The album's title is a reference to an essay by Kurt Vonnegut (collected in Fates Worse Than Death) in which Vonnegut compares commentators on the intellectual and moral decline of society to the Royal Astronomer in The White Deer by James Thurber, who believes that the stars in the night sky are going out one by one, but in fact this is because he is slowly going blind.
White House | Chicago White Sox | White | Snow White | The White Stripes | White American | white | black-and-white | White Star Line | White Nile | Jack White | Jack White (musician) | Betty White | White Collar (TV series) | White Collar | Red Deer, Alberta | Red Deer | Byron White | White movement | Great White | Deer | White Sea | The Deer Hunter | E. B. White | deer | The White Shadow | Stanford White | White Rabbit | White Plains, New York | Deer Park |
Thomas and his older brother, Bart, were high school teammates at White Deer High School in White Deer, Texas; in 1988, Thomas' freshman year, the White Deer team went 16–0 and won the Class 1A state championship.