What's this party's purpose? |
I first became aware of the Essence festival coming to Houston through the ads in the paper. Its supposedly the largest annual gathering of African Americans in the country and its organized by a maga...
Posted by chickpea on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:47:00 PST |
Memorial Day coverage |
Thank goodness for Veterans for Peace and Code Pink. I wasn't sure how I'd write a Memorial Day story that tactfully recognized the U.S. dead from Afghanistan and Iraq without implicitly supporting im...
Posted by chickpea on Tue, 30 May 2006 11:59:00 PST |
walking the dog |
my sisters in hawaii so i'm walking her dog, wookie a couple time a day and sometimes more. we're growing closer, though we still argue when i come over and found she's peed on the floor again. one co...
Posted by chickpea on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:47:00 PST |
NoLa trips |
i spent my past two weekends in NoLa reporting and doing a training for free speech radio news at Xavier university. as one of my fellow indymedia reporters put it, i'm amazed at how many fucked-up th...
Posted by chickpea on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:04:00 PST |
don't mess with online defensive driving |
i am currently going through a 6 hour online driving course, and i don't wish this torture on anyone. if you must take the course online, i recommend not waiting until the last minute. the session com...
Posted by chickpea on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:31:00 PST |
not a month goes by |
just half an hour before february ends, i'm posting to my blog. yay. this month i've survived a kpft fund drive. but, since we didn't make our goal maybe i won't survive til the next one. i'm kiddin...
Posted by chickpea on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:38:00 PST |
trash day |
its 26 minutes into trash day (one day late because monday was a holiday). trash cans line north montrose streets. yuppie townhomes have one can, wheeled out from behind a front wall to a meticu...
Posted by chickpea on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:45:00 PST |
ffflat, furry and fair |
today i hiked around brazos bend state park. its about an hour south of town and well worth the drive. on my hike i saw really flat trees, big tall trees with dead moss-leaf stuff that looked like fur...
Posted by chickpea on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:48:00 PST |
ignore the adverts |
for the record, i advise you to i ignore the bouquet of advertisements that greet you each time you visit my homepage.
Posted by chickpea on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:19:00 PST |
houston indymedia has left the building |
today i met our landlord and handed over the keys to suite ..3 at the midtown art center. houston indymedia's midtown space is no more. we had three spacious meeting rooms, tons of computers, a kitche...
Posted by chickpea on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:53:00 PST |
