The Story behind Tokyo, TX
The Texas landscape is outfitted with outlaws and itty-bitty towns with big ol’ famous names like Paris, Egypt, and Palestine. If you squint and spit, you’ll notice a little town called Tokyo. The sudden emergence of Tokyo, Texas is a result of a little bit of Texas ingenuity and malfunctioning Google maps across the great state.
It’s a place where Texas Monthly magazine and Mashable.com collide. It’s a one light town, and the only wi-fi hotspot is the newly remodeled Dairy Queen. Facebook and bandwidth are discussed over Blizzards. Iphones and Indians are things of legend.
The town inhabitants are an ornery, tech-savy bunch. Hank and John Ray talk six-man football and update their twitter status every half hour. Polly’s, the town’s beautician, only connection with the outside world is her Myspace page; her top eight friends get their hair cut for free.
Oil was its greatest resource, but those days are long gone. Some say that gold is now in it’s wind. Believe me, we got plenty of it. But the real talk of the town are the ideas of the two Mountain brothers, Tim and Andrew. Those boys could sit on the back porch and piss ideas for days. The fellas at Doug’s Barbershop suggested they start a blog about technology and name it after the dusty Texas town. Maybe it would garner enough attention and travelers all across the “dag’um” world wide web would stop in.
Ultimately, help put Tokyo back on the map.
