If a Pokémon has a Mega Evolution, it is listed immediately afterwards. A page may be devoted to one or two Pokémon. The entries for each Pokémon are in an easy-to-read page setup. It's your comprehensive guide to over 800 characters! Entries The Super Deluxe Essential Handbook is jam-packed with all the facts and figures you need to become a Pokémon expert. Insider info on attacks, Z-Moves, types,Įvolutions, Mega Evolution, and the all-new.Your favorite characters from every known region are all inside this book! You'll find I now live in the Memorial area of Houston, with my wife, daughter, dachshund, two cats, lots of fish, both a leather and a canvas pair of Sperry deck shoes, and a pair of white bucks.Blurb Pokémon SUPER DELUXE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK If you want to catch 'em all, you gotta have this essential guide to the world of Pokémon. I went to the preppiest college in Texas, Southern Methodist University, was on the sailing team, and was in a fraternity. I still sail now, though my current boat is a JY 15. I also have summered at my family’s bay house on Galveston Island since 1983, where I learned to sail as a preteen, and spent many a summer day out on West Bay by myself in my Catalina Omega. Been wearing Lacoste and Ralph Lauren since the 80s, Brooks Brothers since the early 90s. I was always a preppy dresser, from early elementary school, first by my mom’s choice, then by mine as the national preppy fad caught hold in the early 80s. Okay, so I didn’t go to prep school, I was a public school kid until college, but do have a few claims to Texas-style prepdom. Therefore, instead of starting with the most recent post, I encourage you to start by going to the Table of Contents, and either reading the posts in that order, or by which topics interest you the most.
Unlike most blogs, the Official Houston Preppy Handbook isn’t intended to be read as a series of chronological updates, but more as a reference manual on the prep lifestyle in Houston, past and present.
This blog is therefore intended as a straight supplement and update to Birnbach’s book, but specific to the ins and outs of being a preppy in Houston. It is not my aim to recreate the sardonic style of Birnbach’s book, at least not initially. Houston’s fortunes have risen and fallen and risen again over the years, and it is still a good place to become and to be affluent. It was a time to become affluent in Houston, a chaotic zoning-free boomtown that nevertheless had its little bastions of effete preppy culture. I lived in the Houston suburbs, raised by parents who were already upper middle class and getting more and more affluent. In the early 80s, just a couple years into elementary school, I was one of those kids. It also served as a time-capsule of that culture at the beginning of the 1980s, just before Birnbach’s book touched off a nationwide phenomenon of emulation, with public school kids everywhere from Des Moines to Houston popping the collars of their crocodile-logoed Izod Lacoste polo shirts and slipping their bare feet into a pair of Sperry Topsider deck shoes on their way out the door to school.
Lisa Birnbach’s 1980 classic “The Official Preppy Handbook” (pdf copy downloadable for free here) was both a loving ode to and good-natured satire of the WASPy East Coast-centered Preppy subculture.