Paranormal Activity

I saw this yesterday. Verdict: Not bad. The basic concept is that a young couple believe there are supernatural things going on in their house so they set up a camera to run throughout the night. It's like a poor man's Blair Witch Project. There are enough holes in the plot to drive a truck through like (get a dog, get a gun, turn on the lights every now and then) but it was really entertaining.

Random Football Thoughts

• I would have bet a small fortune that A&M wouldn't beat Tech. Easily the most shocking result of the season so far. (A&M 52, Tech 30)
• I can't believe that score.
• The best headline about the game I saw read, "Stunned Guns."
• I'm beginning to think Baylor shouldn't be in the Big 12, and it hurts to say that. (OSU 34, Baylor 7)
• Any big high school should make an offer to Todd Dodge. He has to want to get out of that gig at North Texas. (Troy 50, UNT 26)
• I felt pretty sure that BYU would beat TCU. I now feel pretty sure that TCU is very good. (TCU 38, BYU 7)
• But mid-major Boise State, who doesn't have to play anyone after beating Oregon on opening weekend, could screw TCU over. The highest ranked of the two gets an automatic bid to a BCS bowl game, and the other can only get into it if invited. (Crazy BCS rules here.)
• Edit: As a commenter pointed out, when the BCS standing were released after I wrote this, TCU had leapfrogged (get it?) Boise State.
• Funny sign in the stands: "Boise Is Not A State. We Checked."
• Kind of funny Game Day sign at BYU about TCU's starting QB: "Dalton Dates Cougars."
• Nebraska turned the ball over eight times - four of them inside Iowa State's five yard line. You should never win when you do that. They didn't. (Iowa State 9, Nebraska 7)
• Texas replaced a couple of wide receivers and now looks like they are ready to roll. They'll be in the National Championship game. And the way Alabama and Florida look, they could win it. Kill me. (Texas 41, Missouri 7)
• I can't stand Tennessee's Lane Kiffin. But I like it when I have a villain.
• Dallas' 3:00 p.m. start would give us a chance to see if the sun comes in from the west through the glass. But it's cloudy.
• Jimmy Johnson was on the Fox pre-game show bragging about cutting Curvin Richards after fumbling in 1992. Sheesh. I feel compelled to mention that Jimmy's last game was a 62-7 loss in the playoffs when he was coaching Miami.
• Worst. Uniforms. Ever.

Video Of Wise County Attorney Being Tazed

He's A Jerk Dallas Lawyer Even Before He's A Dallas Lawyer

"Do I look like a guy that requires the world to bow to me? Why, yes. Yes I do."

Kids today. That's some guy from SMU who's enrolled in law school but just got kicked out of the school's simultaneous MBA program before it even started. This email thread circulating around the Internets explains why.

Decatur > Philly?

If Philly is full of guys like this, uh, the answer is a profound "yes."

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• I wasn't sure if I had posted the top pic before, so I had to add a bonus pic. It looks like her name is "April."
• Craziest lead story in the news was that commercial plane that overshot the airport by over 100 miles -- and the pilots would not respond to radio contact. The pilots claim they were arguing. I bet they fell asleep. But does either make you feel better?
• TCU has a "no umbrella" policy for football games (which wasn't the best policy for last weekends rain game).
• Last night's crazy dream: I was in a 1,500 seat arena to see Elton John (whose voice was cracking) but my seat was connected to the back wall on a swivel with it's default position looking directly into that back wall.
• Watched a horrible movie about Ted Bundy the other night. But I couldn't look away.
• Blew past Praire View v. Southern last night which was a football game between two predominately black schools. Oddly, they both had white kickers. Let me correct that, both had horrible white kickers.
• I would never initiate a standing ovation.
• But I never have the guts to not stand during a standing ovation.
• Did ESPN ever air the footage of Bridgeport game where Colt McCoy was in the stands?
• Literally vs. Figuratively bugs me. When someone says, "He literally took that guy's head off" he really means, "He figuratively took that guy's head off."
• I'm not a music guy, but I noticed some group called Phoenix singing 1901 on Jay Leno and I heard it again in a new Cadillac commercial. And when I googled it, I found out they've already sang it on Saturday Night Live. The song reminds me of something.
• If we only knew what was going on in other people's lives -- it would make out wheels off lives look boring.
• I think the man in the background could be a Blog reader.
• I hope this Fort Worth boy scout was always prepared. Oh, my. They don't have merit badges for that, do they?
• Wow. Take a look at the cover of the book coming out to counter Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue." I think I'd pick up the wrong book by mistake.

Don't Taze Me Bro

Source. (Be nice. I have to work with this guy.)

