Could Local Starbuckians Lose Their Squat Spot?

Looks like even Starbucks is hitting a rocky patch and will close 600 stores. God forbid they close the Starbuck’s at Highland Park Village.  Where will the cougars spend their time before The Rattlesnake Bar opens at 5?

Buy a House and Then Party it Up!

A Southlake dwelling Overheardian sends this link to one of their neighborhood real estate agents proving there is one major diff between property sellers over there and over here; they wear clubbin’ clothes to work. Paaaaaartay, Baby.

Could Kershaw’s First Win Happen in Texas?

How appropriate it would be if former Highland Park standout pitcher Clayton Kershaw could pick up his first career Major League win tonight in Houston?

Pitching back in his home state, Kershaw (0-2) and the Dodgers are facing Wandy Rodriguez (3-3) and the Astros at Minute Maid Park in a few hours.

Kershaw, 20, has a 4.36 ERA and has issued 22 walks in 33 innings in the bigs.

Wear Your Bikini to Lunch Often?

Today at Zoe’s in Snider Plaza I saw a super stylish mom in a swimsuit with an expensive coordinating cover up and adorable Tory Burch flip flops. She ran into a pal and this conversation unfolded:

Swimsuit Mom: OMG! How are you?

Pal: OMG, you are going to be the cutest one at the pool. Just look at that cover up, too cute.

Swimsuit Mom: Oh, we’re not going to the pool today. But thank you, it’s really comfortable. 

Wtf?

Toilet Paper Shortage In 75205

As I ran my morning errands on the first full day of summer, I noticed some fine artistic expressions through the medium of toilet paper. The works of art were located on the 4400 block of Beverly Drive and 4100 block of Windsor Parkway. If you seem to be short a few dozen rolls of toilet paper, this might be the reason why. Do you think there will be a special edition for the 4th of July? 

Road Hazards

Are you ever driving behind someone who has something precariously hanging from their vehicle and you think to yourself, “Man, that would suck if that fell off and hit my car?”

Well, I’ve had two instances in the past month that have confirmed that 1. people aren’t always that smart when attaching things to their vehicles and 2. you should always double-check all your doors before heading out.

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Never Too Hot or Early to Make Your Christmas List

Yesterday afternoon as I was dragging my stuff out of the car in the blazing heat, tired from a long day, my daughter met me in the driveway and said, “Hey mom, I’ve been working on my Christams list.” She followed me to the door reading it our loud:

1. Pink Apple laptop
2. Jonas Brothers concert tickets
3. My own room
4. My allergies to go away

Sweaty City

So I came across this golden nugget of fun facts, and I decided I should share. Apparently someone out there thought it a good idea to figure out the 100 Sweatiest Cities. Phoenix is at the top of the list. San Francisco is at the bottom. But where does Dallas fall? (more…)

SMU’s William B. Stallcup Jr. Passes

This is a few weeks old, but SMU alumnus, and former professor and administrator William B. Stallcup Jr. passed away June 7 at his home in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.

Stallcup is probably best known for serving the university as president ad interim immediately following the NCAA death penalty. (more…)

Blog Stats — June

That wasn’t so bad. I had thought that our monster month in May, along with the beginning of the summer vacation season, would result in us seeing a little bit of a drop in our numbers in June. It did, but it still qualifies as our second-biggest month ever in almost all the metrics:

70,866 pageviews, 23,712 visits, 7,273 unique visitors

Our biggest day of the month was June 25, with 3,946 pageviews. The most popular posts that day were Merritt’s battle with a fellow motorist and the mysterious Beverly book club.

To see the top keyword searches and individual posts of the month, (more…)

International Incident at Kuby’s, Part 2

Merritt writes from her morning haunt:

I’m having trouble concentrating on what my coffee date is saying because there are 2 Tuesday Kuby’s virgins sitting at the German table again. These two girls are discussing child birth and healthy things to feed toddlers. They have no idea the Germans are flipping out all around them.
Omg, the head German lady just asked them to move. Developing.

Do Koreans Know Something About our Beef that we Should Know?

Have you noticed that South Koreans have been rioting in their streets against the introduction of American-bred beef into their country?  The Koreans are so convinced that our cows are tainted that it’s causing a political crisis there.  This gives me pause about our beef, as well.  What about you?