Opening on Tuesday, the National Funeral History Museum will be exhibiting “Celebrating the Lives and Deaths of the Popes.” I might have to go if only to see who else would be seeing a Dead Pope Show on its opening day. I hope they have a Pope Formosa display (who was exhumed for a post-death trial – found guilty). Now that would be worth seeing.
On December 4th I will turn Wicked Old and I’m looking for some drinking suggestions. Having a new kid means either not going out or drinking where she can join us (thank you, W. Alabama Ice House.) So, in the past we haven’t been able to get our party on. I like my bars kinda divey, kinda tacky and not crazy loud. New Orleans and Vegas had some good ones, anyone with a suggestion would be helping me. Places of interest I have stumbled across in my internet searches are the following:
Notsuoh – Looks funky and promising from the Flickr pictures. But they also have bands and their MySpace page has a broken link to their show calendar. Might be a deal breaker if I can’t hear my friends.
Anvil – A Google search for absinthe in Houston led to the booze blog Drink Dogma. The bloggers/bartenders on the site say they will be running a new bar named Anvil. But damned if I can find if it is open. I’ve never had a date with the Green Fairie and I’m itching to see what the fuss is about.
I Look forward to a time when my daughter will be in school plays and the such. Until then, enjoy the following, and Happy Thanksgiving.
While I like gifts as much as anyone, I have no real love of Christmas. It is the holiday equivalent of Disney World when I am a Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. kind of guy (it’s the Crip V. Bloods of animation.) Saccharine sweet, inescapable, and celebrated early each year. And the music…obnoxious ear worms that linger long into the New Year. But there are bright spots.
One such spot will be the Invincible Czars ar the Wortham Center on Wednesday. They will be doing their version of the Nutcracker Suite.
Last year’s first Christmas post, sounding much the same as this one – Neon Poisoning: Yes To This Nutcracker!
An online collaboration between Life Magazine and Google has millions of previously unseen photos now hosted online. There are loads of Houston pictures, but add “TX” or Texas” to narrow a search to the city. Otherwise you’ll be seeing lots of “Whitney.”
This article has info on the new project. There’s some good stuff to be found and I’m already mining the site for future posts about Houston, as well as other interests.
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Another install video, this time from the San Jose Museum of Art
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=890195&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
giant styrobot from michael a. salter on Vimeo.
Just when I thought I had exhausted all the nuggets of cultural quirkiness in Houston, I find more. While I missed the latest Sunday Eyeopener Tour (NOT a morning person) by the Orange Show Foundation, their online post mentioned the Gulf Coast Electronics Museum. I am now working on finding out more about this newly discovered museum.
My hunt for the electronics museum led me to search Flickr and finding favoritething’s collection of Houston shots, including the above shot. Although not pictured in her photoset, she mentioned the Museum of the Weird, a venue I thought long closed due to a lack of recent info. Google shows a museum of that name in Austin, looking just like a dime museum of oddities. Not sure if the Houston and Austin museums are related.
As for the long-ago visited National Museum of Funeral History I need to go again to see their dead pope exhibit. At 5,000 square feet of display space, I’m intrigued at what is taking up all the room.
Posts on the Museum of the Weird and other Houston sights:
House of the Purple Worms: Second Half of Sunday With Min
Travel Maven blog: Quirky Houston flaunts cars, scars, and beer cans
Neon Poisoning 