We Could Use Some Baseball. Alas, All We Got Are the Rangers.

I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that for the second time this week the Rangers got tattooed before you took your afternoon smoke break. Today it was a tidy 8-2 ditty in Detroit, during which Rangers pitchers surrendered five walks and five homers and Rangers hitters produced 10 strikeouts…

TV That’s Enviromentally Friendly and Kosher for Passover

In case you were looking for him — and we weren’t, maybe that was BeloWatch — Burl Osborne has resurfaced. You ‘member him — former publisher and editor of The Dallas Morning News? Turns out, he’s now chairing the “editorial oversight board” of something called CleanSkies.tv, which right now appears…

FAA’ked

Courtesy the Associated Press today, another reason why you picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue: The Federal Aviation Administration is trying for a second time in three years to stop its managers in Texas from covering up air safety violations. FAA chief operating officer Hank Krakowski said Thursday…

Sports Notes Almost as Long as An 11-Run Sixth Inning

You did know FC Dallas was undefeated, no? Well, then, there ya go. Brought to you by the good folks who sometimes give you Monday Morning Meanderings: As noted this a.m., The Cowboys finally acquired Adam “Pacman” Jones for a fourth-round draft choice. Bitch and moan all you want about…

Angela Hunt Talks Dirty

Angela Hunt doesn’t know “if this meets the cool quotient that is required of Unfair Park posts,” and I will take that as a shot. But, really, we’re all for things like the forthcoming citywide “Trash Attack and Graffiti Wipeout,” set for May 3 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at…

No, This Guy Might Be the Worst Person in the World

KARE-TV Caught on tape, a man is mugged during a seizure in downtown Dallas. Do not be surprised if this downtown Dallas crime story begins to sweep the nation — hell, it’s already up on a Minnesota NBC affiliate’s Web site. It’s a crime made for TV: Just before midnight…

Sued and Expelled: The Battle Over the Battle Over Evolution

One of the first rules of the movie business is: Make sure you aren’t, ah, borrowing someone else’s work in order to finish yours. It’s called a “rights clearance,” and, yup, it’s frustrating and financially debilitating, but it’s also a necessary evil — no matter how many times you claim…

Wakka Wakka Wakka

In The Tennessean this a.m., they’re bidding good riddance to one Adam “Pacman” Jones — “the biggest mistake in franchise history,” though of which franchise do they write, the Tennessee Titans or the Dallas Cowboys? Because late yesterday evening, word came down that Dallas had, at last, traded for the…

Van Halen

Dallas always has been and always will be a Van Halen kind of town—or maybe four out of 10 Texxas Jams back in the 1970s and ’80s don’t mean much to you. I saw two of them; couldn’t make the 1988 “Monster of Rock” adios. Something to do with Dokken…

Ah, Terrell Bolton, Those Were Good Times. Good Times.

WXIA-TV When Terrell Bolton got forced out as Chief of Police in Dallas, there was a certain amount of heart-bleeding among persons who saw his fate as somehow tragic. Maybe he was elevated too rapidly, they said. You know, like maybe he didn’t have enough oxygen in his head. And…

News Adds City Hall Blog, Eyeballs

Hey, lookie, I got an e-mail from Dallas Morning News City Hall reporter Dave Levinthal! Alas, nothing too sexy — just a note that “today, The Dallas Morning News launched a blog focused on Dallas City Hall and area political issues.” And it’s blessed with the catchiest of monikers: Dallas…

Craig Watkins “Doesn’t Care About Good Press,” Gets More

No, Evan Smith, “exonerated” is not “too strong a word” when describing what happened last week to Thomas McGowan, the 16th Dallas County prisoner freed after DNA testing revealed he wasn’t guilty of the crime for which he’d been convicted and sentenced to prison for 23 years. Smith, the editor…

Leppert Throws DART Board Appointments Under the Bus Today

Former (and future?) DART board member Joyce Foreman Pretty good fireworks this morning at the city council meeting over a last-minute decision by the mayor to delay consideration of appointments to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board. Several members clearly thought the mayor and his partner, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine…

The Beginning Of The End

Why can’t the Mavs’ coach take his own damned advice? On second thought, Dirk Nowitzki shouldn’t have turned the other cheek. He should’ve hauled off and cold-cocked David West during last Saturday’s Game 1. Or, at least, put him in a headlock and bludgeoned his nose Nolan Ryan-style. That way,…

Back in the Hall with the Original Kids of Comedy

A Quick Word With Kids In The Hall – Now on tour! In anticipation of Wednesday night’s Kids In the Hall As Live As We’ll Ever Be performance at Nokia in Grand Prairie (tickets for the show are still available here), I chatted with Kid Kevin McDonald. Surely, you’ll remember…

The T.O. Face

It started on a site called The Dirty. Then it started crawling its way through the rest of the blogosphere — and, really, Kissing Suzy Kolber is a great name. Then, on Tuesday, it went legit — or Philadelphia Daily News, anyway, where gossip writer Dan Gross spent a few…