Biannual Roundup: Kind of like beating a dead horse

All one needs to do to drive up readership in San Antonio is mention the Alamo. The top three posts attracting attention to this blog during the past 12 months were all Alamobsessive.

Unfortunately, the main concern drawing you in, the fencing in of Alamo Plaza, is a horse already out of the barn. The city agreed to turn over San Antonio’s management to the State of Texas and allow them to corral it.

The next two were complaints about the Texas GLO’s non-reverential management of their new acquisition with its addition of a shiny red faux Alamo. Even those images have failed to spur any action; powers that be must be wearing blinders.

Sometimes it feels as though sharing concerns for Alamo Plaza is like beating a dead horse, but you apparently are interested in dead horses as well because fifth on the list of most-read posts this year was a postcard “to” San Antonio from Italy featuring an embalmed horse hung by artist Maurizio Cattelan in the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rivoli.

Without further horsing around, the following list represents the posts you clicked most, with the numbers in parentheses representing rankings from six months ago:

1. Alamo CEO applying armtwisting pressure to secure gated plaza, 2018 (1)
2. Has Alamo Plaza fallen in the hands of ‘reverential’ caretakers, 2019
3. How’s the GLO managing Alamo Plaza? Welcome to the faux Alamo, 2019
4. King William Home Tour: Historic houses whisper stories of early residents, 2018 (4)
5. Postcard from Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy: History with a horse hanging overhead (2019)
6. Please put this song on Tony’s pony, and make it ride away, 2010 (6)
7. The Madarasz murder mystery: Might Helen haunt Brackenridge Park?, 2012 (5)
8. Street art entices venturing under the overpass, 2018 (7)

   

9. Marilyn Lanfear buttons up a collection of family stories, 2018 (8)
10. Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico: ‘I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.’ 2019
11. Postcard from Sevilla, Spain: Foods steeped in tradition, 2019
12. Postcard from Genoa, Italy: Hey, don’t knock peanuts, 2018 (12)

Thanks for putting up with my horse feathers, and please feel free to comment anytime.