Doggin' Delayed Is Doggin' Denied

So what if it took me until tonight to read the Opinion section of the Sunday edition of the Dallas Morning News. But the always boring editorial section decided to dog our State Rep. Phil King. It's worth repeating. Why? Because it's Christmas.

Quotes Of The Year

1. "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" -- plea made by University of Florida student Andrew Meyer. 2. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us." -- Lauren Upton 3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there." -- Don Imus 5. "I don't recall." -- Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to questioning at a congressional hearing about the firing of U.S. attorneys. 6. "There's only three things he (Rudy Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11." -- Sen. Joseph Biden, speaking at a Democratic presidential debate. 7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody (Vice President Dick Cheney) who has a 9 percent approval rating." -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. 8. "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." -- Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig's explanation of why his foot touched that of an undercover policeman in a men's room. 9. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." -- Biden describing rival Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. 10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." -- Former President Jimmy Carter in an interview in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper. Source.

A Merry Christmas . . .

. . . to the gal that almost got kicked off the Southwest Airlines flight. Almost worthy of The Blog's Hall of Fame (if I had one.)

Edit: Older pic.

And Another

Story

(Credit: Emailer)

Edit: The Denton Record Chronicle has a pretty good story on the guy.

Wednesday Morning Chaos

A Democrat wins a Texas House Seat in a Republican strong hold in Fort Worth, the 16 year old sister of Britney Spears is pregnant, and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is grilled on The Today Show about the bookcase in his video (posted below) looking like a floating cross.

There Better Be Somthing To This

Or Matt Drudge becomes nothing more than a political hack (assuming he's not reached that status already.)

He always follows up the "Developing . . . " headline (which I normally love) to a story he writes himself - something that is very rare. But if he throws out crap like this, he better be right.

Channel 8 Gets Video Of General Lee Chase

Uh, accuracy regarding the status of the Evil Doers in the car? Not so much. As earlier reported here today, in what is certain to result in my first Pulitzer Prize, the occupants were captured this morning.

Uh, I Predict A Firestorm

Story.

Hurricane Harbor tried to pull this off about 10 years ago but backed down.

Music, Death, Love and Grocery Stores

I've thought a little more about Dan Fogelberg's death this week and, although a lot of his work was corny, I always loved a Same Old Lang Syne. The lyrics are here. It's about old lovers that run into each other in the grocery store. They miss each other but realize the flame isn't quite the same.

Met my old lover in the grocery store
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
I stole behind her in the frozen foods
And I touched her on the sleeve
She didn't recognize the face at first
But then her eyes flew open wide
She went to hug me and she spilled her purse
And we laughed until we cried.

Of all the break ups I've had in my life (and Lord knows they are too many to count), I remember listening to those lyrics shortly after high school when my relationship with a (relatively speaking) long term girlfriend ended.

Oddly, for me at least, a similar song came out a few years ago. John Mayer's Comfortable. I remember embracing the song as I entered into yet another soon to be failed, yet important, relationship:

I just remembered that time at the market
you snuck up behind me and jumped on my shopping cart
And rode down . . . aisle five
you looked behind you and smile back at me
crashed into a rack full of magazines
they asked us . . . if we could leave.
Can't remember . . . what went wrong last September
though I'm sure you'd remind me, if you had to
Our love was . . . comfortable and . . . so broken in.

I'm not sure this has a point other than I just realized that a couple of my important past relationships are tied to songs that involve grocery stores.

I'm never going for food again.

Santa, Baby

Muriel's Wedding

Another film someone told me I should watch which I finally got around to.

Verdict: I think I like it, but I'm not sure. Quirky. Odd. Yeah, I guess I did.

Fun to see Rachel Griffiths in a role before she became somewhat famous in "Six Feet Under." And the Abba music, which is the core of the movie, is pretty funny especially in light of the Friday Dance Off video I posted a couple of weeks ago at the Neiman Marcus party.

And I have an odd habit: I turn the subtitles on whenever a movie has a dialect which is anything other than Native Texan.

"Hello, I'm Making $175 Dollars"

In 1956, Johnny Cash performed in the Sportatorium in Dallas (where they used to 'rassle before they tore it down) for $175.00 You can get the signed contract on Ebay for substantially more than that.

General Lee Update

The two guys and one girl who evaded the PO-lice yesterday were arrested early this morning after checking into a hotel in Decatur. In a scene out of a movie, the original driver of the General Lee walked out of the elevator as officers with Decatur PD were talking to the manager at the front desk. It was kind of like when Butch was at the red light in Pulp Fiction and saw Marsellus Wallace standing in front of him.

He Said "Christ!"

But, man, the Republican establishment sure isn't embracing this guy. Sean Hannity can't go a single day without bashing him. Somethings up!

Questions

- Is there just one set of "Rhome apartments"?
- Who complained?
- And the complaint was made to whom?
- Who is responsible for fixing the problem
- Why is there no heat?
- Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame?

The Female Readership Holds Its Collective Breath

Link.

The following from Seinfeld comes to mind.

ELAINE: did something happened?

GEORGE: Well, Tony.. took a bit of a tumble

ELAINE: his face, did something happen to his face?

KRAMER: well it all depends on what you mean by.. happen

GEORGE: he..he's alive

KRAMER: yeah

ELAINE: what happened to his face, tell me, what happened to his face

GEORGE: Well you see he slipped, and he landed on a kinda of a..

KRAMER: rock

Very Random Thought

I ate at the Cheesecake Factory in Southlake tonight - The place is almost "opulent" in appearance with a little bit of a Vegas feel to it.

The menu is huge (probably 12 pages but with 6 pages being advertisements - what's up with that?). Someone told me today "they have a ton of things on the menu which means that none of it is good." Hmmmm. Not sure about that. I went with the Jambalaya which was a little bland. Good. But bland.

And the portions are ridiculously huge.

Oh, and here's the random restaurant thought: Does Steak and Ale exist anymore?

From The Mail Box

From an actual letter I received today from an inmate who I do not represent: I wold like to talk to you and need legal advice and I want to file a lawsuit against Wise County for being in violation with USA Jail Standards and Health Codes for one million dollars. Also I want to file a lawsuit in rank from [the] Health Department to the President of the United States of America for one hundred thousand dollars for not doing their job . . . . That's right W, I'm coming for you.