Oh, Yeah. The Aggies Play Tonight

Edit: And the Big 12 2011 conference schedules were announced this morning. Hello, everyone play everyone. Goodbye conference championship.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Oops: Forgot to hit the "publish" button 30 minutes ago. 
• I posted a picture of Jamie Lee Curtis the other day and now her famous dad, Tony Curtis, has died. 
• There was a Texas Monthly article a couple of years ago (or more) recalling the famous University of Texas shooter of 1966. I wonder if it is online? That is one fascinating story (and the Dallas Morning News has a brief article about it today.)
• Does any magazine sell more advertising than Texas Monthly?
• I kind of scoffed when I heard a Driving With License Invalid/Suspended was being tried the other day in Wise County. Then I learned he was convicted and given 30 days in jail. What the heck?
• And a DWI case is supposed to be tried today. I'll stick my head in on it like I always do.
• There's a murder case set to go to trial next week in Decatur. I think it's the one that was the subject of this editorial entitled "Justice Delayed."
• Before 6:00 a.m. yesterday I was standing in my yard over a dog repeating the phrase, "go tee-tee-potty."  And I was wearing a robe. 
• Is this naval ship real?
• I tagged along on a parent-teacher conference yesterday. The only question I asked was, "Is she behaving like she is supposed to?"  Thankfully, the answer was yes. 
• Elementary schools are sensory overload. 
• Unemployment claims fell sharply according to the news release this morning. And it seems like more and more companies are turning quarterly profits. I'm telling you, if this economy turns around Obama will win re-election with ease.
• It seems like every time I turn on a news show there's a reference to a new documentary called "Waiting For Superman".  Something about improving public schools. I love documentaries. 
• I've heard of "walk off home run" but I've never heard of a "walk off strike out" that the Rangers won with yesterday. 
• I told the second grader "It's October!" this morning. I suspect I'm going to be seriously corrected by her when I get home. 

Unstable?

Those last couple of sentences kind of caught my attention.

Link.

Wheels Are Off

He jumped off the George Washington Bridge after the classmates secretly planted a camera in his room and broadcast it live.  Sheesh. (Link -- which includes a screenshot of one of culprits planning the event.)

Lots of sorriness out there lately.

Texas "Pee Wee" Football Brawl

• Pee Wee? That kid running for a TD which prompted the melee looks like he has the speed of Felix Jones on a good day.
• There's a close up of a sucker punch near the end of the video. Sorriness.
• Sorry for the 30 second ad before this thing starts. I'll say it again: Those ads should be 15 seconds, max.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• I don't know why I've been following this news but: Dallas filmed Lone Star was finally/actually cancelled after two episodes.
• Sent to me yesterday: "The wrong way to test an air bag."
• Give kids a bunch of oversized chalk and my driveway looks like a drunk Picasso got turned loose on it.
• You're about to see two college football bullet points. 
• Saturday's football schedule: Baylor at 11:00, OU/Tex at 2:30, Oregon/Stanford and Alabama/Florida at 700. Will I sit there and watch it all day? Not a chance. But a man can dream.
• Little UAB went to U. of Tennessee on Saturday and took them into overtime. Which is (kind of ) amazing because UAB's kicker missed five (!!!) field goal attempts during regulation. So in the first overtime, Tennessee kicks a field goal and then, after UAB fails to score a touchdown, finds itself facing a fourth down. Do you send that college kid out to try a sixth kick in front of 100,000 hostile people? Yep, you do. He made it. (They still eventually lost the game, but my heart was so rooting for that kid.)
• A phrase you don't hear much anymore: "He thinks he's God's gift to women." 
• A deaf guy was exonerated yesterday in Dallas and D.A. Craig Watson Watkins was there to meet him and say a few words as he walked out of the jail. I'm shocked, absolutely shocked, that Watson Watkins couldn't have a private moment with the guy in any place other than on the public sidewalk in front of cameras. Edit: Sheesh on the name. 
• Worst tattoo customer ever.
• Hey, now.
• Summer vacation plans anyone? I want to go somewhere not hot which has a combination of notable urban and/or historical things to see but within a quick jaunt to hiking and nature areas. Seattle? San Francisco?
• Britney was on Glee last night and I didn't watch it. I promise.
• Had a local lawyer tell me that he was at a horse race track last weekend and saw a jockey get killed right in front of his eyes. His kid just happen to be in the bathroom when it happened. 
• The Dez Bryant "$54.896 restaurant tab" story seems a little suspicious. (ESPN reported it yesterday on a blog post and then it took off.)  I want to see the bill. 
• And as I told the Mrs this morning, "That's one of the reason I don't like the NFL. We want to cheer for those guys?"
• This has been in the Update for the second day: "ALUMNI MEETING – Eastside Alumni will hold its monthly meeting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the home of . . . . " Uh, who are the "Eastside Alumni"?  Edit: A commenter says it is for those that attended a segregated school on the east side of Decatur before desegregation. Really? Where was it?

Tomorrow's Messenger Above The Fold

Tuesday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Natalie (Fox 4), Sybil (105.3 The Fan), and Fiona (Fox 4)

Edit: Hey, Sybil commented!

Edit: Fiona commented!!!! Hey, now.

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) :

Edit:

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.