Friday Afternoon Random Question: 2009 Predictions
What will Jim Schutze be mad about this year?
How will the Cowboys/Stars/Rangers/Mavs screw up?
How many Eric Celeste-based posts will Tim Rogers file?
How high will the price of a Wednesday Dallas Morning News eventually reach?
Feel free to ask and answer your own in the comments.
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Will Jess and Tony break up?
Get married?
Have a baby?
Will Tony and Jason get together?
Will there even be anyone who cares?
Will I stab out my eyeballs if I read anymore about Tony and Jess?
Should I listen to the half dozen voices in my head or should I follow the advice of Eric/Tim/Zac?
1. Anything that doesn’t fit his warped agenda.
2. Rangers? Screw up? You’re kidding, right?
3. One per month until Zac starts eating meat again.
4. It won’t go much higher. It’s tough to charge for a paper that’s out of business.
My predictions are:
1. Jerry Jones finally fires the person responsible for 12 years of futility at Valley Ranch, himself, and the Cowboys go on to win four of the next five Superbowls.
2. Mark Cuban asks the Dallas City Council to help pay for a new arena because the current one isn’t big enough to hold his ego.
3. John Wiley Price proposes a new county law prohibiting black holes. Once banned, the forces of nature fall into a perfect state of balance throughout the entire universe.
4. Global Warming ™ continues to cool the planet until President Obama finally declares that he has single handedly saved the World.
5. Cries about Man Made Global Cooling ™ go out, and the world’s governments, in a typical panic, start requiring that we produce more CO2.
6. A volcano will erupt in Southeast Asia. George Bush will be blamed.
q. What will Jim Schutze be mad about this year?
a. Same stuff, different year. That’s why I like him, he’s consistent!
q. How will the Cowboys/Stars/Rangers/Mavs screw up?
a. Cowboys will keep screwing up until they find a competent general manager and an owner who doesn’t meddle. Stars will screw up by keeping a geriatric Modano for next season. Rangers just need to admit to being just a farm team for the Yankees. Mavs – I’m keeping hope alive for the Mavs! Consolation side note – the Grand Prairie AirHogs will win their championship.
q. How many Eric Celeste-based posts will Tim Rogers file?
a. My guess is about 150
q. How high will the price of a Wednesday Dallas Morning News eventually reach?
a. By this time next year, you won’t even be able to find a print copy of the DMN.
*Other predictions
-Tony dumps Jess. Good news though, the sex tapes hit the internet (T.O. has some mad skills off the field!).
-Jess dies in a tragic plane crash after returning from filming another ’straight to video’ classic. Jess gets pity votes and is inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. AC/DC burns down the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
-El Rey wins big (again) on the nickel slots at Choctaw Casino.
“What will Jim Schutze be mad about this year?”
Better to ask
“what will Jim Schutze be happy about this year?”
to easy to say what will make him mad, I can’t figure out if he is ever happy about anything
1. Losing the hotel referendum, and what Dallasite said.
2. Wade Phillips, Rick Carlisle still coaching
3. several
4. High enough to read it online. We’re in a recession, homie.
It’s Schutze, not Schultze.
There are more than three of us.
If you want to make a point that doesn’t get edited or deleted, watch your language.
Glossy photos are priced as they always have been: on the house.
We’d write a story on the Bushes if there happened to be an angle that hadn’t been reported 14,237,007 times.
What will Jim Schutze be mad about this year?
Sporks (in an Andy Rooney fashion)
How will the Cowboys/Stars/Rangers/Mavs screw up?
The Rangers will exist, Tony Romo will “aww shucks” his way through another 3 interceptions postgame press conference, a stiff breeze will shatter Dirk’s ankle and the Stars will try to follow Chicago’s lead and do an open air game at which everyone will either drown or die of a heat stroke.
How many Eric Celeste-based posts will Tim Rogers file?
depends on how much memory his iPhone has and how high-res the pictures are
How high will the price of a Wednesday Dallas Morning News eventually reach?
It will only climb a dollar more but will also only consist of car dealership ads, full page hypnosis weight loss success stories and offers to particpate in medical studies. But if you are a subscriber, you will be awoken every morning by a copy of Briefing that will be shot out of a t-shirt cannon in the general direction of your face and upper torso.
Schutze: more civic ripoffs courtesy of Mayor Tom and his band of council thieves.
Cowboys/Stars/Rangers: a lot we transplants hope.
Rogers on Celeste action: not as many as about himself.
DMN: steady at $1.00/daily. More interesting is where will we see layoffs: the papers, TV, the Observer and/or or D Mag?
Whether he or you believe it or not, I like and respect Jim. But he does get mad. Legitimate question.
I don’t delete non-supportive comments. I’d be in here all day.
The Jim Brady thing I doubt. Who did it?
As for your Bush ideas:
* Taxpayer money pays for a lot of things for ex-presidents that would shock and/or dismay said taxpayers. And it has for presidents you like and presidents you hate.
* There will be increased traffic. End of story.
