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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It’s Worth It

I guess I can say that at least one small thing I’ve written over the years has been officially published…
The Houston: It’s Worth It book hit the shelves back in October 2007 and — like the bad procrastinator I’ve been lately — I haven’t even bothered to check it out yet, even though I hear [...]

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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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*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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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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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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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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Rotten Neighbors

Website of the day:  http://www.rottenneighbor.com
What a lovely, voyeuristic tool this is.  And it makes me feel so much better to know that other people out there have horror stories that easily put mine to shame.  My neighbor’s three tiny, yippy, constantly-barking dogs are nothing compared to skeevy Peeping Toms or the stench of death from [...]

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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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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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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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Small Hands…Smell Like Cabbage

I have, rather unexpectedly, finally got an evening to myself!  We were on our way to pick up Richard’s brother from the airport, but received a phone call* that turned us right back around, so now I’m back home with a bit of spare time for a change.  Richard’s brother was flying in from Australia [...]

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And While I’m On The Subject Of Phone Calls…

I think that most of us have been through the trials and tribulations of trying to sell something on Craigslist.  Also, if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably scanned the M4M section of the personal ads and sent the most disgusting postings (gross penis pictures included, of course) to all of your straight male friends’ [...]

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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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Move Over, South Beach

…Houston is the hot new tourist destination for fall.  Or, at least that’s what the fine folks at NBC’s Today Show would have you believe.  Now, obviously, I love Houston.  I love it with all of my heart and I will ferociously defend its honor to any potential detractors.  But I don’t know about Houston as [...]

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Hubris

Oh, how I regret my recent hubris…
You would think that by now I’d learn that every time I make some boastful prediction about a thing that particular thing goes terribly awry.  Today’s game was no exception.  At 1:00, Richard and I settled into our bleacher seats, grinning with that cocky assurance one has when they feel [...]

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