More Good Press

Fox 4 News ran a story tonight about some unhappy customers of Paradise's "Vacation In A Box". Paradise, Bridgeport, and Decatur got mentioned. YouTube video of the report is here.

American Profile Magazine

I don't understand why this "magazine" is in the Messenger every weekend (other than my guess that they pay to be placed in the Messenger every weekend). I think it's geared towards the AARP crowd (no offense to the AARP crowd, by the way). But I'm skeptical of everything in it. Case in point: This week's "Ask American Profile" included a question from Eryl Burnworth of Phoenix, Arizona. (Eryl?) who wanted to know whether his "favorite comedian" Rich Little was still performing. Rich Little? Favorite comedian? Apparently Eryl hasn't watched TV since 1975. Anyway, the magazine's response pointed out that Little "recently released a DVD called One's A Crowd, which is available at www.richlittle.com." Spare me. If the production company behind Rich Little didn't pay to have that letter placed in the magazine, I'll buy the DVD. I won't watch it, but I'll buy it.

Ka-Ching

I couple of weeks ago, I commented on Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman appearing in commercials for the Texas Lottery. A columnist for the Dallas Morning News (while dogging them for promoting the lottery which, she says, is a tax on the poor) reported that the two split $238,198 for their services. Heck, that's like a regular guy winning, uh, the lottery.

Fox 4 News Is Killing Me Tonight

Story #1: A bunch of egrets invaded private property in Johnson County. And reporter Brandon Todd had to put on a surgical mask because the smell was so bad. (According to the landowner, the smell was due to, as he pronounced it, "FEEkus".) Story #2: Two teachers at some private school in McKinney (30 and 26 years old) were arrested for possessing a "small amount of "methamphetamines." As Heather Hays dramatically told me, the two teachers that were "busted" had been "entrusted with children's lives." I was soooo riveted to the TV. Story #3: Some "thieves" stole copper out of an air-conditioning unit at a church in Pleasant Grove. (Although I was pleased that Lari Barager had been forced to cover this very important story.) Story #4: For some unknown reason, Fox 4 decided to show us surveillance video of a May 14th burglary of a convenience store in south Fort Worth where some guy stole a bunch of cigarettes. All life force was sucked out of me when Clarise Tinsley told me, "Police could call him the Marlboro Man."

You May Be A Good Aggie . . .

. . . but your marriage has a high probability for failure when your wedding cake looks like this.

666

If you were on the verge of giving birth, would you take measures to delay or induce the birth so that the child would not be born on 6.6.06?

PostSecret Was Average This Week

Two Girls . . .

. . . remember the invasion of Normandy in the oddest of ways over Memorial Day weekend.

Uh Oh

There is a huge atrocity coming to light in Iraq. Excerpt: A bomb rocked a military convoy on Nov. 19, killing a Marine. Mr. Murtha, who has been briefed by officials, said Marines then fatally shot unarmed civilians in a taxi at the scene and went into two homes and shot other people. Iraqis who identified themselves as survivors of the killings described Marines fatally shooting 19 persons in three homes, among them a 77-year-old man in a wheelchair and a 4-year-old boy in one home and five children, ages 3 to 14, in another home, the New York Times reported yesterday. Time Magazine broke the story.

I Almost Feel Sorry For Britney . .

. . . when she can't even take a walk with rollers in her hair without having her picture taken.

Nicole Richie Needs To Lay Off The Cheese Burgers

I Loves Me Some Brevity

The first place Texas Rangers won again tonight. The most impressive thing is that the game took exactly 120 minutes to play. We need more games like that. But only 23,771 attended on Memorial Day with no school tomorrow?

Funny Commercial

I can't find an Internet link to it, but I love the commercial that shows the cable guy approaching a young couple while in their home, looking at the wife, and saying, "We should go out sometime."

Random Thought

In the city, the nicer the neighborhood, the more likely a person is to return a shopping cart to the shopping cart receptacle in the parking lot.

Morning News Letter To The Editor - Monday

"Anyone want to bet that Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling never see the inside of a prison cell? Their lawyers will get rich filing appeals, while these twocontinue to live in luxury instea of repaying the thousands they hurt." Lon Schoenky, McKinney Lon, where do I place my bet?

"If You Mess With The Bull"

Paul Gleason, who played the principal in "The Breakfast Club" died over the weekend. That was a great movie. I've learned that he made numerous guest appearances in TV shows from the 1970s such as "Love American Style", "Adam-12", "Mission: Impossible" that I'd love to see now. And he died from mesothelioma - a cancer caused by asbestos. What's that about?

Speaking of Jude Law . . .

. . . he went jogging in his boxers this weekend.

Movie Review

Name: Alfie Summary: Alfie, played by Jude Law, refuses to commit to any one girl and bounces around contemplating "what's it all about." Rent It?: Naaaaa. I think I could have written a better script. Best line: "It seems to me the problems you worry yourself sick about never seem to materialize. It's the ones that catch you unexpectedly on a Wednesday afternoon that knock you sideways." Funny line: "And the problem is, Julie hasn't got enough of the superficial things that really matter." Most annoying quality: Alfie constantly looking at the camera and addressing the audience. Interesting: I knew Jude Law hooked up with Sienna Miller, but I didn't know she played a big role in this movie.