How much do you think a Quincy Carter rookie card’s worth, anyway? “Thanks for calling Mud Bugs hockey. How may I direct your call?” Uh-oh. It’s nearly always ominous when your first attempt to find a former Dallas Cowboys quarterback leads you to a minor-league hockey team based in Shreveport…
The original of this morbid photo can be yours for the right price, beginning Monday. Speaking of legendary photos, beginning on Monday, Mary Ann Moorman’s original Polaroid of President John Kennedy that was taken the very instant he was assassinated in Dealey Plaza will be offered on eBay. It, like…
For some reason, it looks like my head is four inches away from my neck. Must be the hair. Oh, sweet, sweet hair… Christ, at least they could have found a better picture. But, yup, I was indeed a cheerleader at Thomas Jefferson High School, only the photo that appears…
Marty Turco, a nation turns its sleepy eyes to you and says, “Dude, not again.” So tired. So very, very tired. And so are you if, like me, you stayed up until 2:32 a.m. to watch the Dallas Stars lose an epic, quadruple-overtime playoff hockey game to the Vancouver Canucks…
Brian Dennehy keeps on lyin’ about having been in Vietnam. But he’s still great in Silverado. Not lying about that. In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, writer Joanne Kaufman penned a delightful story about a conversation with Brian Dennehy. The great actor recently opened with Christopher Plummer on Broadway in Inherit…
We always thought this was Jen Nikoloff. Apparently, when she’s naked, her name is Taylor Reid. Memo to Girl on Top: Like, Andrea, how did you miss this? I see on The Dallas Morning News’ Web site that on Tuesday, an SMU student featured in the latest issue of Playboy…
This morning down in Austin, the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services is set to hear public testimony on Senate Bill 308 — which, for those not keeping score at home, is the legislation proposed by Sen. Bob Deuell (R-Greenville) that would legalize needle-exchange programs in Texas. (Deuell, himself…
SHREVEPORT, Louisiana—Signs your grand plans have gone slightly askew: You toke your way out of a job as quarterback of America’s Team, shepherded from Dallas Cowboys training camp by the notorious Bishop Terry Hornbuckle. You file a “wrongful termination” grievance against the Cowboys which, when you lose, makes nary a…
Mike Dupree, the Dallas County constable already accused of sexually harassing Hispanic men and deporting his Honduran lover in a jealous pique, is now the subject of a sworn statement that says he conspired to frame his political rivals on false drug charges. Last week, Leslie Glenn Willie, a deputy…
Wheels turning: Buzz has never really grasped the story of Job, the pious man ineffably effed by God on a dare from Satan. Job suffers everything but a Novocain-less root canal but still praises God. What a sucker. So, obviously, we’ve never understood why men like James Curtis Giles, the…
Cheaper Cuts Meatpacking racket: Legal resident workers who are displaced by illegal alien workers (“Ground Meat,” by Megan Feldman, April 5) can bring charges against their employer through the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) for conspiring to lower wages. Meatpacking used to be a very good-paying job with…
In days of yore, P.E. class meant pegging the stinky, skinny kid during dodge ball and gagging if you had to stand next to him at the free-throw line for basketball practice. Today, P.E. class at Wilshire Elementary in Euless means taking the arm of the stinky, skinny kid and…
The 120 dutiful souls who’d answered their jury summons on January 9 had been sitting in the historic Waxahachie courthouse listening to lawyers drone on for hours. Then suddenly things got weird. The prosecutor had finished asking questions of potential jurors when David Finn stood up. The 43-year-old Dallas defense…
If you think we’re beating a dead horse over the Trinity toll road, well, you can always move to Lancaster. I see Steve Blow takes some little shots at Angela Hunt over at the Bold Types blog today, making fun of her for being the lone city council person seeking…
N’Dambi and Keite Young imagine meeting on a Los Angeles bus and gettin’ it on. Totally stole our idea. Fort Worth soul singer Keite Young hasn’t gotten much pub in the local press (yet — we hear there’s a Q&A in tomorrow’s Quick), which probably doesn’t bug him much; the…
Remember when you could count on lazy Sunday afternoons watching the Dallas Cowboys from Labor Day until, oh, New Year’s? Gone. With the release of the NFL schedule today, the Cowboys will play a franchise-record seven games on national TV, but only nine of their 16 games take place on…
As other states are becoming more aggressive in promoting stem cell research, Texas is falling behind, and if something isn’t done to change that, the state will lose both scientists and the support services they generate. So says a new report, which will be released tomorrow. The economic impact study,…
As President Bush plugged his new immigration reform plan in Yuma, Arizona this week, the opposing camps in the country’s immigration wars had already dug in their heels to oppose it. A year after his first attempt failed, Bush presented a more punitive proposal. It would allow immigrant workers to…
The New York Times this morning notes that for the first time in nine years, the Today show has decided to send its annual “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” feature to the Interwebs, where it will have but a single sponsor: Hyundai Motor America. And while most of…
Donald Faison is in town this weekend to get coached by some Mavs for a charity event. He’s also the only reason we watch Scrubs anymore. Stacy Keibler won’t be here after all, so, no, I won’t exploit this as a cheap end-around allowing me to post some senseless, skin-friendly…
Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III has put his church’s muscle behind Tom Leppert in a radio spot that busts, by our count, two and a half moves. So, we know the mayoral candidates are no good at making TV and Interwebs spots — well, except for Tom Leppert. (And, I…
The following comes from a July 31, 2006, story in The Dallas Morning News, shortly after the paper published a series of stories revealing that some Dallas Independent School District employees had used district-issued credit cards to run up more than $6 million in purchases that either violated district policies…
