Entries tagged with "texas"

You say oyster and I say erster¹

posted by srah on June 13, 2007 11:30 PM

Tags: a night at the opera, movies, pirates of the caribbean, shall we dance, ship, texas, travel

I was surprised, as we started our descent into Houston, to see lots and lots of forests of green trees. Everything I know about Texas I learned from the movies, so I expected it to be all brown and sandy with little scrubby bushes, rather than huge forests of green trees. I expected it to be more like the Australian Outback, which I am also very familiar with from my vast experience of... watching The Thorn Birds miniseries once. Also, I didn't see Rock Hudson or James Dean or even Sal Mineo. All of my lifetime experience with Texas (2.5...

Impressions of the Houston airport, in haiku form

posted by srah on June 13, 2007 8:50 AM

Tags: airport, haiku, poetry, texas

Wandering, sleepy A golf cart runs me over Then another one Golf carts everywhere Ferry old and invalid And lazy people Familiar transport But elsewhere the golf carts beep Here drivers mumble She says: "Excuse me" Just before I am mowed down "Bump" under her wheels In Texas, roadkill: Car versus armadillo Golf cart versus srah...