U.S. Marine Corps

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Scooter Brown Band Firehouse Saloon, January 4 Few bands on the Texas country circuit -- a scene largely made up of affable college dropouts -- can say that they have a true-blue U.S. Marine up front, but the Scooter Brown Band can. Lead singer-songwriter/Iraq war combat veteran Scott Brown chose ... More >>

Scooter Brown Band

Last Minute Christmas: Ten Gifts Odd Gifts from CVS to Solidify Your Standing as Resident Black Sheep

Every year a whole bunch of you (you know who you are) wait until the last minute to buy Christmas gifts. You scramble and go crazy trying to get everything done just in time to see the disappointed look on the faces of your relatives as your reveal your latest holiday blunder. Let's be honest here. ... More >>

George Aragon Charged with Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child, is Brought Back From Guam

It took about a month but Harris County Sheriff's Office investigators finally have U.S. Marine George Aragon back in the United States, specifically in the Harris County Jail on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child. The 22-year-old Aragon was picked up about a month ago in Guam but refuse ... More >>

Looking Back On Queens Of The Stone Age's Songs For The Deaf

This past week one of the most beloved rock disc in the decade turned 10 years old. It was August 27, 2002 that the world met Queens Of The Stone Age's third LP, Songs For The Deaf, a blistering, swaggery, pummeling kick-in-the-nuts of a rock album. The band, lead by towering Ginger Elvis Joshua H ... More >>

Tyler Gleason: The Messianic Facebook Manifesto of the Man Who Allegedly Left His Baby in the Sun on FM 1960

Along with his wife Tonya Gleason, Houstonian homeless advocate Tyler Gleason was arrested yesterday and charged with child endagerment. Harris County Sheriff's deputies say that the couple left their five-month-old son in a car-seat in the median of FM 1960 near Kuykendahl while they solicited fu ... More >>

A Few Good Men

For Memorial Day: 10 Great Surprise Soldier Reunions (VIDEO)

Memorial Day is, of course, the day we honor those soldiers, sailors, airmen (of both sexes) and Marines who have given that last full measure of devotion. Luckily, most who serve do not have to do that. They sacrifice time with friends and family and put themselves in danger, but they do make it h ... More >>

Celebrate Memorial Day with A Festive Fruit Pizza

Memorial Day is just around the corner. With my brother, a U.S. Marine (oorah!), currently back home from his first deployment in Afghanistan, the holiday is near and dear to my heart. Wanting to make something special to celebrate and honor all those who have served and who continue to serve in ou ... More >>

Katy Perry: Pop Star Runs Afoul Of Alex Jones And InfoWars

Katy Perry's newest video for "Part Of Me", featuring her chopping off her hair in a bathroom before joining the Marine Corps, seems to be pissing off a few people, including our fellow Texan Alex Jones. According to the Austin freedom fighter and radio host, it's a man-hating recruitment video. W ... More >>

Jarod Barry: Former Marine Gets Nine Years For Gruesome Child Porn

A former Marine will get nine years in a federal prison for possession of a particularly gruesome genre of child porn. Jarod Barry, 30, who left the Marines in January with an "other than honorable" discharge, was sentenced after entering a guilty plea last June. He had been a sergeant. Investigat ... More >>

Breaking It Down

It may not be PTSDs or brain injuries that pose the most long-term danger to our surviving vets from their Middle East tours.

Daniel P. Morgan: New Caney Navy Corpsman in Camp Pendleton Brig for High School Bomb Threat

A Navy corpsman stationed at California's Camp Pendleton will be serving several more months in the base brig after he pleaded guilty in a court-martial to one charge of unauthorized absence and one charge of disorderly conduct. According to Hair Balls' Orange County sister blog Navelgazing, Daniel ... More >>

U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots Program Fundraiser

Chef Chat, Part 1: Anthony Davis of Reggae Hut

Photo by Mandy OaklanderAnthony Davis, chef of Reggae Hut​Reggae Hut, the colorful joint on Almeda Road in the Third Ward, serves up delicious Caribbean fare. Customers gobble up oxtails to the sounds of Bob Marley, his lyrics painted elegantly across the walls. Anthony "Tony" Davis is the man ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "A Matter of Wit," "Plenitude," "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Injured Soldiers and Marines"

Extreme Athletes Help High School Students Ride Out The Influence

Erica Love​See a slideshow of the athletes' performance. Remember the people who would come to your school telling you to "D.A.R.E to be different"? Then you have officially dated yourself. D.A.R.E. was a police officer and stuffed lion-led lessons that taught elementary school children how t ... More >>

