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At our recent annual kick off event in Florida I started promoting Jay Lee 2.0, the kinder, gentler Jay Lee. This coincides with the recent update of my photo used at the Houston Chronicle.
Since I started writing for them nearly 7 years ago this has been the picture used in the paper and, more recently […]

OK, forget what I said about HB626. The new version isn’t any better. Instead of spending $220 for fresh copies…

A new Harris County / State of Texas road plan challenges the citizen view of the future

Well, this sounds promising. Phil King has been talking to Democrats about a possible solution to the voter registration bill,…

Clear Channel is taking on social networking with its radio station sites reports FMQB:

The sites echo MySpace and other popular social networking sites, with photos, videos and blogs for both airstaff and listeners alike. However, the sites appear to still be in “beta” testing mode. For example, Z100’s new “Z Zone” site can be found at zzone.z100.com.

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The article says KTBZ 94.5 The Buzz and KTRH will be in the next phase of the roll out.

This move has to come. Now some radio pundits say the web sites will be more important than the actual radio stations. The on air staff will act as promoters to the online properties with tosses to the web site for the real meaty content.

Courtney Love is putting Kurt Cobain’s stuff on the auction block:

“I’m going to have a Christie’s auction,” Love, 42, tells AOL music Web site Spinner.com. “(My house) is like a mausoleum.”

Love and Cobain wed in 1992 and had a daughter, Frances Bean, that year. Cobain committed suicide in 1994.

“My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant … bag full of flannel … shirts,” says Love, former frontwoman of the rock band Hole. “A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to `(Smells Like) Teen Spirit’ that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just … sell.”

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Imagine how much one of his guitars could get.

(Image courtesy of Flickr user miranda valentic)

Don’t ask me how I found this (had even forgot the project existed), but I think you might find some of the participants in this clip interesting. I hope to find…

Our local election may not generate much turnout, but that’s not the case for the Farmer’s Branch referendum to make…

As a Texan, I’ve always loved Whataburger. I would say it is the best fast food hamburger you can get. I almost alked about this on my recent Top Houston Burgers article.

So when I saw Wannaburger on The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, I had to stop and laugh.

There was no way I was traveling all the way to Scotland and eating a fast food burger so I cannot vouch for Wannaburger, but you have to agree it looks similar to our Whataburger.

Sony is taking old, hit TV shows from the 1970s and re-editing them down to under 10 minutes. Then the company will throw them online. The NY Times has more:

As Steve Mosko, the president of Sony Television, described it, “So in ‘Charlie Angels,’ they have a meeting, Charlie’s on the intercom telling them what the assignment is, there’s a couple of fights, and then a chase, and they catch the bad guy. Then they’re back home wrapping it up.”

“T. J. Hooker,” an especially formulaic cop show from the early 1980s, can be seen in short bursts of action as William Shatner interrogates suspects, fires shots and chases bad guys. “Shatner is just hilarious,” Mr. Mosko said.

That sums up the main aim of the minisodes. Nobody expects these shows to captivate anyone with their exciting plotlines, writing or ageless acting. “It’s really campy and fun,” Mr. Mosko said.

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