Hmmmm

Linday Lohan a "cutter"? A pic earlier this week with a mysterious cover around her left wrist. And then her wrist as photographed last night. I think I'd slight my wrists of cameras followed me everywhere like that. Source.

Random John Cougar Mellencamp Commercial Thought

As I'm getting beaten down again with a new "Texas version" of that commercial, I learn at the end of it that I can "Text 'silverado' to 90430 for exclusive content and other great offers." I'll do it on my death bed - but not before then. Can you imagine the crap you'll receive once they have your cell phone number?

An Update On The Death In Wise County

Based upon my conversation with the High Sheriff, this is what I learned (if there are any mistakes, they are mine and not his): The Sheriff's office received a 911 call on Thursday night at about 11:55 p.m. The caller stated that they had an unresponsive male at the residence. When the fire department and the medics arrived, they began CPR. While all that was going on, it was learned that the 21 year old male had reportedly been "huffing" gas at a well site in the Oliver Creek area. (FM 4221). Once on the scene, medics and the fire department continued CPR and transported the guy to the hospital, where he was subsequently pronounced dead. The deputies were able to locate witnesses and some of those that that may be possibly involved in the huffing. They allegedly crossed a fence onto a Devon well site (gas) and climbed to the top of a tank. According to witnesses,the deceased was huffing and then became unconscious. He was then carried to his residence and 911 was called. The sheriff's office is awaiting autopsy reports and will continue to investigate. At this point, there is no evidence of foul play.

Nerdy Consumerism

A faithful reader tells me there were at least 10 people camping out at the Decatur Walmart last night to get the new PS3 video gaming console.

Time Waste

Play Deal or No Deal. Or not.

Wise County Death

WBAP reported that 21 year old Ezekiel Thomas was found dead in Wise County near a gas well around midnight last night. Details were very murky. Developing . . .

A Little Drama

The big game in college football this week is #1 Ohio State v. #2 Michigan. Both are unbeaten. Things just got a little weird in that Michigan's former legendary coach Bo Schembechler, who coached the team for 20 years and amassed an amazing record of 143-24-3, collapsed and died this morning.

Friday SNL Giggle

Comic Strip Reminiscing

A controversy over a gay penguin book this morning (yep, gay penguins) reminded me of the only penguin I ever loved: Opus of Bloom County.

Royale With Cheese

I don't do Bond movies (I had a date drag me to one 15 years ago which promptly ended the relationship), and I doubt I'll see Casino Royale despite the debut of the new Bond, Daniel Craig. But Craig was pretty good in Layer Cake and Munich but I don't remember him at all in Road To Perdition. (IMDB.com list of movies here.) And would I dare pander to my 1000s upon 1000s of female audience members with this pic? You bet. And on a completely unrelated movie note: I finally saw The Cider House Rules. I'm sorry, but I have no idea what was supposed to be so great about that movie.

Linday Lohan . . .

. . . in a GQ pictorial this month. I'm think she's a good Baptist girl, but I'm not sure. But it reminded me to put sheets on my bed.

Video Fun

(1) I think this could be a Wise County bar. (Did I meet my sixth wife in that place?) (2) And I don't think this is good parenting. (3) The Euless Trinity pre-gama Haka dance scares the crap out of me.

Presenting Me

I gave a presentation in Bridgeport tonight on the "court system" to an audience of, hang on, let me think . . . uh . . . seven people. (Nope, that pic isn't of me.) You know, once I stand up I don't care if it is a crowd of one or a crowd of 100. I'll give it my best shot. (Although I'll admit a joke on prostitution wasn't delivered with precision comedic timing. I think I heard crickets.) But my proudest moment was probably two years ago when I was invited to talk about The Spin to an audience of about 40 at Runaway Bay. The crowd there was older and I was scared they wouldn't quite understand my deadpan humor - or lack thereof. It worked out well. Not great. But well.

I Love This Stuff

Put your name, or someone else's, in a variety of situations.

A Kid That Will Never See Ritalin

Bob Stoops is at the Top with $3.45 Million

USA Today released this morning a searchable database for the salary of all college coaches. For almost all of them, you can even see their actual contract in a pdf format. (The top salaries can be seen in the above graphic - click to enlarge.) Story and database link is here.

I Am 100% Certifiably Insane Now

Money For Nothing

I had a funny conversation this afternoon with a guy that had left a nasty message with one of our staff members. He would only tell her that he was calling me "on a business matter." Since he had called before and since he was throwing down some attitude, I decided to call him back. He told me, quite indignantly, that he had tried to call many times before and then said, "I would like to know how you intend to structure the student loan that you defaulted on." Not ever having defaulted on a loan in my life, I politely pointed that out to him. Of course, he didn't believe me. "You are Barry K. Green, a lawyer, aren't you?" "Uh, no." I said. (That "K" doesn't belong to me.) "You weren't born in 1956?" (Thankfully, I could answer that with a "hell, no" - which I didn't - but I did suddenly feel sad for some 50 year old guy that had defaulted on a student loan.") While the debt collector was scribbling all the info down and sounding very confused on the phone, I decided to use The Google by typing in "Barry K. Green" followed by "attorney". I came up with a name and address of a guy by that name that was in Austin. So I told the collector, "Hey, I just found somebody by that name in Austin who is a lawyer." "Really!" he replied (and I am not making this up.) "Could you tell me his address and phone number?"