Best Of Random Thoughts: Vacation Day 5

• Funny Dallas Morning News page.
• I keep linking to this, but I'm fascinated with the 1993 AT&T "You Will" ads.
• Bridgeport Country Grammar.
• Future Mrs. Green Fail.
• My half marathon post of 2009 where I got absolutely no credit for a very funny Curt-Schilling-Bloody-Sock joke.
• My Pro-Socialism post.
• I'm still stunned about the demographic make up of Texas schools.
• My greatest effort at memory recall ever.
• Bridgeport prank.
• My 10 Days of The Master Cleanse that I will never do again.

I'll be home tomorrow unless I've been killed by a Jamaican drug lord. Or become one.

Best of Random Thoughts: Vacation Day 4

• The Jackie Murphree civil trial wrapped up this year, but I had forgotten how mangled her car was because of the accident.
• Since I'm not around to entertain the world this week, do yourself a favor and read the award winning article called Still Life from Texas Monthly. If you don't cry, you're not human.
• The "Eat In Tax" controversy at the local McDonald's.
• Pics of the only Tea Party rally in Wise County (I think).
• Loved this one: Trooper stuck in median.
• "Gone": Man faints on Glenn Beck show.
• Decatur Walmart gang killing hoax.
• Grandma dancing at Spring Break.
• Bridgeport fallen Officer Randy White's funeral. And my thoughts the day after his death.
• If I chase a man and cut the distance I'm behind him by 1/2 every 10 seconds, will I ever catch him? My struggle with Zeno's Paradoxes.

Best of Random Thoughts: Vacation Day 3

• Ever seen a Wise County rock quarry from the air?
• A pleasant flashback only for Texas Tech football fans.
• Craziest things I keep in my car.
• I had forgotten Frank Kent Cadillac ran this promotion. And now those shares are worthless.
• Wise County conviction that has since been affirmed on appeal.
• The first version of that massive bank bailout bill was shocking.
• Messenger graduation error.
• Our sheriff's wedding.
• Speaking of hurricane season, this "waves pounding the shore" video cracked me up.
• Chico family wiped out. No one indicted.
• Cute Wise County baby.

Best of Random Thoughts: Vacation Day 2

• Matt Damon impersonates Matt McConaughey (still funny).
• Crazy picture I found when I googled "Decatur Texas" images.
• I had forgotten about the James Wood "Shoe Thrower" ad.
• There used to be a guy who would photoshop pictures relevant to The Blog (i.e. this one with the "Decatur Begger"). I wonder what ever happened to him?
• Fox 4's Fiona dancing at her previous job.
• Can't believe this was taken in front of Stevens St. Grill in Bridgeport. (Scan down.)
• Wise County cat with head stuck in a can.
• Back when Jarhead used to hang around, he posted a pic of his house from the air. It's like Venice on the Texas prairie.
• Bridgeport and Decatur kids listed in a 30 year old Dave Campbell's Texas Football.
• Pretty amazing: Over 40,000 gravestone pics from Wise County.

Best Of Random Thoughts: Vacation Day 1

• Still the funniest photoshopped of Tony Romo after he screwed up the field goal snap in the playoff game.
• I had a poll once on the worst thing about the Decatur Walmart.
• When the iPhone was announced, I seemed very technologically challenged.
• When I'm wrong, I'm wrong: I thought the "surge" in Iraq was a bad idea.
• Another poll: Most of you would still marry your spouse.
• A Jessica Alba "Hey, now."
• Anybody remember the Alvord Hot Skillet murder? The suspect would later be found dead.
• Art that hangs in my office.
• I used to post just crazy and bizarre pictures. I should do that more often.
• When Todd Dodge took the North Texas football job, my first bullet point was prophetic.

I'm Off This Week

But, never fear, each day you'll receive an award winning blog post from the "Best Of" series. Ten links every day for five days. I think I'll have Internet access where I'm going, but if you think I'm waking up at the crack of dawn to fire off some Random Thoughts, you be crazy.

America! Yeah!

Prediction Correct: They Maxed Her

From A Criminal Defense Lawyer Message Board: Fair?

Montgomery County Has A Task Force To Round Up DWI Defendants?

