I lived in Houston from 1976 to 1978 while my dad went to the Texas Heart Institute. All I remember about it is fire ants and thunderstorms.
Tomorrow night, at a place called Domy Books in Houston, there’s going to be a free screening of Stand By Me. I don’t know anything about this bookstore, but Houstonist says that it’s the bookstore you’ve been looking for your entire life, whether you knew it or not. Based on the domy books flickr stream, I’d say it looks like a pretty cool place.
I kinda wish I’d known about this a month ago, so I could have talked to the store owner about sending some autographed copies of my books, but alas, alack, ’twas not to be.
Anyway, if you’re in or near Houston and you want to see a free screening of Stand By Me in a bookstore/gallery that looks awesome, you can get all the details from Houstonist. Which is a funny name for a blog, like: “I can’t believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist!”
Please note that I know about LAist, Gothamist, etc., and was just making a joke, which is now even less funny than it already was, because I explained it.
Please also note that this is a great opportunity for parents to introduce appropriately-aged kids to a great movie, great art, and great books all in the same place, which is kind of great.
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If it was starting an hour earlier, I’d go, but I have to be at work by 9:45. *sighs*
Oh well. I’m glad you’re not making a personal appearance there or I’d be rather upset about the timing. I’ll check the bookstore out sometime soon though, it looks cool.
Too bad nothing cool like that happens in Cincinnati.
You’ve been a massive inspiration to me so if you come nearby, within a few hundreds miles even, I’ll be there with Just A Geek in hand and a Sharpie.
Perhaps GenCon in Indianapolis…
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Explaining jokes is a form of meta-humor. Explaining how the explaining makes the jokes unfunny is also meta-humor.
But sometimes it can be taken too far.
Take this post for example.
Having been to Domy and knowing you from your blog I would say you two are a perfect match. Next time you make it to Houston you’ll have to stop by there.
Well, damn. If it was in Pittsburgh, I’d go! Lack of cash for accomodations and a plane/train/bus ticket and food for the lose.
All the cool things Pittsburgh does, and they can’t do this? Fail, Pittsburgh. Fail.
Alas, much like Chuck, I too will be working that evening.
*BUT* If you do get a chance to make it down to Houston again, please let us all know. I’ll get the Houston MiBs together and we’ll run the most awesome of Munchkin games you’ve ever experienced! If you play your cards right (pun intended) I’ll even bring my PS3 and Rock Band.
Don’t forget Houston’s awful humidity.
Unfortunately I can’t make the screening, I have to work and I live 100 miles east in da swamp. Plus, I’m probably going to spend the evening installing the third mother board replacement this month to fix my computer – Dell keeps sending me defective ones. But, as luck would have it I found a copy of SBM in the $5 bin at Wally World yesterday and grabbed it.
If you ever make it to Houston in the future, I’ll try to show up.
The hub and I just might be going – this is about 20 minutes away from us! So cool to get a tip on such a great place from someone who doesn’t live here. Thanks. 🙂
There wasn’t much more to Houston when you did live here…thankfully, that’s not true any longer.
GREAT to have you back! Relax and have some time reserved for your kids. I will be expecting some pics of the Con though.
Good scoop for Houstonist. Probably should have also been covered by houston metblog, but houston metblog team is leaderless, and there’s nobody with the time or energy to get anything worthwhile posted there. (Probably makes Sean sad, if he’s noticed…) 🙁
Great!
Yikes, Wil, who are you following on Twitter? Um…rhetorical q. Hey, dig up my email re: irosf, would you? It’s nice.
Wil: I lived in Houston (well, sort of, actually in the extreme southeastern outskirts in Alvin) from 1981-1983. Fire ants and thunderstorms, absolutely. I remember two things: Marvin Zindler from Eyewitness News and the biggest, ugliest, meanest cockroaches I’ve ever seen. I also became a Houston Astros fan.
Hey Wil, speaking of Stand by Me, you were on Nova Science Now last week. They were discussing leeches and how they’re being used in medicine to keep blood flowing in microsurgery. There was a bit of an overview of how leeches have been maligned, and of course they had the scene with Gordie passing out after checking in his underwear.
Glad you had such a fabulous time at SDCC.
I remember watching Star Wars, opening day, Galleria Cinema. Something about Houston in the 60s and 70s — field trips to NASA, the preposterous heat, Cadet Don (Ike Eisenmann’s dad during the Apollo days) — tends waft a bit of romance into science and technology and make one drag one’s children to JPL open houses in the heat of a summer weekend.
two things…
Texas is miserable…I know because I tried to live there for three years, but couldn’t stand it anymore (fire ants and the heat sucked)
Stand by Me is such a great movie I would go the that screening in a second (even if it is in Texas) It reminds me of being a kid.
Keep writing! See you soon.