We got $20 that says Drew Bledsoe plays some time before the end of the season. Or Sunday night’s game. Forgive me, Bible Girl, for I am about to sin: Sonofabiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!!! The two defining press conferences at Valley Ranch this year have featured Kim Etheredge chomping her gum and Bill…
Amidst all the election hubbub, it seems we haven’t paid attention to one very important role: Official Town Crier. Yeah, that’s what I said. Town crier. Hansel von Quenzer–man about town and occasional enema-shooting performer–believes he’s just the man for the job. And he’s serious enough about it to have…
Is this any way to invite people to your meet-and-greet? Ladies and gentleman, the very classy Al Goldstein. You know what always goes great after a round of Bible Girl, even when it’s guest-written? Porn. A few weeks back we mentioned that our old pal Josh Alan Friedman has penned…
In a 2004 column for The Village Voice, Laura Conaway referred to her family–from left, the author, Nathaniel Goodyear and Sarah Goodyear–as “enemies of the state.” This week one of my distinguished colleagues, Village Voice Executive Editor Laura Conaway, will be a guest writer in Bible Girl. I’ll respond to…
If Andrea Grimes really looked like this, maybe she and Jen Nikoloff could hang out and be BFF. Seems future Playboy model and current SMU sophomore Jen Nikoloff has friends. Seems they read our fair blog here and have a problem with my analysis of J.Nik’s Web presence. In particular,…
Richardson has just passed an ordinance banning registered sex offenders from living on all but 2 percent of the city’s real estate. Those convicted of molesting minors under 17 are now unable to live within 2,000 feet of schools, daycare centers or parks. The only other place in North Texas…
There’s finally a start date set for Dan Rather Presents on Mark Cuban’s HDNet: November 14. And Rather talks about the show, his first since being unceremoniously canned from CBS News in June, in today’s New York Daily News. (What he doesn’t talk about is how Katie Couric’s taking the…
I was at NorthPark the other day and noticed, right across from Barneys New York, something called Klinger Advanced Aesthetics, which sounds like a college course but looks like a place Katherine Helmond might visit in the movie Brazil. Turns out, it’s very much the latter: a place where the…
Like two shits passing in the night, Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks of sudden past and temporary present take turns getting humiliated. If nothing else, Monday’s 36-22 implosion against the New York Giants confirms three certainties: 1. The Cowboys’ quarterback of the future is not on their roster. 2. The Cowboys’ quarterback…
Bob Josserand is bullish on bullshit. It’s sexy, he says. As mayor of Hereford, Josserand should know. He lords over a town of some 16,000 people and more than 1 million cattle. Three and a half million chew their cuds within a 100-mile radius of his Panhandle home. “A million…
“BUY YOU A DRINK?” The good-looking stranger gestures toward the bartender, who looks up expectantly. What’ll it be? Beer? Martini? Background check? Probably not the latter, as public records are hard to come by in bars. Besides, finding out that someone’s on the national sex offender registry is, generally speaking,…
Art and death: Suicide may be painless, as the theme song from the movie M*A*S*H suggests, but talking about it can be a pain in the butt, particularly if you’re a student at Tarrant County College. Would-be filmmaker William Lin found out just how touchy the subject is when he…
Grody Grillz Reality bites: I am a dentist. Grillz (“All That Glitters,” by Andrea Grimes, October 19) will eventually cause an anterior open bite from wearing them too long. It would take jaw surgery to put your bite back to normal. Allen Pearson Richardson Lovely smile: I would just like…
This week’s paper version of Unfair Park examines the infatuation some Dallas entrepreneurs have with renewable fuels–go-go juices like corn-based ethanol and soy-based biodiesel. It’s a warm, fuzzy feel-good article; you know, fuels grown in the heartland by American farmers who by all accounts have much finer dispositions than either…
It’s all over at City Hall, reports Jim Schutze. Score: David Dean, 1 (or one million, to be precise). Laura Miller, 0. Writes Jim: “Well, if you heard it just now [on WRR], the only thing you couldn’t see was all the senior city staff members behind the big TV…
In August 2005, 31-year-old John Wannamaker of Dallas pled guilty to a federal indictment charging him with a menu’s worth of bad stuff: conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, actual wire and securities fraud, money laundering and “illegal monetary transactions.” Well, today Wannamaker found out his punishment: U.S…
Rhett Bomar, The Dallas Morning News has some more questions for ya, if you don’t mind. OU does, apparently. I saw last night on KTVT-Channel 11 that some 18 former Dallas Morning News staffers have filed suit against their old boss, claiming age discrimination. The fine folks at FrontBurner have…
www.bobanddan.com If you see Dan McDowell, left, and Bob Sturm coming, run the other way. Drew Bledsoe didn’t; look what happened to him. Fonzie, yer next. According to popularity polls, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and totally illogical thinking, Tony Romo will today be officially named the Dallas Cowboys new starting…
Every member of the local sports media knows Rich Dalrymple. Kinda have to: He’s the public-relations director for Your Dallas Cowboys. Has been for 17 years. Some day, oh, ask Richie Whitt what he thinks of Rich. Or ask me. I know the guy. Had to deal with him back…
T.O. Souryal, head doc for the Mavs, has a heart–and a defibrillator, if your heart needs one. Till I read this this morning, I had no idea some 5,000 to 7,000 kids in the U.S. die each year from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) each year. That sucks. But Dr. T.O…
Bill Blaydes was the only council member to get a peek at David Dean’s contract before it went before the council. Tomorrow at city council, Mayor Laura Miller will try to get one of the seven council members who voted to approve Trans-Texas Corridor lobbyist David Dean’s $515,000 contract on…
At 6:30 this evening, the city’s Park and Recreation Department is hosting a White Rock Lake Users Summit at Winfrey Point to address a problem first explained by Yogi Berra about a popular New York restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” As an avid runner, I’ve noticed that…
