Amy Fisher & Joey Buttafuco

Surreal

It's done. He's a Cowboy. It's a $25 million / 3 year deal with $10 million guaranteed for the first year.

1810 / 287 Wreck

Looks like we have a huge wreck around 11:00 a.m. this morning at the most dangerous intersection in the county: 287 / 1810. Initial reports are a car and an 18 wheeler getting tangled up. Possible three person fatality. Developing . . . Update. Three confirmed dead. One male. Two females. All appear to be under 20. Wise County residents. Next of kin being notified. Update: The driver was a female with a Decatur address. The two passengers have yet to be identified.

Tori Spelling Tattoo

My Weekend Is Now Occupied

I just got this email: "Hi there lovely,I was searching the net few days ago. I am new to tbhis thing.and saw your profiable. I decided to email you cause I found you attractive. I might come dobwn to your city in few weeks.Let me know if we can meet each other in perason.I amb attractive girl. I am bsure you wobn't raegrebt it.Reply to my personal email at rlji@lookyouniceboy.info"

Other Than That, He's Happy

al-Qaeda Did Not Visit Harmon Park

From the Update: ‘HOAX BOMB’ — A Parks Department employee discovered an object resembling a pipe bomb this morning at Harmon Park in Decatur, Police Chief Rex Hoskins said.The object was taken to the police station, and the Denton Bomb Squad was called in. The squad detonated the explosive and classified it as a “hoax bomb.” “This was either an attempt to make one, or somebody wanting it to look like a pipe bomb,” Hoskins said. Question: You have something that looks like a bomb so you move it to another location and then have the bomb squad take a look at it?

I'm Going . . .

. . . to walk through a parking lot barefooted and step on a hypodermic needle. Oh, wait. Somebody famous did that today.

Your Best Bag Of Money Now

According to the New York Times (no link because subscription required): Joel Osteen . . . the pastor of Houston's Lakewood Church, one of the nation's largest congregations, and the author of Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential. has signed a book deal with Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, that publishing insiders say is potentially one of the richest for a nonfiction book and could bring the author more than $10 million.

Things I Learned in the DMN Letter to the Editor Section

"I have never killed a man, but I have read a number of obituaries with a savage satisfaction." - Voltaire

$2.45

The price of gas outside of Walmart at lunch today.

Scam

CBS has been promoting that it will broadcast all of the NCAA Tourney games on the Web. Not that I was goofing off, but I tried to log on to check it out. Get this: They put you in line to see the games, assign you a number, and then start a 1:30 second counter. Once it reaches 0, you are repositioned in line. I went from 108,013 to 107,752 to 107,264 in four and half minutes. (There appears to be a way to pay $$$$ to bypass the line, but I don't care that much). Here's a screen shot.

Bombs, Bombs, And More Bombs

Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News Thursday, March 16, 2006, 9:34 AM CST BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The American military has reported that U.S. and Iraqi forces launched the largest air assault since the U.S.-led invasion against insurgents north of Baghdad.

I'm Still Alive

Do you ever use Google to search for your name on the web or in blogs? I just did and found out that someone who has my name is not doing well.

Oh, My!

From The Texas Lawyer Newspaper: "Vinson & Elkins answered the prayers of big-firm associates all over Texas by hiking its associate salary scale, raising first-year base salaries to $135,000 in Texas."

No Way

I've been seeing these signs stuck in the ground in north Fort Worth for 0turn.com. I looked it up and it's about some guy selling a mower. This line got my attention on the web site: At 0turn.com we only show equipment we carry in stock. Our prices are way to low for us to list on our site and to give out over the phone. To get our low no haggle price you must come see us. Whateva.

You Are The Tube

Purchase info here.