Leading Off (3/5/09)

Posted on March 5th, 2009 6:58am by Zac Crain
Filed under Local News

1. I know Adam already got to this last night, but I still have a question: what are Ed Werder and his mustache going to do now now that T.O. is going to yell at some other team’s wide receivers coach? I imagine Werder slowly walking, defeated, on the road out of Valley Ranch as this plays.

2. Missed this the other day, but Mark Cuban announced the businesses that are close to receiving his personal stimulus package — which I realize now I probably shouldn’t have worded that way. Especially since one of them is called Naked Pizza.

3. Rod Davis, come back! Frisco needs you! (You can’t have your old cubicle, though. I’ve made some slight modifications.)

14 comments

  1. 3. They’re limited to watering their dormant grass twice a week? The horrors!

    @ 8:21 am on March 5, 2009

  2. 3. Why does the hover info for the “Rod Davis” link in #3 say “Spider Monkey rocks”?

    @ 8:57 am on March 5, 2009

  3. She took the pictures for that story … and I think either the pictures or the story, or both, won some awards.

    @ 9:01 am on March 5, 2009

  4. Zac,

    What’s this fascination with men’s facial hair?

    It was Ed Oakley and his eyebrows yesterday and now Ed Werder and his mustache.

    Is the next headline “Will Mayor Leppert and his ear hair save the DISD?”

    @ 9:04 am on March 5, 2009

  5. Don’t worry about us in Collin county Don….I am sure you are doing a cap and trade on water in Austin, or just wait for the fed to tell you what to do.

    @ 9:22 am on March 5, 2009

  6. Did Spider Monkey take the “Parched” cover shot? That did, indeed, rock.

    @ 9:23 am on March 5, 2009

  7. @ Old Man: Great. Now you’ve spoiled it. Hope you’re happy.

    @ 9:28 am on March 5, 2009

  8. Mayor Leppert’s ear hair can’t save us. But the knuckle hair from his giant hands, well, that’s a different story.

    @ 9:29 am on March 5, 2009

  9. NeitherParty,

    Have you ever actually lived in Austin? A bunch of nearly powerless grad-school drop-outs and patchouli-ites make a bunch of noise and then congratulate themselves for their superior and quite brave noisemaking, reminding one another that “The only problem with Austin is it’s surrounded by Texas”!

    Then developers run roughshod just as they do anywhere in Texas, doing whatever the hell they want, which happens to be carepeting the countryside with McMansion subdivisions, strip malls and the occasional in-town transit-oriented deevelopment, except that the good progressive folks in Austin have no transit, so they call it “smartchitecture,” because everyone in Austin is smart.

    It’s like any other Texas city, only with a different brand of d-bag.

    @ 9:31 am on March 5, 2009

  10. I’m happy to eat Naked Pizza since I’ve been cut off from Cold Pizza. Thanks, Zac.

    @ 9:47 am on March 5, 2009

  11. It probably says Spider Monkey rocks because she, like, totally does. Or so I hear.

    Also, not to go Biblical, but people, you’re going to need water. Plan ahead.

    And, Zac, I love the decor, but I really miss the cheap patio chairs.
    Rod

    @ 10:45 am on March 5, 2009

  12. my man crush on Daniel continues…all of Austin smells like patchouli to this yankee

    @ 11:13 am on March 5, 2009

  13. This is hilarious and worth the watch…made by the producer of the Ben and Skin show on 105.3 The Fan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmeKrLIZ-_0

    @ 2:31 pm on March 5, 2009

  14. @NP and Daniel: Agreed, Austinites have many quirks but we don’t generally water dormant grass twice a week. This is why east Texans and the Feds don’t want to flood another 30k acres of East Texas forest for you and your northern burbs. We may be liberal but we’re conservative with water. Now go get you some more St. Augustine.

    We could all use some rain.

    @ 3:30 pm on March 5, 2009