Not a whole lot of crime in Montgomery County apparently. (Their DA is a huge showboater.) And what happened to Kevin? Link.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Edit: You guys are right. That pic is a repeat. But I just discovered you are remembering her from February, 2009!
• Had Wimbledon on this morning and heard the name "Ivan Lendl." Hadn't heard that name in 20 years.
• I'm really fascinated by the Austin Dismemberment Trial going on (see below.) She's the girl that won her appeal after getting a 5 year sentence. Prediction: She's about to get the maximum of 10 years.
• Earlier this year, a Johnson County girl committed suicide by driving her car into another vehicle. Well, it's happened again.
• But I still will never understand how the Medical Examiner gets to make a ruling of "suicide." I understand making a finding of death due to "blunt force trauma to the chest" but making a finding about the mindset of the deceased seems outside of their scope of expertise. They are doctors, not wizards.
• Britney?
• I caught the last five minutes of Mike Snyder's last show on Channel 5 last night. It was pretty touching (but they had him alone on the set by then -- didn't get to see Jane's earlier reaction.)
• That well is still spewing oil into the Gulf and now we've grown bored with it so it's no longer on the news? The word "disaster" is thrown around too easily, but we've got one going on.
• The Today Show this morning says that Sarah Palin is most likely making $12 million this year.
• I'm on vacation next week, but I've been working on some automated "Best Of" posts. That's harder than doing this every morning.
• This week, the last person incarcerated by the Tulia Drug Task Force Scandal had his conviction overturned. As naive as I was during my term in the DA's office, realizing that any and all multi-agency Task Forces were bad news might have been my most enlightened moment. Never trusted them.
• There will be a Hurricane Fiona this year. Complete list of names here.
• Edit: The Psychedelic Furs were at The Granada last night. That, I'd like to see.

Why . . .

. . . show the U. of Georgia athletic director do a Public Service Announcement not to drink and drive? Because he got arrested last night for DWI. Ouch. Edit: And in other DWI news, a former Texas Longhorn quarterback was arrested this morning for "driving while stoned." ("He must have tried to pass the blunt but got intercepted" - Stolen Joke.)

Wow

Remember that Austin girl I mentioned yesterday who is being retried on punishment for Tampering and Hindering Apprehension after her boyfriend killed a girl? Well, the prosecution has recordings of her telephone calls that she made while in jail awaiting trial. This girl is mean and crazy. A reporter is live tweeting them here (they'll be in reverse chronological order). Language warning.

Thursday Morning Pick Me Up: Jane McGarry?

"I love you, Jane." (@ 1:54 mark)

Edit: Why is everyone dogging me about this audio clip being "a year old". Uh, I know that! It's been a Ticket staple all that time. I just linked to it because lots of people commenting have signed off "I love you, Jane" and I thought some people might want to know where it comes from.

New Old Spice Commercial

I think this stuff is funny.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• There were reports yesterday that Tiger Woods would pay $750 million in his divorce settlement. I would willing be inflicted with a lot of pain for that amount. (But I question the $750 million figure.)
• Tarrant County is having a "No Refusal Weekend" over the holiday weekend. One radio host said this morning that it's commonly referred to as "Vampire Weekend." I've never heard that, but kind of like it.
• Edit: Wise County is having a Vampire Weekend as well.
• I got my garbage disposal in. So far, so good. (But finding "plumber's putty" in the huge Home Depot took some searching.)
• Ranger Vladimir Guerrero is a beast. I heard the batting coach say his only responsibility as for as Guerrero is concerned is to "make sure he doesn't miss his turn at bat."
• As usual, that was a lot of coverage of a hurricane that turned out to be a big bag of nothing.
• 41 of 110 Supreme Court justices had no prior judicial experience before getting the gig.
• Didn't you cringe when you saw the funeral announcement for the two month old in the Update?
• The Dallas Police Chief's son had PCP in his system when he killed the Lancaster cop? PCP? I've been doing criminal law for 20 years and I've never prosecuted nor defended a PCP case.
• I've never seen any of the Twilight movies but I've heard the only way to see it is on opening weekend when the theater is full of crazy moms.
• Mike Snider was on WBAP this morning discussing this evening's final broadcast on KXAS Channel 5. Man, get ready for a meltdown between Jane and him -- I can sense it coming.
• But he said one of the biggest stories he covered wast the Delta crash at DFW. He said he grabbed his cell phone which was "as big as a brick" and started running. But that crash was in 1985 -- did they even have big phones back then?

Keep Watching

Just when you think you've seen it all . . . Edit: Ooops. The original version I watched ended at about 2:15. I don't even know what happens after that.

Well, I'll Be.

Story. Credit: This tweet.