Places We'll Be Soon

In reverse order. Hotels and transportation only.  Other stuff when we decide exactly what we are doing.

Using this.

Postcards from Yo Momma

A very funny website. I laughed quite a bit at this one, but I am very sick.

Tapumes

We went to see the Tapumes exhibit by Henrique Oliveira at Rice Gallery today. It's a huge installation in a single-room gallery. Oliveira constructs the tapumes or tri-dimensionals (check out more about him here) out of scrap wood that he paints and bends into various shapes and designs. It's a really interesting exhibit (all the better that it was free), simultaneously pleasing to the eye and a bit disorienting. The photos don't do it justice; size is integral to what he has done at Rice Gallery.

Defeating the Purpose

I-Fest

Mostly a waste of money.  To get in:  $15 each.  A Guiness (the theme this year was Ireland) set us back, effectively, 10 bucks (9 coupons cost 10 bucks).  Our meal, plus the beer, was 30 bucks. The Ireland themed exhibits were decent, but nobody wants to read a bunch of shit culled from Wikipedia printed on bright white signs while standing in the Houston sun.

That said, it was something to do and we caught a cool mariachi band, Mariachi Los Arrieros, from El Paso. They played well and they wore cool pants.

The Beach

Good Night

This is our apartment's idea of a bed frame.  Photo taken in the guest suite during our recent sojourn there.  Apparently, we pay for this shit.

Some Stuff

Just so I feel like I'm using this thing...

More Houston Signage

Here are a few more fun things we've caught with our iPhones.

Ponder this one for just a moment.



The robot threat is manifest. Though it is unclear if they have taken over the mail system or the mail system is being used to warn us. This one strikes me as kind of Pynchon-esque.



The joke here is hard to see (and probably only funny to me). The first line after the large font says "Head".

Not if You Choose to Say So on Your License Plate

Apparently this will become a continuing series. There is an epidemic of people in Houston paying good money to put stupid, self-refuting things on their license plates. I fear the irony is not intended. See here for further evidence.




Update: The image is very blurry. I took it with the iPhone after asking my dear wife to not let the idiot escape un-photographed. The license plate says "Cla55y". Also to be noted: People in Houston purchasing vanity plates can not spell (not to leave unmentioned the sad fact that other people have beaten them to the punch).

Loose

Ron Asheton, RIP