Tumbleweed_Tx

Yesterday, I booked a flight on Southwest out of IAH for October. Today they sent out an email saying they will reroute me and give me a $100 voucher.

it looks like an old DQ.
But then again.... there's this....

it's more of a slap at cornynholio than at non-cooks... heh

But I totally agree with the ENJOY thing.... let the vegans have California... Vegan is an old Indian (casino/feather type) word that means bad hunter  :)

you're not a Texan if you can't cook a good brisket.

check out the "what's Up With Shipping" youtube channel for more info.

We need a Minorcan Mullet type youtube channel to cover the removal of the bridge wreck, like the Mullet's captain covered that ship that rolled over in his area...

My mom used to have a space in the Barn Door next door to this theater. I didn't realize it was a theater... .

IIRC, it was still the Continental Airlines building at the time. 
I thought it was funny that southbound Southwest Airlines flights made their sharp left turn over this building on their way to Hobby... It's like they were buzzing the competition.

heh.

No, I'm not named after this restaurant. 

I'm going to guess there was a building a few feet away next door, so they didn't go through the expense of putting a nice facade on something that not many people would see.

On 1/24/2024 at 3:18 PM, Nate99 said:

You want sexy, just wait until they install the flailing arms, angry eyebrows and menacing teeth!

scroll up... .

Skanska will break ground on their downtown properties, and not just to move that big tree

One of the parking lots has been rented by Rise Rooftop , now Warehouse Live, for valet parking

On 4/27/2023 at 10:05 AM, TacoDog said:

They should paint them to look like a huge tree.

hello, my fellow trees

I did a thing at (insert venue name here) for one of the two sportsball teams from Monday's match. Their head of the board of regents was standing next to me while the president of their university was rallying the troops, bragging about how their sportsball players are smarter than the rest. The head of the board of regents leaned over to me and asked me if I was taking notes.... I leaned back at her and told her I'm from Texas, you people from north of the Red River don't know jack about sportsball.

all the easy prey is gone.\that's why it's a ghost town.

what did you think of the almost new Warehouse? The construction project is halfway done, there's major things planned, coming in the next few months.

the Furs have been known to rehearse at Francisco's Studios in EaDo.
We had them for two nights once. We did the first night of their tour one day, then had them for a private party the next day. 

Do i miss those days? No. Thanks for getting me fired, dave chappelle... .

the guy quoted in the cnn article is right. We need an intermodal location for bus and train. The only difficulty is that the train station is nearly impossible to find, and the parking lot there is garbage for busses at the moment. The advantage to using the train station as intermodal is that it is in a relatively safe area thanks to all the police officer stations nearby.

she can always drive to New Mexico.
or get a second opinion. I trust doctors about as far as I can throw them these days

On 7/3/2019 at 9:10 PM, Urbannizer said:

Found this image on Flickr, the building next to Alley Theatre was demolished for the parking garage.

 

 

 

the car on the right is a 1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. It has to be a '78 because 2 Allen Center is nowhere to be seen yet, and it was finished in '78.
That means this pic was made in late '77 and that car is brand new. (the '77 had large red lenses on the vertical chrome pieces)
There's no Republic Bank building, that's the old Western Union switching building between the Alley and the HL&P building and it's annex.
The shadows under the other cars are straight down, so I guess the pic was taken at noon on a Saturday since Downtown was a ghost town on weekends back in the late 70's.

Warehouse EaDo is gone. Bye.
The last show was a benefit for one of the security guys, opened and hosted by me.

My favorite show there was Rick Astley in the Ballsroom, and Puddles Pity Party in the Studio. On the Puddles show, I was running all over town fixing other people's screwups when I got a call saying the guy at Warehouse couldn't make Puddles's video screen work right, so off I went. I spent an hour fixing it, and chatting with a guy who was almost 7 feet tall. It was Big Mike, aka Puddles. During the show, he never said a word, he just sang. He would grab people from the audience, bring them onstage, and sing to them, then kick them offstage.  He came out to the crowd, grabbed me, dragged me onstage, and right before he kicked me off the stage, he whispered "you rock" into my ear.

the dumbest show was Drake. I babysat the venue for 3 days while they brought in a set that was a recreation of DJ Screw's storefront. They figured out the set they made was too tall, so they took it back outside and chopped a foot off of it.

emporis is the one that is gone.

We should have that info somewhere on this site. If we don't, then maybe someone with a little time on their hands can step up....

I doubt if anything can go into that space. The City turned Walker St into a bike lane, that's the load-in area. The owner of the parking lot behind the building has asserted his rights to 8' of the driveway behind the building, that's where the band gear goes in the building.