August 30, 2008 Dallas, TX

Wes had to speak at a morning panel at 10 AM, so I decided not to leave the hotel for breakfast, and Doc and Hood met me down in the lobby and we went to the 619 North bistro in the hotel for breakfast, and soon Wes joined us. The food was good, but overpriced, and Wes' panel was postponed because nobody got up early enough, since they had been up at clubs until at least 2 AM. When it finally got underway, Jeremy Miller spoke at length about The Source magazine, and then he headed out to his son's football game in Oklahoma City. I had been headed to lunch at Goff's Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers, but Wes talked me into eating lunch at the hotel restaurant instead. I spent much of the afternoon in bed with a headache, but I felt better later and got back up, and Wes decided to drive out to Houston to meet with Chaney Welch. I got with Doc and Hood, and they decided to ride out with me to Pappadeaux's on Oak Lawn Avenue, where we ate dinner. I had the shrimp en brochette for the first time, and it was really good. After stopping by Cafe Brazil for coffee, we headed back to the hotel, and they rode out to the lingerie party downtown. I decided to hang around the hotel since it was too late to ride the Trinity River Express train to Stars Jazz Club in Fort Worth, and a rapper from Waco drove up to meet with me, but he didn't get there until 2 AM. It was finally 3 AM when I got to bed.