The day after my baby brother was born in 1975, my parents bought a piece of property in or near Walhalla, Texas (I'm not that clear on where the city limits are, it's not exactly a booming metropolis; it had a population of 37 in the 2000 census.). My parents knew that they wanted a place away from the city, where they could take their kids and ( Read more... )

Over and over again last night, I kept on hearing the same words, "most successful movie at the box office of all time."

You got to be fucking kidding me.

The most successful movie at the box office of all time was released in 1939. And it's going to take a hell of a flick to knock it off it's pedestal ( Read more... )

On Saturday morning, as planned, Liv, Graham, Crianza, Chicken and Celosa were driving down 290 with me at a wholely unreasonable hour. Right at Hempstead, around 7:30 am, we noticed a billboard in a field that said "Civil War Weekend" and I immediately exited. We followed the directional signs that said "Civil War Reenactment this way" and ended ( Read more... )

So everyone is talking about the wall going down in October of 1989. I was a junior in high school, 16 years old, and I understood, sort of, what it meant, but I didn't really ( Read more... )

Speaking of theaters, my favorite old theater in Houston was the one in the West University Village, though I never actually went inside. The sign still stands, on the corner of University and Morningside, but the theater was torn down a good 20 years ago, when Rice decided to put the Village Arcade shopping area in. Back then, my mom used to ( Read more... )

"So it's the 40th anniversary of woodstock ( Read more... )

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Youtube is a wonderful thing.

It's always sort of weird to attempt to record history as it's happening ( Read more... )

Graham and I went to the ranch this weekend, and it was wonderful. Usually, we just hang out at the ranch and don't venture out too far, but this weekend was different. "Antique weekend", which is this coming weekend, has really turned into "Antique ten days", and the thousands of vendors and dealers were out in the fields of Warrenton in full ( Read more... )

Thank you New York Times. I almost forgot my joy in watching the Patriots lose the Superbowl ( Read more... )