Photographic Evidence That Britney Is a Good Mom

Wowza

I'm a fan of Scarlett Johansson. I'm a fan of Keira Knightley. And, boy, are they throwing down some shock value on the cover of this month's Vanity Fair. (PG-13)

Valentine's Day Gift

Sorriness Part 2

Anyone else notice that former (and deceased) Cowboy Harvey Martin was not mentioned during the parade of MVPs before the Super Bowl? No so much as an acknowledgement that he was a former MVP.

Rah Rah

The Winter Olympics are set to begin, and then this tidbit comes along: "The committee in charge of organizing the games says about 150 female cheerleaders, from age 15 to 26, have been hired to pump up the crowds at Olympic ice hockey, speedskating and skiing events. They will dance to a mix of popular Italian music with traditional American cheerleading choreography."

The Star Telegram Is Bored

A former Fort Worth football player and now a member of the Denver Broncos gets stopped over the weekend and his passenger is arrested for a misdemeanor amount of marijuana. The story stayed up as the Lead Story on the Star-Telegrams' home page for over 12 hours.

The First Facial Transplant Patient . . .

. . . made an appearance today. Kinda makes you feel stoooopid that you fell for that Travolta/Cage movie. Edit: "Local newspapers have quoted one of [her] daughters as saying that on the night of May 27, the family dog scratched and bit away her mother's face after she had tried to kill herself with an overdose of sleeping pills."

Michael Douglas and Zeta-Jones . . .

. . . at the beach. (Click to enlarge).

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tried to persuade a Congressional committee today that the President listening to our telephone conversations without a warrant is OK. I think his argument was: "Trust us. We know what's good for you. And questioning us is really anti-American."

Super Bowl Commercials

My favorites were the Ameriquest "Don't Judge Too Quickly" ads. The doctor saying "that killed him" (referring to a fly as he stands over a man in a hospital bed - and with the patient's wife and daughter walking in - the balloon slipping from the kids hands was a nice touch), and the ad where the lady trips getting out of her seat in an airplane and ends up straddling the guy next to her. A great collection of all the ads is here (with a couple of "banned" ads)

I Wonder . . .

. . . if a football game was played yesterday with girls in their underwear? Oh, my.

Very odd . . .

. . . witnessing tool.

Sorriness

The parade of former MVPs before the Super Bowl was good stuff yesterday. But I noticed that Joe Montana wasn't there.

Here's the shocking reason why:

"Two sources close to the league said Montana refused to attend over money. One of the sources said Montana asked for a guarantee of at least $100,000 for appearances if he came here, and the league said it would not make that guarantee."

Why . . .

. . . on God's green earth are the Rolling Stones playing at halftime of the Super Bowl? I'm ....uh....in my forties and those guys were "before my time". You would think the NFL would want to appeal to the younger generation.

Sports Tidbit

The Dallas Morning News, of course, has a story today about the election of Cowboy Rayfield Wright into the Hall of Fame. He was in Detroit at the time (where the Super Bowl is being played). This sentence got my attention: "Wright said he'd driven here from his home in Weatherford to sell his new book, Wright Up Front, not to focus on Saturday's announcement."

Send A Cellular Text Message

You just need to know the phone number and the carrier of the recipient. (And be sure to tell the recipient who it is from). http://toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php

Wheels Are Off

A kid takes a hatchet in a gay bar and starts wailing on the patrons, flees with an old girlfriend, is stopped in another state by an officer who he shoots and kills - only to get shot in the head himself a few miles away in a police shootout. Now he's dead. Full story here. And the little dumpling had a myspace.com account (that's where the picture is from - notice the swastika in the background).

Puuleeeze

The Morning News had an article yesterday about Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Ray Rhodes. He is recovering well from two strokes he suffered during the season. But the story was about how stubborn he is - even while the stroke was taking place. After denying he was having a problem to his wife (he had crawled to the bathroom), he also was uncooperative after arriving at the hospital because they asked him to get in a wheelchair. "That was hard for me - to get in a wheelchair," he said. "You lose your manhood." Sheesh.