It’s been just over four months since lc-db graced the Photo of the Week section of this here site with an image. We were more than happy to welcome yet another. This lesson in symmetry courtesy of the Heights Bike Route near McKee St.
It’s Thursday as you’ve probably figured out by now. If not, you probably either don’t work at a job where time is relevant or you just woke up from a cryogenic freeze. Both are understandable. Throw your lines to this deck of a weekend and pull yourselves in.
In 6 Words: muffaletta, yellow, house, Heights, generous, Cajun
The need for some kind of topping saturated sandwich hits Paul and I hard as the clock nears two. I think of my Houston submarine short list and try to narrow it down to what’s closest. Just as my appetite starts down the path of an unruly toddler threatening my keys to the toilet, our eyes spot the Big Mamou on Studewood. Cajun. Surely they’ve got a po’boy or a muffaletta.
On Friday’s Look Ahead, I predicted this past weekend would be a leisure sucking vampire. I was right. It was fun. I’d do it again. What else? A tornado killed 89 people and wreaked horrible destruction in Joplin, Missouri, the Mississippi continues it’s flooding, President Obama’s armored car got stuck on ramp in Ireland, and stocks are down. How’s about another look into the future?
Whoa! Friday meet Monday. Don’t bother with Saturday or Sunday. This weekend served as a figurative De Lorean (yes, that’s a Flash website – how’s that for irony, “Hello, 2005!”).
Blowin’ and goin’ just to get to the weekend’s only gonna make the next five days drag their fat feet in mud. So, let’s dig into some a’ those weekday funsies and see if we can’t make the mundane a little more appealing.
I’m sick of it. Every time I mention I’m from Houston, and that I love it, I’m met with quizzical smirks and “Really?”s. I usually take the bait and inquire folks as to exactly why they don’t enjoy the Bayou City, and when I’m not met with slack-jawed silence, this is the crap I get:
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, if your neighborhood is Houston. It was one of these weekends where we told ourselves we’d relax and just take care of some of life’s nuts and bolts—replace a car battery, knit a scarf, or prepare them taxes. Somehow in the end, those small things managed to suck the down time right out of the weekend. So here we are on Monday, once again, not quite rested.
That doesn’t mean we’re not ready for this week’s worth of events. Let’s have it!
As an outsider, I had a pretty stereotypical view of Houston in general. Crowded, overweight and smoggy with a Gordian knot of highways and people wanting to mug you on every street corner. After spending the weekend there with The Loop Scoop crew, I can say that my perceptions have been pleasantly skewed. I found a place that had a myriad of interesting people to see and talk to, mind blowing places to eat, clever street art and a variety of places to practice my favored hobby of imbibing. I won’t bore you with a blow-by-blow of everything I did that weekend (due to the fact that some bits are hazy, and that The Loop Scoop has probably already covered the reviewing bits), but I will give you the impressions and anecdotes of a guy from a small college town in the bright lights of the big city.
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This week or the next in the Houston area: Scrooged at Domy Books, Alpenfest in Cypress, Diverse Works Presents Pilot (FX), VerbosCity-Houston Poetry Slam, Robert Ellis & The Boys at Fitz, Panto Pinocchio, a Fox Follow Christmas Party, the Marvelous Wonderettes, The Nutcracker, Blue Moose Lodge Ugly Sweater Holiday Party, Winter Yoga at Discovery Green, Christmas Revels – A Celtic Celebration, and Yuletide at Bayou Bend’s Family Day
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This week or the next in the Houston area: Pipe Organ Recital at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, ELF Quote-A-Long at the Drafthouse, Diverse Works Presents Pilot (FX), an Evening of Marrakech, Robert Ellis & The Boys at Fitz, Panto Pinocchio, Mike Stinson at Blanco’s, the Marvelous Wonderettes, The Nutcracker, Plaid Tidings, Ooh La La Dessert Boutique and Toys for Tots, Slaid Cleaves at the Mucky Duck, and Bagels and Grits
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