According to the thing I click on sometimes when I update this website, the majority of people reading this blog live in either Texas or Ohio, so I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that most of us are suffering through a similarly unsatisfying playoff baseball season.Luckily, though, I remembered the boy scout oath and…
I last lived in Ohio nine years ago. I grew up there, but since I started my career, I’ve only ever been back around Christmas.A friend of mine from high school was getting married last weekend, so I decided to make a trip home during the year. Without the holidays looming, I had a lot more free time…
The other night, I was watching Breaking Bad when this commercial for Nationwide Insurance came on television.”Wait a minute,” I thought to myself. “Wouldn’t it make more sense for the woman who’s skulking around replacing all the stuff the burglars stole to just go ahead and thwart the burglary itself?”I’m not privy to the company…
I was filling in on the morning shift at the station today, which gave me an opportunity to get off the air in time to sample the finalists for this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards.I didn’t do it, though. My desire to leave work at 9 am trumped my desire to go to Fair Park.Besides, I…
There was a time when a man could traverse the Texas prairie without worrying about traffic. It was a time when a lone swain could wander the countryside in quiet contemplation of a goal he himself had not yet identified without the constant roar of nearby highway corridors. A time when the wide-open country beckoned to restless laborers who…
In celebration of Arlington shaking its title of America’s Largest City With No Public Transportation, my plan was to title this blog, “Take that, [name of next largest city without mass transit]!”Here’s the problem: I’ve combed through the list of America’s 200 largest cities and it turns out every one of them is either part…
I’d like to start with an apology.Earlier today, Yu Darvish took a no hitter into the eighth inning against the Houston Astros. I was listening to the game on the radio. I was in between projects and had some time to kill, so I began crafting an email to the newsroom.”Scaia,” I wrote. “Will get fan…