Irony

Tonight's speech at the University of Texas from the author of "More Guns, Less Crime" has been cancelled  (as has all activities) due to the gun incident today.

Credit.

Edit: He's got his guns back up --- speech moved and will go on. (As will UT football practice). Heck, they are right: "We're Texas."

Update: UT Official Email

Edit: And the official "All Clear" statement was issued shortly before noon.

Uh Oh

Edit: The Austin American Statesman is being updated rapidly. This was pretty scary.

Edit: We've got some Austinites updating us (click to enlarge) :

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Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• George Lopez and his wife are getting a divorce after 17 years. I blame her for putting up with 17 years of bad humor. 
• The elderly lady from Titanic died yesterday at 100 years of age. I'll never forgive her for throwing that necklace into the ocean. 
• Funny animated GIF of Longhorn coed reacting to the Empire's destruction this weekend.
• The new movie, The Social Network, seems to be the perfect storm: It's about Facebook which is used by millions of Americans, it will appeal to the young, and every reviewer so far over at Rotten Tomatoes has liked it. A box office bonanza is coming.
• Replaced the Mrs LL car last night with a slightly used Chrysler 300. Observations: Car buying is a beating. Driving that car makes me feel like a gangsta. I think the rims are 20 inches which is just asking for them to get stolen. 
• Saw the most smart arsed kid yesterday in district court who might have been high. I thought the judge was going to throw him jail. 
• And there was a very odd Driving While License Invalid being tried to a jury in the County Court at Law. Not sure I've ever seen one of those taken to trial before. 
• Amazingly clouds over the Kansas State stadium on Saturday.
• Remember when every kid thought he was going to be rich by collecting Beanie Babies. 
• NFL legend George Blanda died yesterday. He was the first non-Cowboy I really remember as a little kid, and I recalled yesterday sitting in my brother's room and watching Blanda kick a last minute field goal for Oakland to beat the Chiefs. Last night I saw one of those replays -- nostalgia set in. 
• Fox Sports Southwest enters into a 20 year TV contract with the Texas Rangers for $1.6 billion? Really? They could have bought the team for $600 million and broad casted them forever. And would you have any faith in what "TV" will be like even ten years from now?
• Cops getting tazed as practice -- all of whom sound like Chewbacca. 
• Drove by Decatur High as it was letting out yesterday.  Isn't that a traffic design nightmare? One long. backed up road leading up to College Street that's not controlled by a red light.
• Ages of deaths mentioned in the Update this morning: 38, 46, 22,  and 39.

Not Sure What I Think About The T-Shirt

Winning a four team division with a (current) 56% winning percentage is an accomplishment -- I guess. But I don't think you'd catch a Yankee fan wearing a "division" winner T-shirt.

Walk By This Every Day In Decatur

If I had caught all of it, you would see that it reads "Please God show me how to help my liberal friends to think RIGHT."

"Excuse Me A Minute"

Kind of funny yesterday.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Can we have this morning weather every morning? Fantastic.
• "Tomorrow we'll take the dog out and talk some more like we always do. But this time even longer." - Second grader to me last night. Awwww.
• Cowboys' prediction = Win. Arkansas prediction = Close but no cigar. Rangers' prediction = I'm still confident.
• Might have to break down and get a new/used/whatever car for Mrs. LL today. Her's is close to giving up the ghost. (As vain as I am, I've never cared much for what I drive.)
• Bridgeport motorcycle death. Awful.
• Late Saturday night I heard loud music coming from down the street. I'm not irritated but I am nosy so I grab the new pooch and walk around the block looking for the source. I think I've found it when I look back and see the pooch take off like a rocket the other way and around the corner. I take off running after her in a panic because I'm a dead man if I lose the dog. Fortunately, she was sitting at the front door without a care in the world when I get back to the house. Dumb dog. Smart dog.
• Those miners are still trapped in Chile.
• The commercial where the tiny giraffe kisses the rich guy on the cheek causing him to laugh crazily makes me giggle.
• I was sent to the grocery store to get "regular" Doritos. Talk about Confused Head as I stared at the chip aisle for five minutes. Did you know they stop making them years ago? But apparently the default regular Doritos are now nacho cheese flavor -- at least to someone in the household. (I bought Tostitos to the chagrin of the Family Unit.)
• I think the Rangers won the East, but Josh Hamilton (because of his addiction problem) had to stay away from the clubhouse where champagne was flowing. If you listen to that guy talk, you can tell his brain is fried.
• Does Roy Williams performance for the Cowboys make me think he's great? Nope. Makes me think how he must be dogging it 90% of the time. 
• Oklahoma is a 4 point favorite over Texas. They both look awful. 
• Stephen Colbert testifying before Congress on Friday is the closest thing to Idiocracy that I've seen. And I don't think that guy is funny for a second. Jon Stewart, yes. Colbert, no.
• Guy in wheelchair gets run over in Florida game. 

Above The Fold

The Death Star Got Hit!

