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September 4, 2008Has Sarah Palin Cracked the Glass Ceiling for Other Former Sportscasters?
September 4, 2008Nice Try: Bob Barr Wants John McCain and Barack Obama Thrown Off the Texas Ballot
September 5, 2008Battle Of The Feisty Governors: Sarah Palin vs. Ann Richards
September 9, 2008Lonesome Onry and Mean: Rich Hornbuckle, Renaissance Man
September 23, 2008Lonesome Onry and Mean: Darrell Scott's Modern Hymns
October 2, 2008Golly, That Was Some Debate
October 3, 2008UT Students Disciplined Over Obama Signs (Updated: Victory!)
October 9, 2008Turning the Screw: Lil Wayne, Hip-Hop and the Election, Wu-Tang Clan, Danity Kane, The Kanye
October 20, 2008Book Review: Doomed Queens
October 23, 2008Turning the Screw: Bun B and Q-Tip Team Up, Jennifer Hudson, Ludacris, T-Pain, G-Unit, MF Doom, Cypress Hill and More
October 27, 2008More Genius Rankings from the BCS
October 27, 2008Ten Rejected Hockey Names for Sarah Palin's Sixth Child
October 29, 2008Houston Astrologers Pick The Presidential Race
November 3, 2008Houston Doomed If Obama Wins
November 3, 2008Candidate Cocktails on Election Day 2008
November 4, 2008Election Eve With Fred
November 4, 2008Six Ways You Know Obama Has Won
November 5, 2008What History Tells Us: Five Black Presidents
November 6, 2008Things We Don't Get: Walton & Johnson
November 7, 2008Ralph Macchio: The One and Only Karate Kid
No, my God, NO! There is only one Daniel LaRusso and his name is Ralph “Stone Fox” Macchio! Such was my reaction when I heard word this week that Will Smith’s nauseatingly adorable son Jaden is scheduled to remake the classic 80s film The Karate Kid. Now I have nothing against Will Smith’s kid (although I do think a little nepotism must be at work here), but such news is enough to make me want to crane kick my computer (or at least drink a little sake).
November 20, 2008Houston Company Tapping Into The Obama Magic
The election of Barack Obama was a surprising temporary revenue stream for the embattled print media -- papers sold out, additional copies describing the victory sold out, and now companies like The New York Times are offering a cornucopia of Obama-related items for sale. (Framed edition of the front page declaring victory? Fifty bucks.)It's a Houston company, however, that is offering an Obama calendar, just in time for the holidays.Cushcity.com may be under the radar for a lot of us, but the c
December 3, 2008A Hold-Out In The Obama-McCain Election
The morning commute into town left me near a late-model Range Rover, bottle-blonde, soccer-mom Tanglewood type at the wheel.The luxury car featured two bumper stickers: One, a small decal with the McCain logo and a big drawing of kissy lips that said "Read My Lipstick." Sort of clever, if you're the kind of person who actually believes that Sarah Palin was ready for the Presidency.The other, larger one was in stark black and white. "Barack Obama Is Not My President," it blared.Technically true,
December 4, 2008Tonight: Eugene Chadbourne and Walter Daniels at Rudyard's
The willfully weird Eugene Chadbourne stops by Rudyard's this evening with Walter Daniels, harmonicist (as far as I can tell that is, in fact, a word) for 1980s Austin punk bands the Hickoids and Jack O'Fire, in tow. Chadbourne's music is a mishmash of folk, blues, bluegrass, country, jazz and punk rock; his songs, performed on banjo, electric steel guitar and electric rake (his own invention), are shot through with loose, reeling scales and slides. If Jimmy Page had been
December 11, 2008The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown
And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with the 16 artists who qualified and had him assign seeds--Lil Wayne you expect to go deep into a showdown like this, but Lucinda Williams? Some fantastic match-ups result
December 30, 2008Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008
In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The ten discs below are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seems to
December 26, 2008Lonesome Onry and Mean: Envy, You're Up
Best In Texas music magazine can breathe a sigh of relief this month. We've found a new publication of supreme arrogance and ineptitude to ponder and dissect. Other than pedophiles, no group of people pisses Lonesome Onry & Mean off more than Elitist Pricks. Dallas is full of them -- not that Houston doesn't have its share. Nothing in recent memory screams "elitist pricks" like the vapid December issue of Envy magazine LOM found lying next to the Press at his favorite watering hole. Before t
