As The Rangers Begin Game 3 . . .

. . . with Josh Hamilton breaking out the boomstick for a 2-0 lead, check out this amazing panoramic, zoomable, high resolution pic of the Ranger crowd in Game 1. If you were there and sitting somewhere other than the outfield, you'll probably be able to find your mug.

And when I say "zoomable", I'm not kidding:

Edit Post Game: Cliff Lee is masterful!With all due respect to Nolan Ryan, the Rangers have never had anything like this. Through the playoffs, he has 34 strikeouts and 1 walk.  For this moment, the World Series doesn't seem like just a dream.

Had A Friend Show Me This The Other Day

But for the life of me, I forgot where he said he took it. (Cell phone pic.)

But you don't see five (presumably) non-working satellite dishes on one home.

A Christina Sighting!

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• "Learn how much pecan pie will cost you this year!" - A tease from Channel 8 news last night
• I had someone once tell me that I dance like Morrissey. I have no idea what that means.  Edit: Jarhead sent me this example of Morrissey dancing. No way. Not me! Not me!
• I told you the Cowboys will never be successful so long as Wade Phillips is coach. Fear is the greatest motivator. He projects absoultely no fear.
• I ate Friday night at Oyster Ranch and Seafood Grill off of Western Center. It was a raucous crowd with the Ranger game ongoing and pretty fun. But the food was somewhat marginal. 
• A Rutgers player was paralyzed during a game, and the NFL had three vicious head to head hits this weekend (video of one of them). I've said it before: Someone is going to die. 
• Denton County book-in photo for aggravated assault. Ouch.
• Before noon on Saturday I had jogged, washed two cars, edged the yard, trimmed the bushes, and I think something else. 
• June Cleaver has died.
• Annalynne McCord is hot.
• The video of the Trooper in Austin being an absolute jerk to a passenger is shocking (and it probably shouldn't be since he's been in trouble before.)
• Funny: Dallas' final play to the Benny Hill theme.
• Odd: A County Attorney makes some phone calls to an Assistant DA in an effort to get a case against the County Attorney's aunt dismissed and gets convicted for it. (Not Wise County.)
• That was a crazy motorcycle crash in Wise County on Friday.

Hey, We're Famous!

Bridgeport chick makes Tarrant County's "Most Wanted" list. (Link - PDF.)


Facebook page?

It's Officially Idiocracy In Amerca

Jackass 3-D leads the box office with $50 million? Really?

Folks, this country is to too dumb to make it another 100 years. Edit: An ironic grammatical error.

Unrelated random thoughts:

• Kudos to the Rangers for coming back and winning on Saturday. After having your heart ripped out less than 24 hours before, that was borderline shocking.
• When they go back to New York, take a look at that crowd. It'll be like 50,000 Turtles from Entourage. I'd pay big money to be there. 
• I can't believe the Evil Empire beat Nebraska. 
• Miles Austin leap frogging a standing Roy Williams? Impressive and almost worth the penalty.
• I was able to successfully record and watch the Baylor game against Colorado this afternoon. Yep, went off the grid. And we have five wins!
• For the first time during my weekly jogs, I'm beginning to feel old. That's a little scary. 
• What happens when Crazy Texas Mom has a boyfriend who has tattoo of his ex-wife's name on his chest? Hilarity ensues.                  
• This mayor does what?

And The Day After The Rangers Were Melting Down, Wise County Kids . . .

Nocona at	0
Alvord	27
	FINAL
Boyd at	20
Howe	47
	FINAL
Mineral Wells at	26
Bridgeport	17
	FINAL
Chico at	0
Muenster	63
	FINAL
Decatur at	47
Lake Worth	20
	FINAL
Northwest at	TBA
Keller	TBA
Callisburg at	21
Paradise	35
	FINAL

The Bridgeport players were told they didn't have to attend the pep rally? Surely, you jest.

A fireable offense in any school district. 

I'm So Ready To Move On To Football Saturday

It's enlargeable.

That's The Way A Meltdown Go

Ranger fans will be talking about that epic meltdown for twenty years. And the top of the 8th inning will forever go down as the worst half inning in Ranger history --- and it's not even close.

