Cool Chicks

There are lots of ways to tell if you're hanging with a cool chick. For instance, if she sneaks in to the tent next door to score some BBQ since your tent is out and shares it, that's pretty cool. But, if she then lets you wipe your dirty, greasy fingers on her jeans,


THAT's the sign of truly a cool chick. Thanks Lu!

Of course, if I, who has been called prissy more than once, is standing in the middle of a bunch of people I don't know gnawing on a big ol' rib, that's also a sign it's not early in the evening and there's an open bar in the vicinity.

{For all the non-Houstonians in the audience, this weekend was the annual World Championship BBQ cook-off that kicks off the Houston Live Stock Show & Rodeo, which really must be seen (and tasted) to be believed. Seriously, they don't mess around down here.}

An aerial view of the World Championship Bar-B-Que - each tent is a different team.

That's a lot of BBQ