Fringe

I went the night before and watched the rehearsal in front of the stage with no lasers or fireworks and went back the next night and watched the real show from a distance. All the feeways near downtown were at a standstill, people would get out of there cars a watch the action from the freeway. Yea it was something to see. Probably seen by a million people.

There has never been a Houston Festival that topped that one and likely never will again. I remember parking somewhere in Montrose and pulling our then 2 year old daughter for blocks and blocks in her little red wagon to Allen Parkway. We never got close to the stage but we had a great view of downtown Houston. It was being simulcast over some radio station and there were plenty of "boom boxes" around so we didn't need to get any closer to hear the music.

I don't know about near Greenspoint but there was one closer to I-10 when they opened. The Bangles were featured.

If you don't like the traffic, apparently there are 10000 apartments opening in the loop this year. you might have to sacrifice your yard that isn't big enough to play catch in though. but there is plenty of room for catch at one of the lovely inner loop parks.

No amount of traffic is worth going back to an apartment.

The original plan was to have the Fort Bend Tollway connect to Post Oak and 610 but because of it's limited use I believe that plan has been put on scrapped. Hwy 90 wouldn't be bad if they could do something about the 610 back-up. Westpark was doomed to start with since the railroad wouldn't give them enough land to make more lanes.

I agree 59 is getting really bad.

Also, please bring back the running radio decal (especially the one with the, er, "maple leaf"). My last car that had such a decal on the rear window went to the crusher years ago.

Would yall rather have a gold medal or hold a world record?

I'd take the bling. Records are continuously broken.

Thought I'd give an update. I found a set of speakers on Amazon that were a couple hundred dollars cheaper than locally, so I decided to buy the in spite of the taxes. To my surprise, the final tab did NOT include sales tax. The purchase was from a retailer in Indiana, though it was ordered through Amazon. I don't know all of the ins and outs of what is taxed and what is not, but this purchase was not taxed.

That's happened a couple of times to me also. Seems the only way they tax an item is if it comes through their own warehouse, not through a third party. Many third parties also offer free shipping. This might be Amazon's way of keeping away from taxes which is fine with me.

Are those pictures of Rio or Dallas?

Emirates Airlines A380 First Class

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=J1OqqQ8hBXk&vq=medium

So now we have to call it the Southwest Interstate instead of the Southwest Freeway? That's really going to confuse Lanny Griffith.

To hot in Houston for summer Olympics. Perhaps we should try and get the winter Olympics.

Or as Swamplot put it:

OLD DEAD PEOPLE BLOCKING PROGRESS OF GRAND PARKWAY

Not sure it can support much more traffic. It's a terrible HOV lane. When there is a breakdown or accident there is little room to pass, so some days I see a worst backup on the HOV lanes then the freeway itself.

Anyone but JarJar.

I had a whole bunch of old slides I sent to this online company to digitally convert. They came out great.

http://www.gophoto.com/photo-scanning-service/?ref=aff

They do prints as well. There's other online companies that do the same. It was expensive but well worth it. A lot of great memories that now digitalized will last forever.

I agree that prices at Whole Foods tend to be higher, but in certain cases, the old adage "you get what you pay for" is true. For example, in my opinion (so save all your comments about how my "opinion" is stupid, misguided, wrong, etc), the quality of their baked goods is considerably higher than products available at other markets and is worth the price. There are other products that I feel the same way about.

That's the beauty of choice, right? I can go to multiple markets. I'll probably continue to spend 75% of my grocery dollars at HEB and may spend 25% at Whole Foods to buy the items that I feel they do a better job with.

That's pretty much my ratio also. HEB is my primary shopping store but I agree you can tell a difference. Steaks and even chicken and fish from Whole Foods, as expensive as they are, taste so much better then other stores. Of course if your into quantity over quality, which most Americans obviously are, then WF is not going to appeal to you.

Personally I think they should dress up like storm troopers.

I was walking around midtown Frday, not exactly the area where this occured, closer to the Greyhound station. I was amazed at the blatant drug dealing at 9:00am with cops less than a block away. Serisouly the cops were on the same street while a guy was selling drugs to some women in a car.

Bet if you were to hold up a sign warning the drug dealers of the police nearby than you would get arrested.

I am still trying to figure out why the City thinks there's a real governmental interest in replacement windows and siding. I can understand plumbing and electrical, there are life safety issues there, but windows? Siding? Why would the City care one whit about those?

It's all about revenue. The building department and fire department have imposed a whole bunch of new permits over the last 10 years or so. Unlike the police, they have no other way of generating revenue and were told a long time ago to either bring more money in or cut back on staffing.

I loved the Chicken Shack. Best chicken ever.

Beautiful. What city is that again?

The photos above suggest you will be traveling in style if your first class or business class but for the rest of us I doubt if it's any different from other airlines.

Astros to consider removing train from Minute Maid Park

Hope they don't loose the train. It's the best part of Minute Maid Park.

As much as I would like to see him in a Rocket uniform I just don't believe Howard will come to here. Instead I would like to see them move up a few notches before tonight's draft and roll the dice for a top 10 pick.

One could argue whether she deserved a citation or not but to be thrown in jail is going way to overboard. Shame on them.