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Shawn Marion Drives an Incredibly Tiny Car

We're not sure exactly what Shawn Marion is driving here. It's clearly not a car in the traditional sense of the word, nor is it a tricycle, even though it has three wheels. It's kind of like a golf cart, except it appears to be able to reach highway speeds and doesn't appear large enough to store a ... More >>

A Special Investigation into the Weird Chalk Marks on This One Dude's Apartment Door

This is a weird one. The story comes to us via Reddit (of course), where a resident of an apartment complex near State and Thomas streets in Uptown writes that he's distressed by the appearance of a strange chalk marking on his door. "I noticed today that my door had a small chalk-like marking, lik ... More >>

A Dallas Man Was Beaten Unconscious after Jenna Jameson's Birthday Party at Le Vu (Updated)

Ryan Ball didn't know that porn legend Jenna Jameson was having her birthday party at Le Vu on Friday night, or so he claims in his recap of the night on Reddit. He and a pair of friends just wanted to have a couple of drinks and settled on the brand-new Pacific Street club for reasons not at all co ... More >>

Poll: Which Dallas Observer Writer is a "Snarky, Superior, Angry Bitch?"

Hang on to your hats, everybody, because I'm about to give you a super-duper exciting glimpse into the inner workings of the Dallas Observer. We get a lot of email from our readers. Some of it comes directly to our various email addresses, but a lot of it goes to a general account. (I have no idea w ... More >>

A West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Has Exploded, Killing 5 to 15 (Video) [Updated]

Update, 10:24 a.m.: Scroll down for updates, including a statement from the President and information on shelter for the people displaced by the explosion. We'll be adding to this post throughout the day, as new information becomes available. Original post, 11:20 p.m., Wednesday: News outlets acros ... More >>

Addison Police Drop Investigation of Dallas Redditors' Alleged Organized Crime Ring

At first glance, Reddit's Dallas thread may seem like an innocuous online forum where users engage in remarkably civil dialogue and provide easy content for Dallas' finest journalists, graciously allowing them to get to the bar before noon. But an in-depth investigation by Unfair Park has revealed a ... More >>

Chelsea Welch Shamed a Pastor, Now She Needs a Job

This story from The Smoking Gun is too good not to share. To keep it quick, a St. Louis pastor patronized Applebees and took issue with a mandated 18 percent tip for parties of eight or more. Alois Bell says she left a cash tip at the table, but it's the note she left on her receipt that's got the a ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima

As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks that contract with them battle for money and creative control.

For Your Weekend: Two New Bacon Creations

Not a minute too soon, let us begin our first full weekend of 2013 by taking a moment to ingest a few new bacon creations. One a matter of function, the other ... well, actually, aren't all bacon creations a matter of function? Of course, they are. 1. The Bacon Boat According to Urban Daddy, the b ... More >>

Bacon Drunk in 2012, the Full Review. Plus, Amazingly, Bacon.

The year 2012 very well may go down as the year bacon got knighted. Or killed. Not sure which. Regardless, for better or worse, America had a clamorous affair with bacon this year. No longer a breakfast side item, bacon is now a main course, also a condiment, vodka, a scarf, an essence, a destinatio ... More >>

America Really, Really Wants the Cowboys to Lose to the Redskins on Sunday

The Dallas Cowboys, despite a season defined largely by extended periods of mediocrity, improbably, inexplicably find themselves on the cusp of their first playoff berth in three years. It all comes down to Sunday. If they beat the Redskins, they're in. If they lose, they're out. One would expect t ... More >>

A Dallas County Employee Was 14 Minutes Late Today, and His Excuse Should Win a Pulitzer

Here's what we know: a guy named Adam who works at the Dallas County Clerk's office was late to the office this morning. Fourteen minutes late, to be precise, according to the "Kronos Workforce Timekeeper System used by Dallas County." So says the rather officious form Adam was given when he fina ... More >>

An Englishman in BBQ Sauce

An expatriate Brit learns to love Texas, one pound of brisket at a time.

An Englishman and a Scot Walk into a Korean Burger Joint ...

I am taking burger week seriously, everybody. Very seriously. Do you know how seriously? Normally, I do no research, display a startling lack of expertise, write a couple of swears, tell a crass joke and then insult everyone in the comments. That won't fly during this crucial period. I've got in a h ... More >>

On CNN, Reddit Troll Michael Brutsch Is "To Some Degree Apologizing For What I Did"

A few days after Arlington's now-outed Reddit troll Michael Brutsch sat for an interview in a Fort Worth hotel room with CNN reporter Drew Griffin, the rest of us finally got to see it. It's a bit of a trainwreck. CNN's first shot of Brutsch shows him fidgeting nervously as he licks his lips and o ... More >>

Michael Brutsch, Arlington-Based Reddit Troll, Has Been Fired, and is Going on CNN Tonight

On Friday afternoon, Arlington's Michael Brutsch was catapulted squarely into his 15 minutes of fame, after a Gawker article outed him as Violentacrez, a well-known moderator and commenter on a slew of racist, misogynistic and sexually exploitative threads on the internet community Reddit. Just befo ... More >>

Notorious Reddit Troll Is Apparently a 50-Something Software Engineer in Arlington [Updated: Definitely]

Newsflash: Reddit can get creepy. Really creepy. The hugely popular internet community has been in the news over the past few years because of various gross subreddits (message boards devoted to specific topics). Some of them, like the one devoted to sharing sexualized images of young girls, titled, ... More >>

Man Cooks Dove--After it Dies By Flying into His Window. Wait, is That Legal?

Sigh, Reddit. You certainly are two kinds of crazy. Yesterday NewlyConvertedFan posted on Reddit: "A dove slammed into my house, breaking its neck. So I grilled it." He even documented it on his personal website, which appropriately enough is called Nose to Tail at Home. So, this wasn't merely ... More >>

Whole Stuffed Camel-Turducken Actually Happens. Who's Hungry?

