Rule, Brittaniea! Gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your mind
Innnnnnteresting…
Columnist Ann Landers once did an informal survey of her readers back in the 1970’s. The single question she asked of them was: “If you had it to do over again, would you still have children?” A surprising 70% said “no.”
From a MeFi thread on the rudest of all rude questions, “So… when are you [...]
I started something
There’s been a lot of lament lately for Houston’s concert-goers and their extremely bad manners. Of particular offense is a crowd’s collective tendency to TALK AT FULL VOLUME during a show. This is especially annoying when the talkers are right in front of the stage, taking up space that someone who is there to actually [...]
Three-headed monster
This is freaking me out this morning:
Mesmerizing
If you look too long it will completely hypnotize you.
Accolades
Brittanie’s a freelance writer that has amassed an incredible number of accolades as a journalist in a very short time, covering everything from food to travel to women’s issues. She is extremely literate but has a conversational style that makes reading a concert review seem like you’re hearing it from one of your friends. It [...]
Wes Anderson on the Menil Collection
Wes Anderson hatred abounds, buy y’all can all suck it.
Anderson: I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There’s one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I’m interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.
Cocker: What museum is that?
Anderson: [...]
Montrose documentary
Last year I tweeted about seeing a documentary about my gayborhood on PBS. Well, I finally found the preview online. The full-length version features a not-yet-elected Mayor Annise Parker.
MONTROSE TEXAS: The Transformation of a Neighborhood from FAST CUT FILMS on Vimeo.
I want that outfit
I also want to play the drums.
English Beat of my heart
I’ve read fellow music writers (including some of my colleagues) write about the feeling of hearing a musical legend or infatuation play a certain favorite song, and feeling so content with the experience that they knew if they died on the way home they’d die happy. I’ve never really had that feeling before, either in [...]
Whine & Grine
So I was mistaken in my last post. The photog did take a lot of pics of English Beat, and you can see them in a slideshow on the Houston Press website. Sorry Marco.
“To Kanye”
— verb (used with object)
1. to demonstrate male privilege right egregiously, to interrupt the woman speaking and dispense your “wisdom”
The inimitable Jessica Hopper used this term in a recent blog post about a man in her gardening class who kept trying to finish the (female) master botanist’s sentences with incorrect information. Constantly.
…never raising his hand, [...]
Warpaint
Saw their first two songs at Walter’s tonight after the Kinky Friedman show at Mucky Duck. Had to come home to do school work and work work. But they were awesome. I’m sold.
Fist City
Each Thursday for the Houston Press Music Blog, Craigers and I do a joint column called He Said She Said where we pick our ten favorite songs on a certain subject. We’ve written about first dates, New Year’s resolutions and music from the Oughts*. This week the Houston Rodeo comes to town, probably the biggest [...]
Fancy
How did I not know this was written by Bobbie Gentry?
Negative split
On a whim Friday I went to my local running store and registered for Saturday’s Rodeo Run 10, the one-year anniversary of the first race I’d ever run. CLH is out of town, I had no arrangements to meet friends at the start or finish line, and I hadn’t even really trained for it, having [...]
Lesson for the day
Writing begets writing.
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