TJones

Thank you my friend. Just been a crazy 5 years or so. 2 kids...1 divorce.... 2 new homes...1 new career...4 different cities lived in...6 different cities worked in, because of my new career... and 3000 craft beers later. I am back to my hometown of H-Town. Well, Cypress, but close enough. It's good to be back.

There are lots of venues to have a fine Craft Beer here in the Houston Metro Area. Some Old buildings have been repurposed into fine drinking establishments or eateries and have found new life. Lots of new exciting people moving here everyday. What are some of your favorite wateringholes that you have found with weird or exciting architecture to behold and be in awe of as you imbibe your local or national favorites ? Feel free to list names and addresses of these places and WHY they are so awesome to you. Don't forget to tell us what your poison is as well....be it a craft cocktail they make or a specialty drink only they make or your favorite wine, but most importantly.....DON'T FORGET THE CRAFT BEER !!!

P.S If you say PBR, or Bud....you will lose a testicle or breasticle, depending on gender !

I would start us off, but I don't wish to seem biased or that I am advertising for any one establishment. Just Sayin' !

This man was the father of a good friend of mine. Many if not ALL of you have seen his work in Houston and didn't even know it.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/deaths/7284129.html

This man was the father of a friend of mine. Absolutely love his artwork and he has some pretty prominent pieces on display around the world TODAY !

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/deaths/7284129.html

Nice job. I never tire of seeing photos of downtown Houston.

Laanba, just wanted to say how much i like your photoblog. Great pics in there.

If Obama and Nancy Pelosi were in the middle of the ocean in a life raft and it started sinking............who would you save ?

Ans: America !

This is because you don't understand it. And, as you've demonstrated, if you don't understand something, you've got to explain it with the most preposterous tale possible of ghosts and demons and invisible beings. Forget what makes sense, your fanciful though illogical tales are more entertaining.

Do you understand the process of fossilization? Do you know how slim the odds are that any organic matter will transmute into rock? Probably less than a millionth, a billionth even, of all possible life has survived with a fossil representative. Had all life that has ever existed been the same life that existed at the beginning of time, then the Earth wouldn't be big enough to hold everything.

You do realize you're arguing against something you have absolutely no understanding of? How can you argue against it if you've never taken the time to familiarize yourself with its most basic principles? The principles of natural selection would never lead to a dog turning into a tree or an insect turning into a lion. That's some sort of goofy alchemy more at home in the Bible (or an episode of Scooby Doo) than in the very real world as known by science.

I know you like facts, and the fact is that you are in a 12% minority Attica. 88% of the world believes in some sort of religion where there is a "Creator" of all things. http://www.compassion.com/child-advocacy/find-your-voice/quick-facts/religion-quick-facts.htm . But HEY, good news, you are gaining ground because in 2000 it was 96%, so maybe some people are warming up to your idea of no God.

I was just stunned that the thread topic hasn't been addressed in the last couple dozen posts (and several days). The mods don't seem to care. I guess it's just "Way, Way...Way Off Topic".

Excuse me, I'm now going over to the Heights Forum to snark about general home improvement threads being posted there.

Oooooohhhhh, the Mods know that we would have eventually steered it back on track. We are good like that.

Umm...Moderators...topic? Or do threads in this arena not get pulled in?

This is the same topic Lockmat and The Niche posited last year...during Lent.

Can't we get someone to gripe about how Obama is promoting stimulus projects to personally mess up his commute?

Such a buzzkill Porchman, the one thing you contributed to this thread, and you "tattle" on us.? Nice going.

I also recall a local show in the early 1980s that was on either channel 26 or 39. It cut in dance footage from a club up on I-10 in the Heights (I believe) with music videos which were the rage then.

The club had some vintage automobiles inside and could clearly be seen from the road well into the 1990s.

Retama, the club you are thinking about was called CARRZ !

Attica, just because you claim to "believe in nothing" does not exempt you, your choice has made it easier for you to believe that evolution is the only logical answer for you. Sooooo, that is what you believe in. You don't have to believe in God, that's why he gave you freewill, you should thank Him for that at least. Seriously chief, you took one little statement and all the sudden you think I am a holy roller, ask some of the regulars around here, they can atest to the fact that I am no such animal. I love it when you get all bent out of shape because someone doesn't agree with your beliefs, thanks for the laugh.

I would say "bless your soul", but I remembered that you don't believe you have one.

It may not be the only hypothesis, but yeah, it pretty much is the only scientific theory supported by any shred of evidence.

