One Week . . .

. . . after being linked to Girls Gone Wild creater Joe Francis, Linsday Lohan is headed to rehab. I hope Joe is OK.

Last Night . . .

. . . Texas and Oklahoma State battled into three overtimes before Oklahoma State won 105-103. You know why you haven't heard about it? Because college basketball is boring and no one cares. Heck, the Longhorns lost that game and probably had their guts ripped out which would normally* cause me to run naked through my neighborhood shouting with glee. But even I don't care. Let the Post Football Depression Season begin. _______ * Not to be confused with my average Saturday night.

Dallas ISD

Cat fight. It looks like there was some craziness this morning regarding Dallas ISD. First, the administration was dumb enough not to call off school and, in a dumber move, failed to issue an official statement of "We Are Open." Then things got more confusing when "a media outlet" announced that the school system would be closed. Come to find out that it was WFAA/Channel 8 that incorrectly announced that the Dallas ISD would be closed. Tonight, Channels 4 (already) and (presumably) Channels 5 and 11 will have a Happy Good Time pointing their collective fingers at BELO/WFAA/Channel 8.

Bend It Like

Last week's news was that David and Posh (Spice Girl) Beckham were coming to America. This week's news is that Borat won for Best Comedy at the Golden Globes. The actor behind Borat is also the actor behind Ali G. With that being said, let me link to all three of them in a pretty/very funny/shocking HBO-type-clip that I found on a different blog right here.

If This Blog Had A Library Card

Very Random Music Thought

The song "True" by Spandau Ballet won't go away. I really, really liked it when it came out in 1983, but I'm amazed at how it continues to show up. (You've heard it - proof here.) If you listen to any contemporary station right now (and this is what prompted me to start typing at this moment), it has raised its head again in the form of some song named "You" by somebody named "Lloyd." (I don't know, either.) But it's had second lives along the way. The song is the underlying beat in "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by P.M. Dawn and "N Dey Say" by Nelly. Both cool songs. Throw in its appearance in movies from "Sixteen Candles" to "The Wedding Singer" to "The Wedding Crashers" and it's a major pop culture player.

Six Feet Under

I just heard a rumor about a funeral home buyout in Wise County but I can't verify it. Developing . . . (Unless it was in today's Messenger which I haven't seen yet. If that's the case, uh, nevermind.)

R.I.P. Passions

NBC has announced that the soap opera Passions (which, based upon my limited Internet research, is one weird show) has been canceled. In its place will be a freakin' fourth hour of The Today Show. And to certainly cause my early death, this fourth hour will be hosted by Ann Curry and Al Roker. Since I'm drawn obsessively to things that drive me crazy, I'll be TIVO'ing it ever day. Ann, I'll be watching your every move. (As I have many, many times before.)

Not Me. Not Me. Not Me.

There are some press reports that Brit might be pregnant yet again. I doubt if it's true but I sooooo wanted to post this pic.

I Made It In To Work

. . . thanks to a sled, my trusty team of dogs, and a flask of whiskey. There are lots of bodies out there - this Arctic Blast II of 2007 has taken no prisoners. But I got a little carried away when I shook my fist at the heavens and proclaimed, "Hey, Wintery Mix! You can't touch me!"

Pete Delkus . . .

. . . is gaining enemies. Fast.

Idol Fans

I don't watch American Idol but if you do and you want to see the MySpace pages of some of last night contestants, someone has rounded them up for you.

Not Me! Not Me! Not Me!

Story.

Screenshot

. . . of the prediction for this morning's weather as shown by Fox 4 News last night. Nice job.

My Favorite Lines From The News This Morning

Channel 8's Cynthia Vega (who is on the street near Everman) said "It has truly been a lethal mix of sleet and snow." Fox 4's Tim Ryan said that he had "called home to speak with my child bride" to get a weather report. Genius.

School Delays? Closings

This is what I have found but it could change and my news team has confirmed it to be 100% accurate. Decatur ISD - Closed Bridgeport ISD - KXAS & KDFW now changed to"closed" Boyd ISD - Website shows "closed" (now confirmed at KXAS) Chico ISD - KXAS now changed to"closed" Alvord ISD - WFAA now changed to "closed" Paradise ISD - KXAS has updated to "closed" --------------------- To cause mass confusion, the Messenger Update reads this at 7:49 a.m.: BREAKING NEWS - SCHOOL CLOSINGS - Due to icy weather, the following schools are closed today: Decatur, Slidell and Northwest. Delayed: Chico until 10 a.m., Bridgeport until 10:30 a.m., Boyd until 10 a.m., Paradise until 10 a.m.. Edit: At 7:51 p.m., the Update had been, well, updated to show all Wise County schools as closed.

Enough Sports. Time To Appease My Tens Of Thousands of Female Fans

And Details magazine doesn't look that bad.

Cotton Bowl

As the Dallas City Council foolishly considers investing $50 million in upgrades of the Cotton Bowl, it is time to come to the realization that the stadium's days are numbered. The Cowboys' new stadium will open in about three years - it will be a showplace of showplaces - and the New Year's Day Game and the OU/Texas game will move there at the drop of the hat. I love the Cotton Bowl. I have a very vague memories of my parents taking me there when I was in elementary school to watch the Cowboys play the Green Bay Packers. I was just a junior high kid when I watched SMU and Houston play there (I took a bus with a bunch of other kids from the Bridgeport Methodist Church, but that's all I remember.) I was there when Baylor played Alabama in 1981 in the Cotton Bowl Classic - a disturbing loss. I went to other New Year's Day games just for the heck of it: A&M and Notre Dame, BYU and Kansas State (an 80 degree day), Oregon and Colorado (with an empty stadium in freezing weather), and Texas Tech vs. Alabama. I was there about six years ago when OU's Roy Williams hit UT's Chris Simms in the end zone as the game winning interception was thrown. And I was there with good friends in the late 1980s when we decided to watch a Carter High School playoff game simply because we had heard so much about them. But tradition is only tradition. And time moves on. Far too quickly.