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• 1 year, 5 months ago
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  Christian Dozzler

  This will be a GREAT show!! Not only is Christian one of the best piano and harmonica players in town, he writes great songs and sings well, too. Tonight he will also be joined by some of the best guitar players in town. His new CD is excellent. SUPPORT LOCAL BLUES!!

• 2 years, 1 month ago
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  DallasFood.org hearts barbecue

  No Scott, the one in Luling. Maybe you've just given me a reason to visit Houston, though. I couldn't think of one before. :)

  Well Luniz, that has not been my experience at all with ribs. Most are NOT decent, once you've had the good stuff. You can get tender brisket all over, but it usually needs sauce. I agree the brisket is a main reason to hit the trails, but the sausage is major, not a lesser degree at all.
  

  There's actually a darn fine place for brisket as close as Lampassas. Roadhouse BBQ on the west side of town is well worth a detour. No sauce needed.

• 2 years, 1 month ago
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  DallasFood.org hearts barbecue

  Go to North Main BBQ in Euless. Ask for the S&T ribs. You'll find there is one less reason to head to central Texas. There's a reason they were world rib champs twice. Plus they have all you can eat for $12.
  

  Brisket and sausage are another matter. No one up here can touch Kreuz's jalapeno cheese sausage rings, or Black's or Luling City Market for brisket. I'll keep looking, though. :)

• 2 years, 2 months ago
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  UPDATED x4: Sorta's Carter Albrecht killed in shooting incident

  So, you're blaming the one sided coverage on his refusal to give you and others content? Interesting. So now the accused must come forth to be tried in the court of the media? Is that the way it's supposed to work now?

  So has anyone at Pegasus News actually viewed the police reports? Those are the official record.

  As far as being a test case. All Mr. Logg wanted to do was sleep in his own home without anyone breaking his back door down at 4am. That's all. I think we all want that. He didn't WANT to shoot anyone. In a few seconds, his life is totally turned upside down, and all he was doing was sleeping in his own bed. Oh, but if he won't give you his story for you to publish, then it's his own fault if it is a one sided story.

  This is a sad, tragic incident that culminated in the loss of a precious life. However it is also a classic example of just how poor journalism has become. Yes, it is a test case, of sorts, and the media has failed horribly.

• 2 years, 2 months ago
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  UPDATED x4: Sorta's Carter Albrecht killed in shooting incident

  Here's 2 comments posted on a video of Mr. Logg I have on youtube. I have now disabled comments there. It shows you exactly what this kind of irresponsible journalism can lead to. The poster is someone named "imjonzintoo".
  

  " The guy playing guitar is a murder and the guy playing the harmonica is an a-hole."

  "Will Smokey Logg shot and killed Carter Albrecht and he is trying to blame it all on Carter, when the reality is that this guy is an irrespoonsible gun owner who shot through the window. What if that bullet didn't hit Carter in the head and hit a sleeping gilr in bed in the house behind his in the residential neighborhood. Will Logg is a murder if not a complete idiot for firing shots in to the air when he had the police on the phone."

  Will isn't saying anything, to anyone. He is terribly saddened by the whole ordeal and just wants to get his normal life back. Unfortunately, the mostly one-sided take on this incident by the local and national media will only lead to more insane comments by folks like imjonzintoo.

• 2 years, 2 months ago
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  UPDATED x4: Sorta's Carter Albrecht killed in shooting incident

  You're wrong Amanda. Just look at some of the articles and blogs just above your post.
  

  There is no "Logg camp". There is only common sense. It shows up in both the Star Telegram and the Dallas Morning News today, for the first time since the incident.
  

  The homeowner is a victim, too. While the news media (and this site) have written and televised volumes about what a great guy Carter was, his creativity, his loss to the community, little attention has been focused on the actual events of the evening. The beating of the girlfriend. The violent attack on a neighbor's home at 4 am.

  It is a horrible tragedy that someone had to die. It is also a horrible tragedy that the girlfriend was beaten and some innocent homeowners were terrorized in the middle of the night.
  

  No matter what the cause, on that night, that was not the Carter everyone knew. He was a drunk violent individual that assaulted someone he loved, and when he couldn't get at her anymore, went looking for someone else to hurt. He was unsuccessful.
  

  I hope and pray that none of you are ever awakened at 4 am by a drunk, violent individual trying to break into your home. I really do.
  

  Here's the Morning News piece: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedconte...

