I was surprised at the way the death of Steve Jobs resonated with people. Just about every day, word comes into our newsroom that someone of fame or influence has passed away. Most of the time, people nod their head, vaguely remembering that so-and-so was in that movie they saw back when they were dating that girl from…
I’m something of a connoisseur of country music. I love it all, from the hauntingly beautiful (George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today”) to the tragically hilarious (Toby Keith’s “Get out of your Clothes [or Get out of my Car]”), but I can’t help but feel like the genre is getting a bit sloppy.You see, when…
Let’s talk a little bit about break room etiquette. I’m sure we all have hilarious office break room stories about someone’s tuna fish sandwich stankin’ up the refrigerator or dirty dishes left in the sink, but this sign recently appeared on the plastic silverware tray at WBAP:I find this sign especially troubling. You see, this is…
I’m nothing if not an attentive and thoughtful motorist.Having said that, I get a lot of red light tickets. After shelling out several hundred dollars to the City of Arlington over the past two years, I think the classy thing to do would be to name one of my most likely spots to run a red light after…
For the better part of a week last month, I spent my days cataloguing the destruction of the wildfires near Possum Kingdom Lake.Over the course of the week, I logged hundreds of miles in my news car, blasting across the rural highways of Palo Pinto County to the musical stylings of the Traveling Wilburys.The towns around the lake…
The other day, NASA announced which cities would get the retired space shuttles. Having lived in both Dayton, Ohio and Houston, I had the pleasure of logging into my facebook account the other day and seeing dozens of friends’ posts reading, “Woe is me! Our city has been disrespected!”While I would agree that New York didn’t contribute particularly…
I propose we, the Metroplex, stop wringing our hands worrying about the impression we made on the NFL last weekend and spend just a bit of time thinking about the impression the NFL made on us.First, I think the Metroplex did a great job with the Super Bowl. Sure, it snowed twice and it was as cold as it…