Articles for January 15th, 2009
Re: Trammell Crow, R.I.P.
The official obituary and public service information is after the jump.
FrontBurner For Your Ears to Commence in 3 … 2 …
Join us, won’t you? The show starts at 3.
Update: If you missed the show live, you can listen hard anyway. It now lives as a podcast. Special guest Jeff Whittington of KERA told us how tall Catherine Cuellar is and why he became the social activities director of the Dallas Press Club. A new Rasmussen Poll gave the show an 80-percent approval rating.
Breaking News: Big Fire Near Casa Linda Plaza
We can see the smoke from D Mag HQ. Dallas Fire-Rescue site suggests many, many units called to scene. Any FBvians on scene, please send pics.
Denton Man Very Honest … Or Very Clever
After UPS mistakenly delivered a 30-pound package of marijuana to his doorstep, a Denton man took the weed to the cops. Very noble. Unless the package wasn’t mistakenly delivered at all and it was originally 50 pounds. Very devious.
Really? He took it to the cops? Hasn’t he seen Half Baked? Or True Romance? Or any Cheech and Chong movie ever? The “well, well, well, how did this get here?” is only the first act.
Update: A kind, NBC-affiliated FrontBurnervian notes that NBC has pics and vids of the pot and stuff. Check it out.
Verne Troyer Makes Me Sad
The obvious joke would be to say, “Oh, how the mighty have fallen … and he didn’t have far to fall.” But this screengrab of one-time Arlington resident Verne Troyer on Britain’s Celebrity Big Brother makes sympathy inch above snideness. If you’re wondering, dressing up as a teddy bear and eating honey out of a pot was not his idea.
downtoearth.com Contains 100% Real People. Yum.
Then again, so was Soylent Green. Anyway, the folks at Dallas-based Match.com have launched a cost-free online dating service by the name of downtoearth.com. I can imagine the conversations that result when kids who result from this new dating service ask their parents how they met:
“Well, honey,” Mommy/Daddy would say. “Your (mommy/daddy) and I were too cheap to use a conventional dating service that charges money. Thank God for downtoearth.com! That whole cheap thing also explains why we’re using stolen milk crates for end tables.”
Trammell Crow, R.I.P.
He was perhaps the greatest real estate entrepreneur in American history. Mr. Crow died in his sleep earlier this morning at the age of 94.
UPDATE: I’m informed by someone named Erin Rice from Pegagus News (whose email began, “Hey, Allison…”) that Mr. Crow died at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday night.
Leading Off (1/15/09): Quotes Edition
1. Who or what do you think this quote refers to? “The big one didn’t get discussed yet, but I’m sure it will and real hard.” Hint: the person who said it works for an organization with a history of issuing extremely odd soundbites.
2. More on the George Steel story: “They contacted me in mid-December,” Steel told the DMN. “It was something I wasn’t willing to consider at all. But over Christmas we went back home [to New York], and I just saw the huge outpouring of support for the City Opera, and I realized what a special place this company has in my heart. I really seriously had to consider the offer.” Translation: “I may have been able to get a little more money if I held out until February, but I think my negotiating ploy worked out pretty well in the end. Fifty percent raise, son! Plus the sea bass at Screen Door tastes like bleach.”
3. “Smiles, everyone — smiles!” Ricardo Montalban, the man who said that for six years as Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island, has died. (Oh, you’re wondering about the local connection? Clearly you’ve forgotten that in the 1978-79 television season Fantasy Island squared off every Saturday night against none other than Dallas.)
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