Good Morning Friends of My Chron.Com Blog!
After struggling all weekend with the failure of graphics over at Chron.Com for the umpteen hundredth time, I decided it was time to look for a new home for my future blogs. I will keep the old blog link at Chron.Com until I figure out what to do with two and one half years of mostly baseball and Houston history, but I will now be posting future blogs here, as I learn about and develop some skill with all the features offered by WordPress.Com.
I will continue to write about the two subjects dearest my researcher’s heart, the game of baseball and the City of Houston, but I will reserve the right also to go obliquely into cell phone rants from time to time, as these things occur.
WordPress.Com stresses the availability and quality of their support services to bloggers. All I can say is that anything they do will be an ugrade from zero assistance over at Chron.Com. WordPress.Com also allows for blog-polling, musical and video, and a wide array of graphics that weren’t available over at Chron.Com. I will have to grow into the use of these, but no matter what, I will remain writing content-based in my approach over developing ever-new proficiency in the use of special effects.
My attitude about Internet writing is identical to my view on movies. I’ll take the storytelling that is available over at Turner Classic Movies over any of the new action or computer-generated movies that Hollywood now churns out like so many little new bunny rabbits – something like seven days a week!
For now, these few words of explanation about why I’ve changed blog sites will have to hang as my first post at WordPress.Com. Next we have to find out if I have enough trial and error moxie to even post the thing. (Only people my age worry about keeping their “moxie.” Younger people don’t even know what “moxie” is.) At any rate, look for me here again soon – when my energies are more available to focus on what I’m saying – and less tied up with the technicalities of how I say it.
Thank you for your past support and your ongoing patience. If I ever bore you to tears, or you just don’t want to receive further notice of my new blogs, let me know and I will remove you from my mailing list right away.
Regards,
Bill McCurdy
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The Pecan Park Eagle 
July 21, 2009 at 11:56 am |
Don’t fear, Bill. You can do it! I started off with WordPress last year and have learned enough to be dangerous. Believe it or not, there is a decent reference book called “WordPress for Dummies” by Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Worth reading. Even though you won’t use it all, there are some good features that are easy to use. Good luck!
July 27, 2009 at 7:48 pm |
As much as I love the name Boyd, and not knowing anything about Bob Boyd, I have to say that leaving Jerry Witte off the starting lineup is a mistake. Jerry the player, Jerry the man — all around best. And those shorts are a hoot!
August 16, 2009 at 5:52 pm |
hi bill, i have tried several times to contact you thru chron.com. i grew up in pecan park too but about ten years after you. so for i remember everything you write about. i will forever remember pecan park as it was in the late 40’s until my parents moved in the late 70’s. i had forgotten about the small park near the freeway and the grocery store off of redwood. my hangouts were southmayd park, langs, the bigger grocery store on evergreen, broadway field across from broadway baptist, the ball parks on laporte rd., etc. and if you have any history about houston i would like the info. i have a book written by a lady and her dad about harrisburg, tx, it is pretty neat. thanks for listening and keep in touch.
August 17, 2009 at 3:11 am |
Gary –
Thanks for the kind words. I will continue to write about Houston and the East End as best I’m able to remember and research the things I know and need to learn more about.
Get a copy of “Telephone Road, Texas” by Burton Chapman. It’s the best history of southeast Houston that’s been written to date and it is available online and at Brazos Bookstore. The online link is
http://telephoneroadtexas.com/
November 16, 2009 at 2:39 am |
“Buy your Chevrolet from Persia, Mike Persia Chevrolet” is burned into my mind.
And Chris Chandler, Larry Kane, Dialing for Dollars on TV.
Oh, and Mary Jane’s Magic Castle, Kitirik, and Cadet Don.
Stuart’s Drive-In glared at you from above when nearing downtown southbound on I-45. And then there was the Gulf sign.
The mall part of Northline was air-conditioned but the store weren’t.
West Belt was the end of the earth. And don’t forget Westbury Square.
Aww, the 60s.
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