Panic On The Streets Of…Fort Bend County?

Is it just me, or does this rather poorly worded Chronicle article suggest that violence and chaos have erupted on the mild, Ford Windstar-lined streets of Sugar Land?
Chaos erupting after assassination, Fort Bend man says
Barkat Charania, a Sugar Land resident and former president of the local Pakistani Chamber of Commerce, first heard about [...]

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That’s Twice

Poking around on YouTube today, I found my favorite scene from my favorite movie ever and I feel compelled now to share it with you:

If this isn’t the most beautiful, most romantic, most amazing move you’ve ever seen, I’ll send you a little, black piece of charcoal through the mail so that [...]

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AVPR

Are you stoked — like TOTALLY stoked — about the awesome new Aliens vs. Predator movie that’s coming out?  Like, oh my freaking God, man, it’s gonna be so freaking awesomely cool, like, I can’t wait to go see it and then, like, go watch WWE Smackdown at Phil’s house afterwards and drink some MGDs [...]

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Down The Rabbit Hole

For me, the best part of this video isn’t how wicked Shlomo’s beatboxing is (even in his early days here), but how at around 2:04 you can see Pete Doherty randomly sitting in the audience, absolutely cracked out of his skull — eyes bugging, the bottle of vodka slipping from his [...]

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Merry Christmas

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New (and Old) Obsessions

I’ve callously ditched Project Playlist for a far groovier music search engine: Seeqpod.  Not only is it much cleaner and easier to use in general, it also allows you to save and share playlists without creating an account.  So much nicer.
And to demonstrate, here’s a short-but-sweet playlist with a few songs I’ve had on repeat lately:  Dig It.
I’ve [...]

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Sometimes I’m not so sure about this place…

Me:  Hey, Betty Sue, do you happen to know where Johnny is?  I just went by his office to drop something off, but his nameplate is gone and the office is cleaned out.  Did I miss something?
Betty Sue (with shifty eyes):  He was…relocated.  To Arizona.
Me:  I’m sorry?
Betty Sue (still with shifty eyes):  He’s no longer working in [...]

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*head explodes*

From today’s riveting article: “UH film entries still win with proffesor (sic)”
I remain more convinced than ever that the Chronicle is like the vast wasteland where journalists who simply couldn’t cut it elsewhere end up, like T.S. Eliot’s straw men.
Also?  It couldn’t hurt to invest in a program that offers some kind of spell check.  [...]

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I Still Want A Hula Hoop

Because I’m feeling just a little bit Christmas-y today, with the slight chill in the air and all, here are some of my favorite Christmas songs for your consideration:
Fairytale of New York, by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
For a song that includes the lines “You’re a bum, you’re a punk, you’re an old slut on junk” [...]

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Land Rush

While we’re on the topic of great local bloggers, Swamplot offers up a short-but-scathing satire of everything there is to hate about the Houston real estate and development market:
Here’s the problem with these sleek houses on full-acre lots in River Oaks: They’re selling for too damn cheap! The gorgeous land at the southern boundary of [...]

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If It Smells, It Sells

I’ve already thrown in my two cents on here regarding the excessive media coverage surrounding the Joe Horn case.  Many other Houston bloggers have, too.  But since we live in a city whose sole newspaper’s motto seems to be “If It Smells, It Sells,” you can expect that the media frenzy over this case won’t blow over any [...]

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Paging Dr. Evil

Perhaps only in my line of business would you hear the following phrase in a meeting:
“I can’t say that we’re 100% firm without lasers.  With lasers, yes.”
It’s all about the lasers, folks.
Speaking of odd phrases in meetings, never again do I want to hear a 5o-something man in a nice suit who’s presenting on an important [...]

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Catching Flies With Honey

The Houston Chronicle has linked to my humble little blog in their Opinion section today, which is amusing to me seeing as how I’ve never said one nice thing about their paper or their journalists.  Quite the opposite, actually.  Hell, I don’t even have anything decent to say about them in my other blog, which [...]

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December in Houston

Say what you will about Houston, at least we have mild winters.

We took Daisy to the dog park — the awesome Millie Bush Bark Park, to be precise – last weekend, where she roughhoused with her friend Noodle (an obese rottweiler) and swam to her heart’s content in the doggie swimming pool.  [...]

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Joanne Herring’s War

If you’re at all interested in the new movie that’s coming out, Charlie Wilson’s War, you’ll be interested in this.
Of course I’m interested, since I’m interested in anything remotely to do with Texas and especially to do with Houston.  Charlie Wilson’s War features one of the grande dames of Houston society, the inimitable Joanne Herring, [...]

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In Other News: Bears Shit In Woods

And today’s winner in the Most Obvious Yet Unnecessary Front Page Headline category is…
The Houston Chronicle!  Who else?

Never ones to shy away from the hard-hitting stories, the folks at the Chronicle have helpfully armed their readers with the heretofore unknown knowledge that TRAFFIC IS REALLY HEAVY DURING RUSH HOUR.
In tomorrow’s edition:  POPE PROVEN TO BE [...]

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…a good offing towards the land of Nod

I have a new gauge for determining how boring a particular conference call is: whether or not I’m able to maintain consciousness.

Yes, I officially fell asleep at my desk this afternoon while on a conference call.
I got plenty of sleep last night; that’s not the culprit.  The problem here is that we have roughly three conference [...]

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Have Yourself a Merry Little Exercise Machine

We suffered through the one-two punch of company holiday parties this weekend: mine and then Richard’s.  Although both were trying in their own ways, there were a few subtle differences between the two.
Greetings
Mine:  a flurry of air-kissing that leaves you stunned and disoriented
His:  high-fives and cries of “Get yourself a goddamned beer already!” 
Music
Mine:  salsa music provided by what looked eerily like [...]

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Kids These Days…

Our fine friends over at Little Man, What Now? have offered some quality advice on how to handle those damn kids who won’t get off your lawn:
The second course of action, which I employed recently when I discovered some particularly rat-faced specimens sniffing around the back of my house, is to shout obscenity-laden abuse whilst [...]

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Fanning the Flames

It’s not enough that the Chronicle ran an op-ed two days ago denigrating Joe Horn and then placed the op-ed front and center on their website, in a subversive attempt to pass it off as an actual news story instead of an editorial.  And it’s not enough that they (and the rest of the Houston mainstream [...]

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