Autoduel Quarterly V4 N3, Fall 2036, Special Texas Bicentennial Issue, Denis Loubet cover art (Steve Jackson Games, September 1986, during what actually was the Texas Sesquicentennial; all AQ issues were dated 50 years into the future and mostly written as if they were documents from within the setting of Car Wars)
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Time to Meet Bella
@esters-notepad! You asked about the battlefield guardian! So now! Today You Learned! About Bella!
This is Bella:
She’s the Alamo Cat.
Isabella Francisca Veramendi de Valero has been the Alamo Cat since 2015. You see, in the 1980’s, the staff working at the Alamo decided that they needed to have a cat on the premises. The first was named Miss Ruby. Officially, the cat’s duties are to protect the property from rodents and greet visitors. In actuality, I think she just… hangs out. She’s taken care of by the Alamo’s staff and she is in lots of official photos.
Her original name was just ‘Bella’, but they decided that she needed a long official name to be an official Alamo Cat. So all of her names are references to the history of the Alamo and Texas.
Also! You can buy plush versions at the store:
This is from the official Alamo social media accounts.
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@themousefromfantasyland @gravedangerahead
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When it's all too late It's all too late Change (Tears for Fears) A tall visitor at the Alien Research Institute along the Exterrestrial Highway. Alamo NV #roadsidepeek #alienresearchcenter #alamo #nevada #worldinmyeyes https://www.instagram.com/p/ClujhLzJMEz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Do you have a fun fact in these trying times?
Alright, friendo, I learned this a week ago, and I was shook. So Today You Learned that Phil Collins (yes, that Phil Collins) is an Alamo fanatic.
Back when he was a wee little lad, British singer Phil Collins saw the Disney Davy Crockett special. You know, the one with the catchy song? Yeah, that one. And he became obsessed with Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, and the Battle of Alamo, where Crockett died.
[Also the exact nature of Crockett’s death is a hotly debated topic with tons of baggage. But I don’t want to deal with that right now, so I’ll save it for another time.]
This obsession apparently went far into adulthood, where Phil Collins collected a bunch of artifacts relating to the Alamo?? Including, like, weapons and documents and shiz??? And then, in 2014, the man donated his entire collection to Texas???
And so now, at the Alamo, there’s little museum exhibit thing behind the structure, and there’s a ton of artifacts on display, a huge chunk of the collection has signs noting that they were donated by Phil Collins.
Phil Collins?!? What?!
And then there’s one exhibit there that’s a large diorama of the Alamo as it was at the time of the siege. It’s a narrated experience, with lights shining on different parts of the model as they’re described, and parts of the battle are explained to the visitors. And the narrator is Phil Collins.
What. The actual. Fudge.
Phil Collins is an Alamo fanatic.
I’m still not done processing this.
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Cubes With Indents
Lament Configuration: I keep wanting to put down Hellboy instead of Hellraiser im so sorry
Alamo: This thing wasn't supposed to rotate but the guy just never locked it in place. it only got finished last year when it was installed in 1967
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