The finest sentence ever typed in the English language? Quite possibly.
Austin Eavesdropper recounts the saga of John Wayne Chang, president of the Hong Kong Cowboy Association (C.H.A.P.S., for short, somehow) and it’s really not to be missed.
Other competitors for the greatest sentence ever composed, from the same set of correspondence:

“Maybe you can come to [...]

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The SXSW publishing schedule pushed this back to its limits of relevance, but it was a fun piece to write nonetheless - Chuck Norris is my President went live on Decider this weekend. It’s a response to Norris’ bizarre joke, later turned into a sincere op-ed on WorldNetDaily, that he wanted to be the President [...]

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“Block that kick!” a fan yelled. The Tornadoes did, and the Faith fans on their sideline cheered.
It was that way all night, with Faith parents encouraging players they knew only by their jersey numbers to tackle their own sons, and with teachers and administrators rooting for the team playing against their students.
The story here is [...]

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It does my heart a little bit of good to know that there’s a street named Arizona Bay in San Antonio. Bill Hicks may have died poor and obscure, but someone who lays out tacky, McMansion-style subdivisions in his home state has paid him a curious tribute.
(also: Hi, Internet. I missed you.)

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Edit 07/31/08: If you landed here from a websearch for “because I moved with my job in United Kingdom” or something similar, and are hoping to find out some more information regarding an ad for a place to live that you saw posted online, let me assure you that it’s a scam. The place doesn’t [...]

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Looking for a place to live in Texas, even in hippie-dippie Austin, can be a challenge when you are unwilling to live on a street named after Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, or another major confederate figure. If I run for city council on a platform that includes renaming them for Herschel Walker, George Foreman, [...]

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