NYC the New Cape Canaveral: Houston, Still Mission Control?

Bostonist is always glad to welcome a new sibling to the family. We’re settling into our role as a middle child. We don’t horde the toys and we’ve stopped throwing the tantrums we once needed for attention. Jim Parsons, heading up the new site in Houston, has asked us to curb the mission control jokes and puns—but we just can’t help ourselves.

"Houston, we have a problem." Up here in the Northeast, Bostonist's problem is that we don't know who’s got better BBQ. Beyond the news on oilmen escapades, high school football (and other sports too, but seriously, remember Varsity Blues), the sprawl of the city, and hurricanes we’ve been promised a Houstonist-Austinist BBQ cookoff. The smokers and grills may have been fired up, no word yet if we’re going to have to travel south of the Mason-Dixon to judge for ourselves. One thing for sure, we're holding our "Who Shot JR?" jokes until Dallas.