Friday Night Lights

The TV show by that name looks pretty good (I've spent a few minutes with it), but I'm afraid it won't be around for long. The households in DFW viewing it and its competition from Tuesday: Friday Night Lights: 73,700 homes Dancing with the Stars: 307,020 homes NCIS: 176,120 homes Gilmore Girls: 85,680 homes Source.

Oh, My

The couple on the left were featured in a couple of stories last year (when this photo was taken) after they decided to stick it out in post-Katrina New Orleans. Their relationship did not turn out very well.

Unfortunate

Circa 1960 television commercial.

Wig what?

Dear Republican Women,

I've found a Democrat you can support.

Less Than 18 Hours Before The Scheduled Execution

Source. Isn't that crazy? Edit: These people will not be happy.

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.

Hey, Now

A Washington State fan from last weekend. (Although this guy almost took her place.)

$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.)

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.