Archive for August, 2007
Bees
Featured in a recent New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert’s Stung is about just that, bees. She begins:
Not long ago, I found myself sitting at the edge of a field with a bear and thirty or forty thousand very angry bees. The bear was there because of the bees. The bees were there because of me, and […]
Google Street View Comes to Houston
Google added Street View mapping to Houston last week, making it possible to browse photographs of the city’s major streets from your computer as if you were standing on the corner. Above, is Google’s shot of my house. I wish they would have told me they were coming, I would have tidied up a bit.
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Houston Cougars Football Schedule Out
The University of Houston announced the fall football schedule, with relatively few surprises coming off a Conference USA championship in 2006-07. Practice is getting underway. With four year starting quarterback Kevin Kolb off to the NFL, the Cougars are still trying to sort out the QB position with some sizeable shoes to fill - UH […]
Wine Library TV, An Oenophile for the Rest of Us
Via Slate I’ve discovered Wine Library TV, a web-based video show hosted by the delightfully maniacal Gary Vaynerchuk among others. Give it a looksy…
Bringing Merlot Back - Episode #285. Amen to that.
Random Factoid - First College Building built with Air Conditioning at University of Houston
Pictured above is the University of Houston campus in 1940. I ran across this factoid while researching something for another post:
The University of Houston moved to its present campus in 1939. Its first building, the Roy Gustav Cullen Building, was dedicated on June 4, 1939, and classes began the next day. The R.G. Cullen building […]
Only in Maine - Deer hit by bike explodes into oncoming car
The Bangor Daily News reported on a recent car accident in Maine in which a deer was hit by a motorcycle and then careened into the windshield of an oncoming car driven by Addie Gilman (no relation):
Keating said much of the deer’s entrails penetrated the car’s interior, covering Gilman with blood and other matter. “She […]
Antonya Nelson’s glimpse of Houston in Shauntrelle
Houston is not, to my mind, a particularly literary town, that is to say, it defies one to write about it. It has no deficit of aspiration of course and has played host to many a worthy practitioner - minimalist kingpin Donald Barthelme, poets Mark Doty, Edward Hirsch, Cynthia MacDonald, Vassar Miller, and of course […]