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  1. What banners? The few banners that only exist on one small section of one small street, while the rest of the building presents a blank face to the world? Is it a National Guard armory? Is it a prison? Is it a central chilling station? There's certainly nothing about it that tells me that it's either a museum, or that it has any interest in welcoming the public. It's perhaps the most artless art museum I've seen. Prime advertising space. Put a big Corn Poppy on it. Nothing to see here, citizen. Move along. As a point of reference, I am a paying member.
  2. With the fake pagination arrows, fake scroll bar, and map icon, it looks like they're trying to make the broadcast signal look like a web cast. IMO, a bad idea. Each medium has its strengths, and should be utilized that way. A one-size-fits-all solution rarely is. The camera-panning-around-a-bookshelf cold open is… pretty old. BBC Bristol has been using that for its Bargain Hunt open for at least a decade. This is an older version, but you get the idea:
  3. If we dyed it blue, sure. But if it were dyed different colors for different holidays, that would be less subject to ridicule. You could make a half-day festival out of sequentially dumping in different colors during pride weekend. The problem, though, is that the bayou's rate of flow is erratic. The rate of flow of the Chicago River is almost always precisely controlled, and generally runs pretty slowly compared with Buffalo Bayou. I once had an apartment looking down on the main branch of the Chicago River, and can tell you the green color lasts about a week with its slow flow.
  4. Spelling was a little more free-form back then, especially in non-national settings. "To-day" was also very common. It seems like there was a big push toward more standardized spelling after the demise of the campaign to adopt words like "thru" and "thoro." That, incidentally, was the brainchild of newspaper barons like McCormick, who were trying to save money on ink and paper.
  5. You're not wrong. But as they say, "all politics is local." See also: "If you tell a lie enough times, it becomes the truth."
  6. I may have briefly met him a few months ago. I was walking by the building and admired his collection of machines through the window. After I'd moved on, he came out of the store and called after me asking if I wanted to buy anything. I told him, I didn't have room for that sort of thing, and asked him for suggestions for an arcade nearby. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of the place he told me, so I never went. But from our brief interaction, he seemed at least neighborly and helpful.
  7. I wonder when/if Chevron will follow suit. Surely, there are tax benefits to being headquartered in Houston, compared with California.
  8. They all vary from hour to hour. Today's peaks so far: Brays Bayou - 3,100 cubic feet per second Buffalo Bayou - 1,200 cubic feet per second Greens Bayou - 1,300 cubic feet per second Sims Bayou - < 1,000 cubic feet per second White Oak Bayou - 190 cubic feet per second
  9. They do. I know someone who interacts with people like this. But they don't stay with other people. They rent (or in some cases buy) houses for the duration of their stay, because often they are here for the better part of a year or more. There never seem to be enough extended stay hotels near large medical centers. If there was, Ronald McDonald House wouldn't be needed. Medical Center hotel occupancy is currently at 62%. That seems low to me, since other large American cities are reporting revenue exceeding pre-pandemic days. But all I've heard is revenue figures, not occupancy, so that could be a reflection of soaring hotel rates.
  10. Maybe it's a real estate maximization strategy, like why limit your building to one demographic, when you can being in two. Similar to how restaurants realized that they were paying rent 24/7 on spaces they only used a fraction of the time. That's why every fast food company now does breakfast, and why some restaurants rent out their kitchens overnight as ghost kitchens or for companies to make bakery goods to deliver to coffee shops in the morning.
  11. I think that's enough Trump talk in this section. This is supposed to be about state politics. There's a National section for Mr. Trump.
  12. Yeah, that's the one I was thinking about. I haven't been there, but they put a sandwich sign on the sidewalk some days.
  13. I don't think that's right. I knew about the Mall of the Mainland in 1999 just from driving by. It had a big sign facing I-45. The reason nobody stopped was because it was set far back from tree freeway and there was no obvious exit for access, especially at 70MPH.
  14. Not a reputable source, and too far out for any kind of certainty. Look at how much turmoil there has been in the last 20 years. These people are trying to say they know what's going to happen over the next 80? Not a chance.
  15. How long was he at the cathedral? i ask because priests get transferred all the time. A priest I was going off got transferred once and when I asked him about it, he said that unless there's a school attached to the parish, it's unusual for a priest to be stationed at a church for more than five years.
  16. Glad to hear you're doing the right thing in terms of re-wilding your lawn. As for fireflies, don't be disappointed about not seeing one. According to Smithsonian Magazine, they're hard to spot much beyond the east coast: I once read that seeing fireflies is very hard west of the Mississippi. I know someone from a very rural area of the Midwest who's never seen one.
  17. Following up to my own somewhat-off-topic post, I got a letter in the mail today from Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York, and it makes a distinction between the parish and the cathedral, too. It reminds me that there is a basic distinction between a church/cathedral and a parish in modern Catholicism. There are plenty of churches and cathedrals with multiple parishes (many in Chicagoland), there are parishes with no church (I've seen this in Seattle), and even churches with no parish (Las Vegas). I think that was the root of my confusion above. I've long seen the two as distinct entities.
  18. They're going to feel pretty foolish in ten years when the freeway is gone.
  19. I think it might have been torn down before Allison. I worked a block away from 1999 to 2003, and have no memory of that place.
  20. Because elections cost money, and the people and companies that profit from sprawl and the status quo donate money to pay for the candidates to be elected.
  21. I wonder if the downtown location will stay open. I understand it does good business.
  22. I've always found irony in the fact that so many people drive air conditioned luxury farm machinery to a gym so they can sweat.
  23. Is about time. That "coming soon" sign has been there for at least two years. Though, I expect that having a gas station on this corner isn't going to be an asset to the neighborhood.
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