Dallas Blogging Seemed to Cease During Billy Reid Sale

If you’ve got a thing for liberal pasty journos, you should have been in the dressing room at the Billy Reid warehouse sale this morning. Me, Tim, Adam, Fingers of Fury, Jim Schutze … it was amazing. There was much camaraderie, a liberal amount of joshing about too many pounds put on around the midsection, and then we beat the living snot out of each other. Good times.

Wick, is that what’s it’s like at the Orvis sale? Only it’s you, Moroney, Decherd, Halbreich …

Leading Off (2/19/09)

1. For now, it looks like we’re still getting that city-owned convention center hotel. And it’s still pretty low on the list of things I wish the city would pay for, right after a maximum-level contract extension for Erick Dampier and just before a kissing booth for that lady on the train last night with no teeth.

2. Two UNT astronomers say they’ve found pieces of a meteor that caused the explosions in the sky that some folks saw over the weekend. Those people include Spider Monkey, who claims to have seen them while in her car — but also can’t remember where she was going, where she was coming from, and didn’t bother to check the internet or the news after seeing something explode in the sky. So, you know, grain of salt.

3. And finally, a high-speed police chase ended this morning when the woman driving stopped to pay a toll at D/FW Airport.