tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302106552024-03-13T15:34:49.246-05:00Wha' Happen? Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.comBlogger442125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-52318874605464356732013-06-09T09:13:00.000-05:002013-06-09T09:13:39.322-05:00Sarah's graduation march Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-8228632756843368832013-01-07T11:02:00.002-06:002013-01-07T11:03:41.695-06:00The Cheapest House in Houston January 7, 2013
9214 Wheatley St (near Gulf Bank and Veterans Memorial in North Houston). Yours for only $9,999. Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-62062213129128810462012-05-27T15:51:00.001-05:002012-05-27T15:52:13.710-05:00Photos from Comicpalooza 2012I checked out Comicpalooza 2012 on Sunday. It looked like a success--lots of people there, having fun, totally engaged. It's not really my thing. The presence of alternative comics (much less art comics, to split hairs more finely) was almost nil, and comics-wise, that's what I'm interested in. That said, there were a lot of creative people there, both guests and attendees. I like people who wear Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-4692546720984672092011-02-13T11:49:00.001-06:002011-02-13T11:50:31.426-06:00Future McMansion
This house is across the street from my house.
I spy with my little eye
Anything here that I can buy.
I see a little thatched cottage
Looking so neat
With compulsory purchase we can buy it up cheap.
Then we’ll pull up the floor boards,
Knock down the walls,
Rock the foundations,
Until the house falls.
Like a pack of cards,
Crashing to the ground.
Then we’ll build a row
Of identical boxes
And Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-86244563939485382102010-11-24T13:44:00.003-06:002010-11-24T13:46:40.248-06:00I Have a Problem With The PassageHey all you Wha'Happen readers out there. Long time no see.
Anyway, I am reading The Passage by Justin Cronin right now. (Cronin is an English prof at Rice--his bio at Rice's website is curiously out of date.)
Anyway, this question is for people who have read the book, and it contains SPOILERS. Not big ones, but a bit.
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& Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-1841759475321057042010-08-25T09:29:00.000-05:002010-08-25T09:29:38.232-05:00Offered without comment Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-46459269922302647232010-08-23T06:52:00.008-05:002021-05-26T12:06:00.376-05:00A Few Thoughts on KTRUA week ago, news of the pending sale of KTRU to the University of Houston was leaked to the news media. I heard about it first from The Houston Press blog. The Chronicle had apparently known about it for quite a while, but in exchange for some exclusive information embargoed the story until Tuesday. The point is that this was a done deal before any students, faculty, staff, or alumni heard about Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-48405345427037693742010-08-21T12:20:00.001-05:002010-08-24T13:46:41.618-05:00John Nova Lomax's Guide to Houston Dive BarsLong time, no see, Wha'Happen readers (all three of you). Most of my writerly energy has migrated over to The Great God Pan is Dead, where I write about art (mostly art in Houston). If there is something that doesn't fit at Pan that I want to make note of, I usually link to it on Facebook and/or Twitter. So Wha'Happen has become a ghost blog.
But sometimes you have something that just won't fit Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-77922822712954615352010-05-14T11:39:00.000-05:002010-05-14T11:39:31.724-05:00Down With the Government! Now Give Me My Check!"The government’s main function these days is writing checks to old people. These checks allow people to retire and pursue avocations such as going to Tea Party rallies."
Michael Kinsley, "My Country Tis of Me," The Atlantic Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-26261498932212565292010-04-17T23:36:00.002-05:002010-04-17T23:36:54.417-05:00Mighty Mighty Pleasin', My Pappy's Corn Squeezins... mmmmmm... White Lightnin'! Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-74477125680200088282010-03-20T12:24:00.000-05:002010-03-20T12:24:14.762-05:00purely random iTunes DJI love the way the iTunes DJ veers crazily from song to song, regardless of the incongruity of the juxtapositions.
Last song played: "Popcorn" by Kraftwerk
This song: "There's a Tear in my Beer" by Hank Williams Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-36744850632593203792010-03-20T07:34:00.000-05:002010-03-20T07:34:07.309-05:00Don't Let Another Kitten Die
(Swiped cold from Flowing Data, who got it from Dataviz, who got it from Mark Goetz.) Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-69199094538509811912010-03-19T06:08:00.000-05:002010-03-19T06:08:11.884-05:00Alex Chilton is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good MyselfAlex Chilton's death hit me harder than I would have expected. I think this article from Slate yesterday speaks to why.
"It's such an icky boomer-like exercise, obsessing over your own demise," a pal told Shafer back in 2005, when he surveyed some of his younger friends about the potential signs of a coming cultural rebellion. True. And boomer self-satisfaction is such that we will Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-14489190262597874332010-03-03T20:04:00.002-06:002010-03-03T20:05:12.077-06:00Very Bad Robert BoydKyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) is days away from his wedding and welcomes his bachelor party weekend as a chance to break free from the pressure from his Bridezilla fiancée Laura (Cameron Diaz). Things are as chaotic as expected in their hotel in Las Vegas — drink, drugs and a stripper.
