NYT: Go Visit Dallas
Over the weekend, the New York Times Travel section published something called “44 Places to Go in 2009.” Dallas was No. 17, in large part because of the October opening of the Performing Arts District. So that’s good news. What bugged me was the lead to the NYT blurb on Dallas: “Everything is bigger in Texas, and the Dallas art district is no exception.” Seriously? You had to pull out that old saw? Murmur.
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I think New Yorkers would enjoy the Oil Well Museum and the Dallas Museum of Big Cars and Big Hair.
(It’s what they’re thinking, so we might as well say it).
The typical Texas stereotype being applied to Dallas used to bug me too until I spent several years in L.A. It dawned on me that we as Dallasites will NEVER be able to distance ourselves from it. What we should do is just embrace it and perpetuate it. I think all guys should start wearing cowboy hats instead of those silly K-Fed things. Corporate types can dress like J.R. and women should bring back the ‘Beehive’ and prairie dresses. Everybody should be able to put bull horns on the hoods of their cars/SUV’s. A nice 50 or 60 head of cattle should be continuously roaming the Trinity river bottoms for aesthetic effect.
I agree with you in part, JB. Why don’t we act a little more confident and embrace our (fake) past?
Why get bent out of shape like some new sunbelt city about an amusing stereotype? NY-ers embrace their rudeness stereotype and most are hardly rude.
What cracks me up is that, being a native Texan living in Dallas, most people I meet are not actually from here; most are from Florida, California and other places. This city is full of transplants. So, the whole stereotype doesn’t even apply to Dallas IMO. Now, drive about thirty minutes north…
I proudly wear my orange t-shirt with that phrase.
it cracks me up that a lot of cool people in NYC are from Texas. I wont mention names.
Perhaps Mrs. Tim Rogers has been doing her job a little too well and thinking big is now part of the stylebook at the Times?
The guys at the NYT like to peek at Texans while standing at urinals. Just give them a knowing nod and move along.
Implants, belt buckles, 4×4s, hair-dos – yep, everything is bigger in Texas!