Houblog

Well, here I go being barely active again. I really haven’t been “into” regular blogging lately; even my anime blog is suffering. I have all these ideas during the day, and when I get home, it’s like all the determination has been sucked out of me. If my home […]

First off, I’d like to apologize to everyone who has been trying to send me email for the last two or three months, only to get a bounce message. I finally tracked down the problem tonight, with a mere 5 minutes of work. I kept looking at it, off and on for the […]

Welcome to everyone who clicked through the link on the Chronicle’s new CityHall Blog!
Houblog was started in 2003 as a way for me to vent certain frustrations about the city, but also to alert and educate citizens about their city government, local politics, and how it works. I blog under a pseudonym for fairly […]

I was looking for something just a bit silly and over the top involving anime genres, but Magical Battle-Android Maid Girls just didn’t flow too well in English or Japanese: “Mahou Sentou you Andoroido Meido Shoujo� is a bit long and unwieldy. Trying to tack Meganekko onto that somewhere was just overkill.

Well, if you’ve been asking yourself, “What’s with all the animé? Where did the politics go on Houblog?” you seriously need to stop asking yourself questions that should have been addressed to me. I had started a long drawn-out explanation-by-way-of-apology, but frankly, who wants to read all that crap?
Here’s the […]

I just added two more websites to the links at the left, and bumped three. Welcome aboard to Riuva and Baboon Pirates! Sayonara to OfftheKuff, Ann Coulter, and People’s Republic of Seabrook. Ann’s “crazy conservative lady” act has gotten old, OffTheKuff has fallen into total soc-lib moonbattery, not to mention supporting Carol […]

Well, anyone who follows the local blog scene has probably already seen the announcement over at BlogHouston: I am accepting Kevin’s invitation to join their staff as a contributing writer. That is going to mean some changes to Houblog as well. Primarily, my “city-oriented” posts, including the agenda summaries, will be moving […]

No, really, and it will stay that way until late Thursday at best, the weekend at worst (I hope). Life is kind of busy happening to me right now. “Gomen ne.”

Hey, I got a third reader!
THE BAKER BLOG BEGINS
Today we start the Baker blog. There are some amazing savvy bloggers in the Houston area and I hope to eventually be as good as them. I will provide links to my favorites like bloghouston.com, houblog.com and isfullofcrap.com which offer brilliant analysis covering local news and happenings […]

So for the last couple of weeks, I’ve mentioned a little project that I’ve been working on that took time away from blogging, and that it was related to possibly supporting and expanding the Houblog “empire.” Well, several days ago, I quietly premiered it without saying anything. (Mainly because I was feeling under […]

And I don’t expect it to change much for the rest of this week. Feeling under the weather. I’ve had energy to drop a few comments here and there on other blogs (and one post for tomorrow) but that’s about it.
Definately a few things to gripe about over the last week. The […]

I’ll be going out of town this weekend for a 2-person anime bash with Dr. Heinous, so there won’t be a lot of posting going on. In betwen episodes of mass panties, though, I’ll be hard at work on the laptop putting the final touches on that special project I’ve mentioned a few times. […]

Akismet now installed. Let’s see how much crap gets through it I’ve had 529 spam comments in the last few days. Moderation duties were bad enough, but deleting the damned notice e-mails was driving me nuts.
Update 5/22: It’s rocking so far. Caught about 300 spam comments with about 5% false […]

If either one of my readers is still with me at this point, you may have noticed that my posting has been really slow lately, and I haven’t had much to say on several key stories that have hit the news. Unfortunately, life is conspiring to constrict my blogging time rather badly right now. […]

In order to prevent my comments from being filled with spam, I require users to register and have their first comment approved by me. After that first comment is approved, then the poster can comment freely, subject to my deciding they are about as smart as a city of Houston council member and deleting […]