Houston.BloggersPub

Houston 7, Arizona 8 at Chase Field
Houston Record: (13-16)
Arizona Record: (20-8)

Winning pitcher - Brandon Medders (1-0)
Losing pitcher - Dave Borkowski (0-2)
SV - Brandon Lyon (9)

HOU HR - C. Lee (6)
ARI HR - C. Jackson (5) M. Owings (1)

Next Houston Game: May 2, 2008 07:05 PM CT vs. Milwaukee Brewers

 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
 
R
H
E

Astros
4
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
 
7
11
0

Diamondback
2
0
1
2
0
3
0
0
X
 
8
13
1

Allison Cook takes the food for a spin at chef Michael Kramer’s Voice which is the latest restaurant to take residence in downtown Houston’s Hotel Icon.

You can tell this is post Van Halen brothers, because David Lee Roth is Goin’ Crazy in this video. Seriously.

This has to be one of his most over the top songs and videos ever.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Let’s lay it out real fast:
Open longer than the actual song - CHECK
Roth in a fat suit - CHECK
Roth wearing a horse tail - CHECK
Spandex, spandex, spandex - CHECK, CHECK, CHECK
Steve Vai on guitar - CHECK

We don’t call him Diamond Dave for nothing! OK…wait a minute. His Yankee Rose video was pretty over the top too!

(Image courtesy Flickr user laduylam5150)

Television meteorologist Eric Braate is leaving KPRC Channel 2 reports the Detroit News. He’s going to WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit:

WDIV-TV (Channel 4) meteorologist Kim Adams has the perfect sunny disposition for mornings. But soon, the station will see if Adams can perk up the afternoons, as well.

In mid-May, Adams will move to WDIV’s 4 p.m. newscast and the station will bring in a new meteorologist, Eric Braate, who will do mornings instead.

A Grand Rapids native, Braate currently works at KPRC-TV (Channel 2), the NBC affiliate in Houston, Texas, and a sister station of WDIV. READ THE REST

Hey Eric, the forecast will always be cold with auto union problems.

I believe WDIV is where former KPRC Channel 2 General Manager Steve Wasserman left Houston for. Guess Braate is back with the old boss again.

(Image courtesy of Detnews.com)

Round and round she goes, where your favorite newspaper circulation drops/rises, nobody knows.

OK, these folks track that kind of thing.

Grand Theft Auto Takes On New York
Published by Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto IV is a violent, intelligent, profane, endearing, obnoxious, sly, richly textured and thoroughly compelling work of cultural satire disguised as fun.

Who Needs Another Social Network?
Google and Yahoo are turning themselves into social sites without building a social network.

Golden Years of Television Find New Life on the Web
Within the last few months, television distributors have opened up their libraries of classic content online, making thousands of episodes of programs like “The Twilight Zone” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” available free.

BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone
R.I.M. employees and outside developers who are writing programs for the new phone, which has the internal code name “Meteor,” say that it will have faster processors, a larger screen and a better browser that more closely resembles the Web experience on a computer.

A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search
Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages.

Ice cream lovers rejoice. Yesterday was free cones day at Ben and Jerry’s, but tonight is 31 cent scoop ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. The shin-dig goes down 5 to 10pm tonight.

Roger Friedman was fortunate enough to get a preview of the Iron Man movie which comes out this Friday:

Directed by another unlikely player, Jon Favreau, “Iron Man” is the first really great summer hit since “Spider-Man 2″ or “X-Men: The Last Stand.” Maybe because Stan Lee and the Marvel people have so much editorial control, the film adaptations of their comic books are very strong. “Iron Man” plays like an old-fashioned hit, full of character development, witty dialogue and a plot that plausibly makes sense. READ THE REST

Go watch the trailer here. I never really read the Iron Man comic franchise, but I want to see this based on the trailer.

(Image courtesy of Flickr user MobileBurn)

Houston 6, Arizona 4 at Chase Field
Houston Record: (13-15)
Arizona Record: (19-8)

Winning pitcher - Doug Brocail (1-0)
Losing pitcher - Edgar Gonzalez (1-2)
SV - Jose Valverde (5)

HOU HR -
ARI HR - C. Jackson (4)

Next Houston Game: April 30, 2008 12:40 PM MST vs. Arizona Diamondbacks

 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
 
R
H
E

Astros
2
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
 
6
9
0

Diamondback
2
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
 
4
7
0

Uncle Barky talks to Newy Scruggs of NBC 5 KXAS. In this interview, we learn that Newy is mad about his TV time being cut, used to live next to a porn star, was on the TV show Clueless, had death threats against him and really likes Los Angeles.

In other Dallas/Fort Worth TV news, fired KDFW Fox 4 reporter Rebecca Aguilar is making the press rounds. Aguilar was on KRLD and then her new attorney unleashed a press release about her.