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    A mighty tome.

    Subdude replied to marmer's topic in Off Topic

    Wow, I'm jealous! I hope you have a coffee table that is sturdy enough! You have to wonder how those were the choices for Houston buildings, although since it is 21st century there probably wasn't a lot to choose from. Instead of the Hobby Center I would have selected that new tall one (name escapes me at the minute) in the Med Center.
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    I've used Nationwide Movers a few times and have been pleased with them each time.
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    Sounds like they are cloning Kanonwam / Telephone Thai.
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    Note duplicate topics merged.
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    Yesterday I was reading a column about predictions made for 2008. Nobody really foretold Obama, the commodity price explosion/collapse, and the financial panic and bank crisis. Still, ignoring the lesson of this I would say that Editor's predictions sound reasonable at the moment.
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    The retro 1986-style roof on this thing really bothers me. Isn't it too soon for a 1980s postmodern architecture revival?
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    We rip open the presents with our teeth.
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    I don't know if it ever made it to the level of a fad. The only other example that comes to mind is Habitat in Montreal.
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    What on earth does Dallas have to do with anything here?
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    How do they get the shuttle on top and off of the 747?
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    I saw it this afternoon and liked it quite a bit! I was really pleasantly surprised since I wasn't expecting much. Keanu was fantastic I thought. His odd screen persona is just right for playing an alien. Jennifer Connally was OK, but the Kathy Bates character was too one-dimensional and her talent is a bit wasted. As I feared there was too much CGI, but nevertheless the story is more low key and dark than one would expect from the previews. Gripes about CGI aside, the CGI spaceship was brilliant! Have to disagree with the previous post on Gort. The robot if anything was cartoonish and had way too much screen time. The direction and pacing was great - it just flies by. And yes, the kid is muy annoying Three stars overall. It will never be a classic like the original, but that would be a tall order and it does a good enough job of updating the message of the old one.
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    Not quite the same, but there is an architectural billings index published to gauge development activity. As one might expect it is at a record low (although it only goes back to 1995).
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    So they gave up on the original design with the star-shaped fountain in the center. It's an improvement over the surface parking, but I would rather the facility were on the corner than in the middle of the green space. It looks a bit lost the way it is laid out. Just by reading the language in the blurb you can tell that reporting for jury duty there will be an unpleasant process, what with the "organized program in a secure perimeter" and all.
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    How so? I would have thought most people are affected in some manner, even the target audience here, which is presumably River Oaks/Afton Oaks/Galleria residents. What I don't understand is how it would be canceled if construction had already started.
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    I can understand why people were leaving though. The problem is that in an online forum political arguments have the effect of sucking the air out of the room. For whatever reason there are a lot of people who can't let go of it and feel that the world must hear about their political beliefs in every post. If a board becomes too dominated by politics it will be as tedious as the Chronicle's user responses sections.
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    Done!
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    I think projects are rarely "officially" canceled, they just sort of go on hold and never come back, like the Shamrock downtown. Dozens of projects never made it back from the local crash in the 1980s. I'm thinking we can start another installment of the "Unbuilt Houston" topic.
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    I stand corrected! Yes, I meant laws requiring preservation when the city deems it necessary.
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    Yeah, I don't really get what it is they're about.
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    That is a cool picture. You can see where Old Main Street intersects on the right. What is the structure immediately to the west of the theater?
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    It was years later, but the Pillot Cafe was on the ground floor of the Republic/Paul building across the street. The strip club you are thinking of may be the Pink Pussycat on the 200 block of Main. There is a picture of that posted in another thread.
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    At one point it was renamed the Lloyd Bentsen freeway, but that didn't take. Thankfully.
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    So what? There's no rule against reviving topics.
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    Yes, but unfortunately even with a lot of equity financing has dried up in a lot of cases. It may be that neither the developers or the bankers want to risk it right now. I hate it that projects like this appear to be canceled, leaving plots of vacant land scattered about.
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