Articles for May, 2008
Craigslist Proves There’s a Married Cheater for Every Age and Body Type
Overheardians have e-mailed sharing their frustration by the lack of Craigslist/Myspace posts in recent weeks. Well, it’s your lucky day:
This Park Cities guy is still married so you’d have to sneak around with him but he’s searching for the “real deal.” The real deal is a petite woman between the ages of 21-30. But don’t worry ladies. If you’re older and bigger, this married man is simply looking for a non-prostituting white female from 35-50 years old.
There’s a cheater for every type of woman!
Tennis Skirt is Official Uniform for Sex and the City Fans
This Overheardian e-mail came in late morning and made me laugh out loud:
I’m sitting in the theatre right now waiting to watch Sex and the City, there are at least 100 “tennis players“, visors and all, here sitting in the theatre. I am feeling overwhelmingly compelled to ask one of them where they play and if today was some sort of “field trip” for the tennis club.
24 More Hours Left in Our Contest
Don’t forget. You have one day to get in your entry for a chance to win some delicious Newport’s food.
Preston Center Dance Recital
From Merritt:
Graduation events are over and the parties have started. But I’m sweating my ass off because I ran (along with hundreds of other moms)straight to dress rehearsal for tonight’s Preston Center Dance recital. You can tell the private school girls from the HPISD kids because the public schoolers didn’t have time to put on the costume, very rebel looking.
Buzz at Coffee Park on Saturday
Chris Murzin, the crusading father about whom Merritt has written several times, is hosting a fundraiser to make Coffee Park more fun for kids with physical disabilities. It’s a worthy cause. Check it out. Here are the particulars:
Help us make Coffee Park barrier free for those with
physical disabilities!
Join us for free coffee, donuts, buzz cuts for boys and hair
braids and painted nails for girls. All donations received
will help support the purchase and installation of a Barrier
Free Playground at Coffee Park.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
8 am to Noon
Coffee Park (Hillcrest & Northwest Hwy)
Also, purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win a bicycle
and accessories compliments of Bicycles Plus in Snider
Plaza! Drawing to be held on June 7 at the Fishing Derby
in Caruth Park.
Factory Food
Would someone please let me in on the secret of The Cheesecake Factory? After all this time, the place still has lines out the door and a long, long waiting list. Why? The byzantine menu is okay, but it doesn’t strike me as anything special. I give them credit for honesty in naming, though, as it does appear to be a “factory.”
Sorry if I’m stepping on toes, I seem to be extra-opinionated today. Maybe I’m feeling frisky because school’s out.
It Was a Field Day at Hyer
Here are a few photos from the Hyer Field Day yesterday. They are kindergarten-through-second-grade-centric, because that’s where the photographer was located.
Dramatic car chase through Tarrant County
I’m only writing about this in jest because no one was injured, but last night’s car chase through Tarrant County was something straight out of The Dukes of Hazzard. (more…)
Re:Today in the Park Cities
More importantly, have today’s elementary school kids ever seen a film strip?
And the fact that you never had field day as a kid explains a lot, Jason.
Have the Park Cities Gone Blue?
A reader is concerned:
Why do so many people in the Park Cities support either Hillary or Obama? Both propose socialist ideals that would completely destroy the foundation of hard work equals success that the Park Cities is built on. While some in the Park Cities are so rich that they will be able to ride out the change, most will suffer under the tax and legislate equality programs that they propose.
Today in the Park Cities
It’s a busy day, the last day of school before the summer:
- Armstrong Elementary is having their field day at 9 a.m. I don’t remember getting a field day on the last day of school in elementary. Our special treat was getting to stay inside and watch movies. Remember when movies were only watched on VHS? Do today’s elementary school kids know of a time before DVDs?
- UP Elementary fourth-graders are graduating at 12:30 p.m. Whatever that means.
- Merritt says she’ll be too busy to blog because she’ll be at the fourth-grade graduation. Whatever that means.
- The real graduation is taking place at Moody Coliseum, as the Highland Park High School seniors walk across the stage before retiring to Dallas Country Club for an all-night party. Let us hope no golf carts end up in the creek.
Sex and the Paper?
Not sure about you Overheardians, but I plan on heading to NorthPark tomorrow to watch Sex and the City. My tickets are already purchased, and I’ve plotted my flavor of OrangeCup to eat afterward.
You know how everyone always does the quiz about which Sex and the City character are you? Well. That got me thinking. Which one is Merritt? I’m assuming Carrie, they both write columns and both wear black. I’d have to be Charlotte. I think Austin is a little bit like Miranda. So. I guess that leaves Jason. And. Samantha? Not so sure I see the correlation. But who’s Kersten and Charles?
City of Waco Honors Former Scot Jones
Highland Park graduate Alton Jones was honored with his own day in Waco, where he now lives.
Jones won the Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament earlier this year. The billboard is still up in Waco, so check it out if you’re passing through.
One More Football Game For Gardner
Highland Park senior Seth Gardner’s football career is not quite over yet.
Gardner, who plans to play baseball at the University of Arkansas, has been selected to play for the North team in the prestigious Texas High School Coaches Association’s all-star football game July 29 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
Gardner (6-4, 190) hauled in 73 passes for 1,484 yards and 21 touchdowns last season, helping HP to a 15-1 record and a state runner-up finish. He also led the baseball team in hitting with a .486 average.
