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  1. gag. It's because of this sort of fruits and berries stuff that I got bored with craft beer years ago. I'll be hangin' with that dude in Red's avatar, drinking regular, manly beer. And liquor. Waiting for those damn kids to get off my lawn.
  2. It has little-to-nothing to do with morals, and everything to do with relative wealth. In the case of dropping birth rates since the 50s, that can be attributed in part to the birth control pill and the rise of the post war middle class. In much broader terms, birth rates across cultures and generations are in large part attributable to simple biological imperative: the better off a society is, the fewer bodies it takes to continue propagating the human race. It has been anthropolically observed for a long time that once a culture no longer has to scrape by to just subsist, they don't need as many bodies working to produce food; as many bodies to fill the gap left by infant, mortality, famine, and high rates of disease.
  3. When I was about 4, I was very sick and taken to the ER with a 105 temp. What did the hospital do? They put me in a giant ice water bath.
  4. Really? Well alrighty then! Actually I was thinking Vines=Spidey
  5. Just checking. No hard feelings. Which begs the question....is Texas Vines back, with a new name???
  6. I sure hope you're not talking about me, chief. Because I made a number of well-reasoned posts about my views on the ecomonic viability of a film studio, and put forth a number of ideas on what I see as a viable solution. One that represents technological innovation this city should be proud to have its name associated with. That's not negativity. That's called discourse. It's what the HAIF is about. If all you can bring to to table is a bunch of simplistic 'me too' boosterism, do us a favor and go find a kiddie pool like City-Data to play in.
  7. I too think the film facility is a bad idea. (see posts 41-61). I can post a dozen more times on why that is so, but as usual, some people are more attracted by shiny new things than economically viable (but unsexy) thinking. Big Traditional Hollywood is struggling. Why commit future precious tax dollars (in the form of incentive give-aways) to a 20th-century idea like a giant sound studio? Only a small portion of film can afford huge production. TV can afford even less production. The film business will go the way of the record business. And the newspaper business. A state-of-the-art, indoor agricultural venture is in line with the type of REAL vision that suits Houston. The site around building is already big enough to accommodate operations like processing and shipping. We have nearby technology and ag partners in the universities. I'm willing to bet that a Texas-based retail grocer like HEB would sign on for marketing and distribution. Stop thinking like someone who wants to consume 'innovation', and start thinking like someone who wants to contribute to the 21st century!
  8. If Ford would bring back the SVT (or whatever they call the performance package now) 5-door Focus for a little under 20 grand, they might not completely suck.
  9. I would tend to agree, but, all the bidnessmen doing big deals needed something to do after they ate their expense account steaks. Houston's strip clubs were very well-known. Is that still the case?
  10. Your post is wonderfully written, Schwinn. But I have to tell you, I am disturbed by the girl in the immediate left foreground of your school picture. She is channeling some serious bad vibe.
  11. another for the list: The Wortham being built. That was a real source of civic pride, in the middle of the bust. I remember my parents buying opera season tix. (PS to Red, more like 19 year-old Crunch in a vinyl dress and doc martens. Sorry to ruin it for ya. )
  12. That's a really good way of putting it. In some ways back then I felt more connected to other Houstonians, and the city seemed to have a much more tangible identity. We (or at least I) tend to mock the CVB folks for their bungled attempts at branding 21st century Houston, but it's a tough task, given how much we've grown. But just for the record--my butt never got near a pair of Rockies. I was quite happy to make it through the decade without any midnite-rodeoing.
  13. Me too. I am a total product of the era. In 1980 I was a 16-year-old, disaffected suburban youth who had discovered garage bands, Montrose and scuzzy downtown bars (mmm...old Warrens), and by the end of the decade was a fully formed, adult citizen who had spent the decade generally living life to as much excess as I could manage whilst staying out of jail (anybody remember it being called the Whitmire Hilton?) Which in retrospect sounds funny and a little pathetic, as I sit here in my beige corporate office slinging presentations about life insurance and market indices. But, I made it through intact. A lot of people crashed and burned back then.
  14. you can take the Aggie out of college station..............
  15. Speaking of downtown, another one for the list: Urban Animals and all the glass blown out/downtown closed off after hurricane Alicia. I remember it seeming way worse the Ike--at least the glass.
  16. Here, here! Don't forget the corporately-sancitoned hell-raising. As the 80s came to a close, I was just out of school, working, and vivdly remember the last of the big law firms' Christmas parties in 1988 and 89--V&E, Fullright, Baker Botts laywers, doing coke in the bathrooms and groping each other in empty rooms after pillaging the open bar. I've heard similar stories about the 'hospitality suites' at the Offshore Technology Conference before the bust.
  17. I see your Confetti and Power Tools and raise you a Cardi's and Island! Ah, someone else with fond memorires of the Caribana. I remember 3 for 1 drinks there, and 'New Wave' nights on Tues or Wed--can't remember which. Add to the list: Phi Slama Jama The Old Kemah drawbridge Ale House shows at Rockefeller's
  18. since you mention it, there's a cool show going on at Mink Saturday nite. I'm not hip at all, but this is the only part of midtown I hang out in. Kinda related to roadrunner's query, but for me the club scene is irrelevant. I go to neighborhood bars with friends occasionally, and out for live music. Nightlife per se is not a destination. I've never gotten the impression there are many true scenesters on the haif.
  19. Perhaps I used the wrong word. Given the populuarity of Woodrows, Cyclone Anaya's, Pub Fiction, and the strip-center sports bar that advertises waitresses in stripperish referee outfits--you make a compelling case.
  20. Hey, just doing my part to keep the inner loop hip. It's a slippery slope--one more middling enchilada and margs joint, next thing you know there's a Chuy's, fat office women and SAHMs whooping it up for group happy hour, and families people with their shreiking babies ruining the vibe on Saturday night.
  21. Why are people so obsessed with talking on phones ALL the damn time? You hear these conversations everywhere. Just babbling on about nothing. Or the self important blowhards who are 'doing business' for the whole world to hear. I value phone time with people I care about, and I do business over the phone as is reasonably necessary, but for the most part I consider a ringing phone to be an imposition. In the car, I prefer to minimize distraction so I can drive defensively, and save my hide from all the drivers who think they're so skilled the laws of physics and basic principles of cognition don't apply to them. I'm beginning to believe we have raised an entire generation who's self worth is measured in cell phone minutes, and who are emotionally incapable of just being quiet and alone with their thoughts.... but that's too far OT. Oops, almost forgot: You kids get off my lawn.
  22. Speaking of protein, weird canned fish. Sardines, herring, etc. Mainly sardines. On a cracker, or a small piece of bread, with a tiny bit of mustard, and a little onion. Ummm. yumm. And extremely healthy with the omega 3s. Just don't eat a whole can at once. I can eat pickled cucumber, tomato and red onion every single day. In the summer we usually keep a container of it made in the fridge. And black bean/onion/tomato/jalapeno salsa with lime juice and cilantro. Make it from canned beans (corn is a good addition) and keep in the fridge for a chip dip or side dish.
  23. Ugh. Further contributing to the suburbanization of Midtown. A low-end, north Texas, tex-mex place? At least there are still real restaurants there, like Reef and Ibiza and T'afia.
  24. It is rather obnoxious, but considering my BFs urologist is located in that bldg, I shan't talk badly about it, as long as a 7 mm kidney stone is still firmly lodged in his delicate parts. On the up side, the building's not brown.
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