas

Jake is old money

There's a certain type of Rich Texan who're so serious about pedigree, you guys, and Jake walks the way he does bc he was bred for it

His mother is a Texas first family, his father's father was in oil, and his father is the one who carried on the business and cleaned up good (he's now in local politics)

Jake's mom is from the hill country, and they have a ranch that goes back a couple generations in her family

they do not go to the ranch unless they're bringing outside-the-immediate-family with them

campaigning efforts for his father come to mind

if Jake has sisters, they were debutantes

once he hit high school, he was an escort every year for a Dallas Symphony League deb

which means he's none of this bumbling country hick/cowboy Jake, no this asshole knows his way around a gala

he probably resented it, probably drove his mom insane with dirt stains on his suit, but he knows how to smile when he doesn't mean it, lead a girl around a waltz, charm matrons who are waiting to be impressed, and fathers who want to see themselves in him

his father taught him different types of whisky when he was like 15 and he never wants a beer but he’ll take one if offered

there’s just a lot of unspoken rules, right, and Jake learned them early

open doors for a lady, walk on the outside of the sidewalk, sir/ma’am, the place you buy your boots, it all matters

because nothing is more important than how you reflect on the family

his folks aren't around much

there's always charity events that his mom is swept up in, and his dad never emerges from his perfect mahogany-covered library in their house

which is in Highland Park, obviously

idk what else to say, I just need people to understand that Jake is not country!Texan, he is highsociety!Texan

#jake hangman seresin #Jake seresin #hangman headcanons #misskielrambles

[cakegatedisaster]

What's texas like?? Seeing the pictures is so different from locals describing it

Well, there's a lot of flat land. We're mostly a rancher state, so the hills have to be centered in smaller areas. We're the biggest continental state, meaning if you wanted to drive from Perryton at the top to McAllen at the bottom, it'll take you about 13-14 hours, over the span of 800 miles. I live in San Antonio, where there's a lot of Latin and Mexican culture. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who's not at least a little proud of the state. There's actual cowboys, with the hats and boots. Everyone's pretty nice, regardless of what the rest of the country says. Our freeways let us go 85 miles an hour. Football (not soccer) is very popular, and there's a lot of emphasis on religion. Country music is prevalent, and something I love. Barbecue is everywhere; you haven't lived until you've gone outside one night in the middle of summer and seen the lightning bugs flying around, and smelled all your neighbors cooking in the backyard so the smell mixes with the air. Every other house will have a Texas flag in their front yard; we're the only state that flies it as high as the American flag. You ask any Texan, and they'll tell you they're Texan first, American second. There're a lot of guns, but most everybody is respectful with them. I've been shooting since I was 12.

I live in San Antonio, which is a pretty big city. We're a tourist town. I have two different theme parks less than 20 minutes away from me, both with world-record-breaking rides. There's the downtown district, with the river walk. It has gondolas on it that take us around. At night, there's horse-drawn carriages that sparkle with lights as you drive. The Alamo is a big draw, and when you're in elementary school, you go every year to learn about the people there and see where the battles were fought. It's undergoing renovations right now and is getting turned into a museum.

There's so much more to talk about; I love Texas, and it'll kill me this year when I leave for college.

#asks #Texas

[farlydatau]

#gift #gift ideas #tshirt #gifts #bestgift #gift idea #davy crockett #texas #davy crockett shirt #vintage tshirt #Vintage gift #gift for dad #Texas T-Shirt #gift for him #Texas Revolution #davy crockett quotes #vintage alamo shirt #Texas Alamo Cowboy #alamo souvenir

[stargazing-zani]

Fuckit, Texas Headcanons

(Source: I’m from there. Do you have to take my ideas any more seriously? No. As a matter of fact, please don’t.)

- Uhh he tall? I'm bad at estimating heights, let's put him at 6'5" and call it a day.

- He smells like gasoline and cattle.

- He did not attend college and does not ever plan to. That's not to say Texas is anti-univeristy (you can't be Best In The Nation if your colleges aren't top-notch) but he perfers to work with his hands, and trade schools are way better for that.

- Back in the late 1800's he worked as a cowhand and did the cattle drive all the way up to Kansas. And he loved it.

- He knows how to use a lariat, make a campfire meal, fix most tools, care for livestock, and "handle" native americans.

- Early on his cattle brand was a simple star. Cattle rustlers easily stole and rebranded his cows, so he changed that pretty quick.

