I just got a piece of spam from Belgium that was begging me to visit a certain website. I will not be visiting the site, and I won’t mention its URL here, but I did want to share three amusing pieces of the e-mail.
The greeting: “Hello Hello – Dallas, home of JR”
The appeal: “It would be sooo cool if you could just go to the website once, or maybe…., just maybe, mention it in your press empire’s statements.”
The sign off: “Best waffles”
The Morning News can’t just put the paper online or in an iPad app and expect people to shell out stacking money every month. Or, at least, they shouldn’t. Here are some features they could include that would make the idea more attractive.
Dear Mayor Leppert,
Hey, Zac Crain here. You may remember me from that time you pretended to remember me, then actually remembered me, but were really remembering someone else. No big deal. There were a lot of bearded magazine editors in that mayoral campaign, who were later bounced off the ballot for — you know what? It’s in the past. Whatever. It got confusing.
So. Your Twitter feed. Sir — can I call you sir? — your tweets are bo-ring. Or, if you prefer, borrrrrrrring. You posted a handful of times in November. Here are two of them:
If you and your loved ones travel this holiday week, my family and I wish you a safe and happy journey.
Thank you to all of our heroes in uniform, both past and present.
Observant FrontBurnervians will notice that the FrontBurner search box on the right nav of our page has vanished. Yes, it has. Your search box is now in the upper right-hand portion of the page — and it’s about 3 kagillion times better than the old search we offered. Go ahead. Type a query into that little box. See the results you get. Now, instead of just searching FrontBurner, you’ll search the databases of the entire D empire. You’ll get stuff from D Magazine, D Home, D CEO, FrontRow, SideDish, our directories, etc. You can filter the results by media type, author, date. In short, you can now find exactly what you’re looking for — quickly.
Listen, maybe you’re not excited by search technology. I understand. But what our guys have accomplished here is pretty stunning. Thank you to Stephen Edmondson and especially Randy McCluer — the latter of which, our new search tells me, was mentioned for the first time right in this post.
(via The Come Up Show, via Mark Cuban’s Twitter feed, via Gorilla vs. Bear’s Twitter feed, via the modern magic of computers, via me wasting time, via me getting this job, via me graduating from college, via me being born)
For another local connect, the song was produced by our own S1.
You guys, I saw this yesterday and totally forgot to put it up. SORRY. Anyway, here is the pride of Lincoln High getting sonned by the guys from The Basketball Jones, mostly tongue in cheek, for his early season struggles with the Miami Heat (worked out, coincidentally, last night, with 35 points in three quarters). Still funny, though. (Oh, and there is one word in there not meant for delicate ears, so be warned.)
TBJ exclusive: Like A Bosh from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo.
The following comes from Mike Daniel, the outgoing Thrillist Dallas editor:
After 17 awesome months, Thrillist Dallas is 50,000 subscribers strong (with 2.3 million total among our 19 editions) and 1,250 Twitter nerds deep.
Now, the time has come to hand over the keys to this rumbling journalistic hot rod. On Dec. 1, I’m vacating my post as founding editor of the Dallas edition to pursue other career opportunities — possibly including a return to grad school.
My successor is Steve Steward, an ex-water polo-playing/lifeguard-ing California native and TCU grad (go Horned Frogs!) who’s also tended bar, taught middle school, and played bass in a band (OK…he still plays bass in a band) before writing about nightlife for FW Weekly for the past two years. He likes good whiskey and cheap beer, but is allegedly allergic to peanuts (no one’s perfect).
I don’t know. There was something austere and cold about the previous design that seemed to gel perfectly with many of the flight attendants I’ve encountered on American Airlines flights. This new design is going to take some getting used to.
Now that this is actually happening, I think what I will miss most of all is Fake Jerry Jones talking to Fake Wade Phillips on The Ticket. And by that I mean, of course, the only thing I’ll miss.
Yesterday, I essentially taunted a burglar to come back and take the stuff he missed the first time. Smart? Not really. Never been my strong suit.
ANYWAY, a couple of updates. First, when I got home yesterday, a police officer stopped by, just to check up. Nice, unexpected move. He mentioned that someone else down the street had been the victim of a similar burglary. Reports of maybe someone in a white car. I may or may not have implicated my recently RIF’d lawn guy.
Also — after a follow-up discussion via e-mail, where I mentioned some details I didn’t want to throw online — one of our sweet, sweet commenters left a copy of How To Train Your Dragon, one of my son’s DVDs that was taken, on my porch. Pretty much the nicest thing ever. Thank you thank you. I’ll forget how much I enjoy our regular commenters soon enough when we get into a pointless discussion about “Obamacare.”
Essentially — and yes, I’m quoting from the press release, but they’ve sort of backed me into a corner by coming up with something it’s hard to describe in another way, so blame them not me — it’s “Groupon for golfers.” Intrigued? I hope so, because I’ve cut-and-pasted the full release after the jump. Aren’t you excited! I’m sure Tim will use this and have something to say about it. Right now he’s off getting a new hip.
Last year, roughly around this time I told you guys about some local bloggers who were trying to get a panel into the Interactive branch of the annual SXSW shindig in Austin. Well, Team CJ did it. Was it all because of me? PROBABLY.
Anyway, they’re trying to do it again and, once more, they’ve turned to the kingmaker. This time, it’s the sort of meta concept Getting Your Panel Into SXSW: An Amateur’s Guide. Like last year, they’ve made an amusing YouTube video to get the word out. That is below. The full release is after the jump. And the link to vote is — wait for it — right — actually, wait another second — oh, okay, HERE. Oh, and today’s the last day, so don’t slack off.
Speaking of gay chihuahuas, surely you know about Gay List Daily, the gay DailyCandy. Zac told me about it. A local guy by the name of Cooper Smith Koch is behind it. Now he’s launched Gay List Deals, the gay GroupOn. He told Instant Tea that he launched it to “support our community by encouraging our readers to buy from local gay-owned or gay-friendly local businesses.” Look for Cooper Smith Koch next to launch Gay List Fantasy Football. (H/T DallasVoice.com)
You know that DallasDirt is the best real estate blog in Dallas. And I know that DallasDirt is the best real estate blog in Dallas, but for some reason real estate site Zillow feels the need to have a poll about it. They’re currently under the misapprehension that Ebby Halliday’s web-space boasts the best real estate blog in Dallas.
Please help them correct this error by clicking here, and casting your vote for dallasdirt.dmagazine.com. Vote early and as often as they’ll let you.
“Ryan,” Sometime FrontBurner Commenter, Decamps For Another Non-FrontBurner Blog
In the comments of Rhonda’s post, occasional FrontBurner commenter “Ryan” decided to bid our land of hyperlinks a hasty adieu. You know what, I’ll just let him tell it:
That, folks, is courage. After the jump, a tribute to Ryan and FrontBurner’s time together.
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