Howdy ya'll! Welcome to Tall Texas Talk.  This is my first post of the semester.  Though not all of my posts will talk about articles concerning the same thing, this blog will represent a good collection of things I think are important to Tejas politics.  Enjoy, and feel free to comment!

On September 14, 2013, Francesca Mari of the Texas Monthly published the article Did Playboy Screw Prada? on the Texas Monthly website.  The article describes the dispute between the Texas Department of Transportation and a piece of artwork right outside of Marfa, Texas that is a locked-up Prada store. Though the depute has been going on for an extended period of time now, the Playboy Marfa visual-just down the highway from the Prada Marfa visual-has been a point of discontent for even longer, the transportation system saying that both pieces of art are "illegal signs without a permit".

This is an interesting debate in my opinion.  Why would a town like Marfa, Texas, that is so heavily defined by its art culture,  allow such discontent between its displays and the Texas Transportation System?  Also, aren't there bigger fish to fry than an empty, locked up Prada Store and a giant neon bunny in front of an old Dodge Charger in the case of the Texas Department of Transportation?  As of now, the fate of both "illegal" signs are still up for debate, the obvious opponents of the Department of Transportation's claims (practically all the art supporters of Marfa) slowing down any sort of action actually happening to remove them.