Monthly Archives: September 2012

Ouch. This one’s nasty–a 20-7 loss at home and it sounds from the Thresher article like we were never in it. At this point in the season people must have been wondering whether all the early potential that they saw … Continue reading →

This morning I was looking through some pictures of the statue of William Marsh Rice—we have many of these, taken from all angles, in all lighting conditions, all alone or with gatherings of students around him. These two I found … Continue reading →

In between tasks today I only had about ten minutes to look at pictures, a very sad state of affairs. One of the things I was working on took me to the papers of Rice architect William Ward Watkin where … Continue reading →

A friend gave me something quite interesting at church yesterday. First, though, came a long, cockamamie story (always a promising thing). Several years ago he had bought a tape player at a River Oaks Garden Club Pink Elephant Sale, then … Continue reading →

My “Where’s Willy?”was harder than I thought. I failed to factor into my calculations just how new the place is—I walk past it twice a day but most people probably haven’t been there yet. Willy was checking out the James … Continue reading →