Articles for October, 2008
Channel 5 Doesn’t Like “Bitches” Either
Peppard can’t write the word, and Meredith Land can’t say it:
Leading Off (10/30/08): Digital Latte With Zac Crain
First slurp: Detective Mike Walton has had a bad run of luck lately. While trying to close the case on a string of high-profile Uptown burglaries, Walton first spit the bit on a search warrant request, cutting-and-pasting from an unrelated sexual assault investigation. Now he accidentally included the words “of a homicide” in a subpoena relating to phone records. Somewhere in there, he also wrote another warrant request that didn’t show enough probable cause for a search.
“These are mistakes of the mind, but not of the heart,” said Dallas police Capt. Jack Bragg, who probably has tried to write a crime novel in his spare time at some point. I’d assume it’s about a hard-as-nails ex-police captain, booted off the force for a crime he didn’t commit, scratching out a living as a small-time private investigator. Only now, the case he’s working on and the case that ended his career as a cop have converged, giving him one last chance at redemption — or one more chance to be in the wrong place at the wrong time! Again, that’s just a guess.
Second slurp: Man, the Morning News just can’t get enough of raccoons lately. First, there was the raccoon that staged a home invasion in Kessler Park. You could call him a bandit. Now comes video of a “friendly neighborhood raccoon” that likes playing with dogs. This raccoon is actually called Bandit.
Which reminds me of the time Tim Rogers killed a squirrel. Only because Matt Pulle was talking about that yesterday and kept referring to the varmint T-Roge popped as a “raccoon.” Potato, potahto.
Brett Hull Eats at MiCocina
Tim is already peeved that I went to Italy without telling him so I guess I’ll let him know that last night I saw Brett Hull holding a pager and drinking a margarita at the bar at MiCocina in HP Village. I heard Troy Aikman was there but I didn’t actually see him. Sorry, Timmy. If it makes you feel better, you are thinner than Hully. Holy cow.
ZOMG! Hot Dallas Mavs Dancer Videos!!1!!1!
But really tiny, for some reason.
I’m sorry they’re not full screen, Tim.
Re: Post Traumatic Stress and Rubber Chicken Lunches
Meant to put this up, but I thought Dave might do it instead. Also in attendance at the Philbin Awards earlier today: former mayor Ron Kirk, former mayoral candidate Darrell Jordan (who apparently had something of a lunch reunion of mayoral also-rans–Sam Coats, Ed Okpa–on Monday but forgot to invite me; must’ve been for guys who actually finished), and Senator Royce West.
I’m sorry, Tim. Stacey is, too.
Overheard in Tim’s Office
Tim to Eric: “I haven’t been to a strip club since you punched that Russian girl.”
Okay, back to work.
Marion The Barbarian Gets A Fathead
OK, so now maybe you’ll see Cowboys running back Marion Barber in those annoying Fathead commercials, too.
UPDATE: Apologies to Andrea, a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who already had a Fathead. So, who doesn’t have a Fathead?
T.O. Can Be A Charmer
A week ago or so, a friend of mine told me about Terrell Owens being very nice to her 6-year-old boy at a book signing a week or two prior to that. I didn’t blog it. Sorry, Tim.
Jason Kidd Drinks Coffee Drinks
Tim would probably also be mad that I didn’t mention seeing the Mavs point guard at the West Village Starbucks on Sunday. But celeb-sighting isn’t really my thing. Although if any of you spot J-Simp around town, please text me. Immediately.
Post Traumatic Stress and Rubber Chicken Lunches
CBS News foreign correspondent Kimberly Dozier (shown left) told a room full of journalists and lawyers (insert joke here) that despite being peppered with shrapnel thrown by a 300-pound bomb in Iraq, she’s post-traumatic-stress-disorder free, thankyouverymuch. How, you might ask? As soon as she awoke from the explosion, she said, she started talking about what happened: “I’m a woman in her 40s from the Oprah Generation. It’s hard to shut me up.” Dozier was the keynote speaker at the Stephen Philbin Awards luncheon today at the Belo Mansion. Jump for the grand-prize legal-coverage winners, etc.
SMU Update: Kids Pay Attention These Days
So, I’ve talked to two SMU journalism classes in the past two weeks, and I have to say that either I’m getting more interesting (doubtful), or the kids these days are more attentive and appreciative than ever. I’ve probably spoken to college classes a few dozen times in the past 20 years, and quite often the experience goes like this: two students who are wide-eyed, ask all the questions, and who are clearly going to succeed in the field; 15 students practicing their thousand-yard stare; one student, guy or girl, whom you ignore because he or she is distractingly hot; and four students who just go to sleep. But the past two days, it seemed as though two-thirds of the class asked insightful questions, paid attention, and seemed genuinely excited about the prospect of writing and reporting for a living. Looks like they’ll be hitting the job market just in time.
RE: Most Expensive Wedding Ever in Dallas?
After just receiving a dressing-down from Tim for sharing today (Wednesday) what I found out last Saturday about the aforementioned wedding, I’ll divulge. While running my pre-race 6 miles, someone in my group who heard it from someone else said that supposedly the bride was in Princess Diana’s court. She fell in love with a chap from the Park Cities. They searched the world over for the perfect place to get married, only to end up in his hometown, at the Arboretum. And they lived happily ever after. (Well, TBD.)
We actually ran past the ginormous setup (they basically built their own venue on the grounds of the Arbo), and the entire area smelled like one big flower arrangement. Maybe gardenias. That’s all I know.
Most Expensive Wedding Ever in Dallas?
A friend of the show writes:
So I heard from a friend of mine in Virginia that the most expensive wedding Dallas has ever had, about $5 million, happened last weekend, complete with limos from the Crescent to the Arboretum for all 270 guests. What is the scoop?
Didn’t the Schlegels hire the entire DSO to play for the Whitman wedding? Hard to imagine topping that. Anyone hear about the supposed shindig?
How To Get Away With Murder?
Answer: Live and be tried in Dallas, I guess. How else do you explain the sentences for Tameika Hampton and Tremaine Mabry, whose 3-month-old daughter was beaten to death in 2004? Among the injuries suffered by little Tyreona Mabry: 40 rib fractures, eye bleeding, a bruised liver, a fractured back, three leg fractures, and as many as 15 chest contusions. The sentences for the parents in this case? Two years probation for Tameika and five years probation for Tremaine. Now, that’s some real justice.
Highland Park Gets Totally and Utterly Briefed
The president of our neighborhood association, with unanimous support, has been hounding the DMN to stop throwing Briefing in our lawns. His efforts appear to be working. I haven’t had to throw it in the recycling bin for weeks.
I think I found some people this morning who need to enlist the president of our neighborhood association. On the way to work, cutting through Highland Park, I saw a block of Cornell that was lousy with copies of Briefing. I mean, it has to be the most Briefed block in town. Most driveways had not one but two copies. And I thought Briefing was for people who didn’t take the paper, but I must be wrong, because even driveways with copies of the DMN had been Briefed. I drove around a bit and found the same thing to be true on a stretch of Beverly. Tough times call for desperate measures. Still, though. IJS.
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