- He misses those days a lot and gets emotional at the Fort Worth stockyards.

- During the Oil Boom starting in 1901, Texas became incredibly more powerful  physically and financially (and more of the asshole we know today). Although getting all that oil siphoned out felt a bit like donating more blood than a person could afford, he still boasted and bragged about it. He's gotta one-up California after that Gold Rush, after all.

- The back of his oversized Ford pickup is plastered with just about every Texan bumper sticker you could think of, including: Come and Take it Don't Tread on Me Remember the Alamo, Forget the White House Beaver Believer (from Buc-ee's) Don't Mess With Texas Pray to End Abortion Don't California my Texas and Keep Austin Weird And his liscence plate reads LONESTAR.

- Don't let the truck fool you, he still owns a horse. Her name's Bluebonnet ("Bonnie" for short). In fact, every horse he's owned was named Bluebonnet -- he kept replacing them as they died through the years. The OG Bonnie saw a lot more action than the current Bonnie, who is basically a pet at this point.

- He's a devout Christian, of course, but the specific denomination changes depending on what mood he's in. Any contradicions this causes doesn't bother him. He goes to church every Sunday, bible study every Wednesday, and prays every night. ("Our Father in Heaven, thank you for creating me to be the best. Please help Florida. Please serve justice to California. Forgive me for my transgressions, and thank you for brisket. Amen.")

- He's claustrophobic, but he doesn't know it. He just figures he's too big for anywhere outside of what he's used to. (This is based on the absolutely horrendous urban sprawl I've experienced -- dense cities are Not Very Texan.)

- When he goes to the beach, he wears swim trunks with his flag on them. And the cowboy hat and boots stay ON, thank you very much.

- He carries twin pistols and a large bowie knife with him everywhere he goes.

- Okay, I might as well talk about Austin. So unlike a couple of people, I don't think that Texas' other cities manifest as alternate personalities, mostly because they still all feel very Texan. Austin, however is Weird. He's Weird and different and exceptional enough that I like to think he's the only one who can break off from Texas yet share a body like that. The joke is that Austin and Texas are at odds despite being a part of each other, and I kinda like to stay true to that. 

-Texas is protective of him like a parent whose daughter is dating someone he doesn't approve of: harsh, suspicious of everything, overbearing, and ready to shoot any agressors.

-Texas' and Austin's emotions mix a little bit but basically whoever's fronting gets the say and the other one is fully concious but screaming and banging on a metaphorical glass wall.

-When Austin takes the hat off, he seems to shrink a few inches.

-Austin likes bright rainbow "hippie" colors, to Texas' disgust. He is not allowed input on fashion or interior design.

- However, they both like tailgaiting, dancing, and country music, so it's not all that bad.

- Maybe I should also mention the daddy issues? Uhhh honestly closest I can guess for the dad is Mexico (which is funny because Texas actively fought against him so the issues would be his own fault). Or maybe it's one of Texas' founding fathers like Sam Houston or Stephen F. Austin. But honestly, it could be a character called "Texas' Dad" for all I care. I just like that the issues exist. Austin wants to talk about it. Texas does not.

- He likes to remind everyone his territory once reached even farther, all the way into current-day Colorado, when people start taking Alaska's side.

- Despite his love of oil, cattle, and free-range capitalism, he is the biggest producer of wind energy in the country, which annoys California like you wouldn't believe. 

-Texas uses Spanish to trash talk the Gov to his face without him knowing. Although his pronunciation irks the other Spanish-speaking states, this usually grants him a few temporary allies during meetings.

- His pride makes it hard to find close friends (not that he minds) but he’s chill with Tennessee and Louisiana especially. 

- Texas doesn't believe in swearing ("hell" and "damn" and "ass" are ok) bc he thinks it's unchristian. He will not hesitate, however, to pull out a long-winded cowboy insult, you lily-livered, yellow-bellied, frog-faced, bull-headed, dung-smellin', cactus-sittin', donkey-ridin' son of a gun!

#you know that anti nostalgia feeling from seeing an old school you hated? #That was me writing this #you're welcome #welcome to the table #welcome to the statehouse #my stuff

[ultimatefangirl-exe]

I'd love to hear more about your San Antonia Gargoyles clan!

Yes!!! I'd love to talk about my clan!

