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Monsters, musings, memories
By LARRY POWELL / The Dallas Morning News - Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Good morning, metroreaders, mindreaders and others inclined toward woolgathering.
STREAMING THOUGHTS: From my cubicle here in luxurious Newshound Row, I can see the Flying Red Horse high atop the Magnolia Hotel. It is the symbol of Dallas as certainly as the Dallas Cowboys, except the Flying Red Horse still lives here. ...
If they made triple-decker, doublewide amphibious mobile homes, Dallas could have a fleet of flat-bottomed casino boats on the Trinity River. ...
Speaking of the river, I was once a judge at a Texas-OU weekend tug-o-war. The losers were pulled into the Trinity River near downtown. I often wonder how their health is holding up. ...
As Halloween approaches, we need a good freaky monster sighting down by the river to boost tourism. While you ponder that, consider that the 4th annual Texas Bigfoot Conference is Saturday in Jefferson, the little tourist town in the spooky woods about 180 miles east of here. Craig Woolheater of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (www.texasbigfoot.com) notes that among conference items of interest are plaster casts of Sasquatch handprints from – get this! – Oklahoma.
If Oklahoma can have a Bigfoot, why can't Dallas? Too much pavement? Bigfoot could live here and never touch mud or grass. Might be living in the DART tunnel. Just something to think about.
AN ECLECTIC QUESTION: Years ago, a really nice woman, Cheyenne Turner, ran an organization called The Eclectic Viewpoint. It examined everything from Bigfoot to UFOs. Cheyenne died in 1998. The group soon vanished like swamp gas at Area 51. Reader Marsha Thacker has called to ask whether a similar group exists. Perhaps we need this sort of thing to balance our steady diet of mayhem, pro football and politics.
Reach Larry Powell at lrpowell @dallasnews.com or P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, Texas 75265. Fax 214-977-8321 or call 214-977-8487. Read Larry Powell's Pet Blog at www.dallasnews.com/pets
By LARRY POWELL / The Dallas Morning News - Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Good morning, metroreaders, mindreaders and others inclined toward woolgathering.
STREAMING THOUGHTS: From my cubicle here in luxurious Newshound Row, I can see the Flying Red Horse high atop the Magnolia Hotel. It is the symbol of Dallas as certainly as the Dallas Cowboys, except the Flying Red Horse still lives here. ...
If they made triple-decker, doublewide amphibious mobile homes, Dallas could have a fleet of flat-bottomed casino boats on the Trinity River. ...
Speaking of the river, I was once a judge at a Texas-OU weekend tug-o-war. The losers were pulled into the Trinity River near downtown. I often wonder how their health is holding up. ...
As Halloween approaches, we need a good freaky monster sighting down by the river to boost tourism. While you ponder that, consider that the 4th annual Texas Bigfoot Conference is Saturday in Jefferson, the little tourist town in the spooky woods about 180 miles east of here. Craig Woolheater of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (www.texasbigfoot.com) notes that among conference items of interest are plaster casts of Sasquatch handprints from – get this! – Oklahoma.
If Oklahoma can have a Bigfoot, why can't Dallas? Too much pavement? Bigfoot could live here and never touch mud or grass. Might be living in the DART tunnel. Just something to think about.
AN ECLECTIC QUESTION: Years ago, a really nice woman, Cheyenne Turner, ran an organization called The Eclectic Viewpoint. It examined everything from Bigfoot to UFOs. Cheyenne died in 1998. The group soon vanished like swamp gas at Area 51. Reader Marsha Thacker has called to ask whether a similar group exists. Perhaps we need this sort of thing to balance our steady diet of mayhem, pro football and politics.
Reach Larry Powell at lrpowell @dallasnews.com or P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, Texas 75265. Fax 214-977-8321 or call 214-977-8487. Read Larry Powell's Pet Blog at www.dallasnews.com/pets