The Houston Humane Society on Almeda Road was in full swing this morning in the very special way it honors the St. Valentine's Day season. On Fix Felix For Free Day, the HHS pledges to neuter 500 male cats for free. No females allowed. There was a limit of five cats per household and appointments were to be made in advance. With the considerable savings it offered -- rabies shots were half-price at $5 -- there were a lot of takers.But the lines moved, in fact, they zoomed this morning. It may ha
Wood NewtonSo over the weekend I reconnected with my stepfather Chip Phillips. As a good friend of the late Townes Van Zandt and a decades-long friend (and former long-time roadie for) Steve Earle, Chip's got plenty of good tales from the old days, such as this one from about 1978...
Back then Townes was living in the hills outside of Nashville in an unheated country shack with no running water at the end of two dirt roads. He shared this retreat with his red-haired teenaged bride Cindy,
Oh my God, Miss Pop Rocks,
now you're going to pick on little people? HAVE YOU NO SHAME,
WOMAN?
Truth is, I don't. But hear me out. I am not picking on TLC's latest reality stars
-- Houston's very own Jen Arnold and Bill Klein -- because they
are small. I am picking on them because they are boring as hell
and there is no need for them to be on TV.
Bill's a businessman, Jen's
a doctor, and they live in Sugar Land with their dog. I know,
I know, it's crazy, right? I mean, th
