I frequently use this blog to highlight the differences between Ft. Worth and Dallas.Dallas, for example, has a more impressive skyline. Ft. Worth, meanwhile, has a more impressive record of getting people to actually go into its buildings and do things.Dallas is also better than Ft. Worth at two other things I’d like to discuss here: panhandling…
Last year, I fell into a bit of rut. My job was okay and my social life was okay, but I felt like I was stagnating. For instance, during the year I lived in Houston, I covered three hurricanes and was ultimately fired by a group of managers who, apparently, were trying to play bingo with the most commonly cited…
We’ve had a great time over the past couple of weeks. We’ve made jokes about which failed Russian athletes would suddenly disappear. We’ve declared that the loser of the USA-Canada women’s hockey game would have to take Justin Bieber. Then, when the United States lost, we collectively declared that it was actually the loser of…
The other day, I was at the National Cowgirl Museum for a sidebar story dealing with the Ft. Worth Stock Show.As I left, I had the theme from Blazing Saddles stuck in my head. I guess that sort of fits in with the museum, but I couldn’t figure out why, exactly, I’d started thinking of it.Then…
The hullaballoo over Wendy Davis’ exposure as the first politician in American history to bend the truth got me to thinking: I should clear up some misconceptions about my own personal story before the Dallas Morning News does it for me.I also pledge to make more of my events open to the press.Wendy Davis, of course, isn’t…
Hola, amigos. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but it’s been crazy at the ol’ Scaia place.I went home to Ohio for a week around Christmas. It was our first Christmas together since my brother got married, so it was also my new sister-in-law’s first chance to really…
Last year, I wrote a blog about how Santa Claus’ job would be easier if the German government operated a consular office at the North Pole. Loyal Scaiaholics will recall that the post also included an idea [or “spec,” in Hollywood muckity-muck parlance] for a sequel to It’s a Wonderful Life.You might have heard more recently that…