Busiest Restaurants

Based upon liquor sales (the only public yardstick). Source: Bud Kennedy of the Star Telegram.

$2.29

Price of gas in Fort Worth today (as I've driven, it seems, all over the Southwest Proper.)

Saturday Night Gone Wrong

Excerpt from DMN story this morning that made me laugh: D'Angelo Lee, the embattled former Dallas city plan commissioner and a target of the FBI's City Hall corruption investigation, was arrested early Sunday morning on public intoxication charges after claiming employees at an all-nude strip club stole thousands of dollars from him. . . . Mr. Lee . . . flagged down police at 3 a.m. Sunday outside Club Knubian Fantaciez, a dance club at Mockingbird Lane and Harry Hines Boulevard that police say turns into a venue featuring all-male strippers after midnight. According to police reports, he told authorities that three men – one naked, one wearing only a towel – had attacked him and thrown him out of the club, breaking his glasses and stealing his crocodile-skin wallet in the process.

Probably A Funny Idea At That Time

(Click to enlarge. Full story here.) And "sneaked off with" instead of "snuck off with"? I would have screwed that one up.

I Don't Care . . .

. . . about the minor league baseball team of the Fort Worth Cats or that they won some championship this week in Minnesota. But I did get a giggle out of this guy getting arrested for some crazy (alleged) bar fight after the game. Him? Fight? In a bar? Naaaaaaaa.

I Go To Jacksonville . . .

. . . and Fergie goes to Phoenix.

The Kid . . .

. . . from The Sixth Sense got busted for DWI a while back. Now I know why: Walker, Texas Ranger, scarred him for life.

"Rudy Huxtable" From "The Cosby Show"

Our little girl's all growns up. Source.

President Bush "Hugs It Out"

Create Your Own Search Engine

I'm a sucker for this stuff.

My 2.3 Seconds Of Fame

This is the most horrible pic in the world that I pulled off TIVO, but that red arrow is actually pointing at my head. It was funny to find that portion of the video to try and find myself. I'll swear I had to look at 15 times before I was able to locate myself (and I knew where I was sitting and what I was wearing.)

CNN

In commeroration of 9/11, CNN is broadcasting on its website in "real time" what it showed on its TV station on that day. It's just like you had turned on CNN on 9/11 at the moment you click on the link. If you click on it at 7:02 p.m. tonight, it starts as if it were 7:02 p.m. on 9/11. You can't fast forward. You can't rewind. But it's pretty fascinating. If interested, go to CNN and click on the link seen above. Edit: There also appears to be a couple of links to watch the first three hours of the coverage. Edit #2: I went back and watched CNN's coverage of the first 30 minutes and it was fascinating. I'd never seen CNN's coverage and now I know why: They had cut to a WABC the local New York affiliate at the time. But is was sheer chaos. One witness actually referred to the second aircraft as a "small airplane with a propeller." And no one would speculate that it was an actual attack. I remember Charlie Gibson say at the very moment of the second plane, "This appears to be some type of concerted effort."

That would be . . .

. . . DFW land and the end of the trip.

Me On A Plane

I'm pretty sure I saw Babe Laufenberg (sp) sitting in first class.

And I'm currently engaging in racial profiling as a security precaution. I wonder if I should be concerned.about the guy next to me bowing towards Mecca?

"We're Waiting For One More Volunteer"

. . . and the very snooty boarding agent continues her threat of not letting us board. She actually said "The clock is ticking." What does that mean? Like the plane is gonna take off empty if we aren't boarded in time? [And as a complete sidenote, all you Ticket fans out there might want to take a look at this from Saturday night. The rest of you won't understand so don't bother.]

Overbooked

Al lright, we've got some American Airlines overbooking going on. I just got this announcement over the loudspeaker (paraphrased): Ladies and gentlemen we are overbooked for this flight, and we are looking for four volunteers to give up their seats. In exchange, we will provide you with a $250 travel voucher and we will put you on a different flight, maybe with a different airline, to get you where you need to go. Unfortunately, we will not be able to begin boarding until this issue is resolved. I'm not budging. But I will have the joy of being in a sealed tube with every single seat taken. Triple ugh.

But Checking The DMN As I Wait To Board . . .

. . . these two stories do not appear to be a good omen.

So Far, So Good

But it's very odd flying on 9/11. You get to wake up to the news re-living that day, drive to the airport with it all over the radio, and then get to walk through airport security. The crowds look a little small (but I really don't know what Jacksonville International normally looks like on a Monday morning). But they do have the funky walk-in-a-booth-and-get-shot-with-air-blasts-looking-for-explosives machine. I passed with flying colors.