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    I must be lucky. I just walked past it, and it's not on.
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    I'll break out my Winnipeg Jets jersey. Shame about the Aeros. They were always fun. I'm surprised that the Toyota Center capacity is under 20,000. It always looks so big from the outside. According to Wikimopedia: Basketball: 18,104 Hockey: 17,800 Concerts: 19,300
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    ♫ Because a virtual office In a virtual home Means you never have to drive Through the wrong part of town. Shut out the world. It's getting worse. Save yourself. Don't leave the house. ♫ https://music.apple.com/us/album/pass-it-along-lp-version/1444056333?i=1444056843
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    When the sign comes down — that's when we get excited.
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    You know that when we click on your user name, we can see that you're John Lomax flogging your own book, right? Good thing I like cowboy poetry. They used to have a cowboy poetry show on KTRH.
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    Riding by on the train, I'm always surprised how un-vandalized and litter-free this property is.
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    I was in Methodist Hospital's Outpatient Building a little after sunrise yesterday, and took a few really bad pictures out the window while resting between questions during the mandatory 75-question "e-check-in" endurance test. Didn't we used to have social workers for these sorts of things? I'm supposed to spill my guts to a robot?
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    Wow, how many parking tickets does Methodist's golf cart have that it got booted?
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    Mexican food? In Houston? Way to go out on a limb, there.
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    Hard to say what the ramifications are, but if history is any guide, it won't be good. I worked for the first of the modern-day giant soul-eating national radio companies when it was just starting to devour the airwaves, and I could see the writing on the wall then. Centralizing and cost-cutting gutted terrestrial radio. One important lesson I learned, that is still true today, was that the farther away the signal is from corporate headquarters, the lower the quality of the local content. If there is any. There were three things that came together at around the same time to make terrestrial radio awful: The raising of ownership caps, including LMAs and JSAs. Communications companies becoming beholden to Wall Street, starting with Capital Cities buying ABC. Cheap computers and the ability to control them remotely. I'm not even sure which Houston radio stations are still locally-owned. I guess you could argue that KUHF is still locally owned, but the vast majority of its programming is from other cities. Its classical subchannel is from Saint Paul. Its alternative subchannel is from Philadelphia. Its main channel has just one hour of local content each weekday. Sad.
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    Put some in front of City Hall. That's another magnet. Heck HPD can't even keep them from doing donuts on the corners right by police headquarters. They're just not afraid.
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    Glad to see a bit of Victoria here. I'm headed down that way in a few weeks, and might stop by the Trail museum.
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    It's only minor hyperbole. It is a fact that the vast majority of downtown's fountains are dead. Which ones are even still running? Market Square Smith fountain Heritage Park Any others? Every once in a very long while, a Cotswold fountain will turn on and run for a couple of weeks and then stop. In two years, I've seen the fountain at Houston Center running once. The water features at Discovery Green are inconsistent at best.
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    Unless you're the mayor of New York, Los Angeles, or maybe Boston, it's a step down. You can go from governor of Texas or congressman/senator from Texas to president, but you're not going to make that jump from mayor of Houston.
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    People sit at tables on sidewalks next to parking lots and pretend its "cafe dining" so I guess anything is possible.
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    Good to see something finally happening there. I used to live a couple of blocks away. it would be cool if they used the 9 West Gray address. Maybe they can get it as a vanity address from USPS. Stranger requests have been granted. The green space should stay green. It's good for slurping up storm water and cooling down the street. I wish there were loss of neighborhood gardening clubs that could be given permission to maintain all these random slices of green all over the city. When they're done up nicely, they really add a lot to tree neighborhood. When they're left abandoned, they're just a trash magnet.
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    Should be points off for including a monument that's not actually in the City of Houston. It's in LaPorte. As an aside, lots of cities engage in this sort of tomfoolery. The seal of the city of Las Vegas includes: Skyscrapers, of a design, height, and density which do not exist within 300 miles of Las Vegas. Boulder Dam, which is in Boulder City, not Las Vegas. Red cliffs, which I presume are supposed to represent either Red Rock Canyon or Valley of fire, both of which are outside of the city. The Colorado River, which is a dozen miles away from Las Vegas. A Joshua tree, which is not native to the Las Vegas Valley.
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    There was an article in the Chronicle this past Thursday about the governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont, slamming downtown Houston on a couple of radio stations in the nutmeg state. On WTIC: On WPLR: While downtown Houston isn't perfect, Mr. Lamont forgets that he's from Hartford, which invented rolling up the sidewalks at 5pm. Sadly, the best civilized retort came from Lina Hidalgo, who tried to tout downtown's "fabulous restaurants, historic buildings & massive murals" — all things that every other city can claim, including Brownsville. The restaurants aren't open very much. Every city has historic buildings. And the murals are nice, but 91% of people file them under "who gives a shit." Hundreds of other cities have been using massive murals to disguise the urban blight of blank brick walls for the last half a century. Welcome, aboard, Houston! Hopefully, this acerbic opinion from an importantish outsider will act as a little kick in the pants of local officials to get them to stop staring at their bellybuttons and understand that Houston needs to step it up.
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    The AC Hotel had whichever team was the Owls. Something out of Florida, I think.
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    I think it depends on how you define "back in the day." Architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rhoe didn't have a "firm" in the modern sense, but they had "studios" of eager apprentices and associates who performed much the same function. And those studios certainly operated on much the same global scale as many similarly-sized "global" companies of their era. I'm not sure when architecture went from studios to conglomerates. Maybe in the 80's?
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    Good to see something happening with this building. I walked past it while navigating the detours around the marathon earlier this year. Based on the way it was constructed, it looks to me like it might have been a bank at one time. Not one of those Greek-inspired bank buildings, but one built in the 80's, which might make sense because of the green marble accents. It's funny how brass and green marble fell out of fashion so quickly, and I learned to hate that style. Now I'm starting to think of it as historic and worthy of preservation. Go figure.
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    I went down to Galveston last month for the first time in a long time, and was really surprised by the amount of development and redevelopment being done. Seems like a lot of both new construction, and some people with deep pockets trying to save the old stuff. Though I was only in a small part of the city. There's a big new apartment block going up on Broadway (?) that looks intriguing.
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    I sure hope the second picture is the "after" picture. Much nicer.
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    This is on my list of places to go next month. Looks cool to me. I'll post some pictures when I do.
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    When I've used 311 in the past, the follow-up process has been pretty thoroughly documented. So let us know what the response/action is.
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