What Can I Say?

I’m just a busy beaver these days, folks.  And I’m afraid I’ve all but abandoned this little blog…for now.
In the meantime, keep up with my food writing here: she eats.
And keep up with my Houston sports/news/arts/entertainment writing here:  Houstonist.

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Super Tuesday, Now With Extra Super

Way to do us proud, fellow Texans:
Super Tuesday not for Bexar voters
SAN ANTONIO — All the talk about Super Tuesday apparently caused confusion for many voters in Bexar County.
More than 1,000 calls poured into the Bexar County Elections Department on Monday from voters wanting to know where they could vote in Tuesday’s primary.
Problem is — [...]

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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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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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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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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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I Call Shenanigans

The Chronicle has done it again.
The geniuses at our local paper have cribbed the following article directly from the Associated Press, but then took the additional asinine step of rewording the headline to this:
Survey: Houston among top walkable cities in U.S.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Caitlin Jones and her fiance, Evan Oxfeld, grew up in suburbs where [...]

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Good Samaritans Still Exist

This story breaks my heart on so many different levels.
Deported Samaritan: ‘I never could have left him’
Illegal immigrant gave up his trek to U.S. to help 9-year-old wreck victim in Arizona desert
PHOENIX — An illegal immigrant who gave up his long walk into the U.S. to help a boy whose mother was killed in a [...]

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Kucinich???

Good God, could this really be true?

Ultimate 2008 Presidential Candidate Matcher
Your Result: Dennis Kucinich
 
The top priority of Dennis Kucinich is to end the war in Iraq. Kucinich also favors a repeal of the Patriot Act, would fund stem cell research, and create a universal healthcare program. He is liberal on social issues, and favors eliminating [...]

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As If I Needed Another Reason To Love DeRo

…or Pat Onstad, for that matter.

Yesterday’s game was everything a Dynamo fan could have hoped for.  It was what the game is all about: hair-pulling despair and nail-biting nervousness in the first half, rewarded with an explosive, manic jubilance in the second.  Any game that can give me goosebumps for almost two straight hours is a [...]

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You Can Never Go Home Again

Last post of the day, I swear.
When Richard’s family were over here last week, we had several very interesting discussions with them regarding whether or not they’d ever move back to England permanently.  For both his mother and stepfather (who live in a villa in Spain, but keep a house back in Cheshire) as well [...]

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Giving Back

I know, I know — five posts in two days — but I guess it all got bottled up while I was taking a break from blogging to, you know, get married.  Maybe I should have done the NaBloPoMo challenge after all.  Anyway…

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Yo si le voy, le voy al naranja!

Richard and I were at the game last night, predictably, and it was far and away the best game that I’ve personally attended.  Words fail me in describing the electricity of the atmosphere, the fervor of the fans, the heart that our boys displayed out there on the pitch: it was all just amazing.  It [...]

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Damn You, Mavis Beacon

I type exceedingly fast.  I also have a high degree of accuracy when typing.  With these two skills working in harmony, I am like a typing virtuoso.  I’m not trying to brag, I’m just stating a few facts.  I enjoy typing; combined with my love of language and writing, typing gives me a sense of having completed something [...]

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A Sad Day

R.I.P. Lucky Dube

South African reggae star shot dead
The South African reggae musician, Lucky Dube, has been shot dead in front of his children in Johannesburg during an attempted car hijacking.
He had been dropping his teenage son and daughter off in the suburb of Rosettenville on Thursday evening.
Police say they were already out of the car [...]

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I’d Vote For Him

Colbert Announces Presidential Pursuit
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert has announced his candidacy for president on ”The Colbert Report,” tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.
”I shall seek the office of the president of the United States,” Colbert said Tuesday on his Comedy Central show as red, white and blue [...]

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Geography 101

Houston Chronicle staffers, get out your Big Chief tablets and number two pencils.  It’s time for a quick geography lesson.
3 bodies found in Ft. Worth home
FORT WORTH — Three bodies have been found in a Fort Worth home.
Police won’t say how or when they died or release any information on their gender or ages.
But police [...]

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Bread and Circuses

This embodies everything I hate about modern Christian churches:
Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church
According to the article by the New York Times,  churches across the United States have started having Halo 3 tournaments to draw more young men into their youth groups and Sunday services.  While I’m not going [...]

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Civic Journalism Made Simple

If I didn’t know better, I would almost think that the Houston Chronicle is mocking how little our city cares about the Burmese Saffron Revolution:
Dozens in Houston protest Myanmar crackdown
“Dozens”?  Okay, to be fair, there were roughly 100 people protesting outside of the Chinese embassy; this is a pretty good-sized crowd by most standards.  “Dozens” would be more [...]

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Priorities

I love how the Houston Chronicle has chosen to word the headline to a story about the myriad woes in the Acres Homes neighborhood of Houston:
Acres Homes residents tire of weeds, crimes
Because, really, at the end of the day, it’s the weeds — first and foremost — that need to be dealt with.  Crime — [...]

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