- For some reason I dreamed/dreamt last night that I was running away from a date through a forest on a college campus. And I mean I was hauling arse like that guy in Apocalypto. And, in reality, I only went out with her once during my junior year in college.
- But I showed up for our date in a robe. Not a Hugh Hefner robe. Just an old bath robe. I have no idea.
- I blew through the TIVO'd Grammy's last night. Pink is hot in a trashy way (and has no fear), I don't know what I think about Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas are freaks you can't take your eyes off of, Stevie Nicks still has it, and I'm embarrassingly unfamiliar with Zac Brown.
- The actual Ground Hog celebration beats me down. The Ground Hog movie does not.
- I should have mentioned that Baylor's men's basketball be the Empire on Saturday in overtime. I slept through it. Basketball just doesn't do it for me.
- I think it would be tough on a kid to raise a steer for the Stock Show only to know it's going to the slaughter house. That would have freaked me out. Heck, it would freak me out now.
- Somebody in Katy, TX won $144 million from the Texas lottery. I deserved that.
- Why in the world would you kill yourself in your mother's house? (Jay Novacek wife story)
- Had someone tell me yesterday that I'm old enough to go crazy now. "If you had done it in your thirties, everyone would think you were weird. Now you'd just be eccentric." Good point.
- If Liberally Lean readers invaded the old "People to People" swap-your-stuff local radio show it would be like this. (Language warning.)
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Been dreaming a lot also lately, weird things.
Pink is very hot. I agree, in a trashy way. I have been called weird for liking her.
Stevie Nicks will always be in the top ten female song artists of my day. I asked my son last night if he knew who she was, or Fleetwood Mac. He had never heard of them. Rhianna....mmmmmm
Stock Show is way out of line anymore.
We could all use $144 mill.
Jay, you and yours are in our prayers this day!
Stevie Nicks does, indeed, still have it.
Maybe her issues revolved around her mother? Maybe she didn't want to emotionally ruin the house her and her family live in?
Whatever (and wherever) it's still very sad.
The Blind Side is a good movie - the Texas Monthly article is one of a series of articles/columns that feel the movie is one more “magic negro” film where the black character are there to make white people feel good about helping blacks.
I feel that’s an easy and tired way of looking at this film. In my opinion the real story is that people who are in unbelievable desperate situation can’t just lift themselves up alone. They need outside help – churches, social services, good hearted citizens, the government etc.
Unlike the conventional wisdom in almost all cases where someone pulls themselves up by their bootstraps - there is almost always someone else pulling with them – that’s an important message that needs to be told.
Raised show steers for 10 years growing up---it never got easier to walk them to that 18 wheeler and take that halter off one last time! In fact, cried all the way back to the metroplex from Houston one year! We knew that was part of it, and no matter how much it hurt, we could always look forward to the next year. I can still today, at 40+ years old, watch kids do the same thing and cry myself! It never did hurt to see those checks (sometimes small but a couple HUGE) come rolling in about a month later. Funded next years projects and put me through college. Part of the life lessons of the projects. You won't meet a finer group of youth! Great program that should get more acknowledgement and supprt! Good luck to 4-Hers and FFA memebers showing market hogs and steers this week in FW (and the rest of the stock show season!)
Yeah, if the Texas Monthly story is about "white people feeling good about themselves when helping blacks", they need to interview the REAL lady behind the story--she'll tear them a new a$$hole for being so stupid. Sandra Bullock most definitely did NOT overplay her character!! It doesn't matter what it LOOKS like, it is what it is. Typical Texas Monthly liberal Austin crap. "Liberals" TALK about helping the disadvantaged--"Conservatives" just DO it. Must have stung liberal rag writers really bad when the lady in the movie was a real conservative-type.
I used to host People to People back in the day. It was a beating getting calls all day after the show: "What was the phone number for the _____ that was for sale?" But at least we knew there were people listening.
Loved me some stock shows! Always loved the city folk walking around, agog at the many shapes and sizes of livestock. Some of the conversations were priceless. A mature bull "stretching" always drew a crowd.
My Other Brother Darryl
I agree with BG that it wasn't too considerate of her mother, either, to commit suicide in her home! Poor mom! Better to go off somewhere in the woods to a remote location or something.....suicide's a very very selfish act in my opinion.
On a lighter note...nice to see a girl who hasn't paid to have fake parts installed! Refreshing.
I would like to bid 11 millliiooon $ on de cactus!!!! Or one night in the sack with myself--I don't want to stay the fat!!!
The eccentric thing was hilarious. Stevie Nicks is awesome and she for sure still has it and she is still a must see live.
Perhaps suicidal people get so mad at another person-to get even they figure I'll just kill me. That'll show'em.
Why is it that when I look at your random thoughts, my random thoughts turn into "I gotta lose ten pounds & exercise?"
COME ON SUMMER!!!!!!!!
Barry, I hate to be the one to tell you, but crazy people are the last to know that they have already arrived. Not all "crazy" old people are cute little guys that dress funny and do things eccentrically. Some are bitter, spiteful creatures that lash out at already wounded individuals (the Novacek family). Also in their paranoia and lack of regard for the rest of humanity, they have to believe that because of how truely hateful they are, surely no other white person could really treat a black person as a fellow human.
Your mention of pending craziness just verifies what I have seen on your blog in the recent past. There has been a subtle change from the smug, sarcastic comments that could draw the crazy haters out from under their rocks to the recent uncharacteristic bitterness permeating your later posts.
Unlike many who have replied, I have no knowledge that can refute your attack on Jay Novacek, but I am shocked that what I assumed to be poor judgement caused you to make your comment with no apparent provocation or information to back it up.
I just hope this is a temporary symptom of the stress caused by the results of the senate race in Mass.or your annual funk in February because no matter how hard you try, its not your history month. If these symtoms persist, please get professional help before you find yourself as some old Tea Party guy's b*tch at the nursing home.
Another hard thing was if you didn't make the sale with your animal you couldn't send him to the sell and get market price. Everything you had feed the animal was top of the line and cost the most. The only thing you could do was put him in the family freezer. THAT WAS HARD
Had a kid in class the other day tell me not to freak out about some animal he was showing because it wasn't a "terminal" show. I asked what that meant. Wish I hadn't.
Glad to see Michelle Obammy up for best actress at the Oscars.
B.G. is finally sobbering up and getting the right idea about the Random Thought line of women.....two days in a row......NEW WORLD RECORD
Anybody who feels freaked out about the death of animal and is a meat eater- is more than dishonest it's a little strange and irratonal.
Much more realistic: the salivary glands go into overdrive at the sight of a fat Angus cow when you're hungry.
Ummmmm- Angus-ie.
Funny. You calling Pink "trashy." There's a little pot calling kettle going on there.
I agree 100% Chupa. We always named any "pet" cow something like Ribeye, T-Bone, Brisket, ect.
Gets your mind right from the start.
Baby got back and a tramp stamp!
My kind of woman.
We had a really mean steer one time when I was a kid showing back in the 70s-early 80s---hurt my little sister (he left a perfect hoof print in her rib cage--I think she was 6 or 7). We all had a great time "stabbing" the steaks with our forks! Ah, memories! We are all grown now and all of our kids did show until graduation or still do show! Wouldn't trade any of those memories or network of friends! Gets in your blood and stays!
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