Thursday Afternoon Crumb

If I'd watch MTV's "The Hills" I would know that this is Heidi Montag. I still probably wouldn't understand why she has "Girls Gone Wild" across her booty. But somehow I figured this qualifies as breaking news.

Just For The Sports Fans

There's nothing special about this clip (Just Ex-Evil Empire great Vince Young slapping a teammate.) The real news is that ESPN is now creating embeddable video clips. I think the Internet changed dramatically when youtube introduced these flash videos to the masses. Now everyone is doing it.

Mark Teixeira

. . . hit a home run for the Braves last night. Which gives me an excuse to post this.

Dang It

Well, the tattoo bandit has been caught. Just when I was getting entertained by this crazy lady who thought she could walk into any establishment, anywhere, and just demand some money. I don't think she exactly was a fan of those "plan every detail" Ocean's 11 movies.

And, by the way, that's a hard 33.

At Least . . .

, , , she called me "dear" before she tried to infect my computer with The Aid.

The AID?

Fascinating news (from Fox 4) on the triple murder - suicide of the Flower Mound family. The wife/mother who used the gun left two notes: A suicide note and another warning everyone that the family was infected with AIDS.

Holy cow.

A spokesman for the Flower Mound PD said, "We looked into [her] medical history and found out that she had no terminal illness." Whoa. Tap the brakes there, hoss. If he means that the Medical Examiner has already tested her blood for AIDS and it was negative, then I believe him. Other than that, there's just now way you can know from her "records" whether she had AIDS. You simply can't know every doctor or public health clinic that she visited.

But what a crazy story.

The Poll

I used to post a poll every now and then but could never think of any decent questions. But the software on this site just made posting one very easy so I thought I'd give it a shot. I'll probably keep it up for a day or so. Edit: And I realize I need to work on the spacing. Edit #2: That is one ugly looking poll.

Skool Daze

The "new Texas Accountability Ratings" for public schools were released today. You can find your school's performance here.

Oh, So This Is What You Use Flickr For

Don't worry. She didn't jump. Link.

Edit: For a larger picture, be sure to click on the "All Sizes" button at the top of each photo.

Edit: Those pics were actually taken yesterday.

Well, It Is August

I was looking around for some preseason high school football rankings (which are meaningless but fun), but only had limited success. I'm sure Dave Campbell's rankings are out, but didn't see them on its website. It's too early for the AP rankings. Some outfit called TexPrepsFootball.com lists Decatur at #25. Edit: Found out Dave Campbell predicts this order of finish in a local district race:

10-2A 1. Cisco 2. Boyd 3. Paradise

Tara Reid says,

"I loves grabbing me a watermelon from IGA and then getting a bottle of champagne from One Stop before I hit the beaches of Black Creek Lake."

Edit: Everyone thinks this pic looks fake. Found it here (with others.)

Still Laughing At This

Photo from the Morning News - a fan of FC Dallas shows his disgust for David Beckham not playing in Frisco last night.

"Unusual Suspects"

The Smoking Gun has posted a few mug shots under the description of "The Unusual Suspects." Love it. And I think I saw wife #7 in there.

A Little Tense

O.J. Simpson was on a Dallas Internet radio show last night and even took phone calls. I'm looking for the audio but I know this happened:

One caller asked the former football player if he thought it was "a bigger feat to break 2,000 yards in one season or slice two necks in one night."

Oh, my.

Edit: TMZ has the video of a portion of the wild questions here. (The second caller asked him if he killed Bill Walsh - the former 49ers coach who died of cancer two days ago.)

Edit: Someone commented that video was gone, but I think it's still there. Another way to get to it is through here.

Show Him The More Money

I just have a passing interest in baseball, but I've always thought recently traded Mark Teixeira was as dumb as a box of rocks.

Anyway, today Ranger owner Tom Hicks claims he offered Teixeira an 8 year contract worth $140 million to keep him here. Tex said, "What's a word that means 'no'?" (or something like that). I'll assume Hicks is being truthful. Like all contracts in baseball, it was guaranteed money. For those not following the situation, Teixeira becomes a free agent at the end of next season meaning he goes to the highest bidder. Obviously, he thinks he'll get more than $17.5 million a season.

Maybe he's right. Then again, no one will pay sympathy money if some freak career ending injury were to occur over the next 18 months.

Not For Everyone, But I'm Interested

I've only read a couple of paragraphs (and will probably have to print it out to digest all of it) but this long article looks great. The creepily titled "Tonight On Dateline This Man Will Die" is Esquire's look into Dateline's To Catch a Predator and the suicide of assistant DA Bill Conradt. And there's a very tenuous Wise County connection in that the article mentions Walter "Gator" Weiss. My friends at the sheriff's office tell me he used to work there.

Good Grief

Norm Hitzges from The Ticket always refers to "Crime free Flower Mound." Uh, not so much.

Edit: Amazingly, this triple murder/suicide didn't make the lead on Fox 4 News tonight. Instead it appeared at 9:14 (behind stories of a minor flooding, a crazy guy with dead cats in his house, a convenience store murder of one person, the attempted buyout of the DowJones company, gas stations "short changing" us on gas, the tattoo woman robber, the surgery of traffic reporter Julie DeHarty, and a murder for hire arrest.) Good grief, who is producing the news over there?

Belated Hey, Now

This pic is two weeks old, but I've got to do something to acknowledge Lindsay getting busted for DWI and dope last week. Not only are her wheels flying off, but she's rude. How could she possibly have done that while I was out of town? Although I'm suddenly turned on by ankle alcohol detectors and heels. Nice look.