Yesterday, the Houston Area Kossacks met for lunch and conversation at Fadi's Mediterranean Grill, our second time in a row meeting there. And from the way people were talking, we may be going back very soon. It's a really delicious restaurant that may be cafeteria-style, but not in a Luby's kind of way (nothing against Luby's...). You've never seen such a pretty line of food. Which makes the food porn section of this diary easy.
Aside from the amazing food, of which plenty was consumed, we had a great group of folks come out to meet up. The fact that Houston is such a sprawling metropolitan area makes group activism very difficult, but it is good to have a monthly event at which people can talk about their own issues and activism, in addition to getting inspired to pursue further individual activism and/or join up with another group in their area. This is the kind of group Houston Area Kossacks has become, and I think it's going to play an important role in keeping many of us motivated to push our hardest for Wendy Davis, Leticia Van de Putte, and other Texas Democrats in the short months between now and Election Day. We have a difficult push ahead, and it's going to require many of us--myself included, as I pick up the dreaded phone--to step out of our comfort zones. In the meantime, it is nice to have a place to come together for good conversation about the issues affecting us most as Texans. Topics yesterday included ranting about Ted Cruz (which has almost become ceremonial), the recent passage of HERO (Houston Equal Rights Ordinance), and the work we need to do in our own city and county to turn out the vote for Democrats. It was also good to have nomandates with us again, who has been working extra hard to put Wendy in office, to share her insights.
Anyway, on to the food and Kossack porn, which is probably why you clicked in the first place, right!?
Like I said above, food porn is easy at Fadi's. Unless you just order a beef/lamb gyro sandwich like I did. In which case it's going to be incredible, but the picture isn't that special.
Here's some more food porn. I'm not even going to try to identify everything, so just...admire it and salivate...
Moving on to the people! First, a group picture, graciously taken by
nomandates. From right to left, we have
mjbleo,
scott5js,
cosette,
doraphasia,
TDDVandy,
Chrislove, doraphasia's son, Mr. doraphasia, and
jmbar2. You can tell I'm really smart...I cleared
one of the tables for the picture. They gave me a degree.
Now, some individual pics. If there is more than one Kossack in the photo, they will be identified from right to left. First,
cosette and
doraphasia:
scott5js and
mjbleo:
TDDVandy:
Blood (who sneaked out before the group picture!) and
jmbar2:
The
doraphasia family--her son, her husband, and the lovely
doraphasia:
Finally, my personal favorite picture...
cosette,
doraphasia, and
nomandates' hair, posing with which has also become somewhat ceremonial.
Some annoying Instagram filters, because why not:
And that's about it. Hope you enjoyed the photos. We certainly enjoyed the meet-up and will be looking forward to next month's!