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    sportsball.... my eyes glazed over already.
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    that sounds about the right timeline for the balcony conversion
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    City Auditorium was torn down to build Jones Hall. fun trivia.... City Auditorium is where Johnny Ace "committed suicide" by supposedly playing Russian Roulette with Big Mama Thornton standing nearby.
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    the wooden structure that was built to house that convention was demolished to make way for the long-standing Coliseum and Music Hall
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    it's an empty space right now. Hmmm... going on memory, at The Palm Theater, we saw... Star Wars Alien Raiders Of The Lost Ark Coal Miner's Daughter Neighbors (John Belushi's last flick) and many more, it's been gone for almost 40 years, so the memory is fuzzy
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    Jackson is an easy name to remember. Sharpstown was Prescott, the fake movie phone numbers were Diamond, now just 555
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    not for long.
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    70,000 1938 dollars is $1.4 million in today's Monopoly money
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    huh huh huh.... he said Hornwood. (I lived on Hornwood for 8 years)
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    I was working at Cardi's at the time. In between the time we booked The Outfield and they played there, their video hit MTV. We booked them for a second show, which sold out immediately. One weird thing, the two shows were 8 days apart. Part of my job that day was making sure their blind keyboard player Reg didn't fall off the loading dock behind the club. Cardi's shut down 37 years ago today. I still miss the place.
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    Standing on top of the world.. .
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    that works very well for Megabus.
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    now that it's topped out, I can say what it looks like to me..... it looks like a stubby middle finger pointed to the northeast... .
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    that's the neighborhood where I grew up. The grassy area to the left of it is a retention pond for that formerly swampy area (there are pipes underground there, they installed this stuff in 1980 ish. They go north next to my old friend Patty's house, then between the old back pool and at the cutest girl in the neighborhood's house, it makes a 45 degree turn, and into the bayou) We used to do "acceleration tests" late at night on huntington venture.... get to 20 mph, punch it at the first street light, them slam on the brakes after the second one on the right. My old T-Bone would get to 70, my brother's car got to 72... I never did it in my old Barracuda, I was smart enough to know that it would never stop in time at the next intersection... .
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    this would be a fun time to walk around the park in a bear suit.... eh, Booboo!
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    that's one of the best spots in town for taking pictures at night
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    Cheech And Chong were there because it was a venue they were booked to play after their preferred venue, Liberty Hall, closed it's doors.
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    McDonalds is more of a real estate company than a slop seller
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    One of my guys lived on Jackwood St close to Fondren Dr. My inner 8 year old died laughing every time I picked him up for work... .
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    I'm on the exact opposite of the political spectrum as Whitmire, but I'll tell you that electing him can be one of the best moves Houston can make in a long time. He's well connected with the regular people of Houston and is a damned good administrator. If you ask him to, he will hold that dumb bolshevik (rhymes with witch)'s feet to the fire and get that big ditch dug near the jailhouse.
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    the only thing worse than a bus running late is a bus that is ahead of schedule
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    the problem with Randall's is the chain is owned by Safeway.
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    they tried that about 100 years ago. Those buildings sank into the swamp. Then they rebuilt them. Those buildings sank into the swamp. Then they tried again. those buildings burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth set..... that's what you see here. :)
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    is this where I mark myself safe from having to see the Embassy Suites when I'm at the GRB or Rustic? .
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