The sprinkler system in our office just went off because Glenn Hunter’s pants are on fire. A source is telling me that he took DART to work this morning, even though he said he would stay off their trains. WTF, Fire Pants?
Tomorrow from 6 to 7 p.m., Troy Aikman will be hanging out on the Katy Trail to kick off the Friends of the Katy Trail’s first-ever membership drive. Laura, that sounds like your beat, runner woman.
Community newspapers, like our own People Newspapers, will be delivered to your front lawn long after metro papers like the Morning News go entirely to some form–which, I’m guessing, hasn’t exactly been invented yet–of electronic delivery.
Hyper-local publications are counting on “refrigerator journalism” to keep the presses running. Half the job of putting together a neighborhood paper is making sure you’re running enough photos of cute kids and puppy dogs to keep parents cutting out articles to hang on the fridge.
But the new-fangled hyper-local blogging media is cribbing from that playbook. Witness the Junior Reporters’ Program at Roseland After School Academy, run by Shawn Williams of the Dallas South News site. These videos provide the frightening evidence: An army of cute kids outfitted with probing questions with which to prod sources? They’re coming for you, Park Cities People.
An alert FBvian points us to this photo gallery of the AT&T Performing Arts Center on Time’s site. (Side note: I’m a pretty fast typer. But it kills me to type “AT&T Performing Arts Center.” See? Right there. I just died. My ghost is now typing this post. So from now on, this thing will be called the PAC on this blog. It has been decreed.)
In July, the good people at Overheard brought our attention to the story of the UP family with a treehouse in their front yard. Apparently, a neighbor complained about said structure because its placement is against UP ordinance.
Last night, the Johnson family got the verdict: the house must come down.
1. And it begins. Construction for the Woodall Rodgers deck park starts this weekend. The whole thing will be shut down. Essentially, you need to prepare yourself mentally to be inconvenienced from now until 2012, when the project is finished. Glenn Hunter is outraged and has sworn that he’ll never again drive on a road.
2. Ellen DeGeneres gave away a car yesterday at Sewell GMC. A segment showing the giveaway will air on her show today. Spoiler alert: Mark Lowry from Theater Jones, who was dressed up as Octomom, lost the car to a scarecrow. Which is another reason why I like the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Yeah, I said it.
3. The headline says it all: “Singer Thought Dallas Officer Was Going to Kill Him in ‘07 Confrontation After Night of Drinking, Foosball.” The strange tale of Steve Holy’s horrible, terrible, no-good night of partying surfaces again as a judge tries to decide what punishment the cop deserves. And that gives me a reason to link back to the 911 call Holy made that night. A classic.