Recently a link was posted on Reddit about the "largest item on any menu in the world" and it linked to a Wikipedia page that read like this: "a whole stuffed camel is a culinary delicacy composed of a medium-sized camel stuffed with a sheep or a lamb stuffed with other ingredients." Process that ... More >>

Someone is Driving This Ultra-Rare $300,000 Lamborghini to Hebron High School

Note: The original post said the car was at Coppell High School. It was at Hebron High School in Carrollton. And yes, it was driven to school by a 15-year-old, per Jalopnik's update, which you'll find below. The car you see above is a Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale. It's rare (o ... More >>

Extreme Pizza Offers Great Deal for Cowboys Fans, and a Terrible One for Giants Fans

Extreme Pizza has really great deals on a slice of pizza, you know, if you're a Cowboys fan. Over on Dallas' Reddit page, user Brett_Knows_Best, perhaps on his way to celebrate National Cheese Pizza day, posted this shot before tonight's game versus the New York Giants. Seems pretty fair.

This Week's Best Reddit AMA Was Not with Obama but a Former Texas Prisoner

On the sprawling "social news" website Reddit, there are pages and pages of user-created discussions and links, ranging from funny to poignant to vile. One of the site's most fascinating sub-sections is r/IAmA , also known as "Ask Me Anything," or AMA. AMAs are question and answer sessions with un ... More >>

Left 4 Dead 2... Electric Boogaloo?

Twisted Root Gives Receipt with Discounts for "Best Butt," "Best Looking"

So, here's what happened: over on Reddit, someone posted "A friend of mine got complimented rather sneakily at Twisted Root Burger" with the above photo attached. After frontpaging shockingly quickly, comments started pouring in. Commenter princessofgemworld responds "I'm a server at a bar, and to k ... More >>

SOPA is Dead, but the Copyright Debate Rages On

And it's happening where it belongs: online.

Dear Taco Bell, This is How It's Done: The Bacon Taco Shell

Down at SXSW this past week, which was pretty well Cool Ranchified with junk-food advertisements, one of the day parties was sponsored by The Bell. They were giving away free Doritos Locos tacos by the crate. Sounds fantastic, right? The problem, of course, is the Doritos Locos taco shells carry t ... More >>

Pong Beer, the Beer Made Specifically for Beer Pong, is Coming to Texas

Somewhere, Toby Keith is rejoicing. Coming soon to Texas, according to Pong Beer's site, is the one, the only beer exclusively designed to receive a unsterilized, filthy college apartment ping pong ball. It's Pong Beer! Or, the beer specifically for playing Beer Pong. It's so real, everyone. How r ... More >>

Addison's New Water Tower Is Also a Power Plant and An Art Project!

A Friend of Unfair Park dispatches this look at Addison's new water tower, which is presently making the rounds on Reddit. And, yes, those are wind turbines on top -- 10 total, each eight feet tall, the point of which is to operate the water tower and power the street lights on Arapaho. The city's ... More >>

New Nintendo Graffiti Wall Brings Early Gaming Back, Two Stories Tall

As a marketing campaign for its new art show, Vinyl Thoughts, local Munny-esque toy makers whose last exhibition reached capacity almost immediately, launched a scavenger hunt. The quest? Find two guys dressed like Mario and Luigi painting a Nintendo mural in Deep Ellum. "Somebody snapped a pictur ... More >>

From a Firestation in Fairview, TX: A Mural in Timelapse

Well, here's your cool timelapse video of the day... Over on Dallas' Reddit page this morning, caught an exciting piece from local artist Andy Buchanan. The two-minute plus video chronicles the construction of Buchanan's action-y, three-dimension-y mural "Rescuing Freedom." According the YouTube vi ... More >>

Sign o' the Times: Pizza Climbs the Pop Charts as Vegetable

Speaking of signs... Before we all stuffed our bodies with Thanksgiving last week, Congress declared pizza a vegetable. Only not really. Tomato paste, which is obviously associated with pizza, was declared a vegetable. We'll leave it to the Washington Post to sort out the nutritional madness. Meanw ... More >>

Dr Pepper in Japan Looks Darn Exciting

Daily What via Reddit User adam1988 ​Perusing the Daily What this morning, we came across the photo from Reddit user adam1988, who posted the above photo with the title "Just a Dr. Pepper can from Okinawa." So, in case you're keeping track of Texas-based Dr Pepper updates today: Can art for th ... More >>

All Thumbs? Curious Tale of Dallas County Voting Machine "Glitch" Makes the Circuit.

​Friend of the show Amanda Warr forwards along this item from Gawker (which sprang to life on Reddit), in which a Dallas resident goes to the Audelia Road Library to early-vote for Rick Perry ... only, the machine switches his votes to all-Green Party. Or does it? Another heated Reddit thread sugg ... More >>

Listomania: Five Music-Related Applications Steve Jobs Could Have Debuted Today.

Apple teased us with this image.​Earlier today, Steve Jobs unveiled "Ping," a new social media platform within iTunes. We think it's going to really take off--as well as solidify Apple's burgeoning reputation as the future Cyberdyne systems. In this light, we propose a few apps that Jobs could-hav ... More >>

Sure, Now We Discover "David From Dallas" And His Work. Right Before He Leaves.

Famous Dog Walker by David Soams​Yesterday, good Friend of Unfair Park IgnoreLander shot me a link to the Flickr photostream of one "davidfromdallas." He also included this note: "Not sure if Dave really is from Dallas, but I came across this guy during some random Web surfing. Might be someone to ... More >>

Cuban Takes Machete to Papers' Sites