El Rey. Mmm. The Cuban tacos and homemade lemonade are sounding mighty good right about now. JC281, I have a friend who swears by Bright & Early's omelet in a cup. If you try one, let me know....

Are you saying I can take all my old "Peanuts" cartoons to be recycled? I thought recycled jokes was more of a Family Circus thing....

Jim, you should visit a farmer's market in Minnesota. Everything's frozen....

Is that a red floor? How ... calming?...

I should add: When you throw the trays away when they get worn out....

It's not a matter of washing or not washing -- the idea is that when you throw away the standard industrial trays, they take 4 million years to biodegrade. The new trays would take only 3 million year...

I think the problem is that, by the time Monday's steak becomes Friday's "chef's surprise," the trays will already have started to disintegrate. That could get messy....

cisforcyn: It got so hot that the weather icon broke. Sorry....

Nothing against Sugar Land and its many lovely tract homes and fake downtown, but I doubt Houston needs it to move up in the ranking of great places to live. I mean, if you're going to factor in a sub...

Doesn't the woman in the video also say she enjoyed riding the light rail to get around town? I mean, I'm a big fan of the train and all, but it doesn't go any of the places she described (except down...

Good point. Thanks for the correction....

Just the other day, someone was telling me that Houston has no alleys. Ha! So wrong....

Speaking of the live music in the River Oaks Kroger, am I the only one who finds that more annoying that entertaining? For one thing, I can hardly ever hear the music when I'm actually back in, say, t...

I like how even the sexy isn't enough to deter determined River Oaksers from getting their yogurt....

Well, sure, if you want to be technical about it. Thanks for the catch. Long week....

Thanks, Valerie. A classic case of thinking one thing and typing another....

It's kind of a catch-22 in my mind: If you leave people to their own devices, everyone will choose the fast lane and make it slower. So you put screeners there to speed things up by asking people, "Do...

I don't know about recycled materials, but I do know that some green materials were used in these townhomes. All the better ......

Sunny Muffins? Beelzebud? Pass me whatever you're smoking, Hays....

They didn't fill the Baytown Tunnel in, exactly. The original plan was to slice it up and tow it out to sea, where it would be an artificial reef, but in the end, the tunnel was demolished in place....