Dallas / Fort Worth and Me

Recently, one of you lovely readers used the Skribit feature in the upper right corner of this page to suggest that I review the Green Chile Festival in Dallas. Now, unlike other similarly-named events elsewhere, this isn’t your standard festival, with expensive beer and six-dollar turkey legs; it’s just a special event put on by Chuy’s Mexican restaurant. Chuy’s is a Dallas institution located on McKinney Street just off Knox-Henderson, in one of our better-known neighborhoods (which will be covered in another blog entry in the near future).  

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Some links to my fellow bloggers, this time from around the Ft. Worth area.

• www.cartermuseum.org - some great art going on here; I want to stop by and see these prints.
• bconfusion.blogspot.com - Old news on films gone past, but I’ll keep reading to see what happens.
• durangotexas.blogspot.com - Gas prices from $2.57 to $2.65 — the difference is the line!
• ripsreviews.blogspot.com - Free Coffee for Fort Worth, and doughnuts - oh my blog sugar!
• fortworthfeminism.wordpress.com - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, an important issue not specific to this area, of course.

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I recently visited Keller, which is located in Tarrant County between Dallas and Fort Worth, for their yearly Wild Wild West Fest.  Why? Because some kind reader used that Skribit app over there on the right to ask me to! Can’t turn down a kind request like that.  Well, I didn’t know quite what to expect, never having been there before; my only exposure was from the materials on their website, in which they make it clear that the festival’s paid for only from vendor fees, never taxes. That made me wonder if it was worth going so far to what sounded like a podunk event.

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In my last entry, I regaled you all with tales of the delicious Plano Balloon Festival, the 29th iteration of which I attended on Sunday, September 21.  In addition to all the typical festival stuff — you know, free swag, expensive food and drink, pushy newspaper venders, and purveyors or every type of chintz you could imagine — there was also excruciatingly bad karaoke, which I don’t often see or hear (you were supposed to be able to win the karaoke machine). Oh, and there were numerous Balloons of Unusual Size, as well. It was fascinating just watching them get inflated. And as you can see, there was quite a crowd watching this day.

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No time for a full post today, so here are some DFW Blogs — I read them, and so should you.  

• tazdog.com sunsets, Dallas style
• westandclear.com - very interesting discussion about urban gas drilling in Fort Wort
• www.dfwcatholic.org - announcement of a joint venture between DFW Catholic and RealCatholicTV.com
• tx-coffee.com - Details of THE PERFECT CAPPUCCINO at Real Films, Houston, TX
  Saturday, November 1, reception at 7 pm, screening at 8 pm, Q&A with the filmmaker at 9:30 pm — sounds interesting and I’ll put it on my calendar

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