Hockey!

Pre-season hockey has started. Ridiculously giddy over the prospect.

Yes, I know I'm strange. I don't care.

Go Stars!

More from Facebook

After a rather embarrassing outing against the University of North Texas, some SMU students have mobilized to create a Facebook group: SMU football is dead to me.

The group info is as follows:

"We stayed strong through a winless season. We felt joy in three wins. We charged the field with pride after TCU. But this is too much.

"We've been drinking the kool-aid for too long. A thrashing by North Texas after so much offseason hype and so many promises is just too much. We quit.

"We'll come back to SMU football if:
1. Phil Bennett fires Offensive Coordinator Rusty Burns.
2. SMU fires Phil Bennett.
3. We somehow, miraculously, make it to a conference championship or bowl game.

"Until then we'll find another team to support. Maybe soccer, or something. "

I won't be joining this group, b/c SMU football isn't QUITE dead to me. It's getting there, though. Phil Bennett is a nice guy and all, and he's had a rough life, but SMU football is really, really awful.

Good thing we're not playing TCU this year. It would sting giving back that Iron Skillet.

Enid Collins

This weekend I went thrift store shopping. I discovered one of the joys of living in Texas: the serendipitous discovery of an Enid Collins box bag.

"Who is Enid Collins?" you ask. She was a woman who began designing purses in Medina, TX in 1959. Her little home business grew into a booming enterprise of quirky purses that have now become major collector items for aficionados of vintage accessories. I had no idea until my vintage-wise friend became obsessed by Collins of Texas' distinctive "box bags" a few months ago. Each design has a name. Mine is "for the birds!" and has 5 multicolored birds painted on the front. My find isn't one of the flashier, plastic jewel-studded creations, but it is still delightfully eccentric and probably worth more than the $5 I paid for it if I decided to put it up on ebay.

P.S. If you ever stumble upon a wooden box purse at a garage sale, thrift store, or your grandmother's closet, you can determine if it is an Enid Collins by looking on the inside for "Collins of Texas." The majority of the purses were designed with a mirror on the inside. Sometimes the mirrors are gone, but you will see a space where one was. It will usually have the design title written on the lower left corner. Most, particularly the older ones, will have an an "ec" logo in the lower right corner of the design; 1970s ones have "Collins of Texas" instead. She also designed canvas totes with wooden bottoms.