DO NOT CARRY CHILDREN WHILE ON SKATES

My favorite local band, Home by Hovercraft, have a new video out. The Kessler, the Corinth Street Tunnel (scary), and the White Rock Skate Center.

Home by Hovercraft, Dallas

Home by Hovercraft in Deep Ellum

Irish dancer with Home by Hovercraft

Car fire just north of downtown, Dallas.

Urban Planner Patrick Kennedy Wants To Tear Down A Highway

…On whether Dallas wants to kick its car addiction:
We’re effectively subsidizing land at the edge of town. Cheaper land in order to get further away, and thus, we have to drive everywhere. When 96 percent of trips are by car, but then we’ve got 20, 25 percent of the population is below poverty, we’re then pushing people and forcing people to have cars just to participate in the local economy in a way that they can’t afford right now.

In Dallas, Turning the Page Marked Nov. 22, 1963

10 Clever and Well-Designed Camping Essentials

Bacon Burger at Smoke.

War in the Ukraine, Gaza, ISIS, Ebola… and now the worst of all… this:

Bacon is about to get really expensive.

I guess there is always Tactical Bacon… like, for emergencies.

What College Can’t Do

What Cartoons Can Do

The great ketchup debate: to fridge or not to fridge?

Cycling in Flip Flops

Some cycle in sneakers, some cycle in heels…and others cycle in flip flops. Well if the beach is your destination why not?

Summertime in Copenhagen. Flip flops are the preferred footwear for bicycle users and pedestrians. I’ve been wearing them for a month non-stop now… it’s going to be hard to put on normal shoes again.

Of course, your neighbourhood “avid cyclist” will probably tell you “oooh… can’t cycle in THOSE. Need some proper cycling shoes blahblahblah”

9 of the Best Cuban Sandwiches in Dallas

I’m already a big fan of Jimmy’s Food Store (even had the Cuban there) and Ten Bells (I need to write an entry on Ten Bells) in Bishop Arts. Some of these others look great too.

Cuban Sandwich from Jimmy’s Food Store, Dallas, Texas

Seating out on the street at Jimmy’s Food Store.

Sidewalk Entertainment at Jimmy’s Food Store, Dallas, Texas