So Odd

For some reason, Baylor Bear football has begun an ad campaign featuring a player catching a fish in a river with his bare hands. (Link.) This is sooooo going to be a bad season.

Drives Me Insane

I've noticed a weird advertising trend. Instead of just creating a web site, companies are directing people to a myspace.com page. Folks, it's the same thing. A web page is a web page and hosting it at myspace.com doesn't change that fact. (This was prompted by a TV ad I just saw for a movie called "John Tucker Must Die." You can learn about it (as the ad told me) at www.myspace.com/JohnTucker. In the old world, www.johntucker.com or www.johntucker-themovie.com was good enough.) Ok, I've found one thing I'm passionate about.

Hmmm

The Ticket posed this question this weekend: "Name three things you are passionate about." The general consenus was that most people can't name three things. I'll admit I'm one of them. Where is that bag of Paxils I smuggled in from Canada?

Me Loves Me Some Tara Reid

And We Wonder Why Kids Are So Screwed Up

If you want to see an old New Mickey Mouse Club skit (does that make sense?) that featured Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguiler, click here. Come on, you know you want to.

We Have A Record

Channel 8 News' first two stories tonight featured Wise County. I'm working on the video. Edit: Got it

"All you want to do is Talk, Talk"

The Dallas Morning News' "Life" section this weekend dedicated itself to the art of conversation. Here are the tips if you are at a wedding: Do Say: - "How do you know the bride and groom?" - "Wasn't that a lovely ceremony?" - "Have you tried the shrimp?" Don't Say: - "Were you at the bride's last wedding? That one was so much better." I don't know about you, but the "Do's" would suck the life force out of me. The "Don't" would make me turn to the person and say, "How you dooooin?"

Incredible

The CEO of London's BetOnSports.com was changing planes at D/FW. Or so he thought. U.S. federal authorities detained the CEO as part of their "getting tough on online gambling" thing. And that is one great site (uh, I mean, so I've heard.) Our federal government is out of control.

Guaranteed News Item Tonight

One, if not all, of the local stations will tell us tonight to: - Drink plenty of water - Avoid strenuous exercise outdoors - Take plenty of breaks if you must work outside - Stop immediately if you become light headed or feel faint And they'll say it as if those words have never been uttered before.

105

That's what my temperature gauge on my car read as I came back from Fort Worth a second ago. I think it's always been pretty accurate but I'm not sure.

Bush Unplugged

You'll be hearing a lot about this today on the news. youtube.com video clip here. (The news story runs out of steam about half way through).

Armor of God

I loved this part of the story on Dallas Cowboy Keith Davis who was shot around 5:00 a.m. this weekend (The second time he has been shot in three years.): At the time of the shooting, Mr. Davis said, he was returning home from Shreveport, La., where he had spent the weekend with friends and family. "I wasn't going to go home, but I had missed church the previous Sunday," said Mr. Davis, "and we've got training camp coming up, and I didn't want to miss another Sunday. We were going to get home in time to change clothes and head to church."

Puppy Love

"FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) of Texas says it will take temporary custody of more than 200 confined dogs from a suspected animal hoarder in Wise County, who is also an animal control officer." (Story here).

If It's Real, It's Cool

Oops. I accidentally deleted this one. I'm an idiot. I'll try and find the source tomorrow.

Tour De France Crash Today

30 second video clip.

Walk The Line

With the renewed interest in Johnny Cash of late, youtube.com has some great clips. Here's Cash on the Tonight Show in 1980 (although it would be better if Johnny Carson would stop talking so much). Here's Cash and June Carter Cash singing "Jackson".

Michael Flately is 48 Today

I think I'll break out into the river dance as I'm going through the grocery aisles.

Check Out . . .

. . . the Dallas Morning News article on slain real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker. Good stuff.