• 2 years, 3 months ago
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  Alligator Records signs the Smokin' Joe Kubek Band featuring Bnois King

  Yay Joe and Bnois!!

• 2 years, 4 months ago
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  A giant tornado is headed for downtown Dallas

  Finally, the Cotton Bowl gets a good thorough cleaning. Don't worry, Chuck Norris will save us. That's definitely "Lone Wolf McQuaid" quality music.

• 2 years, 4 months ago
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  What I'd do to Dallas if I had a magic wand

  I wish someone would just fix all the freaking potholes in the streets. Please bonk those with the magic wand first. Please!! As it is, I hate to even come to the "City of Hate" because I fear breaking a strut, shock, or axle on your holey streets.

  Your last fearless leader tried, but she couldn't do it. Now that the wicked witch is dead, maybe the man behind the curtain will take care of it.

• 2 years, 4 months ago
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  Mosquito onslaught hits Dallas area hard

  Good idea. Drain any standing water. That might take awhile.

• 2 years, 4 months ago
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  UPDATED: Original planners of Trinity River Project share concern over toll road

  Be sure to drive over the Trinity tomorrow and see where all your lovely parks, and lakes will be. Then recall that the record flood stage is 15 feet HIGHER than this event. It really is a floodplain. Building anything between the levees really isn't very smart. You'll just have to rebuild it every 5 or 10 years.

• 2 years, 4 months ago
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  Commentary: Make homeless mission a Robert Johnson museum

  Actually, the Stew Pot is across the street at 408 in the old Otis Elevator Building, not in 508 Park Avenue. The building housing The Stew Pot is owned by the church group that operates it. They want to be downtown, not somewhere else.
  

  http://www.thestewpot.org/

  There was never an actual studio in 508 Park. All they did was move some boxes around and set up their portable recording equipment. That was the Vocalion Records warehouse and held film vaults for Vitaphone Pictures plus the offices of Don Law.
  

  The building is owned by the Glazer family. In fact, they own the entire block on that side of the street. The inside of the building is a wreck. It was built out as modular offices in the 50s complete with green shag carpet, wood paneling and acoustic ceiling tiles. The indigents have stripped out most of the copper wiring and plumbing. The basement was full of water. when I was last inside (7 or 8 years ago).

  To make a museum there, you are talking about millions to acquire the property, plus millions to bring the building up to code, then you have to have exhibits to show, security, advertising, and a museum staff. All that assuming you can move the Stew Pot.
  

  Every few months I get e-mails or phone calls from people wanting exactly what you have proposed, or at least wanting to put up a monument in front of the building. I tell them anything erected outside would be stolen or defaced within days. Several groups in the last few years have made a start on trying to buy or lease the building but have given up after they learned more about the situation. Economically, it will never happen. Not unless some billionaire is willing to foot the bill.

  The sad fact is, Dallas traditionally does not give a crap about its history. The city recently ripped up the Texas mosaic near the Kennedy Memorial for a parking lot and the replica John Neely Bryan cabin is now in storage somewhere. Let's all go look at the big TV screens at Victory Park!!

  As nice as it would be to have something appropriate happen with that building, chances are it will never happen. However I think Robert Johnson would feel right at home seeing all the homeless folks camped out on the sidewalk.
  

  The bottom line is that Robert Johnson's legacy is his music, not some run down old building. He just visited Texas a few times, cut some records, then left. I'm still waiting for a statue of Freddie King.

• 2 years, 5 months ago
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  Inaugural musical extravaganza will have outgoing Dallas Mayor Miller’s detractors dancing in the aisles

  Thank goodness they finally found a use for Reunion Arena.

• 2 years, 5 months ago
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  Bugs Henderson

  I think this is actually scheduled for Friday the 15th, not tonight.

  Don O.

• 2 years, 5 months ago
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  KLIF's 60's sound to be revived on XM

  They should hook up with Cuzzin Lenny, who is still on the air on KNON on wednesday mornings. He would have a KLIF story or two to tell.

  There used to be a really cool website at http://www.historyofklif.com/ but it seems to have gone dark.

• 2 years, 6 months ago
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  Woman sentenced to two years probation in Euless bowling alley murder

  Read more carefully, Sanders. The trigger man got life. Not quite open season. The two year probabation was for the person who held her down so the shooter wouldn't miss. Hence the change to assault instead of murder charge.

