B is for Burgers: Now that son NoBGood is an Oklahoma graduate and unemployed in Texas, he has time to lunch with Mr. B. We like Pop’s Safari Room because where else can you eat, drink and smoke in the middle of the day. B believes Pop’s burgers compare with the best in town and orders the Hell’s Half Acre or the Jacksboro Highway with a Swisher Sweet cigar for dessert. NoBGood believes he’s rich and orders the crab cakes and a MonteCristo cigar. You’re a burger crowd; we’ve got lunch for four burgers with fries and a drink.   Lazy days of summer: When Mr. B was little boy b, roaming the farmstead in Lipan, he dreamed of summer camping at Camp Fire USA First Texas Council’s El Tesoro summer “resort” near Granbury. Alas, the Bees were too poor, so b and twin brother bb just fished and ate worms, hoping one day to get on a reality TV show. One of your kids won’t suffer the same fate because in celebration of El Tesoro’s 75th anniversary, Sara at Camp Fire has Hatched a plan to send one child (entering first through 10th grade) to camp for a week!   Just in time for summer: This is a repeat of a sellout. Well, maybe a successful giveaway. Debra Smith at Pulliam Pools put on her goggles & fins and went underwater to put together another huge picnic basket of summer specials including flag toothpicks, confetti, plates, bowls, snacks and more! It is a patriotic theme geared toward July 4 and it also includes a folding chair with the all-so-important cup holders.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK       Clang, clang, moo went the trolley…. Fort Worth’s famous longhorn, Molly, will now take visitors and residents from one end of downtown Fort Worth to the other. On May 21, The Fort Worth Herd led a fleet of Molly the Trolleys in a parade down Main St., where 3M (Mayor Mike Moncreif) gave a brief speech.The line will connect the entertainment area at the north end of downtown with the central business district and southern convention area. The trolley is free and runs every 15 minutes, making stops along Commerce, Main, Worthington, and Houston Streets.     Sponsored by

Drives me Crazy: Patsy Cline’s song “Crazy” is one of Mr. B’s favorites, so when Darcy Koch and Susan Nix from Casa Mañana called with tickets to Always … Patsy Cline, well, the tux was packed and ready to go. Crazy as it may seem, the tickets were for Newz-E-Letter readers and there’s a family four pack of them good any night through Saturday. The show is a humorous, musical tribute to the country singer who died at age 30 and based on her friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger. 

Slowing slowly: Rebecca Barksdale says now that she is out of the auto industry and working for Tarrant County Commissioner Gary Fickes that her work week has gone from 90 hours to 60.   Third time’s a charm: Second marriages fail 70 percent of the time and the only common denominator is YOU.

Y-M-C-A: The Village People won’t be there, but Chamber Am-Bass-Adores will cut the ribbon this week for the new and improved YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth at 512 Lamar Street. Photos from Chamber events can be seen online.

This may not be PG: Gary Oliver is the owner of Mobile Thrones, which provides portable toilets and sinks. He says it’s a “step up” from your average portable potty, but didn’t say according to whose research. Love his email address—jacksplash@...

Talk, talk, talk: Chamber members rave about the meet-and-greet opportunities that Carole Ann Fleming and Terry Johnson provide for members they sign up. They will tell all their networking secrets June 17 during the Lunch & Learn at Blue Mesa.   Just wondering: If a manufacturer fabricates, does that mean it is lying?

Semi-wondering: With all the restrictions for advertising that lawyers and doctors have, who’s monitoring their blogs, Linked-In and Facebook accounts?

Realllly wondering: Mr. B saw the business card -- Night Moods -- and wanted to quickly sign up to party until he realized it was night-time landscaping specialists Billy and Halli Ford.

Kudos: Dallas gandered this way and the Dallas Business Journal's 2009 Women in Business Awards honorees July 16 include “Changemaker” Jo-Ann Olsovsky of Burlington Northern Santa Fe and “Woman to Watch” Anne Holland of OmniAmerican Bank. Watch discreetly, though, because husband Barney of Barney Holland Oil/Fuelman might be the jealous type.

Master Nix: Nancy (not Susan) Nix in august will become executive director of the Executive MBA program at Neeley School of Business at TCU.

Model citizen: Yes, that’s T vice president Richard Maxwell standing tall in faux Dallas Cowboys gear for Gill Children’s Services’ 30-on-the-30 gala July 30 at Cowboys Stadium.   Everybody’s doing it: A senior vice president of a public company in Fort Worth says he never had entered a Newz-E-Letter giveaway because he wouldn’t want other employees to know he is reading, especially his boss. When told his boss is a frequent reader and entrant, the SVP started clicking the next week.

Riddle me this: If you DVR Anne Low of Real Time Yoga, is it still Real Time?

Getting real: Alexander Chandler, owner of the residential real estate company with hisownself’s name, says how a realtor markets personally is a good indication of how he or she will market your property.

Cell-ing & selling: For many years, Chamber programs director Diana Dugan asked seminar attendees to turn off their cell phones before a presentation. Last week, the Samaritan House volunteer recruiter had her cell go off twice during Jason Smith’s online marketing presentation. If you missed the Arcos founder’s presentation, some highlights:

• 50 percent of Twitter registrants never go back to it.
• There are 65-70 factors that manipulate search engine optimization (SEO) popularity, so be careful of quick fix solutions. “There’s a lot of fraud out there, a lot of half-truths.”
• Google is nearly as concerned with pay-per-click fraud as it is with the reliability of its searches.
• Future promotion will center on mobile technology—smart phones and text-based marketing. Jason said 35 percent of people read email, but 73 percent read text messages.
• Also big on the horizon is video marketing, but you “have to be creative” to stand out.

All problems disappear: Kenny Mills, Aerospace Consulting Agency, and his wife are part-time magicians. They recently worked a RadioShack event.   Coming soon: Red Productions’ second full-length movie begins shooting in September. Searching for Sonny is a mystery during a class reunion.