Spent last weekend in Dallas, Texas, for the 86th dinner interview.
Beyond chatting with a comedian (look for the article next week) I also got to explore the city. That included a wander around Dealey Plaza, the site of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It was a weird experience. There’s a large white X painted on the road right where the fatal shot hit, and it was bizarre to see families rushing into the middle of the street and posing on the cross for pictures.
Nevertheless, there’s a fascinating museum on the sixth floor of what used to be the Texas School Book Depository building. That’s the floor where assassin Lee Harvey Oswald fired from, and the museum is packed with interesting artifacts and exhibitions about JFK, Oswald and more — it’s worth a visit.
In significantly less macabre news, after my museum trip I grabbed lunch at the nearby West End location of Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse. I was determined to get some good barbecue during my time in Texas, and this didn’t disappoint. I got a ridiculously cheap yet very generous platter of sliced brisket, pulled pork, and two pork ribs served with mashed potato and baked beans. Fantastic.
Unfortunately I didn’t think to take a picture of the food or the restaurant (although there will be snapshots with the dinner interview). Instead, the above photo is from a cross-street in West End, a historic district with a great restaurants and shops for tourists like me.