I just typed a lengthy response in an attempt to educate you on the subject but then deleted it. If you haven't familiarized yourself with the overwhelming mountain range of evidence that proves natural selection as scientific fact by now, then there's not really any point in trying to educate you here. You wouldn't read it anyhow.

You just admitted that "natural selection" was a hypothesis, and not a FACT, make up your mind chief. Yes, i am familiar with both sides of the coin though, so your attempt to educate would have fallen on deaf ears. Oh wait, I see, because "natural selection" is what YOU believe, then it MUST be true? True to you anyways. Kinda like the Global Warming hypothesis ? Scientific "evidence" skewed to fit a certain agenda and all. If you'll notice, I haven't said I believe either way on the whole "How we got here." theories. Although, I DO believe Global Warming to not be "man-made".

.....Ooooorrr. perhaps God really did just wave his hand around and with a bolt of lightning....."ZAP" there's your chicken. Remember boys and girls evolution is NOT the only theory out there. Just a friendly reminder from your Uncle TJ.

While it's absolutely impossible to pinpoint one single bird that was the very first chicken, it stands to logic if there was one single first chicken, established as a separate species from its parents, it would have to have hatched from the egg that was the first chicken egg.

20thStDad, this ^^ was a silly argument.

Just found out about this and I am sure yall know about this. Seems like the cops allegedly injuring a Chinese diplomat would be bigger news than it is.

If the little punk hadn't had fled, and he was fleeing, trying to make it to the consulate which i am sure he was informed to do in order to avoid police. Unfortunately for the cop chasing him, he didnt know what the chinese consulate looked like. Honest mistake by the officer. Betcha dollars to doughnuts you couldnt pick out the consulate either.

Wanted to show the folks here in Houston what it looks like at my house in Austin !

The Ragin' Cajun on Richmond.......only been there for about 40 years.

http://www.ragin-cajun.com/m_appetizers.htm

Hmmmmm, Democrats eating their own.........gotta love it.

Wonder if they'd drop the suit if they got some facetime, minus Shami and White ?

wait, I'm confused, are you talking about Indian women, or Filipino women?

I only ask because my fiance is Filipino, and well, she is the most beautiful woman in the world.

I'll agree to disagree!

Dude, using this forum to try and score points with your oldlady just before Valentine's Day is just................sad.

Was this Bronx Bar, by chance?

Nope, little closer to N.Shepherd. I would not step foot into Bronx Bar.

Ummmmm.............Bin Lucyyyyyyyyyyyyyy............you got some 'splaining to dooooooooooooo !!!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6856777.html

Burj Dubai is CLOSED, just one month after it opened.

Antique bar opened on Main near Anita. My friend and I walked over to from a few friends' place nearby aftter playing poker to check out this bar. We were told by the guy at the door that they have a private party tonight even though the bar is open. Fair enough. But as we were walking off, two white girls walk up and they are unaware of any party and the guy was welcoming them in. My friend and I are minorities. I have heard of this happening to a few people when a new trendy place opens up, but this is a first hand experience.

I had higher expectations of this place considering they were promoting antiques and historical stuff, but this is turning into another trendy wanna-be douchebag bar.

I suggest people should enjoy Community (Wine) Bar nearby. It is one of the better low key recent establishments in the area.

Irfan

Same thing happened to me at another establishment over off Washington, smurf. If it's Saturday night and you aren't dressed right, you won't get in. I was dressed down, VERY down, talkin jeans and a less than flattering pull over polo. I am sure that if I had worn an Affliction t-shirt that had been "be-dazzled" I would have gotten in with no questions. Unfortunately the douchebag doorman didn't know that I knew the owner, and after a quick phone call, he was promptly corrected of his faux-pas and my buddy and I were escorted in, post-haste, with a nice fat apology from the doorman.

Legislation (enacted in 1997) limits SS protection for former Presidents to 10 years after leaving office. "W" will be the first one to be affected by this. This seems to be a really really bad idea. I hope they re-think this. The "HW" incident shows they need the protection for life.

HW Bush can just hire some Blackwater folks and I am SURE that there will never be another incident of heckling, at least no videotaped evidence of it from the heckler themselves. Or, even a heckler to speak of.

Not bad for total guesswork.

Coincidentally, that's also how I got through college.

Maybe we went to the same college and courses ?

Thought LSU was a lock, what a let down. And why did Mizzou fall apart like that ?

Ok, now that The Leach has been fired. Is there a chance to change that pick if we so wish ?