My Sports Brain

I mentioned over a month ago that I thought "Ultimate Fighting" would overtake boxing in popularity some day. Sports Illustrated ponders the same thing this week.

I Just Spit Out My Coffee

The plans for a public law school in Dallas may die at midnight tonight, according to this story.

Hey, I don't want to see any new ones, either.

Tori Spelling . . .

. . . wishes all of Wise County a happy Friday morning. (This "good morning" schitck could be a pretty funny bit.)

Oh, My

First came breast augmentation and now comes . . . uh . . . link. You women are so vain! (From the D Magazine blog this morning. And I distance from all of this.)

I'm Hearing Things

I never listen to Paul Harvey (who has made a living off of reading the AP wire when now all of us have access to the AP wire). But I did a double take today when I stumbled across him during a commercial break on The Ticket.

After describing a guy at a nudist colony who was getting groceries out of his car and who decided to close the car door with his nude body, Harvey said, "A crowd gathered around the screams of pain. That's right, he had slammed the door on his . . . [insert pause] . . . tallywacker! . . . . [insert pause] . . . . Good Day!"

A question mark formed over my head as I slowly looked toward the radio dial. Yep, he said, "tallywacker."

I Thought . . .

that was a Vacation Bible School (VBS) shirt for a second.

Poop

I bird dropped a little sumtin' sumtin' on the President during his news conference yesterday (it was probably when he uttered the oft-used line of, "They'll follow us home.")

Anyway, they were replaying it on KXAS, Channel 5 this morning when Tammy Dombeck chimed in and said, "That's supposed to be good luck to have that happen to you!"

Say what?

I Swear On A Stack of Bibles . . .

. . . that I have never seen anyone in a Wise County courtroom (or any courtroom for that matter) have to swear on a Bible before they testify. Normally the judge just asks them, "Do you swear or affirm that the testimony that you are about to give . . . . "

(Fox News is all bent out of shape about the Koran story.)

My Favorite Head Shaking Moment From The President's Press Conference Today

Q Mr. President, why is [Osama bin Laden] still at large?

THE PRESIDENT: Why is he at large? Because we haven't got him yet, Jim. That's why. And he's hiding, and we're looking, and we will continue to look until we bring him to justice. We've brought a lot of his buddies to justice, but not him. That's why he's still at large.

Crappy Pic Of A Rhome Wreck Today

Looks like a tractor trailer "got loose" going around the bend in Rhome towards Fort Worth. Not sure what happened, but we had two huge tow trucks on the scene to get it out of the median with extra benefit of seeing a guy riding in the bucket of a backhoe (or whatever you call it.)

Weather Break

I missed the other night, but VH1 ran a documentary on Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. Most of you remember her for being a member of TLC (they sang "Dont Go Chasin' Waterfalls"), but I remember her most for going crazy and burning down the mansion of then Atlanta Falcon Andre Rison (fire pic here).

Anyway, she died a few years back in a car wreck in Honduras. There was a video rolling in the car at the time. VH1 played that video.

Pete Delkus Has Nothing On Me

--Edit @ 12:48 p.m.: Hey, Jacksboro. Duck! --Edit @ 1:31 p.m.: Hey, Bridgeport. I predict rain. Hard. Now. --Edit @ 2:09 p.m.: In Decatur, it's as dark as a prosecutor's soul. --Edit @ 2:20 p.m.: NWS issues a "severe thunderstorm warning" for Erath County as heard on WBAP. No mention of Wise County. NWS is apparently on crack. --Edit @ 2:27 p.m.: Lord is striking Decatur with "great vengeance and furious anger" --Edit @ 2:53 p.m.: Confirmed that it's raining on the just and the unjust --Edit @ 4:01 p.m.: Tapering off. Emergency over. Take us to DEFCON 5.

Repost

I still laugh about the To Catch a Predator sound board.

Did A Double Take In My Parking Lot This Morning

I think they are headed to the dentist next door. (And that's an all female chain gang, by the way.)

Edit: For clarification, I think they are from the Bridgeport prison instead of the local Wise County jail.

In Honor Of . . .

. . . today's limited opening of Pirates Of The Caribbean, Part 3 (which will rob your family's bank account of money assuming you have any entertainment dollars left after Shrek 3.) I'll probably watch Busty Cops 3 on Cinemax.

The Day The Local News Died

If you didn't see it, I can't do it justice. The finals of American Idol were tonight which I have absolutely no interest in. But many of you do, and apparently Fox 4 News believes that 99% of its viewership cares about nothing else.

I always TIVO Fox 4's 9:00 o'clock news and watch it about an hour later. Dear lord, was it a disaster. Not only did they dedicate the first half hour whole hour (!) to this AI crap, but it was a technological meltdown of biblical proportions. Audio out, video feeds of stuff even the anchors couldn't explain, and the absolute train wreck that is Maria Sotolongo (who was placed in an incredibly difficult position of doing impromptu reporting that even a 20 year old veteran would have trouble doing - and she's a freaking weather girl thrown into reporting live from AI.)

I have never felt sadder for anchor Steve Eager who, at the 9:18 mark, was left hanging. "Alright, where are we going now?" he begged a producer. "Help me out . . . [silence]. We just wrapped up Celena [the last segment] . . . [insert fist mildly hitting desk with a look of absolute disgust in his eyes.]"

It was TV gold.

Male Patterned Baldness

Man, I have had two or three people tell me that I'm getting "thin on top." After a few decades of clean living and long flowing locks, I think I'm beginning to lose my hair.

And, IT IS FREAKING ME OUT.

Happy Birthday To Jewel

Although I really can't think of a song she has released in the last five years, and I'm pretty sure she still has jacked up teeth.