Pic From The Pepsi 400 This Weekend

Handfull of others here.

Immature Time Waste

That I played with for a little bit.

Lots Of Stuff In The Air Today

The U.S. launched the Space Shuttle today (the 115th launch) while North Korea test launched a few missles. Good thing they didn't all collide. (Sidenote: I watched the shuttle launch on ABC and the network put up a NASCAR like graphic showing how high, how fast, and how far "down range" the shuttle was. It was incredible: That thing was traveling about 750 miles per hour after one minute and was cracking 5,000 miles per hour in about five minutes. Very cool.)

The Godfather

Finally Finished: The Godfather Why?: Everyone around me has talked about it for years Coolest Part: Just watching Marlon Brando and a young Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and James Caan all in the same scene. Craziest Scene: The horse head in a bed is all that it was cracked up to be. Craziest Scene #2: Al Pacino gunning down the two guys in the restaurant. (Although Sonny getting gunned down is close.) Things I Didn't Know: Talia Shire played a big role in this before ever being made famous as Mrs. Rocky Balboa. A Must: I could have never have made it through it without turning on the subtitles. Bottom Line: It's really good, but I'm not sure it falls within the "great" category. (But let me think about it for a few days - which is the only way to judge a movie.)

Cemetery Musings

So I started to think about cemeteries and stumbled upon www.findagrave.com. It's really odd in that it provides pictures and backgrounds regarding famous grave sites in America. Oddly, Moore Memorial Gardens hosts the sad origin of the "Amber Alert" (picture, right) as well as 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott (which you have to see).

Random Sports Thought

There was some speculation that the Mavs would try and sign Detroit's Ben Wallace. Ben Wallace looks mean. Ben Wallace is mean. Ben Wallace will go to the Chicago Bulls instead.

Keira Knightley Looks Skinny and Sticky

At Peace

I roamed around an old cemetary today (but one that had a few relatively new graves.) There is no place on the world that makes me more reflective. They are holy places.

The History Channel . . .

. . . tonight had a whole hour dedicated to "Texas' Roswell - A mysterious airship crashes in the small town of Aurora, TX". It was filmed in 2005. (They've even put it on a DVD.)

Random Thought

I think I'll spend the rest of the day handing out bottle rockets and cherry bombs to those people drinking out at Wise County Park.

Brazil Was Eliminated From The World Cup Competition This Weekend

That makes me very sad for this girl.

I Don't Watch 24 But . . .

why would Mary-Lynn Rajskub, a.k.a. Chloe kiss Rush Limbaugh? He does not deserve love.

Flashback

I'm a proponent of never looking back and always moving forward. That being said, I got sucked in to this video the other day which violates my "Never Listen To Oldies" policy. It's Journey. As a young kid, I was absolutely fascinated with them - even going so far as to see them on three different occasions in Reunion Arena. But the video is interesting for reasons other than Steve Perry's golden voice - Notice how there's no flashy production, no videos, no balls of fire - just a band.

A Very Important Question

Why do girls insist on getting a tattoo right above their booty? I'm torn between whether it's hot or not. Probably depends on the girl. That's Jessica Alba by the way.

News That Caught My Attention This Weekend

. . . without links:

• A lady in Mansfield allegedly drowned her 1 year old baby in a backyard hot tub
• A 5 month old was found dead at a daycare in Saginaw (although the place looked more like a regular house than a daycare)
• The leader of North Korea said he would respond to a pre-emptive U.S. military attack with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war." If they test launch that missle this week, I'm getting nervous
• I think Israel and Hamas are about to blow each other to bits (but its amazing that Israel is threatening Syria because of its sympathies for Hamas)

There's No Way I'm Getting IN That Piece Of Junk

NASA has been trying to launch the Space Shuttle for the last two days in a row but couldn't do so because of the weather. This news just broke: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inspectors found a 5-inch-long crack in the foam insulation covering the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, and NASA managers were deciding Monday whether to call off the scheduled Fourth of July launch." Let's scrap that project, save some lives, and save a train load of cash.

Random 4th Of July Thought

Firework displays sure haven't changed much in 20 years.

Slow Blogging

But I managed to see The Lake House today. It reunites Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. It basically is about two people communicating via letter with each other although one lives in 2004 and the other lives in 2006. Overall, it's not bad - a little sappy - but not bad. But whenever you have people jacking with the past and the future, I spend most of my time getting Confused Head because I spend all my time thinking "wait, if he does x in the past won't that effect y in the future." (Back To The Future comes to mind).