• 2 years, 6 months ago
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  Some questions about the 15 year-old shot and killed by DART police officer; department’s first ever fatal shooting

  Sanders, it is fascinating how you consider gun nuts to be people of bad character but you defend thugs who attack women by calling them "children", even when they take on adult actions. Age is not an excuse for attacking women at 3:30 am. You look to blame everyone for what happened except the one person who caused the whole incident. The criminal. You continue to state that he deserved some sort of special treatment because of his age. Bull. He was attempting to rob, kill, or rape a woman. Children don't do that. Thugs do.
  

  You go out of your way to find anyone to blame. Now it's the gun nuts. If people hadn't owned guns, that thug would never had attacked those women. Those durned gun nuts clearly caused the whole thing.

  It is very easy to sit on your ass in your home and type on your computer what you think someone should do in a dangerous situation. It's pretty easy to sit back and pontificate from the comfort of your home in the light of day. Knock yourself out. But, since you're not a gun nut and, therefore, not afraid, feel free to walk the streets of South Dallas after 3 am and then tell us what you find. I've been there and I can tell you that you will not feel safe. I've been in South Dallas, many times, after 3 am myself, so I guess I'm not cowardly. How about you? I'll be waiting for your report.
  

  Oh, and by the way, I don't own any weapons except for an old deer rifle my grandpa bought me in 1963 and it hasn't been fired in more than 40 years. Does that qualify me as a gun nut? Gosh, I hope so.

• 2 years, 6 months ago
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  Some questions about the 15 year-old shot and killed by DART police officer; department’s first ever fatal shooting

  The attacker was NOT a child. Children are in bed at 3:30 am on a Sunday night, not out attacking women from ambush. Someone who is attacking women at 3:30 in the morning is either trying to rob, kill, or rape. Those are not the actions of a child. I am glad this young thug chose to attack armed officers instead of some unarmed daughter, wife, or mother. You can debate forever what "should" have been done and mourn the "potential" of a young life lost. However the responsibility of what happened rests ultimately with the attacker. Don't start none, won't be none.

• 2 years, 6 months ago
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  Some questions about the 15 year-old shot and killed by DART police officer; department’s first ever fatal shooting

  You know what? Anyone who jumps out of the bushes at 3 am and attacks somebody deserves to get shot. I don't care if they are 12. It has nothing to do with race or age. It has to do with criminal intent. Now if the cop had been hiding in the bushes and had jumped out and ambushed an unarmed 15 year old boy, that's different. But that's not the story. HOW CAN ANYONE FEEL THE ATTACKER WAS A VICTIM??? Some here want to PUNISH THE COP for defending herself? What crap. You don't want to get shot? Don't jump out of the bushes at 3 am and attack anyone.

• 2 years, 6 months ago
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  UPDATED: Original planners of Trinity River Project share concern over toll road

  It's a flood plain, stupid. That's why the levees are there. Anything built between the levees will periodically be flooded, covered in silt and debris, and/or destroyed. Who is going to pay for the clean-up and restoration? Guess. Anyone who has lived in Big D for any reasonable amount of time has seen that river running levee top to levee top. It happens every 6-8 years or so. If you dig lakes in the flood plain, what do you think will be the first thing to silt up during a flood stage? Building anything between levees on an active drainage way is just plain stupid. Why not put a park in the middle of LBJ Freeway? Makes about as much sense.

  This "park" was just a bill of goods sold to the tax payers so that big developers could find a way to bring in Federal dollars they could get a part of. Highways are just one of the easier ways to do that. That's the main reason things morphed into a highway project. There was more Federal money available for highways than parks. It is not about doing anything for Dallas. It is about making money.
  

  If they really want to do something in Dallas, fix the freaking streets, close the crackhouses, clean the vacant lots in south Dallas, and build more jails - you need em. There are more potholes now than when Laura ran her campaign. Laura owes me at least 3 front end alignments.

• 2 years, 7 months ago
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  KNON Fundraiser with Lucky Peterson / James Hinkle / Christian Dozzler

  Actually, it is Lucky Peterson, James Hinkle and Christian Dozzler. Wanda King will NOT be appearing. Cost is $15 at the door.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  SMU Science departments opposing intelligent design conference

  >Blair wrote: >1.) You have no idea what ID is

  It's just the latest in a long line of attempts to inject religion into science. The recent attempts in Pennsylvania to force the school systems to teach it along with science make that clear.

  >2.) You don't understand ID can walk hand-in-hand with science AND evolution

  See above. The monkeys are not amused.
  

