News & notes...

It was bound to happen ... The New York Times called to ask about the recent hubbub surrounding this weblog ... The writer, a self-described "tech freelancer," said his story would appear a week from this Monday ... He asked the usual questions, seemed like a nice fellow, and chuckled at the appropriate times ... What inquiring journalists want to know, which we can't answer, is why a so-called "newsmaker" whose anonymity remains shielded by the local Clute-based daily would go to the trouble of digging up a 10-month old obituary and comparing it to a weblog three months later ...


Randall's is putting in a Wells Fargo bank branch in the place where other Randall's grocery stores put in a trendy Starbucks...It's over where the videos used to be ... What gives, we asked the nearest employee ... "Hey, this is Lake Jackson," said the sacker kid, which was his way of saying, we live in a one-horse town ... Speaking of one-horse towns, We received a missive from a former employee of the late A Curious Place coffee joint, which has closed down, which is no longer news ... The former employee was talking about what a special place it was, so we sort of felt bad about our choice of words (ie., "coffee snobs") that we once used to describe the clientele ... "I grew up in the Brazosport area and for me, Lake Jackson was like the movie, Stepford (sic) Wives. But, when I stepped out of Stepford ,(sic) & into A Curious Place, (it) is was an awakening of my spirit," writes Mary, the former asst. mgr... Now we're not entirely sure they were drinking just coffee in that place ....

We had been waiting for some wiseacre columnist to address the David Carr-God angle, and Houston Press media critic Richard "News Hostage" Connelly finally came through this week... Take that, Leon Hale! ... We simply couldn't bring ourselves to poke fun at the Houston Texans QB and his Dudley Do-rightness ... Still, it would kinda be nice this year if Carr would take the time to point skyward when SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS instead of saving those special spiritual gestures for the good plays ... And Lord knows, all the plays this season won't be winning ones ... Ya know, it's late in the game, the Texans have a chance to win, it's 4th and short at midfield, Carr takes the snap from center, he's fading back to pass, he has a man open, oh no, HE TRIPS!! Flat on his butt!!! But look at this folks, he's pointing to the sky, praising the Lord just for giving him this chance to fail....Hey, football fans, just kidding! GO TEXANS!! YEA GOD!!!