2112 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Weekend getaways, or the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I am sure you love this quote:"The average Dallas citizen in the suburbs doesn't have a good idea of what is going on in downtown Dallas. "Looks like there are i610 snobs in Big-D, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 I like this assesment from over there, also:Link:http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/showpost...08&postcount=25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I like this assesment from over there, also:Link:http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/showpost...08&postcount=25<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Doesn't sound like trolleygirl has been here recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 What I find funny is the term "LoMac"! Is that the low cal Mac & Cheese eaten by mid-west transplants?And Deep Ellum is walkable? More like run-for-your-lifeable. (duh, I know it's lower McKinney, but please) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 What I find funny is the term "LoMac"! Is that the low cal Mac & Cheese eaten by mid-west transplants?And Deep Ellum is walkable? More like run-for-your-lifeable. (duh, I know it's lower McKinney, but please)<{POST_SNAPBACK}>LoMac?Pardon me while I hurl my foie gras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 And Deep Ellum is walkable? More like run-for-your-lifeable.I shouldn't laugh at that but I can't help it.As for the pass... hey, it's not a bad idea. What could it hurt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 "As for the pass... hey, it's not a bad idea. What could it hurt?"Well, Hizzy, that really depends on whether you decide to walk the walkable Deep Ellum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 "Uh, oh! Now you've done it! You're in Deep Ellum now, Mister!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 "Uh, oh! Now you've done it! You're in Deep Ellum now, Mister!"<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I didnt feel unsafe in deep elum when I was there this past month to be honest with you. I did feel unsafe under the freeway parking areas - there was evidence of car break-ins. But then again that happens here too in any place that has little people walking around and at night. So not much difference in safety I would guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 But back to the weekend getaways, I guess what I really enjoyed was their smugness in assuming Houston is so void of nightlife and culture that we should be included in their initial marketing strategy, along with Midland for crying out loud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 LoMac?Pardon me while I hurl my foie gras.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well, I respect the guy who came up with that. I just wish non of us would do any of that, including whatever Houstonian who came up with NoDo (North Downtown), which of course no one ever refers to. I hate that term. L.A. did it also, Seatle did it with SoDo, and so did Austin with SoCo (South Congress). Enough with the copying of NY terms allready, it makes all of us look like, well, copy cats. None of us are New York. Yet New York is not any of us either, and we should trumpet what is real about us. Nothing works as well as organically grown terms that have meaning through history, like The Montrose, or Deep Elum, WestU, The Rice Village. All of those are real and wholesome, and they don't smell of copy cats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Dont' be a CoCat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Well, I respect the guy who came up with that. I just wish non of us would do any of that, including whatever Houstonian who came up with NoDo (North Downtown), which of course no one ever refers to. I hate that term. L.A. did it also, Seatle did it with SoDo, and so did Austin with SoCo (South Congress). Enough with the copying of NY terms allready, it makes all of us look like, well, copy cats. None of us are New York. Yet New York is not any of us either, and we should trumpet what is real about us. Nothing works as well as organically grown terms that have meaning through history, like The Montrose, or Deep Elum, WestU, The Rice Village. All of those are real and wholesome, and they don't smell of copy cats.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>That's a damn fine point, 2112, and I couldn't agree more. Lame NY inspired nicknames are just that...lame. They have no history behind them, and are no better than the faux "town centers" surrounded by parking lots that someone referred to on another post.How could a SoHo knockoff ever compete with Deep Ellum, which came into existence when the old blues men described Elm Street in their southern soulful dialect? Or, Offats Bayou, named for the poor, uneducated men who would ask the train conductor to drop them "off ats the bayou" in Galveston? Or Lower Westheimer, as opposed to upper Westheimer, home of Uptown (one of the few recently coined terms to stick)? Or any of our wards, 1st through 6th, or West End or Rice Military? The names work because they represent thepast history of the area. Hipsters, constantly in search of the new "in" thing, try to hip up a place with a new urban name. I can think of nothing less hip than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Which begs the question: am I hip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 If you have to ask, the ansewer is no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Ok, thanks...Just need a confirmation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 It's hip to be square.Report: Trying to be hip is losing its appeal "The whole point of being hip in the pure sense of the word is to essentially be oblivious to it," says pop culture observer Robert Thompson. "Now the only thing you can describe a hipster as being is a 'hipster' in quotation marks. Almost by definition a hipster is a wannabe." (Los Angeles Times)http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcas...ip20jul20.story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Well, I respect the guy who came up with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 JoTo - Jordy's Toilet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 JoTo - Jordy's Toilet <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If there were ever a SoHo knockoff that deserved to be promoted, this would be it. BTW - Great article, Coog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danes75 Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 um... yeah... i lived in dallas for a long... long time and served on the Uptown Association board... no one, and i do mean NO ONE calls that area LoMac.kinda makes me chuckle thinking about those people who live in sherman/denison/durant and call it Far North Dallas..... lmaoTrollygirl needs to get back on the short bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 "Trollygirl needs to get back on the short bus." Chances are, she lives in 'Far North Dallas' and was trying to sound (tragically) 'hip'. At any rate, these weekend getaway promotions are not unusual. And marketing to Houston is not a slap either, even if the quote was insulting. Houston's CVB markets Houston weekend getaways to Dallas, and has ever since downtown was redone. It is merely an attempt to fill up hotel rooms on slow weekends, and short trips are easier to plan. Galveston markets Houston and Dallas as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 From what I understand, TG lives pretty much in the core of Dallas-- or at least inside their "loop" (Loop 12). But I submit you can't always take comments from people from rival cities too seriously, lest you miss when they might be joking around. 2112, You're NOT hip, dude. You're old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 "But I submit you can't always take comments from people from rival cities too seriously, lest you miss when they might be joking around." Good point. If she was joking, I stand corrected. If she was not, well..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I am about due for a trip to Bill's Records and Tapes in Richardson. And it's nowher near LoMac! Oh, the humanity! Bet she rides a scooter, too. FYI - these are not "Houston" scooter chicks I was talking about in another post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 2112,You're NOT hip, dude. You're old. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why you little youngster whipersnapper you...just wait until I show up at your party not wearing any PANTS! oh...did I say that out loud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Don't worry. I'm old, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I dont think I could ever bring myself to setting foot in that city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I am about due for a trip to Bill's Records and Tapes in Richardson.And it's nowher near LoMac! Oh, the humanity! Bet she rides a scooter, too. FYI - these are not "Houston" scooter chicks I was talking about in another post. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, ours don't even look that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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