For instance, while we're glad Councilwoman Angela Hunt appears to have acquired enough signatures to force a vote on the Trinity toll road, could the notion of a Dallas version of Central Park along the river—as opposed to a toll road—be a bit pie-in-the-sky? Can you imagine a July day when you want to pack a picnic basket, hump it over a levee to sit down on weedy, baked silt and eat next to a snake-infested, mosquito-ridden, muddy, polluted ditch?
Speaking of parks, Buzz paid our first visit to Victory Park recently. Who, we wonder, are these people having cocktails at 3 p.m. on a weekday afternoon? It looked like the cast of the Bugtussle, Alabama, community theater performing a stage version of Less Than Zero. Can a tight skirt cut exactly 2 millimeters below the hoohah really be comfortable for a woman? Since the age of the pharaohs, has any man ever worn a necklace without looking like a douche? Why would any male not currently a member of The Little Rascals wear a ball cap with a large bill cocked to one side, particularly with a dress shirt, unbuttoned to the sternum, with a gold chain and sunglasses, indoors?
And while we're on the subject of little rascals, if Constable Mike Dupree had been having sex with a 19-year-old Latina female whom he thought of as a daughter and then had her deported, would he have gotten in more or less trouble than he did for doing that to a male? Buzz is thinking more, but maybe we're being paternalistic and underestimating the amount of homophobia in Dallas.
And on that note: How much did Ed Oakley's being gay have to do with him losing the election? Would he have made the mayoral runoff if he wasn't gay in a city with a politically active LGBT community? Oakley told the Dallas Voice that his sexual orientation "became the only story during the runoff." What paper was he reading? His being a mean, negative, street-fighting partisan was mentioned a few dozen times or so, we recall. But then, Buzz's mind has been fuzzy lately. Maybe that's the effect of a vitamin D deficiency. Or Coldplay.