Whitt’s End: 1.22.10

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Been meaning to get to this, but The Ticket is so dominant in Metroplex sports talk radio that at this point it’s like digging up Barbaro for another kick to the…

What Am I Gonna Do Now That Cowboys Season is Over? Laugh.

During the 1999 NBA Finals between the Spurs and Knicks I was in New York, covering the series for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After a particularly long, fun and, yes, expensive off night at this fine establishment, I awoke at around 4 a.m. sprawled out on my hotel bed. Boxers…

Schutze Bawk-Bawks at Houseguest

Lori Stahl, over on The News’s Park Cities Blog, is making light of a serious situation in my home. My wife got talked into bringing a lost chicken into the house this week. You could talk her into rescuing anything. She’s never come home with a lost gorilla (and I…

Talkin’ Trash About the City’s 311 System

The Schutze household has been working on a mystery all day about how to call the city for bulk trash pickup if the trucks keep skipping your block during pickup week. We found that we could not reach 311 — the service number for the city — from our cell…

Dallas-Haiti Project Offers Chance to Help

In order to help Haiti, you don’t have to just sling cash out into the great unknown. Several groups in Dallas have long-standing involvement in relief efforts there — among them Dallas-Haiti Project, which has been around for eight years. It began with nine women connected with St. Michael and…

Whitt’s End: 1.15.10

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Haven’t gotten a chance to ask him about it yet, but did I miss something or is Babe Laufenberg leaving CBS 11? Maybe he was buying CBS 11. Did I get…

One Last Thing About “One More Thing”

Well, we’re sort of zeroing in, slowly, on the answer to my question: Who paid for that “One More Thing” promotional video about Dallas shown to the city council yesterday? You know: scenes from around the city with exciting Dallas celebrities, like city council members, doing goofy dances, put together…

Cutting Corners. But Why?

Last night I’m in my car, sitting at a light in McKinney. I’m third back in the right lane. Minding my own business, pondering Cowboys-Vikings, wondering where is the best place to buy bulk 5-hour Energy drinks, convincing myself that the “thud” back up the road was a box and not…

Whitt’s End: 1.8.10

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Texas Stadium’s last breath will be taken as nothing more than some tween’s mac-‘n-cheese, push-‘n-pulverize, real-life video game? As a whole, we suck. *Alabama > Texas. Toldja. *I will never watch Colt McCoy’s “I…

If You Had Hair Like a Mexican, You’d Let It Shine Too

Dear Readers: The Mexican is still trying to shake off the Herradura from the previous year, so I’m reprinting this week a favorite column of mine from el pásado. To make up for my siesta, though, I’m bringing back the YouTube edition of this column, where I’ll take the questions…

Schutze Puts on Leather Football Helmet

Speaking of Craig James, here goes a big mistake. I’m going to invade Richie’s territory and offer an opinion on a sports story. I was actually prohibited from writing about sports once when I was a daily newspaper reporter because of my appalling lack of knowledge. Maybe I’m about to…

The Waaaaayaaaaaiting is the Hardest Part

Okay, so I did a little experiment. I was waiting for my computer to start up yesterday morning and I thought “Damn, I hate waiting.” You’re familiar with that feeling I assume. I’m not necessarily an impatient person. Traffic doesn’t ruin my day. I’ll let folks with just a few…

From the City Auditor, Our First List of 2010

Dallas City Auditor Craig D. Kinton just published his department’s audit of maintenance of city-owned buildings, which makes for some mildly amusing reading this morning. It’s after the jump, but what would you imagine the biggest problem might be, in terms of gauging how well the city maintains its buildings?…