* That’s not bad. Maybe.
More Dallasite, amandacobra, and El Rey.
The Jim Brady comment was real. Fact.
Non-supportive comments are deleted. Fact.
Bush is the first President to move to Dallas so the taxpayer issue is a story.
Is something being done to help the people of Dallas regarding the forseen traffic situation? It is only the end of a story for a publication fearful of writing about it.
Jim gets mad. Writers get mad. The have passion. They get into the stories that write. They bring corruption to the public.
I wish more Dallas journalist would get mad.
Again, I predict that D Magazine will not write one negative word about Bush, ever.
That is the big pink elephant.
Since this has taken over, I’ll just say this: the first time the words “Jim Brady” appeared together on this blog, based on internal and external searches, were when you used them.
No they were on this blog and have since been deleted. Fact. Sorry. Fact.
Well, if someone posted them and we deleted them because they shouldn’t have been posted in the first place, then doesn’t that make the point moot?
I’d much prefer to see Bethany here than Brideget Nowhere, IMHO. Y’all go and take the weekend to calm down and come back next week with a better attitude. (ZC, this was not directed at you.) Peace and love…
I love lamp.
Zac – Don’t feed the trolls. They’ll leave soon enough (see, e.g., Jack E. Jett). These exchanges are boring to read and just drive away your regular viewers. I don’t blame you for responding – as someone with a chronic need to have the last word, I probably would do the same in your position. And anyway, it’s D’s blog, not mine.
I’m with Bethany – I can’t figure out exactly why the tenor of the comments changed on here. The same thing happened a few weeks ago over at Gawker when they started allowing people to comment through Facebook (the editorial content started to stink too but that’s a different – but maybe related – issue.)
Heh heh, time to musk up.
It’s obvious FrontBurner works best as a velvet rope club, Zac, so when you start to treat all who want to post here as equals, if you try to apply objective standards to deleting posts, inevitably the wrong types slip in and begin to act as if they had rights equal to the regulars and the types who truly belong here.
No one expects D Magazine to appeal to just any egalitarian mob, and no one expects D Magazine’s blog to do so either in the ways that other local media blogs attempt to, that’s patently absurd. FrontBurner isn’t an enterprise designed to attract broad-based good will and greater profitability to the publisher’s enterprises, it’s an editorial perquisite, “a daily conversation about Dallas among the editors of D Magazine” and their select friends, a private club where those fortunate select may snark as they will about the world they find themselves in and all others should count themselves privileged to read the gems that tumble forth.
Stand your ground, Zac, don’t let the riff-raff take over the temple.
i disagree, jim,
plant enough grass and flowers and they will overcome — and even eliminate — the weeds. (I’m no gardener. I just made that up. But it sounds right.) Self-policing encourages the best in commenters. So does an intelligent lead horse (i.e., the original post.)
All the more reason, btw, that FB needs a sports expert. A lead horse in that area would guide us to intelligent, grass-and-flowers discourse.
I don’t know how elite FB is supposed to be. A lot of people that live in the so-called hood (like me) read D Mag. I wouldn’t consider people like me and Rawlins part of the velvet rope club.
I’ve always liked that fact that FB has a variety of information and viewpoints, but there does seem to have been more venom lately, and the Rawlins Gilliland post/comments (per Bethany’s blog excerpt above) is a good case in point. Many of the comments were just so uninteresting and unnecessary; it was like reading a transcript of the Jerry Springer Show. It doesn’t take much intellectual astuteness or critical analysis to be obnoxious or deliberately pessimistic. I’m not saying that a Pollyanna attitude is the way to go, either, but there should be some level of civility and respect — sarcasm and humor always welcome, in my opinion.
@ Brideget Nowhere — is the first name supposed to be “Bridget”? Sorry, the spelling is driving me crazy. Is it “Bride” + “get” or are you trying to spell the name, “Bridget”. I think I get the “Nowhere” part…
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A publicly announced moratorium on posting to FB? That’s either arrogant or you need to redirect some of your energies away from D. None of us are that important.
We’d all like more civility in FB or any blog. Every day you’ll find comments here that are unnecessary and rude.
I’m not sympathetic, however, to noisy FB commentators who use this blog to raise their profile, but cannot handle the ensuing criticism. I think that’s the root of the, um, controversy.
April 28, 2009 – Rod Dreher is caught having sex in a public restroom with a Catholic priest.
Bromance amongst the writers and some higher profile posters will continue here on The Burn. I eagerly await all the twists, turns, joys and heartaches that will ensue.
Will Tim lose more hair and grow a thicker beard? Will Eric continue with his delightful choice in clothing? Will Wick be spotted in public meeting with another potential fresh-faced intern? Will there be another outstanding thread involving Sandra Crenshaw? Will the real Marty Cortland please stand up?
Stay tuned. Same bat time, same bat channel.
Nothing will every beat the Sandra Crenshaw threads from last year. That was comedy gold.
Now where’s my cactus juice?
Didn’t take the Rangers long to screw up, did it?