Captain Impossible

...with a great atmosphere.

If by "great atmosphere" you mean yuppie hangout, sure.

Went to the Goose's Acre a few weeks ago with a few friends. Our experience was less than stellar. In fact, our experience at Baker Street a couple of months before that wasn't so great either, but for different reasons. If I'm going to drive all they way from Huntsville, I'll go the extra forty five minutes to Flying Saucer downtown.

You know, the Disney park rumor exists in multiple parts of the country, and here in Texas, in multiple parts of the state. Every year, somewhere new thinks they're going to get it. What's worse is that everyone is convinced that they know some secret about Disney buying up land, or some friend of a friend of a friend that works for Disney said that the new park is going to be in (Montgomery, Celina, Katy, McKinney, West Virginia, Chicago) but the truth is, it's never going to happen. Disney is not going to build a new park.

A solid gold rocket car.

If you haven't seen The Kingdom, then you need to.

What next, the "Right To Wear Pants Act"?

What a day that will be! At last I will be free to wear pants!

This. Sounds. Awful.

You forgot all-important Huntsville.

...and House of Blues...which Dallas has, just not Downtown.

Really? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1...=1&ct=image

Well, the new generation learned that kind of behavior from somewhere.

I'm just sayin'.

If you're going to head over to UH, don't forget your bulletproof vest. The 3rd Ward isn't a pleasant place to stroll around in.

I personally haven't run into any trouble down there. I have a friend who lives nearby, on the other side of I-45, on Rusk. It's actually a good (though, maybe not in some traditional senses) neighborhood that is simply in need of some fixing up. Isn't the light rail supposed to go down that way, anyway?

It's widely accepted that Benjamin Franklin actually was not a Christian. The bulk of evidence suggests that he was, in fact, a deist. The vast majority of the founding fathers were deist Freemasons. The nation itself was not founded on Christ, but was founded upon ideas that were produced in the so-called Age of Reason.

As far as the issue of the separation of Church and state, I am certainly a supporter of it. The Church was made for Christ, not to be used as a tool to garner more votes or anything else. In light of the selfishness of man, if the Church were heavily involved with the state, she would be taken advantage of in the worst way.

Incidentally, I believe that if there were ever a truly Christian nation, that is, a nation founded entirely on the person of Jesus Christ, and one that was in total obedience to God, then it would look nothing like any nation currently in existence. It certainly would not look like the United States.

How come they released the rendering with the announcement up there and not here?

...she thinks all pledges are silly at best, dangerous indoctrination at worst.

What do you think the American public school system is there for? If you want there to be real education, the public schools usually aren't the best place to find it.

Party time is over when your septic is flooded out.

I don't think air quality would allow that to happen. It would have to be an exceptionally clear day.

Good call. This occurred to me some time later, when I was talking about this with someone.

Huntsville? Yeah right. Maybe Conroe.

Actually, at that height, it's entirely possible. To back that up, it has been reported that Burj Dubai will be visible for sixty miles. Something even taller could, then, be seen from seventy or more, and where I live, northeast of Huntsville, is something like 72 miles straight line from downtown Houston.

That tower looks so 1999.

What is their reasoning for calling it Mosaic?

Already seen "Live Free or Die Hard" twice now. If you haven't been planning on seeing it, change your plans. It'll make your night.

The only movie that I am dying to see right now, and I wouldn't specifically use 'dying' as the feeling, is Evan Almighty. It looks like it's going to be funny.

I saw it on Friday night and laughed throughout the whole film. Definitely worth seeing.

Last week I went to the Angelika to see The Wendell Baker Story. It's not showing anymore, but I really enjoyed it as well. I don't know if it's going to play elsewhere, but if you can find it, see it.

Does anyone else see the irony of a very large man making a documentary about the problems with the U.S. health care system? Isn't one of the biggest problems today obesity taxing that system so greatly?

special bus

Maybe it's the short bus.

Houston GREATEST city on Earth!

You haven't traveled much, have you?

I actually really like the style of the project. Makes me feel like a jet-setter just looking at it. It's so gloriously mod.