The last time UCLA came to Austin they won 66-3 in 1997.  I'm guessing Burnt Orange Nation thinks this is worse.

And UCLA only passed eight times. At one point, they ran the ball seventeen straight times. Wow.

OU next week.

Bridgeport, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Valley View at	19
Alvord	22
	FINAL
Boyd at	26
Pilot Point	27
	FINAL
Bridgeport at	27
Alvarado	35
	FINAL
Ranger at	35
Chico	13
	FINAL
Iowa Park at	28
Decatur	10
	FINAL
Northwest at	7
Denton Guyer	50
	FINAL
Paradise at	34
Nocona	14
	FINAL

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Free Lindsay!!!

She just got thrown in the hoosegow! (But I bet that in court video will be priceless.) She'll set there until a hearing next month regarding whether she violated probation.

Friday Morning Pick Me Up. Wait. What?

Sheesh! Finally we've got a super secret video released to the masses that proves you gals have been lying to us guys for years! Pregnancy is easy!

If This Is Real, It's Crazy

Kid is said to have survived. The other pictures are equally wild.

(Thanks, Lori.)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Lots of news stations ran a quick clip of the "botox bandit" because she was pretty hot in court. I'm pretty sure they ran it because, well, she was pretty hot in court. 
• Motorcycle death at Northside and Main in Fort Worth last night led to arrest for Intoxication Manslaughter.
• Mrs. LL had to go outside at 2:00 a.m. because the dog needed to "potty". I just had to take a break because the cat was tearing up a kitchen table flower arrangement.
• All of a sudden I have a desire to see the movie Pet Cemetery.
• Saw a press release yesterday where TXI lost a big bag of money last quarter. Is it still a big player over in Bridgeport?
• Cowboys Stadium is turning into the premiere season opening venue for college football. Likely to open the 2012 season: Alabama v. Michigan.
• I don't think I've watched a season premiere of a new sitcom in years, but I caught Outsourced last night that came on right after The Office. The premise? A young American is shipped off to India to manage the telephone help center for a U.S. novelty company. Verdict: Really, really funny.
• And I love how NBC promoted it. The show fired up the second The Office ended with no commercials and then ran 20 straight minutes without any other commercial break. 
• Did you know a second grader can talk your ear off?
• Boy, I was wrong about the "dog scent lineup" case making the news. I haven't seen it anywhere. 
• More lack of class from Dallas DA Craig Watkins in a debate yesterday when asked about the difference between himself and his opponent: "I have a backbone and a brain."
• There was a bad wreck that shut down 114 at FM 51 yesterday evening, but I have no other details.
• An H-E-B grocery store is opening in Burleson today. You go to Waco and on southward and you'll see them everywhere.
• Elton John is playing at the Tarrant County Convention Center in November? That just seems weird.
• I've always been skeptical of the "consultant" and UNT just paid one $2,000 a day for this.
• Hot sports opinions: Rangers lose in first playoff series. Cowboys win this weekend. Arkansas beats Alabama.
• Edit: I forgot to mention that the death of Eddie Fisher was all over the news this morning, and CNN even made it "breaking news." I'll admit, I've never heard of him. 

Ironically, Facebook Has Crashed This Afternoon

Forbes announced it's annual 400 Richest Americans list today. Oh, to be 26 and a billionaire.

Edit: And by "crashed" I mean Facebook was down for an extended period this afternoon.

Edit: Funniest Tweets about the downtime here. Example:

Get Me This Tattoo!!!

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• It was a cleaning frenzy in my house last night. Yay! Benefits!!! (Then again, how did it get so messy in the first place?)
• KFC pays college girls to wear pants that say "double down" on their booties to promote their crazy sandwich?
• The local Fox weather guy this morning in reference to the "double down" story: "I'm not going to say a thing because whatever it is, I'll get in trouble for it."
• The new kitten is bi-polar. We should get along fine.
• That looked like a pretty good collision yesterday in Decatur when a couple of teenagers decided to run into each other.
• Saw that Michael Douglas was on the cover of People with a headline about his cancer battle. Awful thought: What if he is overstating his health condition just to promote his new Wall Street movie?
• That was one very intense and very brief storm that blew through Decatur yesterday.
• The Shell convenience store across from James Wood Motors has to be the worst managed place ever. It seems like half the pumps don't have gas most of the time and several of the screens are absolutely unreadable. And it's been that way for a awhile 
• Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy this morning.
• Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis at movie premiere in same dress. (As in two dresses that look the same.) Still kind of hot.
• Someone commented yesterday that there is no way that Dallas could beat the Houston Texans this weekend. No way? Hey, this isn't Baylor going to Austin. It's the NFL where there are no sure things. 
• There was news yesterday that Fox had cancelled the new DFW filmed TV show Lone Star after one episode. That turned out not to be true, but most expect it to happen after the second episode. Short. Leash.
• Dallas DA Craig Watkins is unveiling an ad attacking his opponent for representing someone on a felony charge? Really? 
• "Rollback" Fail that I saw at Walmart last night. Edit: This will help.