SHOW NOTES - 02/20/10 - NO PLANS WHATSOEVER

Every once in a while you have no plan at all.

I just got in from Orlando, am out of touch and out of the loop. I have absolutely no plan. In that case what I like to do is list about 10 things to potentially talk about and then see where my mind and the callers take me.

So, that in mind here are the things that MIGHT be get hit on.

1) Anything happen in CC while I was gone? crickets

I put it out to the FB Group (join here). One idea came back:

Summer break and daylight savings time; both archaic methods implemented during the days when 95% of children were expected to help on the family farm. Now that children are not regularly used as labor, we should do away with summer break and go to year round school. Daylight savings time is also ridiculous as well. And for the record, I do state these beliefs even though my brother in law is a local farmer.

crickets

• Slow growth of of the group. The show and its obstacles.

2) Elton John tix went on sale an hour before the show. Joe has his.

• The ticketmaster experience of an 8th grader.
• Elton: 'Jesus was gay'. I don't really want to touch that

3) This past Wednesday's column: Islanders' Basketball Game Report

• Prejudice against my own city

4) Speaking of gay, Drag Queens

On my flight back from Orlando my seat neighbor was Tyra Sanchez, contestant on the current RuPaul's Drag Race television show, which I had never heard of. Tyra let me watch the first ep on his/her computer. Survivor + Project Runway + Drag Queens.

Shooting has finished but the show is airing now. (s)he couldn't tell me who won obviously, but 4 episodes into it, (s)he is still on it. I guess you have to watch it once to see Tyra. Full episodes online.

5) Coliseum Bids

6) Zack's job interview.

SHOW NOTES - 02/13/10 - ONE THING NOT IN CC

This week's column - All That Jazz and the Lack Thereof

• Leading sentence: What is something you’d love to do in Corpus Christi that simply doesn’t exist?
• Examples
• Feedback

Valentines Day is a Sham

• Intro
• We went out for a family dinner and we're done
• Seafood choices

Seafood Choices

• Corpus Christi is a city by the sea. That said, where is the seafood?
• Google Local says that there are 28 Seafood-specific restaurants. As of July 1, 08, CC's population was 286,462.

• I came up with that number by going to Google Local, typing in the city name and the word 'restaurant'. Then Google allows you to narrow by cuisine. Choose 'seafood' and there's your total number of seafood places.

Here they are:

1. Ancient Mariner
2. Banda's Seafood
3. Bayou Grill
4. Blackbeard's
5. Black Diamond Oyster Bar
6. Catfish Charlie's
7. City Diner and Oyster Bar
8. Coastline Cafe
9. Crawdaddy's
10. Doc's Seafood and Steaks
11. Executive Surf Club
12. Joe's Crab Shack I
13. Joe's Crab Shack II
14. King's Seafood (Baldwin??)
15. Kobe Japanese Steak and Seafood
16. Landry's
17. Long John Silvers
18. Long John Silvers
19. Long John Silvers
20. Pier 99
21. Railroad Seafood Station
22. Red Lobster
23. Republic of Texas
24. Snoopy's
25. Two George's
26. Water Street Oyster Bar
27. Water Street Seafood Co.
28. Yardarm

First of all I'm taking out the Long John Silvers. We're down to 25. But let's be as fair as possible and stretch the search to Port A. The number goes up to 34.

1. Beulah's Tarpon Inn
2. Crazy Cajun
3. La Playa - as opposed to the La Playas in CC?
4. Ocean's of Seafood
5. Pelican Club
6. Pelican's Landing
7. Shell's Pasta and Seafood
8. Trout Street
9. Virginia's on the Bay

Let's keep moving to Rockport. Now we're up to 39.

1. Alice Faye's
2. Big Fisherman
3. Boiling Pot
4. Charlotte Plummer's
5. Lattitude 28

This does not include restaurants that have a seafood dish on their otherwise non-seafood menu. This is just 'seafood restaurants.'

• let's look at some similarly populated cities. Tampa is located on the same latitude line as CC directly across the Gulf of Mexico. They have 60,000 more people than we do at 340,882 or they are 19% larger than we are. You COULD assume, then that they have 19% more seafood places than we do--or 48 seafood restaurants. Tampa has 780 seafood-specific or notable seafood restaurants. (for you math geeks that's a 1900% increase).

• Some might say it's not fair to go higher, let's look at something coastal that's similarly populated. OK.

• As of July 1, 08, Baton Rouge's population was 223,689². Google Local says that there are 161 Seafood-specific restaurants
• As of July 1, 08, Mobile, Alabama's population was 191,022. Google Local says that there are 158 Seafood-specific restaurants

• Shall we go lower in population along the Gulf Coast?

• As of As of 2005 census, Biloxi, Mississippi's population was 45,670. Google Local says that there are 131 Seafood-specific restaurants
• As of 2007 census, Pascagoula, Mississippi's population was 23,452. Google Local says that there are 174 Seafood-specific restaurants


• But CC doesn't include, Port A, Ingleside, Rockport, etc. Add all of those and we're up to 48.

Destination Bayfront Letter to the Editor - Letters to the Editor: 02.11.10

A land grab?

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “There’s something rotten in Corpus Christi.“ The so-called Destination Bayfront smells like a land grab to me. Why am I not convinced that all those fine gentlemen are promoting their ideas for the good of Corpus Christi residents? Me thinks they do promote too much.

Where are your investigative reporters? Or are these among the demolished?

Janet Cooper

Joe was in a car wreck

SHOW NOTES - 02/06/10 - COMING BACK TO CORPUS

The first column came out Wednesday: Click Here

History of the column.

Tons of response.

If I had to categorize each email about it, many were from parents who wish their kids would come home.

In addition, Stephanie writes:

My story is quite the opposite. I moved away from Corpus and was gone for 15 years. I lived in a small town called Junction City, Kansas. You talk about nothing to do! You are able to tour the whole town of Junction City in 5 minutes.
I lived for the times I was able to come home and visit Corpus Christi. I never appreciated my home town more! Believe me, I was one of those people that said the same thing about Corpus. When the economy went South I Junction, we made the decision to move to Corpus. This has been the best thing I have ever done. We have now been here for a little over a year and absolutely love every minute of it! I am so glad you are doing this!!!!

Rudy Garza had reservations about coming home. Rudy is the city's director of intergovernmental relations.
Rudy's CC Bio here.

Big Destination Bayfront Presentation this Monday. Info here.