Basketball Players and All-Star Games and Prostitutes, Oh MY!
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According to NBCDFW, and the radio station I was listening to this morning, we have a new thing to get all upset about in Dallas. This is due mostly to the fact that the Cowboys season is over, and it’s hard to keep whining and rehashing the SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER (Right, Emmitt?).
The NBA All-Star game will be held here in Dallas this year. And you know what that means! Hookers! Now, rather than just be…less than concerned about what adults do in the privacy of their own hotel rooms, we’re going to roll out extra police and have undercover agents in nearly every hotel in the surrounding area.
I’m considering getting all dressed up, and hanging out suspiciously in a hotel bar, to see if I can get picked out as a prostitute. Fun, right? Who’s with me?
Also, here’s what I heard when I read this article: If you’re going to commit a crime in Dallas that ISN’T getting paid for sex…the NBA All-Star game night is the night to do it. The police will be distracted trying to bust people who are essentially hurting no one, so they won’t be paying a lot of attention to you rapist, murderers, and burglars. FREE DAY!
Why are we so freaked out about this? Honestly, I don’t believe that prostitution is a simple issue, any more than I believe selling organs is a simple issue. Exploitation of unwilling women (and men…I guess) is never okay in my book. But this seems like an awful lot of concern about women who seem to know what they’re doing. Am I crazy here?
In other news, the Dallas bloggers have decided to take a page from the DC book. So we’re planning a night of drinks and debauchery next Wednesday! Okay, probably mostly drinks, but a girl can hope. It’s not exactly happy hour because we’re coming from all over the Metroplex and we’d rather NOT fight traffic and be stabby by the time we meet each other. We’re smart ladies.
When: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
Where: Sherlock’s @ Park and 75
Who’s Coming: Shine, Gofahne, Graygrrrl, Natalie, Mary, and Carissa (and you?)
Let us know if you want to attend! Email me at ishineoutloud@gmail.com
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about 7 months ago
I am SO in! Except, I don’t have anything to wear, so I’ll need to borrow some stuff… Do you have a REALLY slutty dress I could wear? I’ll also need a wig, but I’m assuming with the locks you’re rocking, you don’t have one handy so I’ll hit the Goodwill for something special. I’ll probably shave my legs and let you put makeup on me.
What do you think?
Did you mean just girls? Is this weird…? Nevermind.
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shine Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Don’t you even worry about it. All genders welcome. I’ve got just the dress for you.
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about 7 months ago
I read about this as well and kinda laughed. Don’t we have better things to waste taxpayers money on than cracking down on whores? Besides, this is Dallas; how would they even know? Half the ladies walking the streets at night look like hookers to me…
Did you also read how downtown residents will have to get special passes just to get on their street? Another reason I don’t like in the cement jungle. Give me Murderville any day!
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shine Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I’m sooooo hookering it up.
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about 7 months ago
Awww, Sherlock’s! I miss Dallas sometimes.
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shine Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
You should SOOOO come for drinks! What? It’s only a plane ticket!
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about 7 months ago
I lived in Chicago when the MLB All Star Game came there and I don’t remember any huge prostitution crack down. Is that because of the different reputation of the NBA or because of the different insanity of Dallas?
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shine Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Ha! You were just labeled “Moderately Spammy.”
I think the second. Maybe you guys don’t care so much about prostitutes in Chicago.
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about 7 months ago
I wanna attend happy hour!!! …oh, wait. I’m kinda far away. Boo.
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shine Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:55 am
You can still come. I’ll let you.
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about 7 months ago
I’m having flashbacks to when Detroit recently hosted the SuperBowl. In order not to allow the city to look so run down (not that it can really be missed), the city government rounded up all of the homeless they could find and lodged them for the weekend in hotels in the outlying suburbs. That was their plan the “beautify the city. Of course those of us in the area still refer to the city as Detoilet instead of Detroit, so obviously it didn’t do much in Michigan to improve its image!
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shine Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:56 am
I remember hearing about that!
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Sean Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Funny that you heard about it. How is it supposed to improve the city’s image if everyone knows about the cover up? More of the local tax dollars at work.
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