Mrs. LL and I were sitting in a seafood restaurant/bar when I told her "We need six outs." When that goofy play allowed the Yankee to reach first, I said to her, "That's the way bad things start." But I had no idea.

Wise County Appearance of Big Brother 12 Folks

Too much camera cutaways. Not enough of the hot girl.

Want To Jump Out Of A Plane Into Michigan Stadium?

This thing sucked me in for the whole ride.

NBC 5's Kim Fisher Gives It The What For At A High School

After her "sign off" is when she really thinks she's in a club. (Thanks, David.)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• India's richest man has built a new home. He's a regular Purebred Billionaire. (rimshot . . . groan).
• One of the two Baylor players caught with weed (after falling asleep in a Taco Bell drive through) has been kicked off the team. One of them? Yep. Cause he got arrested again for weed. Sheesh. He's worse than Jay and Silent Bob.
• Should a high tone Dallas restaurant turn away a handful of World War II vets if they want to dine in baseball caps and shorts? I guess the answer is "no" based upon the uproar.
• I've seen several news stories refer to the Chilean miners as "heros." Uh, no. We throw that term around way too easily.
• The Bill O'Reilly/The View/Walk Off drama yesterday beat me down. 
• That pic looks familiar.
• There's too much stuff on TV that I want to watch. There are too many books that I want to read. There are too many places that I want to see.
• Good news for Ranger fans: I'm picking the Yankees in 5.
• Whatever happened to Helen Hunt?
• There's a 10 minute video of an openly gay Fort Worth city councilman addressing teenagers about bullying and being different. I haven't watched it but it's apparently gone viral. I did click right in the middle of it only to hear him tear up and say, "It will get better." Looked pretty good. 
• Of all the Yankees I dislike, Mark Teixeira is at the top of the list. I think he's as dumb as a box of rocks.
• A day in the life of the Internet commenter.
• Mrs. LL is convinced she can train the family pooch to ring a hanging bell with her nose to alert us that she needs to go do her business. 
• Blog favorite Christina Aguilera has filed for divorce. Ugh. And right after I get married. 
• Try solving a 7th grade Algebra problem when you haven't picked up an Algebra book in decades. 
• Another dumb segment on Fox and Friends this morning: They had some math genius on to suggest ways to trim the $1 trillion federal deficit. After 5 minutes, he had pointed out $7 billion in waste so everyone was patting him on the back like he was Einstein. Uh, what about the other $993 billion?
• If I still hand my Friday Morning Dance Off I would enter this lady at some church. Wait, what? 

Put Those Miners Back Down That Hole!!!!!!

But a pretty funny graphic, eh?

A second ago, I was watching NBC Nightly News which led with a follow-up story on the Chilean miners.

"So far, they are not talking," said the reporter as he stood outside the hospital where the rescued were being treated. "They collectively have made a pact not to talk until they get paid."

Power. Down.

Get Ready For Fine Dining!!!!

The new Wendy's in Decatur is opening! The new Wendy's in Decatur is opening!

(Either today or tomorrow at 10:00. I don't know which one.)

It'll be a fat gram explosion!!

Thursday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Stay Classy, America

A Grand Junction billboard depicting President Barack Obama as a terrorist, a gangster, a Mexican bandit and a gay man is getting national attention.

The billboard, erected along the I-70 Business Loop between 28 1/2 and 29 roads sometime Monday, depicts the four “Obamas” sitting around a table with playing cards showing only sixes bunched in groups of three.

Also on the table is a copy of the Declaration of Independence, a liberty bell, a toy soldier and a statue of Justice holding a balance.

Beneath the Obama caricatures are numerous rats, some of which are labeled as the IRS, trial lawyers, the EPA and the Fed. Sitting above all that is a line, “Vote DemocRAT. Join the game,” which is positioned between two vultures, one of which is labeled the U.N. and the other with the name Soros, a reference to George Soros, a major national Democratic financial supporter.

More.

The Dallas Morning News Decides Its . . .

"Am I sexy?"

. . . 2008 "Texas Of The Year" is now not worthy of getting the paper's endorsement in the upcoming election.

I'm with them. That guy gets under my skin.