Resources

Box Free Thinking additional RESOURCES includes organizations and entertainment that are fun, thought provoking, intelligent, and of a higher quality.

Our Favorite Outside-the-box Organizations

Thinking Creatively Can be Fun

  • Jason and Tracey Louis Travelblog - Reevaluate your life and put everything on hold to travel the globe. Wow, wouldn't that be nice?  The Louis' take time to really inform and reflect on what they are doing and where they are going.
  • OPUS - Created by Berkeley Breathed - The Sunday Comics became so much better when Mr. Breathed brought back his characters from Bloom County. However in 2008 he once again ended Opus' run through the dandelion fields... will he come back again?   
  • Prairie Home Companion - This weekly radio show never stops amazing. It is filled with laughter, song, commentary, and sarcasm. It is by far the most outside the box program you will enjoy
  • The Rugby Foundation - A group dedicated to promoting and grow the sport of rugby, provide alternatives to local youth through the sport, and create a platform for the rugby community to further charitable endeavors.
  • ACL Festival - "Austin City Limits" is a PBS tradition. And now the people at Austin City Limits have created a 3-day festival of music featuring acts you know and will someday know.

BOOKS for the Creative Thinker

  • "There Are No Children Here" - Alex Kotlowitz
  • "A Streetcar Named Desire" - Tennessee Williams
  • "Glorious Cause" - Jeffrey Shaara
  • "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee
  • "Dawn's Early Light" - Walter Lord
  • "Jailbird" - Kurt Vonnegut
  • "A Bridge Too Far" - Cornelius Ryan
  • "The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One" - Bill Black

Movies a Creative Thinker Can Enjoy

  • "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (the original version)
  • "Twelve O'clock High"
  • "Remember the Titans"
  • "Napoleon Dynamite"
  • "Fog of War"
  • "The Sting"
  • "Apollo 13"
  • "CRASH"
  • "Scott Pilgram vs the World"

BFT's list of "Out of the Ordinary Eateries"

  • Cenzo's Pizza - Havertown, PA 19083
  • Churrascaria Plataforma - New York, NY 10019
  • Z-Tejas (6th Street Location) - Austin, TX 78703
  • Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que - Llano, TX 78643
  • Czech Stop - West, TX 76691
  • Rudy's (rte 360 location) - Austin, TX 78746 (a gas station for Bar-B-Q? YES!)

BFT's List of "Out of the Ordinary Blogs" (any suggestions?)