Pee-yew: Oh, man, you can almost smell it coming. This is only August, and the scent of what promises to be an ugly local election cycle is wafting on the breeze. That’s the sort of thing that Buzz used to greet clapping, kicking our little legs and chanting oboyoboyoboyo. This…
How best to describe the good souls who are willing to even think about organic gardening when the temperature hits 100 degrees? Environmentally aware, perhaps. Devoted. Earth friendly. Or how about ker-ray-zee? It’s hot. Hothothothot. In August, Mother Nature can go hump herself. Give us Dow Chemical, automatic sprinklers and…
Chicks, man, how they go gaga for that Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice. They’re all, like, “Oooh Mr. Darcy this and oooh Elizabeth Bennett that.” Not this all-hetero dude. Sure, I’ve read the book twice annually for the past 30 years, but not because of the romance. I’m a…
Taking the bait: Buzz just knows we’re going to regret this. Arguing with captious demagogues is always a losing proposition, but goddamn, The Dallas Morning News really outdid itself this week with its story answering the not-burning question: What did we think we were voting about in the 1998 Trinity…
I was loading up the snark gun, getting ready to wail on all the old folks who might be planning to head out to catch the Rush show this Saturday at Smirnoff Music Centre. (A sample: Who’s the tour sponsor, Ex-Lax?) Then I remembered something, namely, me at 14, huddled…
Tell the truthiness: Is a high-speed toll road along the Trinity River a good idea? Would it help relieve traffic congestion downtown? Is the road the best use of resources? Those are good questions to which Buzz has no answers, but we do know one thing: Some of the favorite…
Yeah, yeah. Let’s skip all the usual Wizard of Oz blather–how the flying monkeys scared you as a kid, whether a munchkin actually died on the set, whether the original book was really a Populist allegory. Whatever. The movie’s been around forever. You’ve seen it before; you might see it…
Ah, the circus. What little boy hasn’t dreamed of running away and joining the circus? Besides virtually every other boy born in America since 1913, we mean. Nevertheless, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey keeps chugging along, a cultural artifact kept alive by fans–parents mostly, one presumes–indifferent to the fact…
Screw this: By God, when that Jacquielynn Floyd is right, she’s right. Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while, they say, and Floyd found one with her Morning News column Tuesday: Democracy is tedious and fatiguing. So let’s leave the Trinity River toll road vote to…
Let’s see, you take various assorted techno-geek cannon fodder, give them lots of cool gadgets (possibly a couple of annoying kids too), isolate the entire group in some improbable locale and then have the latest technological marvel go horribly awry as a result of human hubris. Of course, we’re talking…
Never really got the whole “cowboy poetry” thing. Seems like contrived sentimentality, the bane of good poetry, but since this Sunday Fort Worth will mark the National Day of the Cowboy with a tribute that includes the Cowtown Opry cowboy poetry contest, we thought we’d give it a shot. Let’s…
Blegh: City Hall watchers tell Buzz that it’s likely that the Dallas city secretary will announce this week that council member Angela Hunt’s anti-Trinity toll road petition drive collected more than enough signatures to require a vote on the project. OK, by “City Hall watchers” we mean either the homeless…
Oh, the shame: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The Dallas County GOP must be feeling pretty Dickensian right about now, Buzz figures. Between their despised fearless leader in the White House turning more Captain Queegish daily, and local first-term Dems looking more and…
Of all the versions of “Cinderella” handed down by various cultures, why was the United States stuck with the syrupy translation of Frenchman Charles Perrault’s tale? His Cinderella is a sappy little do-gooder who eventually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Better is the Brothers Grimm take, in which the stepsisters end…
Of all the versions of “Cinderella” handed down by various cultures, why was the United States stuck with the syrupy translation of Frenchman Charles Perrault’s tale? His Cinderella is a sappy little do-gooder who eventually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Better is the Brothers Grimm take, in which the stepsisters end…
You can keep your 2006 fully animated version of Curious George, about the inquisitive ape and his friend The Man in the Yellow Hat, voiced by Will Ferrell. Whatever, kid. Those who know better understand the sine qua non of George, the proper way to ingest him, is in pajamas,…
Go away: So much rain…so many clouds…will to live fading…fading… The Dallas Morning News reported last week that despite the record days of rain—what is it now, eight, nine months?—it’s unlikely anyone around here is suffering seasonal affective disorder, aka winter depression. Oh yeah? Then someone explain to Buzz why…
Imagine asking your cardigan-wearing, golf-playing grandfather if he wants a gin and tonic. “Fo’ shizzle, mah nizzle,” he replies. Gack. That was our reaction when we saw the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is presenting Video Games Live on Wednesday and Thursday. Who is this blend of costumes, game competitions and live…
So, have you ever been tested? Look at you, blushing. We know. We’ve never had an HIV test either, and man, that’s embarrassing. We’ve never needed to be tested, and what sort of sad, cloistered life must have befallen a person who grew up during the frenzy of the AIDS…
So, have you ever been tested? Look at you, blushing. We know. We’ve never had an HIV test either, and man, that’s embarrassing. We’ve never needed to be tested, and what sort of sad, cloistered life must have befallen a person who grew up during the frenzy of the AIDS…
Time was, the celebration of Juneteenth—commemorating June 19, 1865, the day Union Major General Gordon Granger informed slaves in Galveston that they had been freed—was a much bigger holiday. It was black Texans’ version of the Fourth of July. Today, the celebrations are more modest, but the day of freedom…
“What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives good kids bad ideas.” I suppose if you’re an aficionado of Serious Cinema, you could substitute the words “film directors” for “good kids” in that line from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and blame Ferris creator John Hughes…
