It’s early, but Buzz wants to make a Christmas wish. No, not for world peace; we’re not that ambitious. What we want is to be able to watch more than 30 minutes of television without being subjected to a cheesy ad for some pill that will make a man’s penis…
My friends are slow. It’s a sad fact, but it’s also indisputable. They’re not “show up late because they can’t get ready” slow. More like “the brain cells they have aren’t working too well together” slow. I’ve always suspected as much, but I didn’t have absolute proof until a group…
Cowboys, Not Men Jerks: I can’t begin to tell you how glad I was to read your article about some of the Dallas Cowboys leaving an anonymous letter trashing the sports writer Jean-Jacques Taylor (“Anonymous Whine,” by John Gonzalez, December 2). First, I am a big Cowboys fan. It diminishes…
Calvin Carter was a success story, no doubt about it. He’d started his Web development company in his room in the early ’90s at Southern Methodist University and grown it to 55 employees. The quiet kid from Florida who liked solitary pursuits (he missed the ocean, deep-sea fishing, sand) had…
Un-chartered Territory Who’s behind the strong-mayor petitions? That’s a secret. What does it tell us that the mayor and city council can’t even discuss a “strong mayor” charter reform without coming close to a food fight, but a total outsider with no experience in city government may succeed in a…
Roy Williams is a punk. Or maybe Torrin Tucker is. Or maybe it’s some other Dallas Cowboy. I’m not entirely sure, but I do know this for certain: For a group of men who play a rough sport, who purport to be badasses with oversized balls, there are some surprisingly…
It pains Buzz to say it, but God love those little imps with the Young Conservatives of Texas, affectionately known around the Dallas Observer offices as the “Hitler Youth.” We don’t really believe they’re fascists; we just think “young” and “conservative” is an unfortunate mix, like “middle-aged” and “punk rocker.”…
Pop a Cap on the News Sickly mutant weed: Eric Celeste has invariably given The Dallas Morning News and Belo a fair hearing (“At the Ripping Point,” November 18) and is a wise and humane enough writer to know that one should always try to give his subjects some benefit…
No matter how many times he tries, Drew Murray can’t finish a meal. Five or six bites in, the nausea will overwhelm him, and he’ll drop his fork and wait for the sickness to rise up. But it never does. It stays where it is, this dull pain rotting out…
Modern Times New mags go after D and Paper City’s lock on luxury Barbara Banner is a vice president of Merrill Lynch in Dallas. She is a smart, cosmopolitan woman who in no way resembles the Dallas socialites bird-dogged by Dallas Morning News society columnist Alan Peppard. But because she…
Dallas County Sheriff-elect Lupe Valdez is a lesbian. You probably knew that already, if you’ve picked up a local newspaper or watched TV news in the past month. Shoot, people in South Africa, London, Boston, New York and Melbourne, Australia, have heard that news, according to a check we did…
How to Ruin a Newspaper McKinsey clones: Before I start with personal knowledge of McKinsey & Co. (“At the Ripping Point,” by Eric Celeste, November 18), let me ask one simple question: Why would purportedly world-class editors and publishers bring in outside consultants to tell them how to run a…
The maintenance workers were pulling down photographs from the wall when a Dallas Morning News staffer stopped to watch. Piled on the floor were several frames, each housing a picture of a DMN employee who’d worked there 25 years or more and had just been laid off. “Tell you what,”…
Woot, There It Is From fancy watches to the Bag O Crap, woot.com sells itself to rabid consumersone item a day Every night, one minute before midnight, they hunch over their computers, this crazed lot of 10,000 from across the world, hoping to be the first to buy the next…
We’re not used to playing Good Cop here at Buzz Central. Not that we’re normally into the Bad Cop role, either. Given our lifestyle/bedroom habits, we’re not keen on playing any sort of law enforcement figure, lest we freak out and turn ourselves in for immoral Blue State behavior. But…
The questions, or rather the warnings, began trickling in when word got around that Bill Parcells was going to become head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. That was almost two years ago. They were authored by writers who covered him in New York and New England. When they heard he…
Poll-Axed Delusional Democrat: Thank you to John Gonzalez for his interesting article about his race as the Libertarian candidate in the congressional race for District 5 in Texas (“Democracy Inaction,” November 11). I found the article extremely entertaining and informative. His summary of my perspective and the Democratic Party position…
It is 7 p.m. on November 2, and the polls have just closed in Texas, but there is already calamity. CNN and NBC and the rest are busy telling us what a mess the presidential election is going to be. The poll numbers that scroll across the television screen at…
The Missing People’s Agenda Proving it really is a nonprofit, KERA slashes staff and programming All things considered, these are not great days for North Texas Broadcasting Company Inc., the parent organization of KERA-FM (90.1) and KERA-Channel 13. For the third time in the last two years, substantial layoffs hit…
How did that song about the “Merry Old Land of Oz” go again? “We get up at 12 and start to work at one/Take an hour for lunch, and then at two we’re done/Jolly good fun.” Well, that pretty much describes Buzz’s workday, so maybe Mayor Laura Miller is right…
When Schutze Talks So lucky, aren’t we: When Jim Schutze writes, Congress listens! (“Dear Congress,” November 4.) Thanks to Tom DeLay’s redistricting plan, Texas finally dumped those pesky powerbrokers in Congress who were always bringing federal dollars home for useless stuff like roads and bridges. With Pete Sessions in Congress,…
A Day at the Races The first Breeders’ Cup at Lone Star Park belonged to the Anti-Smarties The racing magnate stands there in silence, arms folded. His horse is well on its way to winning a $100,000 race at Lone Star Park, but the man can summon only the tiniest…
