Why zombies? Why are the undead shuffling atop a wave of popularity, as opposed to those angst-ridden, broody vampires whose moment in the sun — or moon — has been eclipsed by sartorially challenged zombie folk? Is that some sort of commentary on where America’s head is at in these…
Welcome to sunny Greece: The very week that Governor Rick Perry, campaigning for president in South Carolina, announced his plan to overhaul the federal tax system, an ugly report emerged on the condition of the 50 states’ finances, which are awful — even in the miracle land of Texas. Perry…
No, no, no. Not that Angelina Jolie flick from 2008. That’s just Changeling, and while Jolie’s huge, puffy lips are kinda creepy, they can’t hold a candle to 1980’s The Changeling, the moody, haunted house spooker starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere and Melvyn Douglas. OK, you kids, stop…
Fat, rested, ready: Buzz is back after a week’s vacation spent camping out on Wall Street, fueling the fires of progressive revolution as we take back America from the crony capitalists and amoral fat … Naaah. Just foolin’. We spent the week in New England, eating large quantities of fatty…
Really? There are still kids today who would enjoy posing in a version of Cinderella’s magically transformed carriage? Thought they’d all be busy killing things in Gears of War 3. Amazing what we don’t know about children (damn restraining order). If your little princess — or prince, we’re not judging…
Block the vote: Listen up, fellow white people. Buzz knows that the election of a black president has ushered in a giddy era for many of us. White people have been able to get away with stuff we wouldn’t have dared in pre-Obama days: that whole birther thing, the secret…
One day, the light bulb comes on above your head. You have a great idea for … something, anything. Cargo pants, maybe. Or sliced bread. The world needs your innovation, but how do you let the planet know about it? A dozen contestants at the TEDxSMU speaker auditions taking place…
Terrible thing to waste: So that’s it, then. Governor Rick Perry’s run for the GOP presidential nomination is done, o-vah, dust in the wind. One inarticulate response in a debate watched by precisely 172 people in which he muffed a chance to call Mitt Romney a flip-flopper again, plus a…
Just kidding: Wrapped around this issue is our 2011 Best of Dallas® edition, in which we take a lighthearted look at predictions that the end of the world is near. Man, we hope those jokes don’t come back to bite us in the ass. We say this because Texas AgriLife…
Go with the flow: How about that? City council member Carolyn Davis said something Buzz agrees with. Either it’s time our doc adjusted our meds, or Davis actually made sense at a recent hearing on “waste flow control” when she said: “[Trash has] been going there for 50 years and…
So the Morning News on Wednesday reported on a battle brewing in Plano ISD over attendance boundaries between Plano West and Plano East senior high schools. Pretty dry stuff, unless you’re a parent who gives a shit, so you likely missed this nugget from the story: Along with some others,…
Fair warning: So what is it about Big Tex? Is he the devil, or are we just dumb? How does that tall, black-haired State Fair icon tempt us back to Fair Park year after year, though we know pretty much exactly what we’ll get? It’s not that we don’t love…
Promised land: Buzz spent the past couple of days sorting through data comparing the Lone Star State’s economy with other states’, a task also being undertaken by about 900,000 media types — damn libtards, all — trying to find evidence that presidential candidate Rick Perry’s bragging about our state’s economic…
Miracle whip: Buzz is heartsick we can’t drive to Houston this weekend to attend The Response, Governor Rick Perry’s big prayer meetin’. That means we’ll miss witnessing firsthand any miracles wrought by the convocation of several thousand mostly white, Republican, viciously homophobic “prayer warriors.” The timing of the event also…
Comes the dawn: That’s it? After a good 14 years of Trinity toll road rah-rahing and questioning the integrity of anyone who suggested that putting a road between the Trinity River levees was a bad idea, D Magazine has apparently (and quietly) changed its mind. “Let’s Ditch the Trinity River…
Designing woman: July has been a grim month for Texas education. First there was the report that students taking early versions of the state’s new end-of-course exams failed miserably. The worst performance was 42 percent in physics, but at least students know where their cell phones come from — China,…
Touche: You’re good, Angela Hunt. Very good. We thought we had you last week, after you tweeted photos of ordinary-looking folks hanging out in Main Street Gardens park with their luggage. Lots of luggage. “I’m tired of bums in Main St. Garden,” you railed. “Counted 12-many sleepng. Where is DPD?…
Enough’s enough: Buzz has written before about our mother’s attitudes about child-rearing and pool halls: “If I ever catch you in that pool hall,” she’d tell us, referring to our hometown’s only billiards parlor, “I’ll slap the living shit out of you.” Mother Buzz, a 4-foot-11 middleweight with a palm…
Let the games begin: “Should I dance, or should I sing?” Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey asked Monday, after learning what we all did: that FBI agents were searching the office, home and cars of her fellow commissioner and nemesis, John Wiley Price, along with those of two of his…
Who knew? Sometime during the 8th century, between bouts of famine, scurvy and smallpox, dynastic conflict and bloody religious war, the Franks invented “jazz hands.” And when they weren’t hacking away with broadswords, or hacking up a lung, they took time to create bouncy, light pop. It’s amazing what one…
Speak up, son: So, Wick Allison, publisher of D Magazine, long ago dropped his support for the city’s controversial plan to build a toll road between the Trinity River levees. Who knew? We sure didn’t. Last we’d heard, D was still a member of the toll road’s cheerleading squad led…
Dear God: OK, Buzz is a little late with cracking wise about “The Response,” Governor Rick Perry’s national day of prayer and monster truck rally to take place next month in Houston. What? No monster trucks? Why, then, would anyone in his right mind travel to Houston in August for…
