The Most Interesting Thing About The Anna Nicole Autopsy Report . . .

. . . is that she weighed 178 pounds.

(Here.)

Me In Vegas Last Weekend

Or it might be David Beckham and wife, Posh Spice, last Saturday.

Not Much To Say . . .

. . . about this story other than it is fascinating. Two young people "fall" off a cruise liner and end up staying afloat for four or five hours in the ocean until they are rescued.

As often as shows like The Today Show beat me down with interviews like this, I would absolutely love to see and hear from these two. (Story.)

Beaten Down

Today:
- A plea to Criminal Mischief
- A plea to DWI with Child In Car
- Motion to Revoke plea agreement for violating a misdemeanor probation
- Ended up set #1 on next week's trial docket on a Second Degree Felony
- Ended up pleaing the #1 case later in the afternoon for four years in the pen
- Got a continuance on the #13 case on the felony trial docket
- Docket call on a Felony-DWI
- Docket call on another Felony-DWI
- Docket call on yet another Felony-DWI
- Plea on a DWI with Child In Car
- Plea on misdemeanor DWI
- Appointed on a State Jail Felony drug case with an enhancement paragraph of two prior convictions
- Misdemeanor DWI plea

And now I've got to work some more on a misdemeanor trial tomorrow.

Keep Telling Yourself This Country Isn't In Trouble

Final Four Preview: UCLA vs. Florida

Man, this is close.

I'm Being Run Ragged Today

So entertain yourselves. If you were a VIP of the AFI (some Dallas high tone film festival that is currently going on), you would have been at the W Hotel this weekend with these gals. More here.

This Hotel Off of Stemmons Freeway Always Catches My Attention

As did this story today about a guy who jumped off of it this weekend.

Basketball Fans Only

If you've got four minutes, you might want to watch the most amazing comeback in the history of ever for the Division II championship played yesterday (which involved two teams you otherwise have never heard of nor cared about.) Good times.

I'm Not Saying It's Interesting . . .

. . . but I stumbled across a web site of Randall Kelton. Randall is referred to by some as a Wise County courthouse nuisance. Some hate him. Some like him. Some tolerate him. Edit: Someone sent in a comment saying they had found something objectionable on the site. If you'll let me know exactly where it is so that I can verify it, I'd appreciate it.

Her In Vegas? Not So Much.

(Actually a pic of Christina in NYC last night.)

Vegas Skattershooting

(Girl running after jumping in front of a Beatles montage at the Mirage.)
(Took this shot before going to take a look at Siegfried and Roy's "Secret Garden.")
(Noon time shot of the Bellagio I took after watching the fountain show. (Much better at night.))
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- Traveling is a beating for one reason: Security. Check-in is now completely automated and you can obtain your boarding pass as quickly as a Big Mac from McDonald's, but having to go through the take your shoes off crap sucks the life force out of you.
- Arrived at Las Vegas at night - which is the only way to see it.
- Stayed at the Mirage - my first time ever to stay there - huge thumbs up. Tigers behind glass in the lobby, a dolphin/white tiger/lion sanctuary on the premises. As well as a topless pool (which I did not go in because I didn't want to expose my lily white, pale man breasts.)
- The amount of money being thrown around in your average Las Vegas casino is mind numbing. I don't know how they handle the bank deposit.
- The days of coins being dumped out by a slot machine or video poker machine are over. Now when you "cash out" you receive a paper ticket with a bar code that you can insert in a nearby ATM to collect your winnings (or what you have left of your initial bet.)
- If you ever get a chance to walk through a casino at 7:0o a.m., do it. Most people gambling have been up all night (especially at the blackjack tables) and their wheels are flyiiiiiiing off.
- Saw two young guys arguing at 7:10 this morning as one stops the other and says, "We are Jewish and we stick together!"
- Went to a $22 buffet for lunch and it was outstanding. Chose between Asian, Latin, Barbeque, "Cut Meat", Breakfast . . . and the list goes on.
- I won $100 on a basketball game between Ohio State and Memphis. There's nothing like watching a game in the Sports Book section of a casino. And I found myself doing a fist pump during an Ohio State three-pointer.
- Saw Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian and, with all do respect to one of my best friends who told me I'd hate it, I thought it was outstanding. The theater has been built to duplicate the Paris Opera House and that, alone, is worth the price of admission.
- Phantom note #2: The couple that sat beside me was a fairly fashionable duo that, much too my amazement, pulled out a french bread pizza in the first few minutes and started chowing down.
- Phantom note #3: Said male of said aforementioned couple made me laugh when during an extended singing number of the play he looked at his date, put a finger to his temple to simulate a gun, and pulled the trigger.
- Final Phantom note: I had never seen the musical until I rented the DVD last week in anticipation of the trip. Now, I'm a huge fan.
- Speaking of the Venetian, it's worth going to Las Vegas to see the fake canals, complete with gondolas that run throughout the first floor of the hotel.
- Venetian observation #2: I saw at least three brides, one of whom was getting married on a gondola ride after a pastor/father/priest that boarded the boat.
- I didn't go inside any of the music "clubs" in any of the hotels, but the lines outside of them are incredible. By 11:00 p.m., they are at least 50 yards long. (At least that's what I saw at the Mirage and the Venetian.)
- The Mirage has the longest hallway in the history of ever. From my hotel room door to the elevator, I paced off 135 steps. (Go outside and walk that right now and see how far away you are from your front door.)
- I'd love to stay in the Bellagio, but it's too freakin' pricey. But there's no question it's the nicest place in Vegas. (I haven't seen inside the Wynn but I suppose it might give it run.)
- I saw the Blue Man Group for the second time - still incredibly entertaining. (And I'll write more about it later, but I/we became part of the "audience participation" aspect of the show in a very limited way.)
- An elderly person in a wheelchair in front of a slot machine is a very depressing visual.
- On the flight back, there were three overweight guys sitting shoulder to shoulder in front of me, and they were very uncomfortable. Then a buddy of two of them boarded the plane and busted out laughing at the sight of the three big men and said (in a much too loud of a voice): "I think a grease fire is gonna break out!" (I think that was a reference to the amount of fat accumulated in one place.) Funny, but shockingly rude.
- On the flight to Vegas we hit incredible turbulence. Somehow I ended up on the last row of the plane and we were bouncing around like a rag doll. It was scary and, although I haven't flown all over the world, it was the scariest flight I've ever been on.
- The guy beside, who has flown all over the world (he kept talking about flying into South Africa), said it was the roughest flight he had ever been on. So there.
- The guy also told me that he bought his house in Vegas four years ago and "had already doubled his money." That reminded me of one of my dad's favorite sayings: "You haven't made anything until you sell it."