Right now the only ones I have bios for are Oakely and Bowie, but I can share some general information about the clan! ^^

Note: All names in Blue are my own characters and names in Red are characters of others who exist in the clan. Any uncolored names are up for grabs, just let me know whatever name you decide so I can add your character to the list I'm working on. ^^

City: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Nest/Roost location: The Alamo

Leader: Air Force "Birdy"

Second in Command: Buckle

Naming Patterns:

Prior to the hatching of the 1838 generation, gargoyles and beasts of this then small clan had no names. The eggs hatched following The Battle of the Alamo, the women named the hatchlings after their husbands, brothers, and fathers, all of those who had fallen in an attempt to protect the mission from Mexican siege (Crockett, Travis, Jameson, etc.), with the 1818 generation being given the names of military positions (i.e. General, Colonel, Lieutenant, etc.).

Generations hatched after are often named after either typical "cowboy" items (Lasso, Buckle, Spur, etc.) or branches or aesthetics of the military (Navy, Camo, Bayonet, etc.)

PLEASE NOTE: Military-themed names are rare among the clan for the most part, and exist solely because of the city's nickname (Military City, USA).

Beasts are named after weapon makers (Bowie, Winchester, etc.) and weapon performers (Oakley, Buffalo Bill, etc.)

Features of the clan:

The clan is well known in the gargoyle world for producing oversized beasts large enough for the gargoyles to ride as horses. It is much easier to chase criminals on these beasts that can almost outrun cars than hoping said criminals don't get away while climbing high enough to glide.

While Goliath's near seven-foot stature may have been quite the sight a thousand years ago, in the modern-day (even in the 90s) San Antonio clan, this height is only slightly above average and it would be his lack of clothing that would cause heads to turn.

The clan consists mostly of a mix of Gaelic or "Classic" gargoyles and Mayan gargoyles with a few "London-style" animal-themed gargoyles (most common: Coyotes, Horses, Bulls, Deer, Boars).

Clan habits:

An incident happened in the late 1870s where almost the entire rookery was stolen from by poachers and sold off illegally to farmers as pets and/or slavery, starting the very illegal Gargoyle Trade. Since then, every egg is required to be held by one of its rookery parents in the day, and the rookery is heavily guarded at night.

As of 1970, all gargoyles, beasts, and eggs sold or bred in the Gargoyle Trade have been rescued and the San Antonio Clan originally acted as one of the many foster clans for most of these gargoyles, but most of the gargoyles sent to this clan, including Buckle, have ended up staying or creating a splinter cell that is still near the main clan.

The clan often performs among themselves when not patrolling, whether it be playing music or performing tricks on beast-back.

#gargoyles #disney gargoyles #gargoyles fanclan #san antonio clan #gargoyle oc

[nataliehegert]

At the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico, a group of grey-skinned, silver clad extraterrestrials stand rigid under a metal flying saucer that periodically emits a cloud of vapor from its base. The ground under the aliens’ feet is made to look like rocky desert soil, with plastic cacti and yucca plants interspersed with real rocks and fake rocks, while a replica of a juniper tree partially obscures the metal stand that holds the spaceship aloft. The photo backdrop, instead of depicting the local scenery of Roswell, where the High Plains of the Llano Estacado drop off into the Chihuahuan Desert, erroneously places the figures in the Sonoran Desert, indicated by the presence of a few tall saguaro cacti.

Museum exhibits recount the story of the purported UFO crash in 1947 in a field just outside of Roswell and the subsequent theories of military coverups, alien autopsies, and actual top-secret government surveillance programs. A kind of 20th century folklore unfolds in the chronicling of close encounters of the first, second, and third kind: flying saucer sightings around the globe, reports of strange psychological effects and missing gaps of time, and (wildly) various sketches of alien lifeforms that people claim to have seen.

Outside the museum, one encounters little green men everywhere. On benches, in restaurants, on signs and lampposts.

Before the UFO Museum opened in the 90s the Roswell Incident mythology lay somewhat dormant, staying alive only in the inquisitive imaginations of the UFO obsessed. The museum now welcomes thousands of visitors a year, the linchpin of the city’s new identity as a mecca for alien tourism.

Artist Eric J. García came to Roswell for a year-long stay at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program and found the critical mass of aliens “seeped” into his brain and started showing up in his artwork. “I started questioning, who’s the alien? Who’s from here, not from here?”

García, who is known for his graphic style and political cartoons, grew up in Albuquerque and got his BFA from the University of New Mexico with a minor in Chicano Studies, and then his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before that, he served in the Air Force for four and a half years.