Thursday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Mindbursts

• When he was elected, we couldn't find Dick Cheney. Now he won't shut up.
• The feds have rounded up 300 on the "War On Drugs" but I couldn't help but notice the arrests alone required 3,000 agents on the taxpayer payroll to execute it.
• The roundup were mostly of members of the Mexican gang La Familia which reminded me of the above video. And a Fort Worth restaurant.
• The feds HAVE to have given the roundup some catchy name. I'm looking for it.Edit: Found it! "Project Coronado"
• Rush Limbaugh is going ballistic today over Obama slashing executive salaries by 90% of those companies that the government bailed out and still have a huge stake in.
• The guy that killed the former schoolteacher from Carrollton (and whose body was just found a couple of weeks ago) gets 15 years today in a plea bargain?
• College mascot mocks end zone prayer.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• [Insert expected "wow, that was a lot of rain" comment here.]
• For those that followed the very tense Firebombing blog, it looks like it is over.
• Funny post on Facebook yesterday from a guy from Bowie who said he saw a waitress at Mexican restaurant ask a guy wearing a DEA jacket if that stood for "Drink Every Day?"
• If you heard about the "Fatal Attraction" affair the ESPN on-air personality had (news broke yesterday), you only could say, "Oh, my." TMZ even had the wife's 911 call when she saw the crazy woman in her driveway. Chilling.
• And the crazy girl in the affair was 22 and wasn't even remotely as hot as Glenn Close.
• If you ever look at the Missing Kid Wall at Walmart you come to the conclusion there are a lot of missing kids.
• Our County Attorney appeared shirtless in the "throwaway" section of the the Wise County Messenger yesterday. And he was getting tazed (which may or may not have anything to do with him being shirtless.)
• I just heard what I thought was a dog collar jingle in my office. Turns out it was just jewelry.
• Today's Update has a funeral announcement for a 19 year old Decatur girl.
• More bond voting trickery courtesy of the Update: "Early convenience voting will also be 6-8 tonight at an open house at Bridgeport Middle School." It is simply amazing that that is legal.
• A weekly thought of mine: "Was that guy I just talked to high?"
• I was reminded a couple of days ago about the long defunct Southern Kitchen in Dallas. Sadly, I bet most people have no idea what I'm talking about.
• You've probably seen it, but here's a guy on some Home Shopping Channel having a very unfortunate accident with the Wii.
• When I see someone talking on a cell phone I normally assume that the call is not necessary.
• ESPN has started a new documentary series called 30/30. Watched one last night on the USFL. Verdict: Fantastic.
• If you have orange hair and were arrested in Denton for the odd charge of "soliciting money without a permit", I've got your picture.

From The Four-Warn Doppler Storm Chasing Radar Situation Room Center

Crazy, Man. Crazy

I was just going to watch a second of this, and then got sucked in. It almost looks like a Steve Martin bit -- if it weren't so shockingly sad.

Just Incredible

They just keep coming. Few facts have been released but there's a news conference this afternoon. But the Dallas Morning News reports the defendants were convicted after the jury deliberated for six minutes. I don't know if the old Dallas DA's office was corrupt, but it was probably full of prosecutors that simply didn't care. They would pick up a file, read it, refuse to think critically, assume guilt, and then go review their conviction rate as compared to their co-workers.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Tired of hearing about the Swine Flu shot or lack thereof.
• Sarah Palin is going to be on Oprah. I'm in. But my Head Brain might explode by watching the two most irritating women in the world.
• ABC/Washington Post Poll: Only 20% consider themselves Republican -- lowest since 1983. Demographics are our future.
• I really don't know anyone who has been to Vegas lately. And I don't know why it is so expensive to fly there.
• Lots of people volunteer lots of information to people who do not care.
• Red River Rivalry bathroom fight from last Saturday between two girls which kind of got started with the utterance of "Fatties up front."
• The thought of the Dallas Mavericks starting a marathon season gives me Tired Head.
• Daylight Savings Time has to right around the corner, but I don't want to look it up.
• I don't know why there's not a death every day at Hwy 287 and FM 2264 south of Decatur. People crossing. People pulling out onto the highway. People driving on the shoulder. It's chaos. Chaos, I 'll tell ya.
• Did gas prices just jump 20 cents in one day?
• An entry in the Update this morning that caused a question mark to form over my head: QUEEN "B" - The city of Bridgeport is hosting the first Queen "B" Contest 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, at the Bridgeport Stage. The male employees of the city will participate in female form to earn the title Queen "B."
• Barack in 1980? That would make him 18 or 19.
• Puppy on my desk yesterday.
• I still think it's silly when I hear a white guy talking about an album "dropping" on a certain date.
• The quick cycling traffic light drives me crazy. But I fear the running of the red light so I'll hit the the brakes every time.

Balloon Boy's Neighbor Is Not Happy

Stick with it. It gets a little crazy.

Aggie Yell Leaders Need To Rethink Pre-Game Routine

More Boring Football News

What does this graphic mean? I have no idea.

The mighty TCU, which the commentors seem to love, puts its unbeaten record on the line this weekend against the Mormons of BYU. The game is so important that even ESPN's Game Day is headed there. But there is a problem. At least for some of you. The game is on the Versus Network. DirecTV and Versus are in a fight, and DirecTV refuses to air the Versus channel. Ergo, if you are a fan of TCU and have DirecTV, you've got a problem. Jarhead?

Who Is Running This Thing? ACORN?

If an election were about criminal justice reform, would you want a ballot box in every bail bondsman office? If an election were about abortion, would you want a ballot box at every Planned Parenthood location? If an election were about a school bond issue, would you want a ballot box at a location where the parents of intermediate school kids (the ones who would use the improvements) would be sure to be?