Can anyone tell me how the Baylor-TCU game came out?

Just kidding.

I carried our WacoFork banner out to tailgate on Friday afternoon and had a fantastic time pre-gaming with everyone. We had hot dogs and burgers and beverages. You should really come by and see us next time. Sadly, though, I didn't get to go into the Floyd Casey stadium as I had a game of my own to cover in McGregor.

Right now, I'm sitting on a blue park bench at Katie's Frozen Custard eating hot dogs and washing them down with cold Coca-Cola and a creamy strawberry cyclone.

This is me reading summer its Last Rites for this year.

At the end of every month, I comb through all of the fantastic WacoFork reviews and pull out what I find to be some of the best individual lines.

I try to leave it pretty ambiguous by, where possible, extracting both the user's identity and the restaurant in question. However, one reviewer has risen to the top of the heap and must be named. It would be silly to act like mghamma isn't coming up with a bunch of the lines that I'm using in "Month in Reviews."

But … as of this week, mghamma has a challenger to her status as the witty, slashing swordswoman of the WacoFork reviews. And that challenger comes correct with with a ninja blade.

We don't get to choose our given names.

From that point forward we put careful attention into naming things, whether it be pets or cars or websites.

What's the skinny on Cafe Cappuccino?

Word on the street recently has been that one of Waco's favorite breakfast spots is closing one location and opening another one. And of course, we at WacoFork want to be the source that helps suss out these questions. So I found out a little information for you this morning.

What makes a great salsa?

You have an opinion. I know you do. So share it by commenting on this blog. But in case you're too shy, I'll give you some options to choose from. Is the thicker the better with salsa? Or does it need to be a little runny, and perhaps even slightly creamy in order to be dipped better? Does it need to be very spicy? Does it even need to be tomato based? Dictionary.com doesn't mention tomatoes, though it does suggest "especially a hot sauce containing chilies."

I can think of one ingredient that separates proper salsa from glorified tomato sauce. Cilantro.

Someone — I'm not sure who other than KCEN's Nick Piesco — judged Waco's margarita and salsa offerings during the Margarita & Salsa Festival on Saturday. I didn't attend, but I was interested to find out who won the contests.

It's Saturday and there's football on television. This feels good.

Granted it's high school football and the teams are from Florida and Alabama, but it's football and soon there's going to be college football on my television on Saturdays. That makes me happy.

I began this week on this blog by sort of teasing all of you good WacoFork readers with a new restaurant coming to town, which turned out to be Quaker Steak & Lube.

So I'll lead todays notes with a little more news. Through a bit of reconnaissance today, I learned that the old First Federal building at the intersection of Valley Mills and Lake Air is soon to be a retail center featuring two new restaurants.

I stopped by the Heart of Texas Coliseum this morning to check up on the status of Saturday's Margarita and Salsa Festival.

VIP tables are sold out, but chances are if you're trying to decide today whether or not to attend this event, you weren't concerned about reserving a VIP table. The good news, if this is something you want to do, is that $30 general admission tickets were still available as of 11 a.m. today.

What do you get for $30? Quite a bit actually.

Football season begins on Friday. Yep, already. It's what they call Zero Week in high school football and I'm keenly aware of this as I like to cover high school football games for newspapers and such.

The good folks at the Waco Tribune-Herald sports department have brought me on board again this season, which means I'll be found at high school football stadiums on Friday nights. I must remember to write about the touchdowns and tackles rather than the concession stand food.