Dallas at Night
“Did you ever see Dallas from DC-9 at night?”
Best if it’s Joe Ely belting out Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s classic of true Texas Music, song with the same name as the title refrain.
“Dallas is a jewel, oh Dallas gives off a beautiful light,
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?”
Mother’s Day, popped up to see my wee (Scorpio) mum.
She insisted on treating us to TexMex, and it was fancy place, sort of. Linen napkins, I know, right? Ordered up some “conchita pibil,” know the movie reference and Austin/San Antonio connection?
“Peaches.”
“?” (Just a look, right?)
“This places was ‘Peaches,’ back in the day.”
Random Miscellany?
All this has ever been, more experimental and experiential than anything else — not news.
“Did you ever see Dallas from DC-9 at night?”
Dallas – Jimmie Dale Gilmore and the Flatlanders: Unplugged
Trailer Cakes
Me wee mum, in a thoughtful gesture, and a nod towards an old place in Austin, picked up “Trailer Cakes.”
My Name is…
Seems like no trip to Dallas is complete without a trip to the mega-bookstore, Half-Price Books. This gift card at the register tickled me and I finally picked up a copy of a Latin textbook.
Finally.
