Posted on September 26, 2008 at 6:01 p.m.

What, no reviews?

On Drive By Truckers / Shooter Jennings

Posted on September 16, 2008 at 6:54 p.m.

I too can vouch for Forsyth.

He was a founding member of Asylum Street Spankers and if his recent mini-show at Bill's records was any indication, he still has it going on.

Plus he has some of the coolest guitars I've ever seen.

On Favoriting and UnContest: Robert Cray / Guy Forsyth

Posted on September 15, 2008 at 8:05 p.m.

Not local, but Johnny Cash does U2 with too much cowbell:

On More cowbell!

Posted on September 12, 2008 at 8:26 a.m.

You might want to double check the start time at this place. The show started at 7 PM.

We got there in time for the encore.

On The Gourds / Mariachi Inolvidable

Posted on September 11, 2008 at 7:03 p.m.

Man, things sure have changed in my lifetime.

I was raised in a hard-core fundamentalist evangelical household and if there had been a bible study class in school, I'm sure I would have had a note from my parents insisting that I be excused from it since there was no way a public school was going to accurately interpret the bible in the way it was meant to be interpreted (black and white without any hint of analogy or metaphor).

Of course in those days our church was kind of a fringe religion that had no interest in being part of the larger culture.

Now we have a vice presidential candidate from the same denomination and that fact alone may be the very thing that puts her ticket over the top (God help us all).

Also, interestingly, many evangelicals I broach the subject with today don't seem to have any grasp of where the bible came from or know much about many of the characters and stories it contains, much less the context.

On Bible study not a big draw at Tarrant County high schools

Posted on September 3, 2008 at 6:45 p.m.

I went to Chips on Cole recently after not having been there in a decade or so. The burgers were nothing like what I remember from back when I lived in the neighborhood and was a regular.

Back then they were big, messy and probably the best in town. What I got recently was a slightly dry, nondescript run of the mill cheeseburger.

Terribly disappointing.

On Metro Grill at US 75 and Knox in Dallas closes; Chips Hamburgers nearby to follow suit

Posted on August 26, 2008 at 8:12 p.m.

I'm pretty sure this Avi guy doesn't really care what you all think.

By the way, is that your car he's having towed?

On Lower Greenville bar & grill Suede shuts down

Posted on August 25, 2008 at 7:17 p.m.

Seems to me that investing public funds in early childhood education wouldn't see any real results for too many election cycles.

So I can't see where the idea stands a chance. Nothing in this country is done politically for the long term. Not anymore, anyway.

On Fighting crime in Texas should include investing in kids

Posted on August 23, 2008 at 10:26 a.m.

Get used to it, Ann Marie.

I don't think it's even really started yet.

On Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons bankrolling ads that link Obama to terrorism

Posted on August 23, 2008 at 10:21 a.m.

So if you outlaw pit bulls- where do you draw the line with hybrids? half pit bull? one quarter pit bull?

I've never owned a dog that was full breed anything. And aren't pit bulls a fairly wide mix of "breeds" anyway? What if one mates with a pomeranian?

One of the scariest looking but sweetest natured dogs I've ever known was a friend's Half bull terrier- half boxer.

On Mesquite considering stricter rules for pit bulls