Now We Have To Fear Parking Garages

It's the best picture I can find for now, but a car in Houston went through a wall of a parking garage last night and plummeted a few stories. You can see the hole at the top of the picture. Death ensued.

Edit: Close up of the hole.

Compulsive

Well I've started my one month experiment of Nutrisystem.

For about $350, I ordered a one month's supply of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desert. It came in a huge box which quickly led to many question marks forming over my head. Amazingly, none of it is refrigerated even though the meals include eggs, ham, turkey, and chicken salad. It's a little insane.

So far the stuff has tasted pretty good but the portions are extremely small. It suggests supplementing the meals with a salad and, man, I'm all over that. Even found some fat free honey dijon salad dressing last night. Good times.

Developing.

Someone Stole The Messenger's Server!!!!

Or it's probably just my connection this morning.

Baylor Sportzzzzzzzz

"Baylor landed an oral commitment last weekend from a 6-7 [human] with an 80-inch wingspan who wears size 17 shoes." And, get this, that human is only going to be a junior in high school this fall. And here's the weird part, that human is a female basketball player.

Anybody Want To Move To The Northeast?

Actual pic from this week's Boston Celtic's dance team tryouts.

Uh, I'm just saying.

A Noted Passing

I noticed Bob Goode of Bridgeport was in the Messenger's obituary section this morning.

That struck a nerve with me because I recalled my dad telling me when I was kid that Bob had been a famous football player. Internet research on the "old days' is a little tough, but I found out that he played for A&M (where he still holds the record for most punts in a single game: 17 times in 1945) and the Washington Redskins (official playing card above.)

And I could have sworn he held the record for the longest punt in Southwest Conference history, but I can't verify it.

Edit: Found it but it was for punt return. Wow. (But, oddly, the longest punt in A&M history is listed as belonging to a Bob "Goff" in 1944. The Aggies couldn't have made a mistake on their web site, could they?)

This Guy Is Everywhere

I stumbled across some youtube clip called "CNU at Rockin' Rodeo" (mild warning: no nudity but plenty of scantily clad drunk women shaking their bootAYES). Rockin' Rodeo, or so I've heard, is a club in Denton. Not that I watched all four minutes of the clip but, if I did, I'll be danged if I didn't see Tony Romo doing a promo at the end of it. (3:46 mark to be exact.)

That guy loves the camera more than . . . uh . . . someone who really loves the camera.

Edit: And if you watch the clip, your mind might melt down due to the number of times "off the hook" and "off the chain" is thrown down.

Missing?

I wrote about the girl who couldn't stop hiccuping earlier this year. It's a little early to panic, but she has now gone missing.

Where Reggaeton Lives?

If I were to say that I hypothetically drove past two "latino" clubs in Dallas (being hypothetically named Escapade 2001 and Escapade 2009) on Saturday night at around 11:00 p.m., I would also tell you that I have never seen a more packed parking lot, more cars lined up around the parking lot, and more cars backed up onto the highway.

Some reviews I've read indicate the clubs hold 4,000 to 5,000 per Saturday night. I absolutely believe it.

(It' located on the east side of I-35 about a mile before you hit LBJ to the north.)

My NBA Championship Update

Spiderman On The Topic Of Double Jeopardy

Edit: And a shout out to a commenter who noted that Spidey is flashing a "hook 'em horns" sign.

Edit #2: I found another angle of the screaming "No! No! No!" Paris Hilton supporter I posted earlier, and was surprised to see, at the end, yet another "hook 'em horns" sign by a guy. There must be another meaning.

My Crazy Dream Last Night

For some reason I joined the army and went through a boot camp that was "laid back" (a reference to new Cowboys coach Wade Phillips' style?) Anyway, the drills included throwing golf balls at an abandoned two story shopping center. (Insane, huh?) But the craziest bit was when I found that someone had taken a picture of me and other recruits standing in a line stark naked awaiting to get our physicals. Oddly, I was the only one who had a digital copy of the photo. So I camaraderie commandeered a computer and loaded the pic onto it, emailed it to a buddy who also appeared in the picture (I figured he'd laugh), and then deleted the pic. I walked by that work station about 20 minutes later only to see the secretary who was responsible for the computer staring at the screen and then back at me, alternatively, with disgust. It then dawned on me that a copy of the email had gone to her "sent mail" file. Sheesh. I apologized and asked her to delete it. About thirty minutes later I went back to her computer to discover that she was gone. I looked at the screen and read "Your funny photo has been uploaded to break.com" (meaning that my neekid body had been uploaded to a funny web site.) Can I puuuuhhhllleeeze dream I'm on a beach somewhere?

It Was 20 Years Ago Today . . .

. . . that Baby Jessica was rescued from a well in Midland. If I remember correctly, it was a Friday evening. Anyway, she was on the Today Show this morning.

Edit: Sheesh. I could have sworn they said 20 years ago today. I TIVO'd so I'll watch it when I get home, but I guess I'm wrong. Maybe I was groggy.

Press Conference Giggle

Don't worry about the subject matter, but this exchange at a press conference yesterday is pretty funny (or something like that): Q Thank you, Mr. President. Yesterday you called for a deadline for U.N. action on Kosovo. When would you like that deadline set? And are you at all concerned that taking that type of a stance is going to further inflame U.S. relations with Russia? And is there any chance that you're going to sign on to the Russian missile defense proposal?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Thanks. A couple of points on that. First of all, I don't think I called for a deadline. I thought I said, time -- I did? What exactly did I say? I said, "deadline"? Okay, yes, then I meant what I said. Source.

Finale

I had only recently begun watching The Sopranos, and I wasn't going to miss tonight's season finale that just ended.

Uh.........what the heck was that?

Edit: Just saw this on another blog.

June 10, 2007
9:23 p.m.
Dear David Chase,
Enclosed you will find an invoice for the cost of my HBO service for the past six years, totaling $1007.28. Your show's return on my emotional and financial investments are insufficient.

Please remit payment immediately.
Disappointed Fan.

Listen To Guy Wail. Watch Spokesperson Power Down

Some People Have A Fear Of High Overpasses

This story will not alleviate those fears. (And, man, those are some high overpasses at I-35 and 820 in South Fort Worth. And by looking at the satellite image, I think he was on the highest one - westbound 20 to go southbound on 35.)

Channel 11 Finds New Towns In Wise County

Saw this today. (Kind of hard to see but there's a Rickels, Draco, and Lucky Ridge. And the town of Bluett is also wrong, isn't it?)