I will be on The Gordon Keith Show with other special guest George Dunham. It airs at 12:35 am after Kimmel. Watch it with your eyes.
I’m being told that he’s taking all 11,000 square feet of the top floor of the building at the corner of Berkshire and the access road to the Tollway. Here tis:
The show starts in 10 minutes. Staff photographer Elizabeth Lavin will join us to discuss her sojourn to the Joule last night for the Bachelor/ette tryouts. Go here to listen live at 3 p.m.
Update: Here’s the archive of the 1/8/09 episode.
Pegasus News, the web site you know best as home to our own Teresa Gubbins, has been sold. Well, partially at least. The majority shareholder, Fisher Communications (aka, “the money”), has sold its stake in the site for $1.5 million. Founder Mike Orren said he couldn’t comment on the sale other than to say it’s “good for PegNews and for our staff.” Left unsaid was the fact that, hey, we’re all just trying to hold onto our effin hats here.
Don’t forget, kids. Thursdays mean FrontBurner For Your Ears, our weekly 15-minute podcast. You can listen live at 3 p.m. (and call in!), or you can check out the archive whenever you like. Feel free to suggest topics for today’s show. Adam and I were thinking about inviting Elizabeth “Spider Monkey” Lavin onto the show to discuss the scene she encountered last night at the Bachelor/ette auditions at the Joule’s nightclub, PM.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance ranks the nation’s universities on bang for the buck. For in-state students, UTAustin is #19, Texas A&M is #36, and UTDallas is #76 in the country. You may want to take this with a grain of salt, however. For out-of-state students, SUNY Binghamton ranks #1 in the country. Have you ever been to Binghamton, New York? You don’t want to.
Dallas officials will have their hands full cracking down on panhandlers and other miscreants downtown. Visiting the 1400 block of Main yesterday, I had to park on the street twice–the first time the meter ate a bunch of change without giving up any time at all–before being buttonholed for dough twice inside 50 yards. One guy pounded on the driver’s-side window, adopted a pitiful expression like from that “Scream” painting and begged, “Please help me. I’m hungry!” It ain’t nearly as bad here as San Francisco in the ’80s; a group of bums there liked to break into my daughter’s parked car and sleep in it overnight. But it doesn’t exactly make you eager to “find your D Spot” again anytime soon.
Mike McCurley of Dallas and Rice Tilley and Marvin Blum of Fort Worth were selected as among the Top 100 Attorneys in America by the money magazine. Odd, but I don’t see any link to the actual article so I don’t know how they did it or what they based it on. I do know McCurley, and if the subject is family law, I’d say Worth got it right. He’s the best at increasing or decreasing worth, depending on which side he’s on.
UPDATE: After looking at the websites of some of the attorneys listed, they appear to be — as one should expect — concentrated in estate planning, tax, and family law.
1. In the end, one of Pacman’s ghosts finally caught up with him. “I can’t believe it!” shrieked no one.
2. The troubled history of Oak Wood Place, where Sr. Cpl Norman Smith was shot and killed on Monday.
3. Michael E. Young was the last to say “not it!” so he gets the “gas prices on the rise” story.