Tag: Strange Things I Like

Wednesday Night Photo Post: Wild Vehicles In The Houston Suburbs

More Houston Museums: Weird, Electric & Dead Popes on Display

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.

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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

Genius Ideas from My Brain and Others

A short list of things (first two mine, last one a friend’s) that the world needs but may not know it.

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Chuck Palahniuk Inspirational Cross Stitch…

” You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else,
and we are all part of the same compost pile.
~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17″

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Art Cars in their native habitats. A photo book in the spirit of The Stray Shopping Cart Project, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification and The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds.

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Bronco Polo

The sport of blue-bloods and the wealthy
+
bucking broncos
=
An extreme sport that could be
broadcast on CMT and ESPN.

The Return of Our Reassuring Overlords Has Put Me At Ease


Beacon with Pink Clouds, originally uploaded by bilbao58.

In the last few days I have noticed the the Eye of Sauron Williams Tower searchlight is up and running again. With its return, I feel just happier at night.

More so, I’m starting to feel a little glimmer of, dare I say it, productive creativity?!!! Meaning, sloth is my usual modus operandi; I motivated when I work for anyone but myself. Either I will actually find myself back to creating for personal enjoyment OR I have come to grips with my lack of productivity and this is me feeling relief that I’m okay with my slacker ways.

Time shall tell.

Ventures in Low Culture: How I Will Be Spending $22 This Sunday


When I am not helping art institutions install culturally engaging and visually unique art exhibits, I read gossip and conspiracy websites and watch cartoons (made for kids, adults and both.)

So, when I read that the 3rd season of the disturbingly funny Venture Brothers was offering limited edition t-shirts, I was right on it. The animated show manages to mix occult and conspiracy theories with super-science and celebrity appearances (David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Klaus Nomi as the leaders of the sinister and inept Guild of Calamitous Intent!)


I wish I could get a Guild of Calamitous Intent auto emblem much like the Freemasons have. I would gladly represent as guild member driving my sweet 2004 Kia Optima. A menacing ride indeed!

I can’t afford to subscribe (yes, subscribe) to all 13 shirts for $250, but I will be adding at least one to my wardrobe.

Lastly and only mildly related, enjoy Klaus Nomi’s covers of “Lightning Strikes,” and “The Twist.”

Love My Wife, Love My Life

Emailed the missus with a great two-headed teddy bear based on a character from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.


BeebleBears, originally uploaded by Danacea.

Her response?

“Dude, AWESOME!!! Maybe we should start reading her Hitchhiker’s Guide now, to get her started early?”

Plus, the great kid slept for nine hours last night (has been averaging six to seven.) At a hair over 3 month old, I think that is pretty good . My whole family is indeed awesome!

Bears originally found on Boing Boing.

"Adult Swim Porn"… Damnit, This Isn't Going To Help

Forgive typos/spelling/punctuation errors, I got a couple stiff drinks in me. Babysitting, you know.

Anyways, my slightly-obsessive-blogs-stats revue once again shows that most of my site traffic is a result of one of two things:

  1. People from India looking for info on the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu temple (Hello India: especially Chennai, Delhi, New Delhi, and Hyderabad.)
  2. People looking for “Adult Swim Porn.”

So here is an open letter to Cartoon Network, the folks responsible for the lovely Adult Swim block of programing;

Dear CN,

Oh, how I love you. In addition to much of Adult Swim, I do love Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.

Due to the unfortunate suggestion that most AS shows sound like porn (Frisky Dingo, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Venture Brothers) and subsequent blogging of such suggestion, a sizable percentage of traffic to my site is looking for “Adult Swim Porn.”

So I ask, please make some. Some hot Frylock on Master Shake action. Let Brock go all the way with Molotov Cocktease, Frisky Dingo night-vision orgy!

Just get the pervy fan boys away from me.

Thanks,
Rob

Houston Maritime Museum

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Houston Maritime Museum, originally uploaded by Mr. Kimberly.

Houston Maritime Museum 2007 – a photoset on Flickr

After an unexpectedly short day doing some art installation, the rest of my schedule was wide open. I hit the Houston Maritime Museum. I planned on the Houston Fire Museum as well, but the rain kept me off the road and away from the city’s bad drivers. I did get a call returned from the Telephone Museum. Groups of ten or more can schedule tours but the lone visitor only had three hours on Tuesdays to see the sites. I hate mornings, but I may get up for telephones on display.