  >3.) You don't know what the Taliban is

  I know exactly what the Taliban is. We have our own versions of the Taliban here. They may be fundamentalist Christian instead of Muslim, but their goals are similar. See the above reference to Pennsylvania.
  

  >I can't think of any scientist who >disagrees with the idea that everything in >the universe started from a single point.

  You must not know many scientists. You need to enlarge your sample size. I suspect most would simply say they don't know.
  

  >But if the universe started from a single >point, why did it start? How did the >unconscious become conscious?

  Now you are getting into religion. I think you'll find multiple theories on both subjects.
  

  >As smart as Darwin was, neither he nor >anyone else can explain that one. But if >you think life began through thunderstorms >and sheer dumb luck then life is >meaningless.

  Life is what you make of it. Darwin has nothing to do with it. If you think your life is meaningless based on how you perceive the genesis of it on this planet, that's a sad state of affairs. What some carbon atoms did or didn't do some 5 billion years ago has no bearing on how I live my life today.

  >There is no religion, no morality, no >reason - you have boxed yourself in a >corner because there is no point to >anything.

  Huh? What corner? Those are your assumptions. Why is there "no point to anything" if a bolt of lightning created life instead of some great cosmic muffin? If you want to get into a discussion of religion versus morality and reason you are in for a long and brutal punishment. That would make for an interesting conference.

  The funny thing is I think the scientists were dopes for complaining about this conference. They should certainly be allowed to hold it on campus. The scientists were acting like the Taliban trying to prevent it. A university should be a place for a free exchange of ideas. Even if they are dumb ideas. What they should do is show up at the conference and ask questions. Lots of questions. Batboy wants to know.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  SMU Science departments opposing intelligent design conference

  Don't forget what the M in SMU stands for. The college is owned and run by religious types, not scientists. The school has not endorsed ID. Leave that to the Baptist Universities. They are simply allowing a conference on it on school property. Big deal. All the science departments at SMU have done is give a big publicity boost to something that would have been ignored had they not complained about it. Who said scientists are smart?

  As science, ID is crap. However the scientists should have enough "faith" in their own evidence to put it up against the crackpots, not whine about letting them have their say. The modern world needs to stand up on its own two feet against whatever version of the Taliban wants to have annointed as the only "official" view. Otherwise, they win. Let 'em have their say, then present the contrary evidence. I'm sure all 40 people at the conference will be impressed and no minds will be changed either way. The ID people can keep on looking for pieces of Noah's Ark and the scientists can go back to their research projects and ignoring the perceptions of the uneducated general public.

  Hey, maybe next month SMU can sponsor a scholarly discussion about Batboy, The Fort Worth Goat Man, or Bigfoot and invite the learned experts from the Weekly World News to speak. Maybe the science departments could even sponsor it. It could be a great celebration event for the upcoming Bush Library. Now that's entertainment!

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller signs Mayors Climate Protection Agreement

  All the hot air about global warming, or not, is probably a major contributing factor to the process. Personally, I think it's a good thing. We've only been in an interglacial period for the past 12,000 years or so. The Wisconsin glacial, which preceeded our present, relatively warm climate, lasted about 80,000 years. Before that, the glaciers descended many more times, then retreated, over the last 2 million years or so. Thank goodness all that wooly mammoth flatulence warmed the earth and made those pesky glaciers retreat from Kansas and Ohio.

  Anyone who wants to live in a teepee in the dark to save the planet is certainly welcome to it. Just don't tell me I have to do it. Remember, when Houston floods, it will mean the beaches will be closer.
  

  While everyone else frets pointlessly about keeping the ocean from reclaiming Florida, a small band of us will be doing the opposite by driving gas guzzling SUVs, cranking down the AC in the summer, and eating meat at every opportunity. If it comes down to a choice of the ocean rising or the ice sheets returning, I'll take the ocean any day. We've got to keep those glaciers away at any cost.

  Wanna have some fun? Go to wiki or google up "Pleistocene". Read about the last 2 million years of geologic history then ponder the tempest in a teapot that is global warming.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  Smokin' Joe Kubek

  This show also features Kirby Kelly, The Wanda King Blues Band, The Hash Brown Band, and Anson Funderburgh. You can bet most of the local blues musicians of note will either be in the audience or jamming onstage. THIS IS A DON'T MISS BLUES EVENT!!!!

  Don O.

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