Category

Archive for the 'Houston' Category

Storm comin’

They’re interrupting everyone’s regularly scheduled programming this evening in my part of the state. It seems there’s some severe weather on the way.
Ya think?

Who needs to listen to a weather report when it’s this obvious? And does anybody but me think there’s something truly eerie about the shade of green one sees right before a […]

Caption Contest!

I went into Houston yesterday to take some shots in Memorial Park… and I came across these guys:

Many, many captions and titles went through my mind when I saw them — most of them funny — and for now, I’ve decided to call this “Houston Traffic Jam”.
Let’s see what y’all can come up with…

Broken bridges (a follow-up post)

When I said Friday that I’d be writing on the Tynesha Stewart story again, I didn’t expect it to be so soon. Last night, though, the sheriff’s office announced that there will not be a search for her remains after all (CNN):
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — A 19-year-old Texas A&M University student was killed by her […]

Rest in Peace trash (Updated x2)

A young woman is murdered, and her killer confesses, leading police to a dumpster where he says he left her body. Of course, that’s not where the body is any more:
Sheriff’s officials say the man charged in the slaying, Stewart’s ex-boyfriend Timothy Wayne Shepherd, confessed to investigators Wednesday night that he choked her, stuffed her […]

Politics and arson

A week or two ago, somebody set fire to a “radical bookstore” in Houston. Arson is a vicious crime, and this particular incident is made vastly worse because there were people in there.
They were fine, but evidently the line of questioning taken by the arson investigators has upset the victims. From the Houston Chronicle:
Dazed […]