Movies Eat The Soul...

...limps back into view with a new name and old attitude and a couple short reviews of mediocre movies.

Movies Eat the Soul

Paranoia strikes deep...My other blog will re-emerge in a week or so as Movies Eat the Soul or something even less clever. If I want to continue filling the intertubes with my movie musings, it is probably time to genericize it a bit. This means I will have to learn to write a synopsis. That should be fun.

Houston Downtown Tea Party

Photo Montage

The Houston Tea Party was held outside downtown with a stage in one area and a booth area about a 100 yards away. Thankfully, it was a beautiful windy day.

I''ll make a very un-SWAG and say 2000 people, but this isn't really my specialty. The crowd was polite and I saw no evidence of left wing agitator moles. All negativity focuses on Obama or the media, rather than Congress, Pelosi, Reid, et al. In my opinion, that's a mistake.

The John Birch Society had one of the most professional-looking booths, but they've had 50 years of practice.

Sorry to bust the multicultural narrative, but the crowd was solidly 99% white with very few blacks, asians or hispanics. Our South Texas racial mix doesn't allow much distinction between white and hispanic, but this crowd was white. Even the blues band "Westborn" was white. Not bad though.

Local radio talker Natalie Arceneaux appeared to be the main MC and did fine, although her voice, like Palin's and Hillary's takes some getting used to. A local Baptist minister made it all the way to the last sentence of his invocation before mentioning "my" savior Jesus Christ. I would have been happier with the standard "Father in Heaven" but at least he went with "my" rather than "our". He said he prays for "states rights" and "low taxes", so I'll take it.

This is my first Tea Party, and it looked like a typical outdoor Austin or Houston art festival, except no art, no food or drink vendors, and no damn Port-a-Potties. The biggest cheer was a from a swipe at the media in general and a mention of gratitude for Fox News.

If 2000 people seems a little thin, there were also large Tea Parties in North and South Houston that I did not attend. Only about 10% of the Houston population works downtown, in fact, we have several downtowns, so we may be a little more dispersed. Also, Texans have lived the dream of relatively small, if occasionally activist, government for a long time. We can afford to be smaller and less professional because we've all been three-fourths Tea Party in spirit for a long time.

Ice on the Missouri

....in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Well I Guess Leonard Cohen's Money Troubles Are Over For A While

Glad to see that he's back on the charts and bankin' some royalties. A Christmas classic to be sure.

For proof that the Europeans really are different from us, go see this horror show. I keep waiting for someone to start machine-gunning the zombies off the balcony.

Merry Christmas to readers one through two.

Once You Go Jap, You Never Go Back

Snow in south Texas. Is Al Gore in town?

My daughters' 96 Camry (made in Japan) with ornament, as photographed when I got home with my wife's 2001 Windstar van (made in Canada). I picked up the van from the shop after spending $369.00 to repair one (1) of the four (4) automatic windows that won't operate. All the windows on the Camry work just fine, as do all the windows on my Accord (assembled in Mexico). Now which American auto company am I supposed to bail out, exactly?

I haven't owned a GM vehicle since the front-wheel-drive '84 Chevy Citation. That's a memory I'll never shake. The sound of that thing going around a corner was similar to the sound of my shoulder joint when I slipped on a wet ladder and hung by my arm for a couple seconds.

After the Fire

....before the heartburn

Baked Alaska

Nuevo Progreso, Mexico.
Arturo's Restaurant

Rich, flamy goodness.

Dean Barnett RIP

I first ran across him as SoxBlog, and then on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, and then at the Weekly Standard. Fine writer and better on the radio than one would think, given his "Baahstan" accent. Always good natured and positive on the radio.

The only "major" blogger kind enough to visit this poor blog and send an email. I'll miss him.

Dinner at Sushi Samba - Chicago

Got Power Back - 9/17/08

...just too busy to post.

couple miles west of downtown Houston, Monday night, looking out my office window. Couple million people out there.

...glad I didn't mail the Netflix.

...please let there be ice cream...

ohh, and don't forget Galveston/Bolivar Peninsula

Gas line

This is life in houston for the time being. No power in the woodlands, but the weather is nice.

woodlands power out

it was a good run. cant complain

west wind now

fewer boards on that side of house. more rain now

slight slackening...

of wind at 5:45. many roof pings and bonks. still have power