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Gary

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  1. Yeah i understand that but to just not give a damn about the aesthetics of the back is inexcusable.
  2. So that's what everyones been talking about (the back side). The people that designed that albatross should be strung up, I have never seen an uglier building. And now there building another one, derrrrrr. Someone with the city should have stopped this thing until a revamped design for the back was in place. I remember when it was going up and I thought, "Man that's the tallest storage building I've ever seen". Talk about not caring about your work.
  3. No dissrespect intended, but why don't we knock down Rigley field whle were at it. Tearing down the Dome for a soccer team would be a travesty. That's some of the problem I've noticed in Houston's architecture, theres no loyalty to past culture. I've seen some old pics of this city and there was some fantastic stuff 50 and 60 years ago. The Shamrock is a perfect example. There are plenty of areas to make this work but good night don't knock down the eighth wonder of the world.
  4. Don't tell me they are building two of those things?
  5. Point taken. Although I grew up a Christian and do belive the teachings of the Bible, I don't really practice my faith nor do I attend any church. I guess my problem with Osteen is that his message is always positive with nothing negative and if you follow the teachings of the Bible there is plenty of negatives. Don't get me wrong I do see the other side as well being negative all the time. I know of one church in particular that beat the crap out of people, and to the point that many left the church and the faith. I guess there is two sides to this. Personaly I prefer the positive like you. It seems to motivate me to be a better Christian. By the way my regards to you in refernce to the Popes immenant death. Hopefully the church will appoint someone as upstanding as John Paul II.
  6. I'm now going against my initial rebuttle to this subject but I must just out of curiosity. Before I ask this question please understand that it's ot meant to be quaresome at all, again just curious. Ok, in regards to the Christian church not being against Homosexuality how do you get past scriptures like I Corinthians 6:9-10? I've always understood the church to be against homosexuality not against the homosexual.
  7. You may not be trying to offend anyone but in my case you have done so. My brother is a music minister with 2nd and I know first hand what a fine man Dr Young is. Give an example of why this man (Dr Young) scares you. As far as Joel Osteen not being a right winger, you could not be farther from the truth. Pay attention to his messages and his fathers messages and you will find that he is very right wing. The difference is that Osteen is more of a motivational speaker than anything else thus he comes across as more accepting. I don't understand how a discussion involving the summit has to turn into a religious debate. Stop It!
  8. As far as livability there are many places in Houston I'm aware of but being in the music circle for years I have grown to love the more eclectic areas of cities. I didn't mean to exclude Memorial, in fact I've mentioned before how much I love the trees in that area. In context I was trying to point out the many areas in Houstons close in burbs that are generic and flat out ugly. Of course there are some fantastic areas like Memorial that are close in but I can't think of many other area's that are close burbs that I would consider nice. I think the inner loop has an energy that is very unique which is why I love it so, as well as the bay area (CL, Kemah). These are places I like to be and spend time. Whereas the Memorial/Briarforest area is just a pretty drive to me. I'm a transplant who loves many parts of this great city, however as far as spending my valuble time it's almost always inside the loop or at the bay.
  9. My bass player lives in Willowbend and I'm there at least three times a week. I can tell you that the entire neighborhood on both sides of Willowbend have been totally revitalized. He bought his home ten years ago for 60,000.00 and just got it appraised at 120,000.00. He's going to sit on it a while as the appraisal district told him it would do nothing but escalate in value. Of course that means higher taxes. The wierd thing is that just a couple of blocks away (South Post Oak) is litteraly slum.
  10. I think that since Houston has more to plan and deal with (DT, UT, MT &Med Ctr) it would be logical that Dallas would progress faster on there UT planning and development. IMO I again think that Houston has far more potential than Dallas, it's just going to take more time, but damn I'm ready to go.
  11. I've always thought that for a sprawl city Houstons Uptown was an amazing plan. It has a very powerful look. The inside of the area is also well planned with the stainless arches and signs. My point is that both cities have there strengths. Houston could use more connected living areas in Midtown and there on course for that, there are midrise complexes going up everywhere. That being said I have to admit that Houston seems to move slower than most cities in there planning phases. I see tons of proposals but little action. Now, I believe when looking at the possibilities of urbananity Houston has far more potential than Dallas. Houstons layout from UT to DT to the Med Center is totally ripe for a massive urban landscape. We have the buildings and the space between areas, let's get going.
  12. To my knowledge they are. One thing though, I (& others) have noticed a far more commercial paper out the Press over the last couple of years. It's full of advertisements etc. When I first started reading it, it was a better paper.
  13. I wish I could answer that but I pretty much stuck to the pedestrian only part of the party. To bad you couldn't take a cab to a place where you could catch the rail, it was pretty cool seeing people in it at night coming down all that pedestrian traffic.
  14. Maybe it's not a tollway. I had a few people in the neighborhood tell me that it was. I also think your right about the interchange not being in the immediate plans. The mill they put up looks like it's going to be there a long time and man it's as ugly as you can possibly imagine. Why did they put that stupid thing in the middle of the road??????? On top of that the dust in this area from the mill and the trucks coming in and of of the area is just murder.
  15. I know this is a little to the side of the discussion but I have a question. I live in Cimmeron which is about a mile from I-10 and about a half a mile from 99. They have already begun construction of the tollway going south but started about a half mile south of I-10. About 200 feet north of where they started is a huge concrete mill (right in the middle) which was obviously put there for the construction project. Now my question is, are they going to build a ramp from I-10 to the tollway or are they going to make people go through the light at 99 to enter the tollway?
  16. Great I'm going Thursday night! Speaking of SXSW how is that going now days? Back in 91 I played with a Texas band by the name of Stride and the atmosphere was great. Oddly enough none of us were from Texas, they had just moved here from GIT in LA.
  17. That explains it. Damn I wish I had known that, I'm sure it was a great show. This is off subject but have you seen "Beetle"? There supposed to be the Thursday night house band (Continental) and I've heard some pretty good things about em..
  18. Sorry for my ignorance, what is Red Star? Theres so many places I'm not sure what's what.
  19. Last night (Saturday) me and a couple of buddies took off to Ginger Man pub in Rice Village. When we pulled into the arcade area the streets were packed everywhere, there was litteraly no where to park for blocks. we eventually got lucky and found a place. When we finally made it to the bar it was like sardines in a can, and it wasn't the only place like that. Every single bar (and grill) were packed to the hilt and we found it impossible to get in anywhere, so we left. We then headed to Rudyards on Waugh and encountered the same thing so we left. We then went to the Continental Club on Main to find it worse than all of them and that was with a $15.00 cover. Since we were already on Main we decided to head Downtown and hit a beer pub (Mcelroys) which is also on Main. When we got close to the area I was blown away by the thousands of people (and cars) swamping Main and Prarie. It was so packed that we had to park 9 blocks from where we were going. When we eventually made it on foot to Main it looked almost like Mardi Gras. The streets were packed to the gills with people. Every bar had lines going into them and in fact some bars had lines with over 100 people well past 1:00am. When we got to Mcelroys we got very lucky to find a table outside being cleared so we grabbed it. As we sat back drinking Black & Tans we people watched for two hours as hundreds passed by our table on the street. I know the ladies may not appreciate this but the girls outnumbered the boys about 4 to 1, it was great. We also observed how young the crowd was, probably an average of between 22 to 26. When we finally decided to head home around 1:30am the bars were still full and the people were still there. I jus thought it was a great night to experience the Houston night life, this city is really up and coming and I'm proud to live here.
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