Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

11.05.2005

And I Didn't Have A Desire To See The First One

This from the Dallas Morning News movie section: "So why would any Hollywood [executive] ever greenlight anything but a cheapo horror sequel or remake? That's the lesson of Saw II. [It's] $31.7 million debut with a measly $4 million budget is a license to print money."

I Want That Kind Of Talent

Kevin Federline (that's Mr. Britney Spears to you and me) released his new rap song on the Internet last week. It actually contains this line: "Back then they used to call me K-Fed but now you can call me Daddy instead."

11.04.2005

NBC's Dateline

I'm rarely shocked, but tonight's Dateline on NBC was incredible. The show recruited an organization called Perverted-Justice.com (I can't get the link to work - probably from server overload) whose members pose as online underage boys and girls. The fake kids entered a chat room and suckered in adult guys to come over to a house to meet them. As they arrive (and, boy, do they arrive), the cameras caught each of them (about 20 guys in all) walking into the home's kitchen. (The fake online kids told them the door would be open). Then Dateline correspondent Chris Hansen would appear and ask them what they were doing. Words cannot describe how amazing the show was. A description by Hansen of the event is described here.

25 Years Ago Today . . .

. . . Reagan won the presidential election over Jimmy Carter.

A Quiet Passing Into The Night

With little note, this appeared in the Update this week: "GRAVESIDE service for Claude Caraway, 55" . Anyone who works around the courthouse square remembers Claude. He was the little guy that walked around (and I do mean walked around) the entire town handing out Messenger Updates every morning. I can't tell you the number of times he saw me and came walking across the street to hand me an Update. I always took one regardless of whether I had already read it or not.

I Need Them Around to Fix My Car

Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd did a story today on Decatur High School's all girl tractor repair team

47 Year Old Madonna At The MTV Europe Music Awards Last Night

11.03.2005

Learn About Yourself

Here.

Mystic River

I really like the movie, but Sean Penn scares me.

Geraldo At Large?

What the heck is this show? And how long has it been on Channel 4 at 10:30? I hate this guy.

The Guy Never Played Football

The local news tonight is all over a Royse City school bus carrying the JV team that turned over on its side on FM 1777. It looks like most of the injuries are minor. In watching my most prized possession, TIVO, tonight, I caught Channel 8 breaking into ABC News at 5:30 to bring us the "breaking news"of the bus accident. This is what Roger Brown, the pilot of the WFAA helicopter, said as he was hovering over the crash scene: "I think a lot of them were protected by their uniforms that they had on." Uh......no.

Random Music Thought

Carlos Santana has a new album out featuring present day artists who can actually sing. I'm tired of hearing Carlos Santana's guitar.

Random Music Chart Thoughts

In looking at the music charts today in the Dallas Morning News, I noticed:

Depeche Mode has a new song on the charts called "Precious". I haven't heard it but I'm immediately taken back to a time when the hit "Personal Jesus" made me very uncomfortable.
Bette Midler is on the charts with an album called "Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook". Midler is in my Top Five chart of most irritating women on the planet.
Gretchen Wilson is back with "All Jacked Up". I think she might dip snuff.
Oddest artist on the rap chart: "Three 6 Mafia featuring Young Buck and 8Ball and MJG."

In Cold Blood

I remember watching the end of In Cold Blood on TV late one night when I was a teenager. It was so shocking. I described the movie to my dad the following morning: "two guys with shotguns kill this family". He knew what I was talking about in a second. And the fact that it stars Robert Blake makes it even creepier now. (The true story, upon which the movie and book are based, is described here in Wikipedia).