There are many things I love about Niko Niko's. I love their soft fluffy pita bread. I love their tender juicy souvlaki. I love their tzatziki - always creamy, never watery. I love their huge portions for low prices, although this is not quite so important now as it was in college. I love their staff shirts, which exhort patrons to "try my Greek ( Read more... )

1. The cannon the Mexican army tried to take from the militia at Gonzales, kicking off the revolution, is really small, only about two feet long ( Read more... )

I'm baaaaaaaack ( Read more... )

1. Deep-fried Snickers > deep-fried Oreo > deep-fried Twinkie ( Read more... )

I am sunburned. I am covered with mosquito bites. My arms are sore. I have a big purple bruise on my thigh. I had a great weekend ( Read more... )

I will be in Houston July 10th-13th. I 'll mostly be family bonding, but we're having a party at Mom's house on the 11th starting at 7pm - you bring a beverage and/or side dish, we'll provide meat cooked with delicious fire, and I'll probably be induced to bake something. Bring a swimsuit if you want to use the pool. Everyone's invited. Let me know ( Read more... )

(in no particular order)

1. Kolaches - Check!
2. Fajitas
3. Barbeque (beef! none of this pork nonsense)
4. Shrimp
5. Star Pizza - Check!
6. Blue Bell - Check!

I will be in the Greater Houston Area next weekend, January 9th-12th. Call me, email me, text me, IM me. Let's make plans. Let's eat or drink or see a movie or lie around on the couch watching crap daytime TV. Whatever. I just want to see y'all.

Every day there are thousands of tourists in DC, and they all want to ask me for directions. I don't know why. I guess I exude that magical combination of knowledge, patience and general niceness that makes people think I can and will solve their local geography problems. So they come up to me and say, in French- or German- or Russian- or ( Read more... )

I have a routine in the evenings. I come home from work, I cook something, and I eat it on my couch watching Jeopardy!, because I'm a nerd. In the last few weeks this routine has brought something to my TV screen I had never ever seen before: presidential campaign ads. I regularly see both a McCain and an Obama ad in my half-hour of trivia time. ( Read more... )