Developing . . .

Working On Las Vegas Reflections . . .

(Replica of the statue of David in Caesar's Palace. The plaque says it was made of the same marble as the original and that the statute stands 18 feet tall. To put it in perspective, even a 6' tall guy has to reach up to touch David's foot.)
(Walking out of Caesar's you get to see a hotel sized pick of Toni Braxton on the other side of the strip. Do you think that she fired off a "damnnnnnn" the first time she saw it?)
(I tried to get artsy outside of Caesar's.)
(This is inside the Bellagio. Take a look at the water flowing "out" of the watering doohicky. Also, don't miss the frog and, at the very back, don't miss the bonnet.)

Greetings From Sodom and Gomorrah

Random Vegas thoughts, as postings might be a little slim today:

- The plane ride, on US Airways, was freakin' scary. I'm not saying I'm a world traveler, but the guy next to me was, and he proclaimed it the most turbulence he had ever gone through. (Bouncing around, losing altitude) But the pilot didn't even come on the intercom to assure us we weren't going to die.
- This place is incredible - I come here maybe once every five years and every time they are building more and more crap.
- And this place is expensive
- Certainly more and more of mixed culture - lots of Asian influence
- I got here to late to bet on the NCAA Tourney, but I'll try it today
- I always lose at gambling so I never gamble that much. I sit down at a video poker machine, and the beating immediately begins. Not much incentive to poor a ton a cash into those things
- Going to two shows today, Phantom of the Opera and The Blue Man Group. My buddy Clark told me that Phantom will whip my arse. I told him that I had read, "it's really short - like an hour and 20 minutes." He replied, "It seemed like seven or eight hours." Funny guy.

A rare weekend trip ...

.... for me awaits. Viva Las Vegas!

Radio Channel Surfing . . .

. . . this morning when I heard Big Al Mack of the Kidd Kraddick show jacking around with a cab driver. He was in the back of a cab with an air horn tormenting some foreign born guy in what I would refer to as a "failed bit."

Kidd probably didn't get the "breaking news" memo this morning that a Dallas "taxi driver was in critical condition Friday morning after he was beaten and shot."

Timing. The key to all comedy.

Big Bag . . .

. . . of nothing going on this Friday morning. I thought about linking to how rich Britney Spears is (and how hot she used to be), or linking to a video of Barbara Boxer really turning me on (political junkies only), or Wynona Ryder's cleavage.

Instead I'll just watch a million stories of John Edward's wife battling cancer.

Shout Out To The Aggies Who Play Tonight

Photo compliments of (kinda) Sigma Phi Lamba Sorority at A&M, otherwise known as "Sisters for the Lord" (which is extremely confusing.)