Long before that was a thing, we were naively motivated just to try to get all the stickers for each Summer Reading Program’s theme. That bookworm on this one was a main theme one year with segmented stickers for each book read.

Very San Diego 2012.

2026-07-04: Max begins his post-breakfast digestion nap routine on this Fourth of July #Caturday morning.

Just checked and April 2026 street view shows an extremely well preserved muffler man at Ken’s.

Just in time for the 4th of July holiday weekend, our Summer heat and humidity have prompted a still and stagnant Turtle Creek to display its vivid Dallas spin on American Flag Blue.

Still marveling at this bizarre little booklet from 1976. The "Scratch'n Sniff" technology was so advanced that the scents included all the important smells of 200 years of American history: Apples, Roses, Pine Trees, and Smoke.

It’s not easy to explain to younger people how omnipresent and occasionally odd the Bicentennial stuff was back then. That star logo was everywhere! The weirdness of some of it was normal for us kids—it was the ’70s after all—and the blatant commercialism apparently didn’t faze us either.

2026-06-27: After some post-poop zoomies this #Caturday morning, Max has now deployed his superpower of invisibility.

🎶 here in my ball i feel safest of all you're interrupting my nap get away from me now…

What an artifact of local radio history and early 1990s music.

Max, 16 years old, always small and 8.5 pounds on a good day, is excited about his upcoming role that will obviously earn him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Max is 16! His real birthday is unknown but celebrated on June 1 since I found him on November 1, 2010, at about 4-6 months old. Seen here soaking up the early evening sun yesterday, this perpetual kitten still gets the zoomies and vanquishes his catnip banana almost every day.

I found the screenshots I was saving as I watched—just amazing live television of an insanely destructive storm. “Dave” was driving while Amanda Benton shot video and did the live commentary cut-ins with the studio weatherman as they just calmly and methodically followed a huge tornado across Enid.

Just reading this headline with this photo makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Not to mention that the convention center redo will leave a large empty parcel right next to this concrete fortress. UTA architecture students have even designed a proposal for a new arena on the empty parcel!

An update from today with a photo confirming what I noticed walking home from the Easter pooch parade: The new, dare I say bland, mural is also by Michael Shellis! I hope they paid him well to cover up his much better, much more original, quirky and fun homage to only-in-Dallas icons.

The No Kings rally at City Hall Plaza today really exemplified what a powerful public gathering place for Dallas it can be. It makes me sick that the people inside that magnificent building behind the plaza are so venal and small-minded that they want to sell it off to be torn down for an arena.

2026-03-21: It’s Spring in Dallas! Not only will our high temps today and tomorrow be in the 90s (~33-34° C), the orange cones have already sprouted around the neighborhood as seen here on the Tollway and Oak Lawn. It was a nice morning to walk past all the people in cars.

2026-03-14: Max has chosen his cardboard circle to celebrate Pi Day Caturday.

Turtle Creek lived up to its name in this afternoon’s perfect Dallas weather. Turtles lined up on the spillway in the bright sun next to some cormorants while an egret and a dude in shorts fished from the shore upstream.

Dallas can somehow repair and maintain a building that’s 117 years old but City Hall must be sacrificed immediately to greedy out-of-town billionaires? P.S. “Connect the Core” is the lamest shit since solar-powered water taxis and the juggler under the overpass. Some of the same lame people, too.

I saved my copy of this national treasure. It’s a prized possession. I knew it would become topical again some day.

The city hall debate has me digging out old photos. Dallas always wants to sand off its rough edges and try to make its funkiness more presentable, often to its own detriment. New is always assumed to be better. So many dramatic changes over the years. This pic is from 1993, with a 2025 street view.

2026-02-08: The squatty but interesting little office building at Hall and Hood—a favorite of mine that I've nicknamed "Brutalism Junior"—was especially luminous and reflective when I walked by on this warm Dallas February afternoon.

2026-01-22: Having made sure both of his brushes are nearby and easily accessible, Max has now completed his preparation for the huge ice storm on its way to Dallas this weekend. I’m hoping the trend toward more sleet than freezing rain holds true so power outages will be limited.

This brand would do just fine as that one other thing.

I-30 through Downtown Dallas is completely shutdown this weekend with a detour arcing up Stemmons to Woodall Rodgers and back around on 345. I cannot imagine the clusterfuck of cars currently underway until Monday. TXDOT cameras show the demo of the Cadiz Street bridge deck falling onto the freeway.

2026-01-10: Max’s suggestion for a small #Caturday morning break from the morass of bad news seemingly everywhere is to stare with wonder at Channel One as the windy weather makes the leaves and branches of the magnolia tree right outside the window dance in the sunlight.

This was encouraging to see on facebook that people are being visible out in the suburbs. I've walked across that Collins bridge to an old job when my train to Arapaho was too late to catch my bus over Central Expressway. It was unpleasant. Kudos to these folks. www.facebook.com/share/p/17uK...

The new Subaru EV has even more black plastic than its Toyota sibling but they both have that egregious two-tone charge port door.

Ah yes, the calm and competent drivers on both Central and LBJ at the High Five Interchange famously located in Downtown Dallas.