Our Own Stacey Yervasi Set To Debut on Fox 4

Oh, yes she is!

Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill You

We discussed Paula Deen today. People got really uppity.

Free Tickets! Man On Wire!

My procrastination about posting this D promotion for free Man On Wire tickets for quick-on-the-draw FBvians has come back to bite me. Thanks a lot, Dr. Sachs.

Why Is This Man Smiling?

Adam wasn’t here today for Friday Fun, so here’s a substitute. The photo at left is from the Health Care Heroes section in today’s Dallas Business Journal. Pictured: Dr. Barton L. Sachs of the Medical Center of Plano. Commented our Kristiana Heap: “He really is a hero.”

Ben and Skin Continue to Make Me Giggle Hard

In our current issue, we named Quick columnists Ben and Skin the Best in Big D. They reference that honor in their current column. And they ask an important question: Has Shark Week jumped the shark? Which prompts Ben to note:

It’s created a cliché wormhole, and now the entire planet is in jeopardy unless
Michael J. Fox can avoid hooking up with his teenage mom.

Forecast: Sunday’s High, 105º; Heat Index, 1004º

My math could be off a skosh, but if I’m reading this right, and I’d like to think that I am, it’s gonna be h-o-t warm, as my grandpa used to say.

“Bloodbath in Big D” — Podcast about A.H. Belo

Editor & Publisher presents a Fitz & Jen podcast about the latest A. H. Belo results, which includes an irritating commercial, lots of throat-clearing, a demonstration of ignorance about the Dallas market, and some news that any FrontBurnervian will already know. It does tell us that Al Dia is going from 40,000 to 120,000 free distribution in August, which I didn’t know. One piece of very good news: an analyst they quote says the company should be trading at $14.50 (current quote: around $5.14). About the recent staff cuts, there’s a key quote from Robert Decherd from his recent conference call with analysts:

“We are looking at everything that moves.” 

Burning Question: What Does Bill Addison Look Like?

We’re gonna bust his cover.

Fifth-Most Popular Post this Month

Forgive me. I can’t help myself.

‘Possum Takes It On the Chin; Dallas Looks Good

Woke up this morning, opened the front door, and found an opossum dead. I put on my Varmint Gloves, held my breath, double bagged the corpse and put it on the curb. Then, I called 3-1-1 and told the City of Dallas to pick it up. Twenty minutes later, a city guy calls my cell phone, asks me what’s in the bag (I tell him) and next thing I know, the carcass is gone. Moral of the story: If you want something disappeared, call 3-1-1. I’m not sure if this works in all cases (the removal of in-laws, annoying supervisors and rich widows might require more planning). The opossum above isn’t the same as the one that was bumped off. You wouldn’t have wanted to see how that fellow looked, believe me.

Joyce Foreman: Dwaine Caraway is “Leppert’s Head Negro Watcher”

Now that, folks, is what we call a hot sports opinion. Foreman, a former DART board member, issued that line on her blog yesterday in a post about Ann Lott’s ouster from the Dallas Housing Authority. (Thanks, Dave.) Wow.

UPDATE: Foreman has more to say in the comments after the click-through. And Jim Schutze has a take here, which we’ll happily link to even though, unless I’m reading it wrong, he calls us out a little bit.

Sean Avery Likes Older Women

I think I’m going to like the newest Dallas Star. This Sean Avery kid has moxie. He’s a newsmaker. A gossip generator. A swain unafraid, apparently, to tread where Calvin Klein has gone before. Comes news in Page Six this morning that Avery, 28, is dating Klein’s ex, Kelly Klein, who is 23 years his senior. My only fear is that Dallas isn’t going to offer Avery the diversions he’s grown accustomed to in NYC. He’ll be in town next week to throw out the first pitch in a Rangers-Yankees game. Ladies — and upscale fashion boutiques — take note.

Leading Off (8/1/08)

1. The city of Farmers Branch is cutting 28 jobs because of rising fuel costs, reduced revenue, and $424,000 in “special legal fees”—which, translated into lay terms, means “Tim O’Hare’s insane anti-immigrant campaign.”

2. Very sad news that Dr. Jennifer Jones, the principal at J.L. Long Middle School who made remarkable strides in gaining the trust of parents and respect of students in just one year, resigned because of health reasons. According to a 14-year-old source in the Celeste house, parents are “freaking out” at this news.

3. I love Don Nelson so much. Not only did he win his arbitration case against Mark Cuban (for more than $6 million in deferred salary owed to the former coach), but then his lawyer was quoted as summing up the verdict thusly: “It was not so much a defeat of Cuban as it was an ass-whipping.”