Articles for October, 2010
DART Bus Gets Hotter Than Rangers
The other day, I wrote a post about being momentarily inconvenienced during a DART train ride. My commute had nothing on that of the people who were riding this bus. Want an explanation? The official Dallas Fire-Rescue press release is after the jump:
Scribe on Cliff Lee: “He is the Master at Work”
On a day the Rangers could nail down a World Series appearance, those who appreciate good writing are passing around this post by Joe Posnanski on the greatness of Texas ace Cliff Lee. Says one scribe of Posnanski’s gem: “Not even Blackie could do it better.” (Here’s hoping, by the way, for a Lee-Lincecum matchup next Wednesday at AT&T Park. Now, that will be a shoot-out.)
Your Rangers/Yankees Open Thread
I have an appointment at 3 (I know, I know, but it was made weeks before). I’ll be discretely watching on my iPhone, thanks to the MLB app, which better the heck work.
A Frontburnervian sent me this, and I think we should all take our caps off, bow our heads, and repeat:
Our Rangers, who art in Texas, Winners be thy name. The Yanks will come, they will be done, in New York as they will be in Texas. Give us this day, a series win, and forgive us our bullpen losses and lead us not into the offseason after this series, but deliver us a Championship to …Texas. For the Rangers shall be the 2010 ALDS, ALCS, and World Series Champions forever and ever. AMEN!!
Ron Washington is My New Life Coach
On potentially closing out the Yankees today, from his post-game interview:
We are not thinking about how we are going to close anyone out. We are going to go out there and play baseball, and whatever the game asks us to do, we’ll do it. We are not coming to the ballpark tomorrow night with the only thing on our minds of closing somebody out. We are coming to the ballpark tomorrow with our minds on baseball and our minds reacting to whatever the game says we have to react to. If it happens, it happens. And if it don’t, it doesn’t happen.
“Whatever the game asks us to do, we’ll do it.” That’s my new motto. Not poking fun at all. Have completely underestimated the Old School Brother all this time.
People Like Neiman Marcus’ Christmas Cars
According to a tweet by Christopher Wynn, the 100 $75,000 2011 Chevy Camaro convertibles from the Neiman Marcus 2010 Christmas Book were sold in a mere three minutes.
I just found out from the people at Neimans that my favorite item, the gingerbread house, hasn’t sold yet. So you still have time to get one!
Things to Do in Dallas Today and Tonight: Oct. 20
If you’re a red-blooded Texan, there really are only three things to do today: A) leave work early; B) watch the Rangers make history by defeating the Yankees and advancing to the World Series; and C) get drunk and call your friends in New York to “catch up.”
However, if you are a communist, you do have options. Namely, the Sufjan Stevens concert. Before the show, treat yourself to The Grape’s come-as-you-are dinner, which this month features selections from California’s Robert Hall Winery. Sounds delicious to me.
Or, you might consider carving pumpkins at the Old Monk. I’ll be curious to see how this plays out given that the Monk is opening early for a Rangers watch party. Beer + aggression + knives = potential place in the police blotter. Time will tell!
Browse these other things to do in Dallas, and have a great day and night.
Rankings Say Perry is Overweight
I’m not exactly sure how accurate or even why this is done, but there’s a poll out today that says Rick Perry is overweight, nearly obese. But maybe they just meant phat?
(H/T: Amanda Warr)
Join Our Effort To Write a Novel in a Month
That’s the challenge put forth by National Novel Writing Month, and over on FrontRow, we’re crazy/stupid enough to try. So, we’re looking for support and volunteers. Join our effort to create the Great Dallas Novel by the end of November. Visit FrontRow for the details.
Fox 4 Made Me Laugh
I’m about two days late on this, but it’s still funny so I think it’s still worth a post. Fox 4 did a social media roast. Watch and enjoy. Or don’t. Whatever. Go Rangers!
