1. Guess who isn’t as rich as they used to be? Local rich folks. Well, except for the Hunts and Tim Headington; they cashed out at the right time. In related news: I found a $20 in a jacket I haven’t worn in a long time, so I think I can eat lunch this week.
2. GM is cutting 1,600 jobs in the next few days, which might impact workers at its Arlington plant. And even that probably won’t stop the automaker from going into Chapter 11 to try to reverse its decline. The only good news for GM? My car — with its window held together with packing tape and an old picture frame, the windshield smashed in two places, the engine that sounds like a five-pack-a-day smoker climbing stairs, and the interior that looks like I live in there full-time — is not made by GM.
3. And finally, if you’re feeling bummed out by the GM news, or maybe you’re one of those rich people who have been kicked in the jeans, read this Steve Blow column. Oh, it’s not about the global economic crisis. It’s about losing something more precious than money: corny, archaic sayings.
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#3 – one he did already, in August 2008. How low are you scraping when you only have to write maybe two columns a week, and you can’t be original without being ill-informed, so you go with a barely-disguised re-run of a lame column?
#3 ditto Bethany with two of these *!*
There’s a fire reported at the Adolphus, tons of sirens downtown.
http://www.firerescuephotos.com/fa/
Can anyone see anything? Is this a false alarm, like someone burnt their gourmet popcorn?
#1 – No sympathy for anyone, especial Ross Perot (the old, paranoid one) who uses money (particularly the aforementioned hedge) to fund meritless lawsuits for a bitter, crazy woman in Dallas. Oh yes he did.
@Zac,
Congrats on the windfall. On Sat., my daughter also found $20 in a 2-year-old birthday card. She ordered us a pizza, which tasted especially great and felt like it was free. Let us know your plans for your 1/5 c-note.
Perot has also given much of his time and money to help those who could not help themselves and had nowhere to turn. Oh yes he did.
The fire could have been started by David Sedaris. He was staying there last night. By the way, he was hilarious. Shocker.
I know the good and the bad, JM. He obviously wants people to know him for the good but there’s a lot of the other stuff out there. “He means well” those in his inner circle say. Those who “mean well” do not do the scary, underhanded, ignore-the-facts stuff that he’s done. Yes, he has.
I agree, dave. Did you think of Cynthia Izaguirre during the Nicaragua story?
The Nicaragua story almost made me pee my pants it was so funny!
Blow’s tryin’ to run us up a stump.
@downtowner – It was a fire in the laundry room, according to WFAA.com.
Bethany, although I’ve heard Brian Regan do something similar in his standup, I just loved the whole evening. I almost like the Q and A better than the reading. But the whole thing was really cool.
I agree. The book signing at the end could’ve been a little better organized, but all in all, great, great evening.
Bethany, why do you keep singling out Steve Blow for punishment? There are a LOT of columnists at TDMN and many of them do the same thing. Do you and Steve have a history?
Oh, I’ve singled out others. There’s no history at all. But I guess the irk comes quicker when I think about the fact that he gets paid to write a couple of columns a week (and had to resort to basically a re-run this weekend), and many of my friends – some of whom were writing upwards of two stories A DAY – just got pink slips.
Lisa, I don’t want to tag team, BUT… The content in the DMN is just…just…getting thinner every day. The only glimmer I had in the last round of layoffs was that they could weed out some of it, finally. But, no. They rif’d a lot of good folks.
This SB column is so similar to one from 6 months ago, I had to check my paper to see if I was on a current issue. It’s weak, lazy, and not what I want from my daily.
DGirl… please elobrate ..thought Ross Perot was one of the good guys doing good things.
there are a lot of old crazy women in dallas..that could be anyone.
Bethany and amanda:
I agree that this column is very similar to the previous one, and I’m in no way a Steve Blow fan, but…
You two aren’t exactly the target audience for this type of column, right? It seems like he knows his audience is much older than you or me.
And as for repetition, I have nothing against someone going back to the well for an idea they think works.
Again, I’m not saying I enjoyed it, but I know there are some who did.
RayRayRay:
But this is something that should worry management. Not to be cheeky, but Blow’s audience is dwindling due to age. And when he attempts to be relevant, it typically comes across as either an obvious attempt at being “hip,” or it appears as if he’s being a company toady.
Granted, though, Blow’s columns haven’t changed in the 5 years or so I’ve been paying attention, so this is kind of like pointing out the obvious.
@confused. Don’t be confused. Simply accept that idea that people who write checks to support very worthy causes can also use that same money and influence to insert themselves and do harm to people in situations in which they don’t listen to reason, fact, expert advice, even their own family members. There are minor children involved in the situation I’m referring to so I won’t elaborate more.
Which character from The Simpson’s will pop up next to challenge Bethany?
I just wish we could switch to the Family Guy, a far superior cartoon.
C’mon…can’t I get a Herbert the Pervert?
He’s not a regular Family Guy character, but Buzz Killington has been here a lot lately.
I know this is not the place for it, but screw it. 6 months or so ago I gently heckled the paws in the city people who were doing a fundraiser at the candleroom or someplace like that.
Well, we just took in a rescue dog and the paws people couldn’t have been nicer and i just wanted to apologize for anything i said that could have been interpreted as mean spirited.
Aww..cool, dave. What kind of dog?
Marge? I don’t understand. And I’m just responding to the public criticism of Steve Blow you wrote here, so e-mail wouldn’t be the same. Would it? And I’m not even saying you’re all wrong and Steve is all right, only that it’s odd because you both seem so alike in the way you write what you write about. Like I said, maybe you two should get together and talk about what you have in common. I’ll bet he would even let you guest write a column while he was on vacation.
You don’t find it coincidental that someone named “Marge” – a Simpson’s character – also railed against my recipes and American Idol liveblogging, and now you, “Lisa” – also a Simpson’s character – is doing the same?
E-mail, or shush.
Steve Blow doesn’t ever vacay. He lives in Sunnyvale, i.e. paradise.
Giggety!
I’m almost as old as Blow and have relatives from East Texas. But I also found the column boring. Frank X. Tolbert he’s not.
I’d like to read a columnist from Dallas in The Dallas Morning News.
she’s bermese/chow mix. a sweetheart.
@fred: Rod Dreher lives in Dallas, but his columns aren’t so great, either.
Um, Bethany, could you stand next to somebody else? Thanks.
How soon before Steve Blow resurrects old John Anders column ideas to fill time?
Come to think of it, Anders miught be too young for Blow’s demongraphic. Maybe they’re looking for a Dick Hitt column instead.
Are you sure that was your jacket?
Dreher was born and ‘reared’ here? I think not…