houstonmacbro
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I agree. I have been so close to buying me some sham-wow lots of times.
Back to hate, I hate everyone who uses a public restroom and somehow manages to piss on the floor, wall, anywhere but the toilet. Judging by some roadside stops I've had to make, it must be everyone except for me.
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!
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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.
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I love my xbox. Even wirelessly, its streams the movies with surprising clarity.
Now back to the subject on hand:
I remember watching new neighborhoods being built growing up in Canada, and many of them had outside postal boxes in some central area where residents would stop off at and pick up their mail as they entered the neighborhood. This allowed the postal workers to stand in one place and deliver the mail to a whole neighborhood at one time without the time spent walking to each and every home. The residents could stop their car and get the mail on their way home, or more often than not, just walk to the boxes after work with Fido and pick up the mail.
The concept is similar to an apartment mail system but for whole neighborhoods.
Is that done down here to any capacity (besides apartments)? Having a system like this wouldn't bother me at all, and I bet they could deliver 7 days a week and have costs that would be less than what is currently proposed.
I fathom there would be many who would be upset at something like this, either out of laziness or preconceived belief that all mail MUST be delivered to each persons door, but it would address many of the concerns out there right now....
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.
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I say do it twice a week. I get too much junk mail as it is.
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For fast food, it beats the hell out of Taco Bell, which is the only other fast food mexican restaurant in the area. I also like that you can drive thru and get decent breakfast tacos. There's nowhere else in the immediate area that offers that. Chacho's would be really nice!!
Pappas BBQ has some of the best breakfast tacos around.
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I found out today that the Taco Cabana that was supposed to go in at the 2920(west of Kuykendahl) location has been canceled. The CVS store that was going to go in at 2920 and Alvin Klein has also backed out. Why is this area so slow to develop? 24 hour fitness, J.C. Penney, Pets Mart, and Michael's all had plans to come to this area and backed out. I wonder if it has to do with the pending Grand Parkway.
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.
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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.
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One of the things I miss about living in Houston is the easy access to good, cheap Cajun and Creole food. Whether it's at Treebeards downtown, or a shack of a joint I stumble upon after a meandering road trip through Louisiana -- it's all good.
So what are your favorite dishes? If it's from a restaurant, tell us which one and give an estimated price. If it's home made, for the love of God post the recipe!
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.
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I think some people have more of a build up than others. I'm a once a month man with a q-tip and all appears to be working well.
Also, did you know there was a band called the Q Tips in the 80's in the UK. Their singer was Paul Young who went onto have loads of solo hits, 'Where ever I Lay My Hat' and 'Come Back And Stay'.
Just thought I would throw that bit of trivia in!
There is also a Q-Tip the rapper out of Queens, NY.
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For north siders wondering what's going on at Airtex and 45...
Hey, thanks for the link.
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We ate at that Sizzler once. I never remembered them as a child when they were in Houston, and after eating at the one in Spring, I understood why. The food was mediocre at best.
The Sizzlers in Puerto Rico are pretty good. They have 'American' fare, but also island favorites known as comida criolla. Pretty tasty.
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I don't watch Channel 2 on the regular. I had no idea who you were talking about until I saw the picture.
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And they're wrong - most people are like that
I am few of those things and live in the suburbs. Man, there is just a mess of people's opinions about suburbanites.
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because I don't want to see some fools dirty boxers or some whores thong and I don't think people with kids should have their kids exposed to that......we wear cloths in America as they do in the vast majority (all) of the civilized countries in the world.....even in liberal europe where topless on the beach is acceptable I am sure most would think one is a fool if they walked around with their pants down to their knees especially if they knew it was imitating prison life...obviously the whole "civilization" thing has been lost on you
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.
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Its not snobbery, its practicality. Why drive 20 miles for what I'm sure is good food when I'm surrounded by good food? It doesn't make any sense.
But not everyone lives in the loop.
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Its not snobbery, its practicality. Why drive 20 miles for what I'm sure is good food when I'm surrounded by good food? It doesn't make any sense.
I blogged about driving for something I had a hankering for:
http://thehoustonmacbro.blogspot.com/2008/...e-for-meal.html
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My fantasy for Sharpstown Mall is based on solely on light rail.
I feel it can be revived like Mondawmim Mall in Maryland. It was initially an open-air mall in the 1950s with Sears...enclosed in 1971.
Unfortunately, it lost Sears in the early 1970s and went downhill. A Washington DC metro station was installed nearby but the mall declined throughout the 1990s, until in 1999 when the station was remodeled. Now its a bustling center with no connected anchors but a Target and a grocery store nearby
Scroll down to Baltimore's Mondawmim Center here:
http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2007...01_archive.html
That is what I hope can save Sharpstown.
I lived in Baltimore w/in walking distance of Mondawmin Mall ... I do not remember a metro (train) stop there.
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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'.
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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.
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Anything outside the Loop is dead to me with a few exceptions
See, this is exactly the attitude I mentioned earlier. There IS a snobbery about living inside the loop. I don't understand why...
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HEB's crowd/ran-sacked(sp?) store is starting to remind me of Super WalMart.
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.
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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.
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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
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That was really corny.
Houston High-Speed Rail
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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.