Leading Off (10/20/10)
1. If I were Zac, I’d mail it in and just put up one item about the Rangers’ 10-3 stonkering of the Yankees for Leading Off this morning. But I’m not Zac. So not only will I offer you three more items in addition to this one (all for free!), but I’ll stoke the fires of your Schadenfreude. Have a look at the New York Post. Their headline is “Burn-ed!” Ha! I hope it hurts, Yankees fans. You know why? Because so many of you are just like this guy, the sideways-hat-wearing monkey rectum who taunted Nelson Cruz after interfering with a home run ball.
2. Can I say “monkey rectum”? (Glad Wick’s out of town.)
3. I wasn’t there, so I can’t fairly characterize Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s speech to his fellow city council members at their all-day retreat, but this DMN story makes it sound like Caraway missed the mark, to put it politely. Saying that he and the council love Mayor Leppert? Telling Sheffie Kadane that he has to be the man? The story says the speech was “at times rambling” and, at its conclusion, drew silence from the council. Also, Caraway fell out of his truck the night before the meeting and injured himself. So there’s that.
4. And if you think Caraway might be suffering the effects of a head injury, check out what Roger Staubach said at Prestonwood Baptist Church. It’s sad when your heroes grow old and lose their minds.
Rangers Versus Yankees, ALCS Game Four
This is your open thread. Antlers. Claw. All of that. Let’s chat. What are you drinking?
New Update for Our iPhone App
You know what turns out to be a lot of fun? Waiting for Apple to approve an update to your app. In any case, a few of the early adopters of our D Recommends app experienced a snafu that we rather quickly corrected. And that correction is now available. This is your cue to update. If you haven’t downloaded the app yet, it’s free. In the iTunes store, search for “D Recommends.” Then you’ll know, based on your location, what you ought to eat, drink, and do tonight.
You’re welcome. And remember to drink lots of Snapple.
Yankee Wins
Made you look. The fine folks at The Dallas Institute awarded Dr. Mark Oppenheimer the Hiett Prize in the Humanties today, one of the most prestigious awards of its kind in the country. The prize, made possible through the largesse of Institute board member Kim Jordan, is the opposite of a lifetime achievement award. It nabs brilliant scholars who are closer to the beginning of their careers, and whose “work in the humanities has a significant public or practical component.” Everything about that is so Dallas. A) The size of the award – $50,000 cash — is colossal. B) It feels more like an investment, with the world of intellectual discourse being the primary beneficiary. C) The word “practical” used in the same sentence as “humanities.” Oppenheimer writes the bi-weekly “Belief” column in The New York Times and for The New York Times Magazine. Probably, until that check clears, it would be “practical” for him to be very careful when making his ALCS choices.
The Architect’s Newspaper Has a Look at Museum Tower
A San Francisco-based FrontBurnervian points us to this story in the Architect’s Newspaper about the under-construction Museum Tower. Two things about that: 1) the story says the building is “the final piece of that puzzle [in the Arts District], providing much-needed residential space.” With all due respect to the 500-foot “shaft of light” (as its architect, Scott Johnson, calls it), I think we can all agree that the Arts District is a puzzle that we’ll still be assembling many years after the first tenant has moved into Museum Tower. Like, for instance, how about that eyesore of a parking garage between the Cathedral and the Wyly? And 2) I’m still curious to see how the “cul-de-sac in the sky” (as Patrick Kennedy has called it) will affect the Nasher, specifically the Tending, (Blue) installation.
Things to Do in Dallas Tonight: Oct. 19
It’s Tuesday, and though the urge to trudge home and collapse on the couch with a bucket of mashed potatoes in one hand and the remote in the other (Billy’s going toe-to-talon with a hawk tonight!) may be strong, we mustn’t succumb to it.
No, friends, we should probably try to get out of the house. But before we get to that, let’s discuss your midday hour of freedom. Before or after you’ve grabbed lunch today, I recommend you stop by Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery’s new exhibit featuring portraits of my favorite adulterous Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo.
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