houstonmacbro

I'm for it, but would prefer hi-speed rail (oh .. sorry ... just rail .. silly me) inside of Houston before I'd want to jump to Dallas or Austin on rail.

And for that very reason, I HATE sitting on public toilets on the rare occasion I can't wait until I am home to do #2!

Has anyone ever eaten at Luna's Mexican restaurant in Greenspoint (Mall)? It's front is visible from the freeway (I-45) but haven't heard much one way or the other about it. Been wanting to try it, but would like a mini-review beforehand. *BTW, Greenspoint haters please don't reply ... the area doesn't scare me.

My neighborhood (Ella Crossing) has a system like this. We do not have individual post boxes at the house, but rather a central (actually 4) pickup and delivery mail stops in the neighborhood.

I say do it twice a week. I get too much junk mail as it is.

Pappas BBQ has some of the best breakfast tacos around.

OMG do we really need another Taco Cabana. Besides the fact that their food is sub-par (and they never seem to have much business), they are already all over Houston.

Two places on FM 1960: Las Salcitas on FM 1960 (east of I45 but right before Treschwig (spelling?) next to Whataburger. Deliciously greasy and well seasoned 'Tex-Mex' (but I think the owner is Honduran or Salvadoran). Cheap. Good. Greasy. Juanitas #3 in Beaver Creek Shopping Plaza (also on FM 1960 but West of I45). Excellent Mexican food.

Pappadeaux's has this Pontchartrain Panbroiled Fillet Topped with crabmeat & shrimp in a brown-butter wine sauce with dirty rice. But at $23 I don't have it too often.

There is also a Q-Tip the rapper out of Queens, NY.

Hey, thanks for the link.

The Sizzlers in Puerto Rico are pretty good. They have 'American' fare, but also island favorites known as comida criolla. Pretty tasty.

I don't watch Channel 2 on the regular. I had no idea who you were talking about until I saw the picture.

I am few of those things and live in the suburbs. Man, there is just a mess of people's opinions about suburbanites.

I don't want to see it either, and generally don't look. But more than boxers showing, I hate seeing cr*ck! I hate it. But I also hate seeing people with tattoos, people wearing house shoes outside, and people with rollers in their hair outside. But again, it's not that big a deal and if that is how they want to present themselves to the world, God bless 'em.

But not everyone lives in the loop.

I blogged about driving for something I had a hankering for: http://thehoustonmacbro.blogspot.com/2008/...e-for-meal.html

I lived in Baltimore w/in walking distance of Mondawmin Mall ... I do not remember a metro (train) stop there.

On a related note I heard some economists say that about 50% of all current stores will close down in the next 2 years or so, simply because they cannot make it through this current 'economic situation'.

I didn't find anything offensive about either one. Actually, I kinda liked the expression on Father Ted and never really knew where the picture was from.

See, this is exactly the attitude I mentioned earlier. There IS a snobbery about living inside the loop. I don't understand why...

I am vowing to NEVER step foot in a Walmart again unless it is after midnight and the stores have cleared out. The one on I45 N reminds me of some salvage depot yard sale. People running in and out, kids everywhere, parking lots full of folks hanging out or worse.

For a few years I was using TurboTax, but then my tax preparation needs got tricky (and the software questions I wasn't understanding completely). I have since been using a professional tax preparer.

As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America 'Disintegrates' in 2010 By ANDREW OSBORN MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media. In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger." Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations. But it's his bleak forecast for the U.S. that is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis. Mr. Panarin's views also fit neatly with the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories. Full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html

That was really corny.