However, trouble begins when Kyle's friend Michael (Jeremy Piven) accidentally kills a stripper (Kobe Tai) in Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-63901030028030463652010-02-22T18:41:00.000-06:002010-02-22T18:41:04.350-06:00Yet Another Robert Boyd Who Is Not Me
This Robert Boyd is a virtuoso flamenco guitarist--check out his superb website for some samples of his fantastic playing.
(I can play two chords on the guitar--but they're both really good chords!) Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-31755471872115137332010-02-15T17:45:00.004-06:002010-02-16T08:19:10.441-06:00A Note on Ahead of the Curve
Ahead of the Curve by Philip Delves Broughton.
I read this book because I wanted to compare the Harvard MBA experience with my own. Broughton was the head of the Paris bureau for the Daily Telegraph when he decided to make a change in his life. Like me, he was older than his fellow students. He also was culturally from a different place than many of his fellow students. He tries to minimize Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-25757041641818396832010-02-15T11:05:00.000-06:002010-02-15T11:05:08.376-06:00Enough With the Punk Rock Oral Histories AlreadyYears ago, someone gave me a copy of Please Kill Me (1997), the oral history of punk/new wave in New York City compiled and edited by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. It's a great read despite McNeil's unaccountable dislike of the Talking Heads (he refers to David Byrne's "yuppie whine," as I recall). So anyway, I guess that book was successful because it spawned a version for L.A.'s scene called Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-60628971004726361282010-02-05T09:20:00.000-06:002010-02-05T09:20:17.724-06:00Who Should Have a Historical Marker in Houston?OK, so Lightnin' Hopkins is getting his own historical marker up on Dowling later this year. That's good--well-deserved. Lightnin' makes me proud to be a Houstonian. As Slampo says, he deserves even bigger official kudos. But Slampo follows up with the fact that historical markers tend toward the highly respectable and avoid the disreputable demimonde that are undeniably part of our history. Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-8074668595462094982010-02-04T08:20:00.000-06:002010-02-04T08:20:48.219-06:00New Improved Supreme Court Justice Robes
Created by John Coby over at Bay Area Houston. Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-36066708275685373222010-02-02T18:22:00.000-06:002010-02-02T18:22:44.384-06:00Picture of the Day
This is the bottom part of the Bullwinkle oil production platform. To give you a notion of the scale, those things in the foreground are cars. It was the deepest "fixed leg" platform in the world, located in the Gulf of Mexico and owned by Shell. (There are deeper production platforms and ships, but they unlike Bullwinkle, they aren't buildings coming up from the bottom of the ocean. They may Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-71797515218095244922010-01-31T14:27:00.001-06:002010-01-31T14:29:58.725-06:00Note on Dead Again
Dead Again by Masha Gessen.
I got this book as part of a relatively new interest in the Russian intelligentsia. I had always been a little interested in non-conformist art and read the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago (as well as several other Solzhenitzsyn books) in high school. But it was picking up The Whisperers and Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes that really got me Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-18471906031251622632010-01-31T12:12:00.001-06:002010-01-31T12:13:18.343-06:00Note on Duchess of Palms
Duchess of Palms by Nadine Eckhardt
Nadine Eckhardt was at the center of Texas literary history and Texas (and U.S.) political history. Her life really encompasses the changes in American society from the 50s through the 70s. She married Billy Lee Brammer, the author of The Gay Place (a great novel about Austin and Lyndon Johnson), in the early 50s and was part of the liberal Austin Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-19856456939085656172010-01-29T06:42:00.000-06:002010-01-29T06:42:10.152-06:00Another Robert Boyd Who Is Not Me“I have friends from out of town who come to visit and they say, ‘Sparkling City by the Sea? More like graffiti city by the sea,’” said Robert Boyd, a local Vietnam veteran. Boyd, wearing a T-shirt that read “Graffiti Hurts,” said he paints over the graffiti at Carroll High School, near his home, because it lowers property values in the neighborhood, he said. “Like most people I can’t stand the Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-63441122586498833312010-01-26T20:09:00.002-06:002010-01-27T05:57:57.724-06:00Haynesville
Haynesville Movie Trailer from Gregory Kallenberg on Vimeo.
I may have mentioned it a few times here, but my employer is a natural gas E&P company. We primarily produce gas from shale formations. This type of gas production is a relatively recent development in the history of oil and gas exploration. It has been made possible by the combination and gradual improvement of two technologies- Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-28940218625639538252010-01-23T10:04:00.002-06:002010-01-23T10:11:37.095-06:00One View on Why the Rice-BCM Merger FailedLast Thursday, I was at the Jones School to watch the new documentary Haynesville (which was excellent and about which I may blog later). While there, I got into a conversation with one of my old professors. I'll call him Professor X to preserve his anonymity (he does not, as far as I know, have psychic powers, and he is definitely neither bald nor confined to a wheelchair).
We got to talking Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com14