Zachary Snow: Texan Sues Marines For Making Him Exercise In Hot Weather

I'll see you in court, SIR!​They don't make Marines like they used to. Or Texans, for that matter.That's the likely response from grumbly old-timers who learn that Zachary Ryan Snow, a Marine recruit, is suing the USMC in federal court because, he says, he was forced to exercise in a Texas s ... More >>

Texans Cheerleaders In The Far East: Stuck In An Airport And You Can't Get Out Of It

Try the wasabi-flavored Kit Kats​The Texans cheerleaders are headed to Japan on an Armed Forces Entertainment tour, because our brave service members want to hear what Matt Schaub is really like. Or maybe they want to look at cheerleaders.Texans cheerleader Lindsay (as always, first names only to ... More >>

Exile In Pearland: A Young Rocks Off Gets "Happy"

The first time Rocks Off the Younger truly heard "Happy," we were loading a case of Dannon yogurt into the display case at the Kroger in Pearland we worked at from 1999 until he first left home. It would have been September 2002, and we had just signed the papers that would mark our entry into the ... More >>

Godsmacked: 27 Years Of Mouthwash Buzz And Birthday Shame

​This coming Monday, Craig's Hlist enters his 27th year of decadence and shame. One year closer to 30, with no signs of getting wiser or smarter. This year we have no clue as to what to do or where to go, other than see live music and drink too much. But that's a typical weekend anyway and will mo ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

This Valentine's Day, get her what she really wants: Russell Stover's Blood Diamond-Filled Truffles. Savor the Sparklies, Taste the Oppression!™​ Hello, and welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we were considering being cremated upon death, but now we think we'd ... More >>

Artist of the Week: Why You Should Care About Modern-Rockers Raging Apathy

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​ Thirty-eight simple rules go ... More >>

Listology: The American Heist Soundtracks Their Funerals

​ ​Of all the bands to emerge out of the Houston music puppy mill this year, none has been as steadfastly working class and punk rock as the American Heist. Rocks Off first spied the band opening up for Florida's Fake Problems in May. At the time they were still called Born Anchor, but a Seattle ... More >>

Man Drive Car

Taxicab Confessions this isn't: Ramin Bahrani's quietly profound Goodbye Solo.

KBR's Iraq Adventure Now Includes Child Porn

KBR (Halliburton to the old-schoolaz) has had its share of troubles on its way to making untold billions of dollars of profit in Iraq.There's the rape and sexual harassment (Female and male-on-male!). There's the electrocuting soldiers. There's the dogs running around chomping on human remains inten ... More >>

Life On The Rodeo Road: Man, That's Your Nut Hanging Loose

Photo by Paul KnightClint CannonRodeo cowboys basically live on the road, traveling with a herd of men and women crazy enough to ride, rope and wrestle live animals for a paycheck. Each day, Hair Balls is asking a different cowboy to tell us a little bit about himself and his wildest story from a l ... More >>

Cy Springs Grad Loses Job In Porn Industry

Cypress Springs High no doubt was proud of 2000 graduate Christopher Jack Reid when he joined the Marines and served in Iraq.They might have been a little less proud when he returned, adopted the name "Jack Venice," and started starring in porno films. Although hey, maybe they were still proud. You ... More >>

Five Spot: "Thriller" Goes Global

[Ed. note: Five Spot got bumped by the Latin Grammys Friday, so better late than never...] Welcome back to Five Spot. Every week, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Because it makes per ... More >>

Heroic Boys and Mexican Families

Texas Air National Guard Boots Sick Soldier

Jason Franco now struggling in civilian life

Capsule Stage Reviews: "Hello, Dolly!," "Lady," "Last Acts," "Regrets Only"

Noise for Toys

Mucky Duck does it for Christmas

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4 hits maybe a little too close to home

The Devil Came on Horseback

War, slaughter, genocide — and you feel like seeing a movie?

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Opera Vista

Opera Vista proves the fat lady lives with its inaugural program

The Choking Game

Levi Draher came back from the dead. Other players were not so lucky.

Why don't Mexican girls swallow?

Who Is James Dicks?

Don't Ask, Don't Be

A Houston-area man leads the fight against the ban on gays in the military

Score!

When it comes to hockey movies, Miracle is as big a winner as its heroes

Silly Humans, The Matrix Is for Kids!

Revolutions runs a playful joyride through a nifty vision of hell

The Gulf Between

When these soldiers became writers, the pen becomes very mighty indeed

Weapons of Mass Distraction

At Miami's Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up dance music while the U.S. blows up Iraq

Young Guns

Some are ready to die. Others aren't -- they just want a chance at a better life. But even the most careful of local teens who enlist in 2003 may find their plans for a desk job interrupted by war.

News of the Weird

The Few, The Proud, the Battered

At Harlingen's Marine Military Academy, the line between discipline and abuse is sometimes as thin as a knife's edge

Walking Dead Arrives D.O.A.