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10.18.2006
Let's Bring Down The Lights For A Moment
Those that know me the best know that I have a sappy side. It can take a little work to get there but, yeah, that side of me exists.
And tonight I got reminded of that. Someone sends me by email of an article written by Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly and a link to a youtube video to view after I read it. No way I'm wasting my time on that, I thought. Anyway, the skeptical side of me figured it was a hoax anyway so I went to snopes.com to verify my suspicions.
It wasn't a hoax.
You can read the article here (where I went to verify the story.) Although there is a youtube.com link located there, the video my buddy sent me is here. Yeah, it will take you a couple of minutes to read and a couple of minutes to view, but you sappy ones out there will thank me.
$59,550,000
. . . is the price for this home in Denton.
I hope it is not a fixer-upper.
(If I was smart enough to compute the annual property taxes, I would. But I know there are a couple of you out there with real big brains.)
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. )
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.
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]
10.17.2006
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.)
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.)
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