OOOOHHH! I *KNEW* that button-down suede skirts were ringing a ‘90s Teen Movie Fashion Bell in my head... AND NOW I REMEMBER WHY!

Most of these flares here are abhorrent, but I never gave up my bootcuts, even in these skinny-jean years. But seriously, most everything I’m seeing here, as well as on the hipsters in my local hangouts, are all so damn familiar to my junior and high school self from the ‘90s. The people they’re squarely aimed at were…

Back in the ‘90s, I had a suede patchwork mini backpack purse in the same colors they’re using for those handbags up there. It was like some weird junior high deja-vu...

WHY? Why would you cut open a perfectly good pair of blue jean pants and throw some ugly-ass denim patches between the legs, then call it a day???

Hey, even the “Best Fans In Baseball” were abandoning their obviously-playoff-bound team’s home turf by the 4th inning yesterday. As if crazy comebacks/a Cubs collapse never happens with more than half of a ballgame left to play.

Thank fuck I'm not the only one. NICK HOLT!

Despite what tinfoil-hatters say, Snopes is our friend:

Counter-point: I grew up in DFW. I was taught to never root for the Houston teams, and heard people talk shit about Houston all the time for the exact same things that were awful about the Metroplex.

All 3 of the places you mentioned not going blow all the places you did out of the water. And yes, Stubb’s is always overrated, but them, Ironworks, and Salt Lick are all kinda tourist traps anyway (and I only really like County Line for their bread, which I will heartily devour & am now craving), so most people that…

Don’t forget Freedman’s and Kerlin BBQ. Great stuff at those two as well.

Yup. DFW barbecue is lacking in quality. Hell, when I asked friend up there where to get some decent BBQ, they told me Dickey’s (one of the franchise locations in some chain-ridden strip mall). Ew.

I was born in Dallas & raised in the Metroplex. I hightailed it to Austin as soon as I was legally allowed to live on my own. If I was hard pressed to move back to one of the two larger/somewhat-more-affordable metro areas of this state, it would have to be Houston. Despite the smell, the swampiness, the lack of…

Dallas-born ‘80s-kid Cowboys fan here, and I have the exact same struggle. I was taught 2 things: always cheer for the Cowboys, and never support a Houston franchise.

He has talked about the Steelers already. He’s roasting EVERY NFL team, in order from worse record to best. He does it, literally, every year here. Try to have a sense of humor about your team - I know I have one with mine (which is why I cannot wait until tomorrow’s entry).

Oh, you are in for a TREAT. Drew cooks up some great stuff every Thursday revolving around the upcoming weekend’s NFL games. To say much more would do it a disservice, but just think of this “Why Your Team Sucks” series as a fun amuse-bouche (in Top Chef terminology) to its coming greatness. I can’t wait.

I love them too, but to be honest, the last work of theirs I truly enjoyed was Embryonic. It really is one of those albums I can listed to on loop & not get tired of. But everything else since has just seemed off to me & it kinda makes me sad.

I love them too, but I haven’t been able to listen to much of their more recent stuff without getting annoyed. And here I thought I was the one just getting old.

God, yes. I had a number of guys who I was interested in try to pressure me into a threesome back in my younger days because (a) I’m definitely not overtly girly, and (b) (quoting them) “c’mon, how can *you* NOT like girls?” UGH. I like girls fine as friends, but goddamnit, despite my best efforts at self-examining my…

According to the NYMag account of the event, you may be on to something:

It was a kinda-shitty time in my own life, but the memories of goofing off with my fellow movie theater coworkers at that time were some of the brighter spots at that age (and that song played every hour there as part of a few months’ lobby music loops, so it's permanently merged with those memories).