December 18, 2008Lonesome Onry and Mean: Envy vs. the Service Industry
Nursing a medicinal Saint Arnold's Elissa draught while casually flipping through Envy, LOM actually saw something that looked interesting: Adam P. Newton's review of the Service Industry's new album, Keep the Babies Warm. My first thought: why in God's name would a conspicuous-consumption rag like Envy be wasting space in its extremely expensive glossy pages filled with ads for Dior, Momentum BMW, Tovas Five-Star Day Spa and Hair Studio for Women & Men, and Michael Ciaravino ("The Breast D
December 23, 2008The First George Bush, A Houston Stud Muffin
There's a process under way to pick someone to be vice-president of the US.One candidate is "very attractive," but is young and doesn't have much experience.A rival to that candidate moans that he would never "win a personality contest" with the young foe.Who's the sparkling but inexperienced veep possibility? Sarah Palin?Nope -- it's Houston's George H.W. Bush, who apparently was considered a very handsome man by Henry Kissinger and US Attorney General Elliott Richardson back when Gerald Ford w
December 24, 2008Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast for
December 31, 2008Where To Indulge Your Obama-Mania In Houston
No one's going to be getting much work done around 11 a.m. Houston time tomorrow.That, of course, is when John McCain will be sworn in as the nation's first old-white-guy President; assuming you're down from the amazing high of Sunday's Lee Greenwood/Hank Williams Jr. concert at the Mall, you'll want to watch his uplifting Inaugural Speech.The rest of us in Real World will be watching Obama.Assuming you didn't make it to DC -- hey, at least you won't be freezing your ass off -- where best to wat
January 19, 2009A Few Rejected Inaugural Ball Theme Songs
Eminem feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent, "Crack A Bottle" The Good: Many bottles will be popped during tonight's festivities, we imagine, if not quite as many models. Also, the ongoing partnerships between this trio of rap titans says something about the present state of race relations in this country, right? Or about how while people are no longer the sole exploiters of assorted cultural traditions? The Bad: Fitty's already got a head as fat as Epcot Center; no need to inflate it any further. The
January 20, 2009Judge Not The Two-Step, Lest Ye Be Judged
Yeah, so we judged a Texas Two-Step dancing contest last night.That's pretty much the equivalent of Sarah Palin judging a Dance Salad festival, but we tried.You know it's bad when the only song you recognize in the half-dozen or so tunes in the warm-up is George Strait's "Love Without End, Amen," and that's only because you can pretty clearly make out the words "love without end, amen" in the chorus. But Reliant Energy, which sponsored the event, seems to have faith in your ability to determ
February 26, 2009Eminem's Comeback: Yay or Nay?
So Eminem is back. Eminem. A man who is a paradox wrapped inside an enigma and served with two joints and a beer. The man has totally homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, yet he has performed with Elton John and is, by all accounts, a loving single dad to his little girl. He seems dumb as dirt in some interviews, but his lyrics are sharp and way witty. I hate him, but I love him. You know.He's been under the radar for several years...pretty much since 2004. Now he's got a new album out, Relapse,
April 14, 2009Hurricane Ike's Wake
Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath
January 8, 2009Hobby Bloggers at the Chronicle Spark Controversy
April 16, 2009Analyzing Bocephus's "McCain-Palin Tradition"
Elephant Walk
October 23, 2008Frost/Nixon
Katie vs. Sarah ain't nothing - see this smash London play for the real debate
October 16, 2008Northern Soul: Portugal. The Man
Straight outta Sarah Palin country
October 16, 2008Sarah Palin Takes On The Crackhos of Houston
Photo by sskennelYou better darn-tootin' not hijack an official Web site from Sarah Palin's State of Alaska. Houston DJ and nightlife ne'er-do-well Shoe Latif recently found that out the hard way when she got a cease-and-desist letter from the flinty-eyed legal eagles in Palin's Attorney General's office. And no, Palin didn't enclose a picture of herself winkin' either. This is the Internet we're talking about here, people. Serious business.On the plus side, Latif can now say she has a letter wi