He emerged from his service in a state of disillusionment. By that I mean he became aware of the “illusion” that the U.S. projected abroad and to its own citizenry. “Texas, the Alamo, the West, the idea of the cowboy, the frontier, [other] iconic Americana myths, these are super embedded,” he says.

The myth-building was on display in Roswell in an extremely conspicuous way: in the form of flying saucers and alien caricatures, all in service of tourism to the small Eastern New Mexico city. But it was all a grand distraction from the real truth, García found. Aliens were here, and they had in fact colonized the place.

In Roswell, I used to see these tourist shirts with an alien wearing a sombrero and serape, indicating that people from south of the border are not from here, are alien, are not human. Whereas there are many people crossing that border speaking Indigenous languages…They are from the Americas but now we’re calling them aliens.

In García’s video Alien Juxta (2021), he blends popular science-fiction images of extraterrestrials with “actual aliens”—juxtaposing Alf with Christopher Columbus, flying saucers with colonial ships. Even the language sounds sci-fi: the New World and the Old World. The Final Frontier.

Working with artist and video game designer Rafael Fajardo, García adapted the classic arcade game of Space Invaders, replacing the space aliens with cowboys, cannons, and cathedrals—symbols of American colonization. As the game player, you are an Indigenous person, shooting the invaders with a bow and arrow. “I want people to understand these perspectives,” García says, “that the colonial powers were not always here. There were a people here before you.”

To impress his message, García utilizes tactics of humor, satire, subversion, and a graphic style reminiscent of cartoons and the nostalgia of early video games. In his ink drawings, he often breaks down an image into basic geometric blocks, mimicking 8-bit graphics, a super-simplification of image and idea.

These tech-y icons, however, García renders in an ancient and Indigenous medium—cochineal ink, made from insects that inhabit the nopal cactus. When the Spanish brought cochineal back to Europe from the Americas, it became a phenomenon—carmine red. García also makes his own ink from the fruit of the nopal, the bright violet-pink of the prickly pear tuna, which is vivid and pretty, but unstable and lends itself to erasure if exposed to sunlight.

In Game Over (2023), García employs blood-red cochineal ink to depict the 1945 detonation of the first atomic bomb, the Trinity test, in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. Departing from the blocky 8-bit motif, a cloud billows up and away from the X on the map, indicating the lasting effects of fallout drifting across the surrounding region and up into the atmosphere. The moment the world entered the Anthropocene, according to some. GAME OVER, indeed.

During his service in in the Air Force, “working in the belly of the beast,” García came to learn the global extent of the U.S. military presence. He reflects on the pervasive myth of the benevolence and judiciousness of the U.S. empire, and how embedded the military-industrial complex actually is in our society:

I grew up completely militarized. I played G.I. Joes, I read G.I. Joe comics, I watched Rambo action movies, I played military video games, I was constantly being exposed to militarism, right here in Albuquerque with the Kirtland Air Force Base. Every day around six o’clock the Air Force chopper would fly over like clockwork. I was constantly bombarded.

His brother joined the military before him. It was understood that military service was a way out and a way to get to college. He says, “It was inevitable that I would join.”

Aim High is a recruiting slogan for the Air Force, but it also refers to García’s ultimate target when it comes to his artwork. He has his sights set on the biggest forces in the game: imperialism, colonialism, militarism, white supremacy.

With satire and wit, García exposes the construction of reality proffered by the powerful, the alien empire embedded in this land. Their narrative has evolved over the centuries, from the Doctrine of Discovery, to Manifest Destiny, to Make America Great Again or Build Back Better. But, with a blast from a ray gun, an arrow from a bow, or a stroke of the pen, García blows their cover, explodes their myths.

Eric J. García: Mythbuster, published as a fold-out gallery text on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at Texas Tech University’s Landmark Gallery, February 17 - April 21, 2024.

#in print #essay #highlights

[47burlm]

Now the bugles are silent And there's rust on each sword And the small band of soldiers…

Lie asleep in the arms of the Lord…

In the southern part of Texas Near the town of San Antone Like a statue on his pinto rides a cowboy all alone And he sees the cattle grazing where a century before Santa Anna's guns were blazing and the cannons used to roar And his eyes turn sorta misty And his heart begins to glow And he takes his hat off slowly…

To the men of Alamo.

To the thirteen days of glory At the siege of Alamo…