Los Texanos, A Jacon Cortes Design at the Gilded Age Fashion Show–THIS NOON! Saturday, Jul 26 2008 

Attorney General Jacon Cortes is to showcase his newest design, the Colonel William Travis suit, this noon SLT at the Gilded Age Fashion Show. Colonel William Travis was a commander of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio Texas. In the Battle of the Alamo, while under siege from the Mexican Army, he wrote:

[To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World:

Fellow citizens & compatriots;

I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country. VICTORY OR DEATH.

William Barret Travis

Lt. Col. comdt 2495

P.S. The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels & got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves.

Travis ]

Come be a part of Texas history :) The fashion show is to be held at Antiquity Cove. See you there :)

“Come to visit Antiquity Fashion Park today at noon to view a growing collection of costumes from our very talented period fashion designers. Get inspired by the skill of the artists. We have Victorian, Baroque, Pirate – Fantasy, Western, Gothic and more. Stay to see the delightfu shops and free items folks are giving away. Hope to see you there! -Arundelain Dumart, Revolutionary Properties”

JRuss®: Texas Movie Version Wednesday, Jul 23 2008 

JRuss®: Antiquity Texas Version 1 Wednesday, Jul 23 2008 

Hurricane Dolly Wednesday, Jul 23 2008 

Greetings and Salutations everyone.  Batten down your hatches, Texas is being hit by Dolly.  Currently a Cat2, it is expected to make landfall somewhere between Brownsville and Corpus Christi.  Stay safe fellow Texas.

Attorney General, Jacon Cortes

A Wedding of One of Texas’ Own Monday, Jul 21 2008 

Official Proclamation

from the office of the President of Antiquity Texas,

Greetings and Salutations

Pixapao Xeno

President of Texas, Duke of Antiquity,

requests the pleasure of your company at the wedding of one of Texas’ own.

BelAmi Runningbear

Lady of Antiquity, Daughter of Texas

is to wed

Pegleg Gans

Pirate Captain, Son of Texas

Tuesday, July 22 at 6pm SLT

at

Nuestra Senora Santa Maria de Loreto de la Bahia del Espiritu Santo Mission in Antiquity Texas

A celebratory reception at the Texas Governor’s Mansion and

Dancing at San Jacinto Park will follow the ceremony

- Attorney General Jacon Cortes

Star-Telegram.com: How I got my ‘Second Life’ look Sunday, Jul 13 2008 

Howdy! Good news! Our beloved Attorney General, Jacon Cortes was recently featured in a RL newspaper! Read on for more of his chance encounter with the journalist from Star-Telegram:

How I got my ‘Second Life’ look

(link: http://www.star-telegram.com/schools/story/757192.html )

I look like Jason Taylor: tall, a little mysterious, lighter than air. With a couple of mouse clicks, I can even dance like Jason Taylor.

In reality — well, never mind.

This appearance comes courtesy of “Texas Attorney General” Jacon Cortes. Señor Cortes is part of a Victorian role-playing group that simulates the late 1700s and 1800s in Second Life, the virtual world game of sorts. I ran into him last week on his island of historical Texas buildings.

At the time I — my Second Life name is Smuck Snoodle — looked kind of like E.T. (Let’s just say I didn’t take advantage of the “appearance” module back on Orientation Island.)

“You look kind of like E.T.,” Señor Cortes said.

Over the course of an hour or so, he conducted an extreme Second Life makeover on me. New skin. New shape. New clothes. It was all a blur. I remember one point, standing there completely naked, saying something like, “I need pants.”

I had to be shown everything, but Señor Cortes, a fellow Texan, was patient.

And, truth be told, I’m really proud of my new look.

So, this week, I called Señor Cortes to thank him — in Real Life, not Second Life.

“You still have your pants?” asks Juan Antonio Canales, 41, of Benavides, chuckling. He’s been in Second Life since February 2007. For a while he visited clubs and shops and parties. Then he started to build things and got hooked. Canales, his brother, Tocho, and a friend from France who goes by Pixapao Xeno jointly run a Texas-themed island. It takes up all of their free time.

Of course, in Benavides in South Texas, there’s not much else to do with your free time. (Canales makes his living doing freelance computer work and working cattle on the weekends.)

Canales says he tries to help newbies get started whenever possible.

“I was a newbie once myself,” he says.

Well, I, for one, am grateful.

You never forget the person who first showed you how to put on your pants.

BRYON OKADA, 817-390-7752

SLMS: Antiquity Texas by Tocho Cortes Thursday, Jul 10 2008 

This piece was written by our very own General of the Texas Army, Tocho Cortes and published in slmediasource.com. Enjoy! :

http://education.slmediasource.com/texas.html

Excerpt:

When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.

From this declaration was born the Republic of Texas. Created by the people, for the people, in a land taken long before by the Spanish Empire from the natives that had thrived here for centuries. With six flags having flown over Texas, its history is rich with various cultures including Spanish, French, Mexican, Republic of Texas, Confederate, and American influences…

Welcome! Tuesday, Jul 8 2008 

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