Author: jbenton

Stolen shamelessly from Kristin: Twinkies sushi.

More Wilmer-Hutchins, today’s front page: “An administrative assistant to Wilmer-Hutchins’ maintenance director said Tuesday that she watched her boss destroy a stack of purchase orders that he asked her to assemble. She said he was acting on direct orders from Superintendent Charles Matthews. The district’s police chief confirmed that he found a stack of torn-up purchase orders in a trash bin behind the district’s maintenance building last Wednesday.”
Also, this sidebar, on the district’s attempts to shore up its image before next week’s election.

Mad props to Friend-of-Crabwalk (and too occasional commenter) Kim, who snagged herself a young Minnesotan fiance over the weekend.

Two stories from Sunday’s paper: a piece on the politics surrounding the upcoming Wilmer-Hutchins bond election, and a follow-up to the W-H lawyer story Saturday.
Also, watch Sunday’s paper for a (long-delayed) Zambia story of mine.

A rare three-pronged sports update:
– Alas, Chanda’s aged wiles proved too little to take down the mighty Venus. But she put up a good fight, losing 7-6 (7-4), 6-3. In the first set, Chanda broke three set points. I’m telling you: give her two functioning knees and she can still compete.
– Did you know you have to be a jock to be a Rhodes Scholar? I knew the Rhodes used to have a reputation for having a preference for athletes (e.g., Whizzer White), but I never realized it was one of the four stated requirements. (“[E]nergy to use one

YAWHS. I’ll let the opening speak for itself: “The Wilmer-Hutchins school district’s chief attorney was suspended by the State Bar of Texas last year, and at least once during the suspension he used the state bar identification number of a lawyer who has been dead for 20 years.”

YAWHS (Yet Another Wilmer-Hutchins Story) today, on a letter a top district employee wrote asking Wilmer-Hutchins’ police chief to lay off an investigation into the district’s problems. That top district employee is also a Dallas school board member.

Chanda wins her second round match at the U.S. Open, 7-5, 6-3 over Antonella Serra Zanetti. The fact she finished strong would seem to speak well about the condition of her knees.
I might be even more optimistic if she wasn’t facing Venus Williams in the third round. (Then again, Venus had to go to a tiebreaker in the first set against intriguingly named nobody Shikha Uberoi.)

Really nice interview with Mark Eitzel about the American Music Club reunion. Mark comes across as much more sane than usual.
His best line, in reference to some, er, lifestyle issues that once troubled AMC drummer Tim Mooney: “He had personal problems that made it inconvenient for him to be part of the band. Put it this way: At the time he was a close personal friend of Courtney Love.”
The new AMC album comes out next week in the U.K., but unfortunately not for another month in the States. They play the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas on October 26.
One other bizarre Eitzel update: He provided vocals for a strange ’70s singer-songwriter parody project called Devon Shire, part of the Clubbo fake record label. Explanation of this strange situation from Paul Boutin here.
Finally, a few other Dallas-area shows worth attending in the near future: Sloan, Trees, Sept. 16; Starlight Mints, Gypsy, Oct. 1; Guided By Voices, Gypsy, Oct. 3; Gift of Gab, Trees, Oct. 6.; Ted Leo, Gypsy, Oct. 29.

Since I know you’re all dying to know how my fantasy football draft turned out last night, the answer is — pretty well, I think. The Bum Phillippi roster:
QB: Donovan McNabb
RB: LaDainian Tomlinson
RB: Rudi Johnson
RB/WR: Thomas Jones
WR: Laverneus Coles
WR: Plaxico Burress
WR/TE: Isaac Bruce
K: Adam Vinatieri
DL: Brian Urlacher
DL: Charles Grant
DB: Darren Sharper
DB: Dre Bly
D: Dwight Freeney
Bench: Amani Toomer, Roy Williams, Najeh Davenport, Byron Leftwich, Fred Thomas, Michael Pittman
(That’s Roy Williams the Detroit wide receiver, not Roy Williams the Dallas safety. Or Roy Williams the North Carolina basketball coach.)