Funny signs

Catching a typo that spells something inappropriate or just coming across someone with good humor provides me with unlimited giggles and entertainment.

Recently it was brought to my attention that there may be a prankster on the loose in Houston

Check out this section of Chron.com for some more related humor.

Eye Witness Photographer

I grew up watching this guy and always chuckled when my family (in unison) would quote his catch-phrase.
I knew he was an icon, I knew he was a journalist, but I never knew about his photography.

Not until the other day when a contact of mine shared this brochure with me:


Story goes...  
John Gonzales, a copy editor at the Chronicle and writer of the Bayou City History blog, stumbled across one of Marvin's photos while researching for a post. After a bit more digging, he realized that Marvin had quite the collection of photos of crime suspects, robbery victims, socialites, juveniles, and domestic violence victims portrayed in raw detail. These photos provided a look at the seedier side of Houston (circa 19050's).  Back then, the city was known as the murder capital of the nation!

Gonzales decided that these photos needed to be shared with the public. From March 24 - August 13, the Houston Museum of Printing History will feature a collection of Zindler's "crime photography" in an installation called "Bayou City Noir" from when he actually worked as a freelancer for the Houston Press. Not the Houston Press that exists today, but a paper that closed after the Houston Chronicle bought it in the 1960s.

Approximately 50 photos comprise the exhibition, one of which is shown below

{Here he recognized a pretty woman's ability to spice up a story. In "Torrid Toni Goes to Jail," his lens lingered on a stripper ("she calls it artiste," he wrote) who'd been arrested for running a dice game. He caught her coyly looking to her side, toward the floor, a position that improbably thrust her cone-shaped breasts up and out, toward the policeman at her side. Zindler's caption declared that the good officer's name was B.B. Schallert}

(above excerpt taken from Chron.com article)





 

iCade

I have yet to get an iPad, but this seems like a perk ;)



Currently on backorder here.

More USB

These things have gotten so personal and unique...

Most are impractical and the others you just have to be careful you don't throw them away or shove them in to a pile with your other knick knacks!

I'll leave you with this one...

Modern Presentations

What a neat idea for someone's resume, a presentation, or thesis...

Available here

Here is an impressionable one I saw on a recent blog

 



UP

Restaurants go UP and down in Houston almost as frequently as the weather.  I make it a habit to be "in the know" about these things, for personal reasons and for work!

For a while I had been keeping an eye on a development in Highland Village on the south side of Westheimer at Drexel above the Cole Haan store...particularly because I noticed they were using NanaWall...which happens to be what RA Sushi across the street has as well.

Anyway, it had been a while, but all of a sudden there's a restaurant...one I have heard NOTHING about.

So, I guess it is called UP and there's not much info about it yet...
Open Table has the most info.

Let me know if you go and what you think!

GAME

When I was in college I was obsessed with this Retail Alphabet Game...that and Snood!
Currently there are 5 editions.
Each edition is a version of this:

Passion

Sometimes when I am bored or need a "breather" I go to nursuries...seriously.

Once, I came across this flower that I'd never in my life seen and have never forgotten...I'm obsessed.

It is actually a vine.

A mesmerizing vine.

Some species bear fruit...which is actually Passion Fruit!

I recently saw one again. This time growing wild in Houston, so I researched it to found out the following
(which is pretty timely for the Lenten Season):

Popularly, passion flowers and especially passion fruit are frequently used with sexual or romantic innuendo, giving rise to such uses as a one-time soft drink named Purple Passion. The "Passion" in "passion flower" does not refer to sex and love, however, but to the passion of Jesus in Christian theology. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries adopted the unique physical structures of this plant, particularly the numbers of its various flower parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus and especially his crucifixion:

-Blue Passion Flower (P. caerulea) showing most elements of the Christian symbolismThe pointed tips of the leaves were taken to represent the Holy Lance.
-The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ.
-The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (excluding St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer).
-The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns.
-The chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents a hammer or the Holy Grail
-The 3 stigmas represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).
-The blue and white colors of many species' flowers represent Heaven and Purity.

On that note...have any of you ever noticed this?

(Forever 21 bag)

Tees

My vices: Jewlery and Tees...
Here are some cute Tee's I have on my wish list currently

My favorite places to find great ones are delia's, alloy, and urban.

...and now this

Happy April Fools...you fools.