— White Houston’s Love Affair with the Suburbs Officially Over
"Houston is now the most ethnically and culturally diverse metropolitan area in the nation,” Klineberg said. “The surveys indicate a growing acceptance of this remarkable new reality. Moreover, the animosity toward undocumented immigrants seems to be fading, and the achievement of comprehensive immigration reform may be more politically feasible today than it has been in many years."
While we at Rocks Off boast many obsessions and vices (we’ll call them “hobbies”), a few choice ones unashamedly top our list. If you perverted pop-culture junkies agree that sex, music, and movies are among life’s simplest and most necessary pleasures, then keep reading. If you still blush during sex scenes, your time might be better spent perusing other blogs.
Real G’s only; don’t fuck up my alphabet.” — Childish Gambino, “It’s On”
He performed Friday night at House of Blues. And since a criticism of his has been that he tends to drive clever into the ground, and since he has a neat line about the alphabet to his credit, let’s go A-B-C-style notes for the review and try not to fuck up his alphabet.
“A: A lot of people showed up. Actually, it sold out. And there was a bushel of people outside trying to figure out a way to sneak past the pregnant ticket-checker. Pregnant women might make the most diligent door watchers of all-time. She was having zero of that sneaking-in shit. You’d have done better trying to sneak into the cage they kept Deena in between filming episodes of Jersey Shore.”
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The 6th Annual Anime Matsuri Convention took place this weekend at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Convention Center. Click here to check out our photos of the event.
Cool: Old Houston Photos Mashed With Their Present-Day Houston Equivalent
“I’ll find a remnant in the old photo I will try to match it up perfectly,” he says. “It’s definitely a plus when its an existing window or a doorway. I love when locations still have the original awnings, windowpanes or doors. I believe it’s sad when I find a location that is now a parking lot where once stood a beautiful, interesting building with detailed, thought-out architecture that no one would ever know about today.”
The Astros season starts today, and since I’m always in search of a cheap and easy post, I thought I would throw out some random thoughts about the Astros heading into the season.



