So... Huston?

if you like booze, you should go to Specs near downtown. they just don't make liquor stores like that in europe.
 
if you like booze, you should go to Specs near downtown. they just don't make liquor stores like that in europe.

*SMACK!!!!* (hey, leave that ass out......)

Yeah, Spec's is the booze mothership. If they don't have it, you don't need it. Lotsa free shit on wknds.
 
Sound like I need the mother of all bags for the home trip then.
 
Sound like I need the mother of all bags for the home trip then.

I took Vino to the downtown HQ about a mo ago for the first time and she did indeed poop her pants and drop $175 without blinking. Course almost half was on Riedel wine glasses but hey....
 
It's been many many years, but I remember whatever that funky/hipster/punk/tattoo/gay(?) neighborhood is called being pretty cool.

montrose.

*SMACK!!!!* (hey, leave that ass out......)

Yeah, Spec's is the booze mothership. If they don't have it, you don't need it. Lotsa free shit on wknds.

fuck yes. momma don't drive to specs. driver! driver!

Sound like I need the mother of all bags for the home trip then.

yes. it is a fun town. i don't live there, but i know it pretty well. there's tons of shit to do. you just have to say, what do i like, and go find it. it's an international city, so any kind of food you can find. the only thing i would recommend when visiting is securing transportation. either stay at a hotel that has a shuttle, and will take you and pick you up (lots of the business hotels have those) or rent a car. you can not get around h-town on foot.
 
I've lived in H-town all my life and honestly can't wait to get the fuck out. Traffic blows sack of Yak, there is NO scenery at all, and there really aren't any attractions excluding Space center.

I'm jaded. I like scenery and little traffic. Many reasons to live here cool Litizens notwithstanding. No state income tax. Close proximity to the coast. Great food. Awesome strip joints. Did I mention great food/restaurants? A virtual melting pot of nationalities who amazingly enough all seem to get along. Lesbian mayor. (yeah ya know my thoughts on that one). Cheap housing. Cheap rent. Friendly people. Friendly people that will have your back if you're cool. Close proximity to Austin, TX which is the Liberal Mecca of Texas. And actually, although I hate to admit it, a really fun city. Great wineries. (yeah, believe it or not)


DT is on to something, and those aren't words that pass my fingertips all that often. Houston isn't really thought of as cosmopolitan, but it's gotten so damn big it's really become cosmopolitan in spite of itself.

But yeah, if you're mostly used to European cities, Houston will come as a shock to the system. The sprawl and the traffic are pretty much insane, probably second only to LA. Houston has a whole second skyline about 10 miles west of the official downtown. As for the weather, it's basically unlivable 4 months out of the year. We were there last May and it was a very pleasant day, kind of on the border between warm and hot. But the summers are intolerable, even when it's a normal year and not Hades-like as last summer was.

And my one experience at the Houston airport was pretty negative, though I wouldn't cite that as a reason not to come.
 
DT is on to something, and those aren't words that pass my fingertips all that often. Houston isn't really thought of as cosmopolitan, but it's gotten so damn big it's really become cosmopolitan in spite of itself.

But yeah, if you're mostly used to European cities, Houston will come as a shock to the system. The sprawl and the traffic are pretty much insane, probably second only to LA. Houston has a whole second skyline about 10 miles west of the official downtown. As for the weather, it's basically unlivable 4 months out of the year. We were there last May and it was a very pleasant day, kind of on the border between warm and hot. But the summers are intolerable, even when it's a normal year and not Hades-like as last summer was.

And my one experience at the Houston airport was pretty negative, though I wouldn't cite that as a reason not to come.

Ohhhhh yeah I completely forgot the fking weather. WE has agreed with me save this post to your favorites it'll never happen again. I may have to go do a shot just in honor of it.
Being close to the coast it's humid as fuck. Summers are sucky. Our winters are fleeting but when it gets cold it's an annoying wet, bitter, chill your fucking mons cold.
I would like to say the grass is always greener elsewhere but it's not. I suppose we have 4.5M people here for a reason. It's my hometown I can bitch about it but it has it's benefits.
 
Um... Johnson Space Center, maybe...?
Junkies wont like the tour. The Saturn 5 is cool. The moon rock vault. But... it's a studio tour without any rides better than the tram. In Huston, eat. The best part of America's Mexico City is the food. They got Best Buys and all that shit too.
 
Junkies wont like the tour. The Saturn 5 is cool. The moon rock vault. But... it's a studio tour without any rides better than the tram. In Huston, eat. The best part of America's Mexico City is the food. They got Best Buys and all that shit too.

Yeah we got all manner of food that will fatten you up faster than Kirstie Alley on a diet.
 
I like free. Free is good. I promise to leave you with the desire to rebate. :D

i don't fill those papers out.

That was it. According to wiki, Bronzeage's description matches it geographically, too.

yep. he is also correct. westheimer is a fun street, but i wouldn't recommend living off of it. i had a friend who lived in some apartments off westheimer in montrose and was raped walking out to her car.
 
Women don't get raped in the NW side of Houston because people like me will shoot rapists on sight. Yes, by the grace of God Texas is one of the few states that still allow people to carry pistols on their person. We don't say stop. We just put a bullet in your fucking head and help the victim up. Some people call the cops. I myself wouldn't bother. They just tend to fuck things up.

i don't fill those papers out.



yep. he is also correct. westheimer is a fun street, but i wouldn't recommend living off of it. i had a friend who lived in some apartments off westheimer in montrose and was raped walking out to her car.
 
Women don't get raped in the NW side of Houston because people like me will shoot rapists on sight. Yes, by the grace of God Texas is one of the few states that still allow people to carry pistols on their person. We don't say stop. We just put a bullet in your fucking head and help the victim up. Some people call the cops. I myself wouldn't bother. They just tend to fuck things up.

it's a big city, and she lived in a place that was frequented by shady drunk people. poor lighting in the parking lot and all that jazz. she moved out of there right after it happened.

as to not getting raped on the NW side of town... :rolleyes:
happens everywhere.
 
it's a big city, and she lived in a place that was frequented by shady drunk people. poor lighting in the parking lot and all that jazz. she moved out of there right after it happened.

as to not getting raped on the NW side of town... :rolleyes:
happens everywhere.

DT frequents the NW side of Houston seeking out the nere'do'wells. So far I've popped a cap in two feet, a pinkie toe and an ankle. Maced 3 and tasered 2.

Women are safe here.
 
DT frequents the NW side of Houston seeking out the nere'do'wells. So far I've popped a cap in two feet, a pinkie toe and an ankle. Maced 3 and tasered 2.

Women are safe here.

i ran over an ex on the north side of town. :)
 
Of course, most of the rest of it is asphalt.

"The rest of it" meaning 32 thousand square miles of strip mall hell. It's like Fayetteville, NC without the likelihood that some fuck knuckles from the 82nd Airborne are going to get drunk and beat you up for kicks. And the weather and traffic blow donkey nuts.
 
"The rest of it" meaning 32 thousand square miles of strip mall hell. It's like Fayetteville, NC without the likelihood that some fuck knuckles from the 82nd Airborne are going to get drunk and beat you up for kicks. And the weather and traffic blow donkey nuts.

True dat.
 
Sort of in the neighborhood. It's an illieterate suburb.

How about Galveston Island..?..

Remember Glen Campbell..??.....:)

Or you could visit my brother, who lives a little east of Corpus Christi.....:)
 
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