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    After your army idea, nothing should surprise me Alas, unless you're thinking of switching teams, the first legal male prosty in the US recently quit his Nevada bunny ranch gig after a couple of months to go back to porn. No customers. That's one bright spot about being female: I may make 78 cents to the man's dollar, but I'll never have to pay for sex.
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    Whazzup with all the being offended and charges of sarcasm? I was simply celebrating the karmic history of the building.
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    I rather like the idea they bought it. All the Jesus in the world won't change the fact that thousands of people smoked dope in their pulpit, peed in their sinks and had coked-up sex in their bathroom stalls. Vaya con dios, Summmit.
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    I've often wondered what percentage of the big-box shoppers eventually go to the other restaurants/stores near their primary destination. I shop at this Target/Petsmart about every other week, but have never gone to any of the other places, and doubt I ever will. In the world of retail real estate, is there some sort of factor that's used? For example, we have area demographics of x, expect xx percent of those to shop the anchor, and xxxx of those to shop the smaller stores by virute of proximity?
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    .....and I personally think it would be cool to brand a corporate logo straight onto your forehead. Hopefully that sounds absurd to you. What have we become, culturally, when a whole generation not only mistakes marketing for beauty, but longs for the visual blight of ads to 'liven up' public spaces?
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    ...speaking of Burn Notice, the completely awesome Bruce Campbell is at the Houston ComicPalooza next month.
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    Isn't it great? Rodney was forced out of business temporarily due to debt issues, yet like a post-apocalyptic roach who refuses to die, is back in the game using the same old business model of aggressivley promoting debt financing to sell a shoddy foreign made product with a 300% mark-up to the lower middle and working class. Boo effin hoo on Finger's debt problem. No interest, no payments for 3 years, indeed. Good luck if you try, like we did, to deal with one of their floor lizards on a discount for cash. It's all about the financing.
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    he he. Nice one. But now we've gone and given the lad ideas. wait a minute.....all this talk about acid....I just finally clued in to your screen name. Now that's some crazy. I hope there's not a direct connection between mkultra and you?? oh, and how 'bout those class A vacancy numbers! (......feeble gesture at staying OT.......)
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    WTF Niche!!! You did NOT! That's not just crazy, that's Roky Erickson crazy.
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    It may just be the the first new apartment building featuring the added amenity of a parrot colony. I understand they particularly like cell towers, and tend to live by the dozens in them. Don't know if they're a nuisance in the way grackles are.
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    heh, that's only because I wasn't living here at the time. I was too busy being pissed about the Zachary contracts in SA.
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    A TIRZ and donated land is public funding. It may not be direct out of my pocket, but it's still public land, and future public tax revenue. Trust me, I've read every story on this issue, long before there was a Dynamo. Like I said--it's a basic philosophical position. I don't care if it's soccer, or my beloved Astros or San Antonio Spurs. I love sports, but they need to pay their own goddamned way. Clearly this deal is nearly done, so I'm standing down and will support it. I live over here, so I sure hope all you fanboys put your money where your mouth is.
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    The management district (and the civic associations who spread their message) need to stop the fear mongering. By all means, encourage citizens to support the stadium. But I will not support an organization that uses rumor, lies and scare tactics (crime! economic blight! jails!!!) to push their agenda. It's too bad, because as a white, professional, property owning new resident of the east end, I know they want me on board with the new world order. But you don't get my support by insulting my intelligence with shrill, amatuer propaganda and bad logic. (Claiming that the the Dynamo stadium will cost 'peanuts' compared to Reliant, as the ECA 'action alert' stated, does nothing to advance the argument that the new deal is good one. In fact all that did was remind me how much greedy NFL owner have ruined pro football for me-- not a smart thing when trying to get me to support a deal for another sports team owner. ) FWIW, my opposition is philosophical in that I oppose any public funding for privately owned stadia--not land, not money, not anything. But that ship has sailed, and since the city already commiteed to the deal, just build the thing already. I do agree that the east end location is best.
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    I think I remember seeing an HBJ article a while back--want to say it's Ashley.
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    having gone back an re-read the email and the Chron story it linked, there was a quote from the mayor that the city was looking at sites (multiple) for a potential new jail or crime lab. It was vague at best. I would actively oppose a jail on the site, but I will not support the stadium based on a vague threat that something else might get built instead.
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    I have the same question. I've heard rumors and internet noise, amd now the alarmist email, but no source. The idea of a jail removed from the court complex, and within walking distance of two sports facilities, the convention center, and Discovery Green is seems a little difficult to believe, especially when it only seems to come up in connection with the Dynamo stadium.
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    I was thinking a toothless meth casualty working at the quick lube and fantasizing about Megan Fox, but that might be more east Montgomery County. In all seriousness, I was not aware the COH had annexation sights anywhere at the moment. Do they?
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    Is tailgating permitted by the leaugue, team, or the venue? The only tailgate I've done at MMP was for a Jimmy Buffett show, and we paid an extra couple of hundred bucks for each parking space, plus an upcharge on the event tix. (The parking lot was far better entertainment than the actual show.) If the Dynamo stadium went in downtown and they were using MMP parking lots, would they even allow tailgating? Guess that's written into the contracts.
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    Agree, but this goes back to the idea of high-end retail saturation. All Tootsies is doing is moving a mile or so down the road--not adding a second store, and leaving a large hole in Highland Village in the process. Between Highland Village, West Ave and the eventual Regent Square, how much growth can we reasonably expect? I'm not seeing a net gain, just empty older space. Even wealthy people can only do so much shopping in a 5 mile radius.
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    There's a Ruggles Green on Alabama b/w Greenbriar and Kirby. It's a Ruggles, but 'green.' Not sure what that means. Green building? Green food? Does it mean the original restaurant is Ruggles Gay? In any case, good for them on expanding.
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    I'd think a lavaderia would be just as attractive an idea inside a mall as in a strip center. And, they are getting bigger and better these days. If a giant laundromat opened at Gulfgate, it would pack 'em in. Sounds like a sound business venture for re-purposing a mall in an area with a large immigrant population, IMO. I've spent quite a lot of time at laundromats in the east end when we were renting, and like with grocery shopping, people bring their families to do laundry, which provides increased traffic to the adjacent businesses.
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    Haha, makes me think of the Beastie Boys, License to Ill. Between the overly clever name and the meat-tini, I'm leaning toward it being a restaurant chain based out of either Phoenix, Denver or Dallas. Lucky for us, someone is keeping menu cliches from the late 90s alive! My guess is, it's a tiny portion of shaved tenderloin served in a martini glass. If I'm wrong and it really is some sort of Willy Wonka-ish meat drink, I would be totally impressed.
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    Does that say tenderloin-tini ?
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    Big plus 1. With bonus points since you stopped me from having to type a reply, which was going to be what you clarified--that live music is weak as a category next to dining and retail in a mall, and for the large part, there is no crossover appeal to the daytime retail consumer. I predict one of the newly opened resturants will be toast by year end, and at least one of the 'coming soons' won't open at all. Few capital-intensive, high-concept restaurants can survive on those razor-thin margins. With regard to your number 2--there was a really good segment on NPR a few days ago about highly concentrated shopping districts, ala the jewelry district in Manhattan. PPS. Live Nation (ands Ticketmaster, etc) is Pure Satanic Evil. MegaStreisand Evil. Just had to get that in there.....
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    Someone's happy hour was better than ours: remember the girl in the very small gold dress who made such an entrance? Apparently she was doing her best Sharon Stone impersonation at the bar.
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