May 12, 2009The Rockets, Joining The Pantheon Of Those Who Gave Up Surprising Momentum
Hey, how'd those Rockets do last night?!Oh.In case you missed it, Our Rockets (and by "Our," we mean "team we started cheering for a week ago"), got shellacked by the Lakers 118-78. Everyone had expected the injury-riddled Houston team to lose like that -- in Sunday's game, which they had won.That Sunday victory immediately and inexplicably raised the hopes of Rockets fans that this was a Team of Destiny, who could then go on to finish the the job of upsetting the best team in the west in the s
May 13, 2009Before We Go: A Thousand Cranes, the Muses, Johnny Bush, the Old Quarter, Katy Perry, a Numbers Documentary and More
The above cartoon - give it a minute; it'll show up - is somehow tied into Saturday's show at Avant Garden featuring A Thousand Cranes, How I Quit Crack and Metal Rouge. Rocks Off wishes he could tell you how, but he digs the Monty Python and the Holy Grail homage. Colorado traditional Celtic duo the Muses will play a free show Wednesday, May 27, on the plaza in front of the main branch of the Houston Public Library (500 McKinney) at 6 p.m. "Whiskey River" author Johnny Bush will play this week
May 14, 2009Cattle Decapitation
May 21, 2009Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi
Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has
June 22, 2009The Last Roundup: A Palin Resignation Playlist, Texas Heat Fizzles, Mathletes LP Release and More
There's always that one thing that makes the week great, even though it's barely begun. This week, it comes courtesy of Houston Music Examiner David Sadof's three-part playlist for Sarah Palin's resignation. The Texas Heat Music Festival's goose was cooked, says 29-95. Thought things were slow over on Weworemasks, then these remixes (Jay Z, Kid Cudi, E-40, etc.) came up. Post-holiday Mondays are always the worst. That probably explains the Black Heart Procession MP3 in Dryvetyme's Media Mon
July 7, 2009Lonesome Onry and Mean: "OD'd In Denver" and Other Drug-Addled Americana Songs
A group of us were sitting at our regular table at the bar the other night when one of our number reported that he had to fly to Denver the next day. LOM never hears the word "Denver" that we don't think of Hank Williams Jr.'s "OD'd in Denver." We wonder if Sarah Palin, whom Bocephus schlepped for on the campaign trail last year, has ever heard that one. Anyway, this set off a long discussion about drug references in Americana music. Before long, we were making a list. It kept growing. 1. Hank
August 21, 2009Midweek Match-Up: Tom DeLay Vs. Sarah Palin In The Battle Of The Quitters
What is up with the Republican Party today? It's become a party of quitters.First, Sarah Palin ups and leaves her job as Alaska governor for reasons only she can discern. Then Tom DeLay throws in the white towel on Dance With The Stars, even as the nation was begging for him to continue making a complete ass of himself.Did Ronald Reagan ever quit anything? (We mean, besides his effort to install a fiscally responsible government.) No.But between Palin and DeLay, who's the most egregious quitter?
October 7, 2009George H.W. Bush To Aggies: Please Don't Be Aggies When Obama Visits
President Obama is headed to College Station Friday, at the invitation of former President George H.W. Bush, to speak about community service and whatnot.Obama, having already spoken at Notre Dame earlier this career, apparently decided to find an even more hostile environment. (Next stop: Bob Jones University! Then Al-Qaeda headquarters and then, The Woodlands.)Bush obviously is hoping very much for a polite, respectful reception for Obama in Aggieland. He also has a pretty good idea of just
October 15, 2009Opinions "Mixed" On Obama's Fort Hood Visit, Waco Paper Says, Demonstrating An Odd Use Of "Mixed"
The once-respected Waco Tribune Herald was purchased this summer by a very conservative family whose first move was to put "In God We Trust" on the front page of each edition.Since then the paper has become very right-wing (even for Waco!!) on its editorial pages. We don't read it enough to know if that's seeped over to the news side, but we did read it today online."Opinions in Fort Hood, Killeen mixed on today's Obama visit," read the headline on a story about the presidential visit for the
November 10, 2009The Tug of War
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