Captain Impossible

Demolition by neglect.

That seems to happen a lot in this region of the state.

Everything on that block but Stowers.

How unfortunate. There are so many parking lots. And uglier buildings.

Sorry if I'm late in the game on this one. It's just frustrating when good looking stuff comes down instead of the things that need to go.

Forgive my ignorance, but are all of those buildings coming down for this project?

So that's what Blue Wave is? It's listed in the new Ravenwood Village development in Huntsville. I'm a little disappointed.

There's one in the Tomball area, off of 249. They actually got as far as building the streets, lights, and entry signs. The streets are all named, and there's a huge retention pond in the back of it, but there's not a single house. The streetlights even come on every night.

A subway, sure. A street level train that basically does the same thing as a bus but impedes traffic and left turns? No thanks.

Yeah, why should anyone ever have to sacrifice so much to gain anything worthwhile?

I wish my dreams were as coherent as the ones y'all are talking about. Last night, there was something about a city I had never been to and a Vespa I had bought and all kinds of other stuff. There wasn't a point.

I think going underground into a subway and into the uptown park area would would work.

In Houston? Really?

A Realtor was telling me about this last weekend. She and her Broker are convinced it's coming. Sealey is where she said it'll be. Maybe there's more to this than Urban Legend, but then again, maybe not.

You are the fourth person this year to give me the exact same story. In any other case, it would lend some credence to the whole thing, but the fact is, I know people who heard the same thing about here and other locations over the last twenty years. What makes you think this would be any different?

I don't even know if anyone is familiar with this Turkish dish, which are very similar to shawarma. I am trying to find a place in Houston that would serve d

So THAT'S where all the white folks went!

I know, right? Ugh. Mayonnaise sandwiches for everyone!

So this means it will definitely be on the east side of 59?

They are just getting started.

You make this sound recent. They've been at it for about ten years.

Is it just me, or is this quickly becoming a kind of non-anonymous Post Secret?

I want to push slow moving people. There's a whole lot of them here at Sam and it's really tempting to do it.

Yet another of the same thing. How about some variety?

This looks like the eighties.

I don't like television, I really don't like news, I like local news even less than that, and Houston's local news is the worst of them all.

Anyone have a clue as to how they're going to do it?

Push.

Luby's only fronts as a restaurant. They are actually elderly manufacturing plants. That's where all old people come from.

Paris is a very small city in terms of area...

Houston has 1,501 km squared of land.

Paris has 86.9 km squared of land.

Clearly, Houston is a superior city, being bigger and all.

There's a guy at Rice who drives a segway around campus too.

What a nerd.

There is the inferiority complex thing. Stuff that's constructed in San Francisco or Seattle are construed as automatically better than what's in Houston. Personally, I think San Fran's skyline is just an overgrown version of Ft Worth's, plus a nice pyramid. Seattle, I don't get either. I've never seen an angle of the Emerald City's that compares to H-town's skyline views going down south on 45 or from the up ramp coming from 288 on to 59 South. Those are nice skylines but they don't look as sharp or striking as Houston's.

Perhaps, but what they lack in skyline, they more than make up for in real city life, which is more than can be said for Houston.

...it started in California and there are more locations in Austin that in College Station....yep, definitely an Aggie thing!

You wouldn't believe how many people don't know that.

Fall means that you need a jacket and the leaves are turning. That never happens here.

Here, the leaves slowly turn a sick brown-green color and fall from October thru January. You may need a jacket during the middle of the night sometime in January. In my book - That sucks.

I agree. I'm a sunshine and summertime kind of guy, but jacket weather comes in at a close second. Ever since I moved down to Huntsville, I've been missing those clear, crisp winter days with a bright blue sky. They're the best.