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It seems like in the blink of an eye Wise County has gone from relatively bone dry to very, very wet.
From the Update: LIQUOR PETITION — Folks in Bridgeport could soon be voting on the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption. Wise County Clerk Sherry Parker said Jennifer Walker picked up a petition from her office on Friday and will gather signatures to hold an election.
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TCU and the University of Texas have a agreed to play each other in 2007 in Austin. It doesn't look like the Horns will return the favor by coming to Fort Worth.
(And the pic is a scoreboard from 1992.)
I really haven't been following magic-man David Blaine as he has been submerged in a big sphere full of water at Rockefeller Center all week long, but he is on live TV tonight as he ends his ordeal by trying to hold his breath for 9 minutes while under water.
I think he'll be strapped in chains or something like that.
I notice that ABC has blocked out two hours for this. I'll check out the results after the hype is over.
Edit: As I watch him hold his breath at the 2:34 mark, I can't help but being irritated by his "coach" who is constantly talking. "Easy, David. Relax. Relax." I had a flashback to Caddyshack where Chevy Chase was helping Danny Noonan hit a golf ball while blindfolded. "I could if you'd stop talking."
Story: The film follows a group of marines as they travel to Saudi Arabia and eventually into Kuwait in the battle with Iraq named Desert Storm.
Notably starring: Jake Gyllenhaal (from Brokeback Mountain), Jamie Fox (from everything) and Lucas Black (the quarterback from Friday Night Lights)
Assessment: It seems more like and educational film than a drama - as we learn the boredom of sitting in the desert for two months and never getting to fire a shot.
Coolest scene: The marines walking at night through a field of oil wells that had been set afire.
What I Had Forgot: How fearful the troops where of a chemical gas attack by Iraq.
Check it Out?: Yeah. It's worth the rental.
One of my favorite songs of all time is John Mayer's "Comfortable."
Part of the lyrics:
I sleep with this new girl I’m still getting used to
my friends all approve, say “she’s gonna be good for you”
they throw me high fives
she says the Bible is all that she reads
and prefers that I not use profanity
[but] your mouth was so dirty - life of the party
and she swears that she’s artsy
but you could distinguish Miles from Coltrane
Being the country bumkin that I am, it took a while before I figured out the last line referred to jazz musicians Miles Davis and John Coltrane. So why do I bring this up? A liberal news blog for some reason just posted a video clip of both Davis and Coltrane performing together.
At least it means something to me.
