Vote Early, Vote Often for “We Are Woodrow”

A Friend of Unfair Park with deep DISD roots forwards along the link to the We are Teachers Web site, where Woodrow Wilson High School’s Michael Moran is among dozens of teachers from around the country competing for a Digital Learning Microgrant. And micro it is: $200 and a Flip…

Time: It’s “Coy” Bailey Hutchison! Haw.

In the wake of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s comments on WBAP yesterday — you recall, she said she’d quit the Senate in October or November to chase Governor Rick Perry down Congress Avenue — Time weighs in with a wrap-up that wonders, “Kay Bailey Hutchison is Running for Governor! (Or…

Wanna Produce Channel 5’s Newscast?

Because, like, you so totally could. Says so in this just-posted job listing on the KXAS-Channel 5 Web site:NBC Universal’s Owned and Operated Television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, KXAS TV, is looking for a Newscast Producer. As a Newscast Producer, you will produce a live newscast with fast-paced…

Back When Dallas Men Were Strong

Every now and then, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK passes along vintage Dallas photos for sale on eBay; awful nice of him. Today, this one arrived in the in-box:”Strong Man Pulls Car Dallas Centennial.” From ’36, in other words. Big Hersch has ID’d the front car as a ’36 Ford,…

Pete Sessions and His Lead Zeppelin

In a lengthy piece published early this morning, Politico notes Pete Sessions’s public stance on earmarks: “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” Except, see, there was this one time, in 2008, when the Congressman from the Fightin’ 32nd “steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research…

In October, Especially, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff

I was in Epiphany over the weekend, hoping to find a tan XL “Bike Friendly Oak Cliff” tee — alas, all out, so instead the family devoured an Eno’s pie moments before, God help me, hitting Taqueria El Si Hay. No doubt, I’ll find the right-sized tee in October during…

In The Loop Is Political Satire Done Right

I n the Loop doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in the know. In Armando Iannucci’s movie, a satire of the run-up to war with a Middle Eastern country, it means that all the poor bastards are stuck in a loop, making the same bad decisions and tragic mistakes over and over…

Lord, He Was Born a Traveling Man

Ah, good ol’ Morgan Lyons over at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. He noticed that we’d posted a few of the agency’s very well-done in-house videos and very kindly sent over the very latest: this time-lapse featuring the construction of the Traveling Man sculptures Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg are building…

Well, Good Day to You Too, Lauren Przybyl

Yesterday, Uncle Barky couldn’t get anyone at KDFW-Channel 4 to confirm that the Dallas Fox affiliate had chosen a new co-host for Good Day — one Lauren Przybyl, currently at the NBC affiliate in Boston. But moments ago, the Boston Globe got the official word from the vice president and…