She wasn’t having any of it. And, thus, apparently, she went out and had it. Because our closet is now populated by no fewer than — what? — five new dresses. It’s hard to say. They are hanging. I did not wish to disturb them. Perhaps their price tags would become visible, and I would vomit. I store my shoes in our closet, and I didn’t want to vomit in my shoes.

Point is, if your lady is similarly engaged, I want to say that I feel for you, brother. It’s like that at my house, too. Only one way to handle it: either it’s time to buy a retaliatory tux (name of my new band), or you lose some weight to where you can fit into one of those dresses. Good luck.

Before you click through, the real news. While I expected the new unis and the scoreboard, as well as the introductions of the Mavs acquired in the offseason, what I didn’t see coming was GM Donnie Nelson sort of offhandedly mentioning that Erick Dampier would be coming off the bench this season (Drew Gooden is the new starting center). Damp strolled out a few minutes later, but no one asked him about it. He seemed to be too busy gawking at the new scoreboard, anyway.

There had been rumors floating around the web as to what the new alternate design would be. Some were quite a bit different. This is pretty much the same, mainly replacing the old jersey's green with royal blue, a nod to the team's original look. I like it. Not enough to buy it, of course. I'm a t-shirt jersey kind of guy.

The new HD video scoreboard obviously pales in comparison to what Jerry Jones has done out in Arlington. That said, this four-sided beast is very nice. The video is much better than I could capture here -- so good, in fact, that most people watched the press conference on it, when it was actually happening about 30 feet away. Erick Dampier and James Singleton came out and stared slack-jawed at it. Also: I'm pretty sure I could bang punts off this thing all day.

I used up all relevant info in the previous caption, so I'll just add that I hope whomever decided it was a good idea to keep running a highlight reel of (now-ex-Mav) Brandon Bass -- a personal favorite of mine -- felt good openly taunting me for the better part of half an hour. Oh, and now, when Mark Cuban commands the video operator to re-run a play, the refs' missed calls will be even more obvious. Mind your p's and q's, Bennett Salvatore.

The team also unveiled fancy new video boards on either end of the arena. Not surpringly, these things are packed with statistical information, or they will be, I guess. Plus, they'll have a live feed with fans' texts, and so on. They didn't mention it at the presser, but the feed comes pre-loaded with about 1,000 messages from me: "OMG I H8 TIM DUNCAN!!!!1!" And so on.

The wall that has crumbled, according to the New York Post, is the wall between Neiman’s corporate and its Bergdorf Goodman division. Apparently Bergdorf has always had its own fashion office. In what would appear to be a sensible move when you’re trying to hold on to your effin’ ocelot-fur hat, they consolidated some of the roles. Those in the Bergdorf fashion office balked. The men’s fashion director quit.

Neiman President and CEO Karen Katz — who engineered the recent consolidation of Fazio and Patel’s roles — “maybe doesn’t totally get the fashion office,” according to one person close to the company.

The dust-up is another headache for Neiman Chairman Burt Tansky, who is beset by rumors that he will retire — even as the retailer scrambles to cut costs as sales continue to plunge.

One journalism-related complaint, which may seem strange to bother with since we’re talking about the New York Post here: “one person close to the company?”  That’s as specific as you can get?  Sounds like that quote could have come from a homeless guy standing outside the Neiman’s offices downtown.

str8edgeracer T shirts online! Cougarmerch.com

Wilson has been tweeting for some time now about his intentions to publicly distribute “Wolfpack” t-shirts he designed — based on his nickname for the Ranger’s bullpen that was inspired by a hilarious speech from the movie The Hangover. (If you’re confused watch the movie clip and read the Star-T post)

Wilson confirmed, also via Twitter, that all proceeds from the t-shirt sales will go to a C.J. Wilson’s Children’s Charities project:

str8edgeracer@J_Hix we’re donating the current $ to the charity event, a new youth sports medicine center in plano, past events have been hospitals, etc

So, if you’re a Rangers fan, you got that going for ya. Which is nice.

UPDATE: Silly me. I neglected to mention that it was D Magazine that launched her summer media blitz, when she was named the Max Factor Face of Dallas in June.

Casual, idiosyncratic and a tad preppy, the pieces are more Wes Anderson than Hugh Hefner. “Yeah, Hefner is the antithesis of what we’re doing,” says Jerry James, who co-designs the line with David Dewese—both native Texans who run the American-made label’s operation (including production) out of Fort Worth.