OK, let me confess that I didn't see Oprah when she came to the State Fair of Texas. My bad. And I didn't get to see yesterday's episode featuring her visit. Also forgot to record it. Double my bad. But...
OK, that gal knows how to put on a show. I just watched Oprah Winfrey's show from the State Fair of Texas, and it was good. (I can't go quite as far as my wife, the resident Opraholic, who proclaimed...
OK, so maybe Oprah's brief excursion to Fair Park wasn't such a big deal for her, y'all, but she sure got some Texans worked up over her visit. Later today, we get to see if she, ahem, was able to...
Set your recorders. Mom just called to say that on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, they're touting that the State Fair of Texas episode will air on Monday. I had predicted that a show from the fair would never be...
At last week's Oprah-palooza at the State Fair, they said the show they were taping might air this week. But I just checked the lineup for the week, and Big Tex is no where in sight. People have been telling...
We had friends staying with us this weekend, and they braved the Texas-OU crowd to attend the State Fair on Saturday. (Lori and I were glad to have another commitment that let us beg off on going.) Well, our friends...
At the State Fair on Monday, Oprah went on about how she had overeaten all that good fair food on her visit the previous afternoon. Couldn't eat another thing. Said she even woke up during the night feeling sick from...
"There's nothing like Fletcher's corny dogs and a beer at 9 in the morning before an 11 a.m. game." -- Tina Tuccelli, president, OU alumni club of Dallas Or, heck, before anything!...
Good morning boys and girls. Yours truly took off a few days so that my wife could take a mini-vacation out West. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished, and Shannon returned with something akin to a migraine, thus extending...
Of course everyone was there yesterday to see Oprah. But a real streak of self-promotion ran through that crowd, too. I guess they all hoped to be "discovered" by Oprah and be set for life. One of the first women...
Blow, Ragland Over on the State Fair blog, we're asking readers in a poll: What's your favorite thing to do at the fair? Food, rides or attractions? Floyd is off today. But I already know her answer....
..of any contest anywhere. I still have bad memories of trying to wolf down three chicken fried steaks at an all-you-can-eat CFS supper when I was younger. My best friend, J.P., who wore bigger pants and had a bigger appetite...
While visiting a relative at a retirement home yesterday, I overheard a senior lady reminiscing about visiting the State Fair of Texas when she was a child. "My mother would give each of us a dollar," she said. "It was...
International fried-thing superstar Abel Gonzales, who made his bones with such State Fair innovations as Fried Coke (right), is back. As always, he's circumspect about what objet frite he's cooking up for the fair. But he hints that this time...
Life on the Midway: Here, games of chance turns fortunes. Come home, teddy bear....
Yearning hearts incline As the mighty voice rings forth. He says, "Howdy, folks."...
Sweet, cotton candy, Smallest pony in the world! Streets and blood lines clogged....
Corny dog romance Crisp, golden-fried, mustard-bathed Wed to a cold beer....
OK, Harris, your State Fair of Texas contest note reminded me of when a bunch of us graybeard journalists used to sit at Louie's -- oh, I'd say 20-25 years ago -- and write Haikus on napkins. This is for...
Sugar, grease and salt I swoon to the siren call. Fry it. I will come....
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