Hair Balls introduces a new regular feature: Blog on Blog. Each week we'll interview other area e-writers and explore what they're writing about, why they write about it and why you should read what they write about.
Starting things off is Off the Kuff's Charles Kuffner, who we gave Best Blog in our Best of Houston 2007 issue. Texas Monthly also recognized him as one of the 35 People Who Will Shape Our Future. Reader's can't help but notice the sheer volume of Kuffner's blog posts - impressive
Each week Hair Balls interviews other area e-writers to explore what they're writing about, why they write about it and why you should read what they write about. This week it's Greg Wythe of Greg's Opinion. His blog covers a healthy dose of political opinion, high-school sports updates and funny videos. We found this mix of serious and kooky is a reflection of Wythe's dry sense of humor. On the two photos he sent to be used with this write-up he says, "I'm partial to Shamu, but feel free t
View Larger MapThe proposal to rename the stretch of Hillcroft
that courses through the heart of Little Bombay is ginning up a surprising
amount of aggro in the blogosphere. (Or is it a surprising amount of blogs in
the aggrosphere -- sometimes it's hard to tell.)Under the headline "We'll give up Hillcroft When You Pry It
From Our Cold Dead Fingers," Slampo first touts the famous Indo-American work
ethic before he thunders on thusly: Yet the great, great majority of the "members" of these
Talk about a ballsy endorsement: local group Christians For Better Government announced today that it definitely thinks you should vote Annise Paker for mayor. Or maybe Gene Locke. Come to think of it, wouldn't it be swell if we could have two mayors??
This is after the non-profit, Pentecostal-Charismatic political organization declined to endorse a candidate before the general election. So why the Houston Chronicle-like double endorsement in a field of two for the December 12 run-off? CFBG'