Worst Halloween Outfit . . .

. . . in the history of ever.

Unfortunate Choice Of Words

The DMN had a front page story today on a motion filed by convicted murderer Michael Blair claiming a new DNA test had exonerated his client in the death of 7-year-old Ashley Estell in 1993. A poor choice of words by his attorney (as the excerpt, above, shows). (For what it is worth, that case had a greater impact on the revision of our criminal laws in Texas than any other case. )

The Forgotten War

October may be the bloodiest yet.

Wants a Do Over

- See the weird painting? - It's famous - painted by Pablo Picasso and called 'Le Reve' ('The Dream') - It is owned by Las Vegas rich guy Steve Wynn - Wynn agreed to sell it to another collector for $139 million - Then Wynn accidentally "poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago."

I Found A Contest Baylor Will Win

Hottest female dean or associate dean of a law school. The contest.

Channel 8 . . .

. . . is on to the Photo/Speeding-Ticket-In-The-Mail idea of Rhome.

And To Think I Was Going To Grow My Hair Out

As For Me, I've Got Tired Head

If you can't get enough of the Wise Republican / European American controversy, you can always: -Read here where the former chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party said -A blurb about it on the blog of the Dallas Observer -Or more from a local perspective here [Spelling errors fixed - hey, I was in a hurry]

I Don't Know Why I Love Moments Like This So Much

So Mike Synder is beating me down tonight on the 10:00 p.m. newscast. He introduces a story about some Watuaga police officer named Jason Reddick who had (briefly) got his job back after posting inappropriate pictures on MySpace.com. But for some reason, NBC 5 shows me a picture of rookie NBA player Jonathan Clay "J.J." Redick. KXAS is comical. Edit: OMG! Mike Synder comes back later to apologize for the error and the whole thing gets worse. YouTube.clip of the whole incident is here. I love this stuff.

But What If My Addiction Is To Old Time Nazi Meth?

Link. (I actually found this while browsing the Dallas Observer's "Best Of" edition - which I love. It was in the category of "Best Place to Unwired". Those Dallas people are funny.)

Salma (Do Over)

And you conservatives want to lock down the borders?

This One Means Something To Me

As a kid, I think my love of news (even to this day) was created by the 2 and 1/2 minute "In The News" broadcasts that Christopher Glenn would narrate every Saturday morning in between brain dead cartoons. They would always end with something like, "I'm Christopher Glenn with The People of Skylab [or any other subject]. . . In The News." (I realize the "skylab" reference dates me terribly.) And I remember being in law school listening to KRLD when the space shuttle blew up in 1986. He was anchoring the CBS coverage of the launch when I heard him say (and I'm 99% sure of this), "There's something definitely wrong here" in the first few seconds of the tragedy. I remember picking up the phone and calling home. (Story here.)

Oh, My

Fox 4 News' Jeff Crilley: The Older Days

Footage here. (PG-13 rating for some inadvertent "evidence" coming into view.)

"If you are going to work, work. If you are going to train, train. And if you are going to dance, dance."

Some poor sap name Aleksey Vayner creates a "video resume" to send out to potential employers while he is a student at Yale. It was bad. Very bad. So someone copied it and off into Internet Fame he went. It was so comical that you just have to see it. Wikipeida has an entry on him, and this morning the Today Show even threw him under the bus.

I Hate Horror Movies . . .

. . . probably because I'm a big baby, but this list of the 20 Scariest Horror Movie Killers is pretty good.

Hey Soccer Moms, Teach Your Kids This Nifty Trick

Friendly Skies

With the progressive repeal of the Wright Amendment, Southwest Airlines announced today that it will offer one stop destinations to Las Vegas, Chicago, Los Angeles and Orlando, Fla. I just can't figure out how much they'll charge - which is the important part. Both the Star Telegram and the DMN are running the same AP story despite the fact there was a press conference at 10:00 a.m. You'd think they could have someone in the newsroom do a little original work on the story. Edit: The airline, based at Love Field, will offer $99 one-way “introductory” fare on those routes. But Southwest did not disclose a specific end date for that promotion. The introductory fares are available with a 14-day advance purchase, for travel beginning Oct. 31.