Father’s Day?
Overheard at Hyer Field Day, from a mom: “Look at all the fathers who are here. Don’t they have jobs?”
Pictures of Field Day will be posted later.
Guess the Cost of Gas, Win Free Food
Merritt just sent in this dispatch from Kuby’s. She seems to delude herself that Mrs. Clinton still has a shot:
A relative of a man nearby, apparently someone very high in the oil industry, has told him that gas will be 5.50 per gallon by August. But this is good news because there will be good car deals everywhere. You’ll be able to by a gas guzzler on the cheap.
Wtf?? Why would you want the automobile at that point? Anyway let’s track this. I say no freaking way will gas be 5.50 per gallon. And in January when Hillary takes office she’ll make sure all this is all handled.
OK. I’m announcing the first Overheard contest with a prize. Tell me what the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Texas will be, according to AAA , on August 1. The winner receives a $50 gift certificate to Newport’s seafood and steak restaurant. Entries must be received by 5 p.m. Saturday, May 31. Post your guess in the comments below. Remember to give your correct e-mail address, or I’ll have no way of contacting you to collect your prize in August.
Hyer Field Day Lunch Instructions, It Takes a Village
A Hyer mom forwarded me this blast e-mail yesterday from the school regarding today’s Field Day events. She was amused by the suggestion to have a another parent bring lunch for your child if you can’t be there yourself. Anyway, don’t forget your sack lunch. Charles, can you take lunch for the 1st and 4th grades while you’re picking up the teacher’s fav meal?
Dear Hyer Parents,
Please note that the Family picnic is still scheduled for tomorrow along with field day. If you were planning to bring a lunch but can’t now due to the date change, please consider sending a sack lunch with your child. Our cafeteria will not be prepared to accommodate everyone. Donna usually orders less food on picnic day. You may also consider having another parent get your child’s lunch.
Hillary v. Hillary
Hey, Merritt, you’re a Hillary fan, so I have a question for you: which Hillary do you support, the one who pledged not to campaign in either Michigan or Florida and supported the Democratic National Committee in “punishing” those states for moving up their primaries, or the Hillary who campaigned in both places anyway and now wants to change the rules and count the
delegates?
Juicy Scoop Needed to Squash Kilgore and Geilich
May blog stats will be calculated in a few days and I’ll need something big to keep Austin Kilgore’s pit bull report off my back and Geilich’s Gimmie Coffee thing from soaring to new heights. If you have juicy scoop that will top this or generate more discussion than this, send it my way. It doesn’t need to be important, just good.
Do Your Children Play Outside Unsupervised?
Safety or peer pressure? An Overheardian initiates debate:
I saw this article in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News encouraging parents to let their kids go out and play and it made me pause and think. If it were not for the feeling that I would be shunned by other parents in the neighborhood, I probably would let my elementary school kids go out and play without any adult supervision. I would love to hear the thoughts of fellow PC bloggers on this subject.
Last Minute Camp Ideas
Unlike the much maligned planner, Merritt Patterson, I have yet to secure summer day camps for my kids. Does anyone have any ideas on what day camps are still available for middle school kids?
How about you, Gmom or MC - any thoughts? Boot camp? Rehab?
Former Scot vs. Former Scot?
Highland Park baseball fans might be just plain giddy in a couple of weeks when the Los Angeles Dodgers head to San Diego to take on the Padres June 10-12.
Assuming Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw is still in the Majors, and Padres pitcher Chris Young has recovered from a broken nose he suffered from taking a ball to the face off the bat of Albert Pujols, the two former Highland Park pitchers got square off against each other.
Kershaw could also be pitching close to home when the Dodgers visit the Houston Astros for a four-game set June 30-July 3.
Slip of the Tongue
At the Art Ball, what stick-thin NM fashion icon told me, “Food is sooooooo overrated. Eww, never.”
HP’s Gardner Named 10-4A MVP
Highland Park senior right fielder Seth Gardner has been named the District 10-4A Most Valuable Player.
Gardner, who will play college baseball at Arkansas, led the Scots in hitting. Heading into last weekend’s regional semifinal series loss to Waxahachie, Gardner was hitting .504 with 49 RBI.
Scots junior left fielder Bryan Dickenson was named Co-Newcomer of the Year, along with Mesquite Poteet’s Jake Sutton.
HP, which finished 35-8 and broke the school record for victories in a season, had six players on the 10-4A first team — SS Joey Hainsfurther, CF Dutch Crews, P Jonathan Perlman, P Jess Barrett, 1B Nathan Venz (utility) and DH Will Landess.
Jeremy Gilbert Named Hyer Elementary Principal
Jeremy Gilbert was named the principal at Hyer Elementary May 27.
Gilbert comes to Highland Park ISD from Richardson ISD, where he served as principal at Wallace Elementary from 2004-2008 and as assistant principal at the same campus from 2002-2004. Wallace Elementary is a high-performing campus, named to the Honor Roll of the Texas Business & Education Coalition this year, as well as being named an Exemplary campus by the Texas Education Agency.