Buses, Trains and Automobiles, or: Canucks Amok in Texas!

What happens when one Vancouver Sun columnist and her aunt decide to see the great state of Texas from a car, a Greyhound bus and a train? Well, nothing terribly exciting, though Susan Riley’s recounting of her trip through Texas, including stops in Dallas and Austin and elsewhere, provides a…

NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 14

   Homer this.   Despite missing three games with a broken pinkie, Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo leads all NFL quarterbacks in:   *QB Rating (103.2)   *Average yards per pass attempt (8.5)   *TD-Interception ratio (+13)   If you watched his 331-yard, three-touchdown performance on Thanksgiving, there’s no doubt Romo is back to being…

For $15,000, You Too Can Move Your RV Into TMS’ Burnout Alley

Texas Motor Speedway announced today it’s ditching some 21,022 seats on the backstretch, which’ll put the track’s total number of butts allowed at right around 138,000. ESPN says it’s because of “the economic recession that has affected most tracks which play host to NASCAR events.” But TMS president Eddie Gossage…

Those Strobe Lights on the Park Lane Tower Aren’t Distracting At All

Whilst out and about Saturday night, the missus and I were hypnotized to the point of distraction by the strobe-light twinklings coming from the new Park Lane development off N. Central Expressway. After the jump, a brief video from the residential high-rise under construction across the expressway from NorthPark Center;…

You Really Might Wanna Get Auto Insurance Before January 1

This just in from City Hall, a reminder: In exactly one month, drivers stopped for traffic violations who can’t prove they have insurance will find their rides getting a free trip to the Dallas Auto Pound. (The return trip will, of course, cost ya. And them some.) Right now, the…

Open-Carry Advocates Are Bringing Their Gunfight to the DFW Airwaves

Tomorrow, don’t be surprised if you start hearing radio ads advocating an open-carry policy for handgun owners with the proper permits. The folks behind OpenCarry.org are attempting to get some spots on the Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves in which they demand the Texas Legislature allow folks to wear their pistols in…

Border Patrol, or: Where’s Dallas Again?

Friend of Unfair Park “Peterk,” who two weeks back brought to Life these old photos of Dallas, sends word of the latest and greatest in confusing time-killers: Boundaries. (Click the image above to enlarge Dallas’s boundaries.) It’s the brainchild of English Web developer Tom Taylor, who’s dipped Flickr’s geotags into…

Jonestown Coliseum Taking Prisoners, er, Applications

     The Dallas Cowboys have already sold 85 percent of the tickets to their new stadium in Arlington.   Go ahead, act surprised. But, deep down, did you really think Jerry Jones would have trouble selling out his new Jonestown Coliseum?   I didn’t.   I went to Circuit City last week…

Where’s the (Kosher) Beef?

In today’s breaking news about the scarcity of kosher beef around the country, this local connection: Dallas-based A.D. Rosenblatt Kosher Meats, run by COO Yaakov Rosenblatt, has had to up its production to meet the meat demand, going from three days a week to five. Also contained within the piece…

Don’t Mess With Texas. Oh Crap, Too Late.

   I don’t love Texas. I don’t hate Oklahoma. But what transpired yesterday in the Big 12 is absolute bullshit.   I know life ain’t fair, but college football should be. Or at least it should use common sense trying.   Let me apologize to Texas. I posted some of the best…

Close to the Madding Crowd

The bleakest of Black Fridays at a New York Wal-Mart, where a temporary employee was trampled to death by bargain-hunters who didn’t so much as slow down while rescue workers tried to save the man’s life. Not so savage a scene at a Dallas Best Buy, where the Associated Press…

Video of the Week: Fang-tastic?!

   You’ve probably seen Twilight. You likely watched at least some of HBO’s TrueBlood. And, considering it’s suddenly trendy to be all vampirey, you’ve at least tinkered with the idea of checking out the new Vampire Lounge over on Harry Hines.    But, have you ever seen a real vampire?…