Obligatory CBB Tease

Fans of Merritt’s moment by moment by moment iPhone coverage of this weekend’s Cattle Baron’s Ball are in for a treat. Exclusive footage of the big party at South Fork will be here for your viewing pleasure any minute (within the next 24 hrs). What’s in it?: mechanical bull fun, CBB fashion, Pat Green, and Mickey Gilley’s stolen hat.

The Christmas Book is Here

I’ve just spent the last hour looking through the 2008 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book and all I can think is, I hope Santa brings me a life-size LEGO replica of myself.

The toys this year are, as always, fantastic and slightly egotistical. Sure, I’d love an authentic Guinness home pub (once I stop renting), but is that better than the Dallas Cowboys Texas Stadium end zone in my backyard (again, once I stop renting)?

So many choices.

Kershaw’s Dodgers Start NLCS Thursday

Former Highland Park Scots pitcher Clayton Kershaw and his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates will open the National League Championship Series against the Phillies in Philadelphia on Thursday.

The Dodgers swept the Chicago Cubs to earn a spot in the NLCS. Kershaw did not pitch in the three games against the Cubs, but he might get a shot now that his team is in a longer series.

Kershaw finished the regular season with a 5-5 record and a 4.26 ERA in 107.2 innings.

I Hate Craig’s List(-ers)

It’s not just Merritt’s philanderers that have no decency on Craig’s List.

I’m in the process of selling my furniture. It got me through college and my first 18 months in the real world, but I’m moving and don’t have room for it. It’s all really old stuff that’s not that great. I really just needed to get somebody to take it off my hands, and if I could get a few bucks for it, great.

I thought it would be so easy to sell everything on Craig’s List this weekend, boy how I was so wrong.

I’ve had two people call and schedule times to look at the stuff, but never show up. One of the people called and canceled the appointment, but the other one couldn’t even be bothered to call and cancel after I waited for around for her an hour and a half. When I called to see what the deal was, the person who answered the phone said the potential buyer had “gone to the store.”

Fast forward to Monday afternoon. (more…)

Teacher. What’s Wrong with Saying That?

A few politically correct titles have registered and are commonplace. But this just in from an Overheardian: 

Mailman/ Letter Carrier

Stewardess/ Flight Attendant

This weekend I heard a teacher running around making an official change in her title.

Class of 1988 friend at the reunion: You’re a teacher, right?

Fellow 1988 classmate: I’m an educator.

There is nothing wrong with being called a teacher is there? Is this one necessary?

Rule of the Day, Stop Replying To All

Don’t ”reply to all” on the class e-mail from the teacher. It’s really annoying.

Thanks, Principal Gilbert

Please allow me to give kudos to Hyer Principal Jeremy Gilbert.  Among the great work Principal Gilbert has already done in his first year at Hyer, there is one little gesture he makes every day that really has an impact on the kids.  Each morning, as parents pull up to the curb in the carpool line, Mr. Gilbert is there to open car doors and greet the children, and the parents.  Sometimes he’s in front, sometimes at the back entrances, and always with a smile, and, on a rainy day like yesterday, with an umbrella.

I know my carpool kids look forward to seeing him, and it’s a great way to get to know the students.  My recollection of my own elementary school principal was of an unsmiling man secreted in a mysterious place called “the office.”  Brrr. 

I’d Sooner Ride In An Orange Lamborghini Than

Go see some stupid cow. So, your “no Sooners allowed” comment in your ad is not even necessary. Thanks

The Problem with Kuby’s

The. Glare. Overheardian suggestions for Karl Kuby’s window treatments needed.

Cotillion Still a Necessary Torture

Bringing back memories of your most dreaded childhood hours, cotillion. It hasn’t changed. The Dallas Country Club 2008 version below.

My daughter wanted to know why she has to wear the gloves. My answer, “because you just do.”