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A Hilltop-working FBvian sent over a t-shirt for Adam. Looks to me like he’s pretty ponied up. Now if he’d just ditch the hipster Lisa Loeb/Buddy Holly glasses.

An alert FBvian points us to the story on ESPN.com:

As part of the team’s “come into the cold” ad campaign to sell seats for 2007-08, the Stars took a shot at the NBA’s referee scandal on a billboard near the American Airlines Arena, the building the Stars share with the Dallas Mavericks.

The message? “The only thing our refs shave is the ice.”

[standing, clapping] Not sure whether the credit goes to Brad Alberts or Jim Lites or who. But that’s some good work, Stars.

If you followed my live blog yesterday evening from Victory Park (thank you, iPhone!), now you can watch the video from last night’s Gordon Keith Show. It’s further proof that Gordon is an ambush artist who has no scruples. I was really offended that he made fun of my thinning hair and left me hanging on a high-five.

Plano weighs in with the highest median household income for a city with more than 250,000 people, according to CNNMoney.com, coming in at $77,038. That’s ahead of San Jose ($73,804) and San Francisco ($65,497), and well above the national median household income of $48,451.

An FBvian also fed up with the Labor Day MADD hype sends us this from a magazine I’m subscribing to by the end of the day — it’s a guide by a former cop on how to avoid getting a DUI and an interview with the author. Good lunch reading.

For all you shoe addicts, one of my favorite websites, shuzsociety.com, is giving away a pair of designer (Christian Louboutin, Missoni, Moschino, Marc Jacobs, or Strutt Couture) shoes every Friday this September. Good luck.

Adam, please see my new Fantasy Football team name in our poker league. For those of you who read his earlier post, it won’t be hard to figure out. Two words. Ends with McGill.

Reading Michael Davis’ post over at Dallas Progress about the substandard Minyard location at Marsalis and Illinois being robbed at gunpoint reminded me of this incident at the now-defunct Lakewood location. That store, besides for lacking any sort of security, also wasn’t exactly what you’d classify as “at the forefront of supermarket technology.” I know it’s a small sample size, but that’s enough for me. Minyards in the Dallas-Fort Worth area: You are officially on notice. It’s about time to pony up.

With Labor Day closing in on us like GOP senator in a one-stall public restroom, attorney/blogger Robert Guest breaks down the standard pre-holiday press release from the always reasonable, never hysterical folks at MADD. Good stuff here.

You want to know how Eric is going to spend the rest of day? The man addicted to real estate porn (aka looking at houses for sale that he can’t afford) will be fiddling with our new Ebby Halliday search tool. We’re the only media outlet in town offering the entire MLS database through our site. Seriously good stuff.

1. My retirement plan keeps growing. It’s at $330 million, and the drawing is Friday night.

2. Beginning Saturday, it will be easier to prosecute and convict owners of dogs that attack people. Good law, makes me happy.

3. I like the idea of the Grand Prairie police department’s MySpace page, which is used to recruit officers and tell the public about what the department is up to. But I’m horrified by its choice of music: Nickelback’s “If Everyone Cared.”