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My band, orange is in, is playing the Houston Art Car Parade on May 10. If you’ve never been, it is a very cool event put on by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. It is the oldest and most famous parade of its kind in the world and attracts visitors and wacky automobiles […]

Steve Salazar, the drummer in my band, had all of his drums and equipment stolen from his van last Thursday night. Some jerk broke into the van in his driveway in the middle of the night and took everything – drums, cymbals, hardware, even his damn stick bag!!!
Steve is a working musician – some […]

Woo hoo!
Got this from Nancy Greig regarding the recent concern over matching funds for the park.
I finally spoke “face to face” with Lara Wendler, Sen. Whitmire’s executive director.
She emphatically assured me that the allocation of $3.75 million for the W. 11th Street Park was 1) intended to pay for the PURCHASE (not improvements) of the […]

Appreciate what you have.

About a week ago, I posted a press release from Senator John Whitmire’s office stating that the remaining monies needed to save the 11th Street Park from development had been added to the state budget and the park was now safe.
Um…cough.
I got an email from a VERY reliable source stating that Councilwoman Toni Lawrence said […]

Nancy Greig, the wonderful woman in charge of saving 11th Street Park, recently gave me a t-shirt for the park efforts (I still owe you $20, Nancy!) to wear at a gig I had with my band a few weeks back. I wore it. I guess it worked.
Senator John Whitmire Secures Funding […]

As if you needed any more proof than yours truly (har de har har), my friend The Photine hands out some stats…
These are the numbers we got today at the music teacher’s convention.
Perfect score on the new SAT is 2400. National average is 1518. Texas average is 1484.
Texas All State average SAT score by performing […]

Skype, the internet telephony folks, are having an Ebay auction benefitting the Young Storytellers Foundation.  The auction allows you to bid on 10 minutes of actual phone (video with three of them) time with a number of celebs including Rob Lowe, Henry Winkler, Jenna Fisher, Rachel Bilson and Rainn Wilson among others.
As you might guess, […]

Most of you know that I am a resident of Houston’s oldest neighborhood, the Historic Houston Heights. Not only have I lived here for more than 10 years, but both sets of grandparents lived in Timbergrove (just to the west of Heights proper) since I was born and I went to school in Oak […]

This. Is. Brilliant.