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Veep

Charles Geilich — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:07:48 +0000

I read that Obama has called a bunch of people whom he will not select as his running mate. I haven’t received a call yet, so I think I’m in! Keep your fingers crossed.

Come to think of it, I haven’t heard from McCain either!

Kaufman v. Highland Park

Jason Heid — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:05:40 +0000

Our kind and talented society editor, Tierney Kaufman, just informed me she has to trek to the municipal court of HP at 1:30 p.m. today just because she wants to take defensive driving for a ticket she got going down Armstrong Avenue a few weeks ago.

Is that right? You can only ask HP to let you take defensive driving at an appointed time? You can’t just drop by the old town hall any old time to get permission?

On Retreat

Jason Heid — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:27:21 +0000

Saddened by the loss of Glenn Arbery, the staff of People Newspapers is on a retreat today. Our offices are closed.

Goodbye to Glenn

Jason Heid — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:47:22 +0000

In a little while the People Newspapers/D Magazine family will gather to say goodbye to senior editor Glenn Arbery, who has so ably handled our Weekend section since its inception five years ago. For those who haven’t heard, Glenn is returning to academia, taking a two-year appointment to a chair at a college up in Massachusetts.

All of us who have had the privilege of working with Glenn will miss him, and the Dallas arts scene will have one less champion for its cause. Everyone who has had dealings with Glenn comes away impressed by his intelligence, but also his kindness and humility. Here’s a little taste of what I’m talking about.

We’re Winners

Jason Heid — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:17:59 +0000

The Suburban Newspapers of America have just announced the winners of the 2008 Advertising & Promotions Contest, and we took home three prizes.

Our outstanding design work by Brittani Harrison and photo by Christina Barany were honored with a first-place finish in the Best Cover Design category, for our Retirement section, “Happily Ever After.”

Homes & Estates was again honored as first place for Best Homes Publication or Homes Special Section for the Feb./March 2008 issue on “Amazing Spaces.” It’s our second straight year to win this award. Great work by art director Amy Curry, ad production work by Rebecca Hannon and Craig Jarman, and the outstanding efforts of editor Krista Nightengale made it happen.

And our fabulous ad staff and dearly departed marketing director Julie Dial deserve credit for earning us a second-place finish for Best Media Kit, for our media kit, of course.

I Got Kicked Out of Starbucks

Austin Kilgore — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:03:16 +0000

So I was in Oak Cliff this morning working on a story about the closing of its location on Illinois Avenue. It’s one of only three Starbucks in Oak Cliff. When I went in the store to get some reaction from the Starbucks’ staff, they were very nice, but made it clear they didn’t [or couldn't] talk to me, and quickly handed me a phone number for the corporate office as a manager held the door open for me ushering me quickly out the door.

Ah, such is the life of a nosey reporter…

Blog Stats — June

Jason Heid — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:51:02 +0000

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,

Top keyword searches bringing people to the blog in June:

park cites people blog
park cities blog
i heart gawker
merritt patterson
barack blog park cities people charles
park cities people
university park pool hours
“sandra crenshaw”
orangecup
fishing derby caruth park

As you can see, Merritt has made a resurgence onto this list. And this is not just a few people searching for her in name in engines. It took a couple hundred to land her at No. 4 on the list. Miles, I’m sure Merritt appreciates all your efforts.

Now, the most viewed individual posts of the month. (Remember that generally only posts with jumps or comments, or posts that get linked to through other blogs will show up, the way this is tracked):

Someone Bears False Witness to Merritt

Jason Heid — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:46:53 +0000

From our page 2 columnist:

So someone (a Parkie) picking up an across the street neighbor kid backed out of their driveway after I backed out of mine. . My car was already in the lane and I was starting to move forward. He backs into the side of my car and bashes the crap out of the passenger side front and back doors. I got out and said I’d need his ins info and he said, “what? we were both backing out and just ran into each other.”

No, you don’t smash the side of someone’s car with the back of your car and say we’re both at fault.

So I got his ins agent info, wrong number. There was an HPISD sticker on his car. I’ll find him.

Game on, brother.

Overheard Where?

Charles Geilich — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:41:43 +0000

See if you can guess where these Overheardian bloggers (Kersten, Charles, and Merritt) ate a power dinner last Friday night? Also present (but not pictured, so as to maintain their innocence) were Kersten’s and Charles’ spouses. Merritt’s spouse said he couldn’t make it, but this is being investigated.

Important blog business was, of course, discussed.

US Open? Not So Much

Charles Geilich — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:53:52 +0000

So, the golf tournament is called the US Open. But how open is it, really, if I wasn’t invited to play in it? Once again. That’s Tiger, who was invited to play at the US Open. The other photo is of me, not invited.