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Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• For the first time in years, I handed candy out last night for Trick or Treaters. There are some pretty cute kids out there.
• Then again, when the teenagers team up if feels like Gangs of New York.
• Did a double take when I looked up and saw the Family Puppy in a Lady GaGa wig.
• I actually dressed up in costumes on both Friday and Saturday. Too. Much.  Halloween seems to have transitioned to a pretty big holiday. 
• It's November and the Rangers are still playing. Although they might play just one more game. Can they buy a hit?
• I was strangely satisfied just to get to the World Series.
• I hardly watched any of the Cowboys game. Wade's going to get fired, but it won't be during the season.
• There's nothing that powers me down more than to hear, "Jerry Jones the owner needs to fire Jerry Jones the general manager."
• I had the joy of running to the grocery store at 5:00 a.m. this morning. Milk was needed. Not a lot going on in a grocery store at that time. 
• Huge fight in San Franscico McDonalds that goes on and on and on. 
• At least 52 dead in Iraq.
• Heard one political ad referring to a Texas politician as not only a "liberal" but an "Obama-Pelosi liberal." 
• Man, there were a bunch of people at the Jon Steward/Stephen Colbert rally this weekend. At one point they had Cat Stevens perform "Peace Train", Ozzy Osborn sing "Crazy Train" and the O'Jays sing "Love Train." Funny.
• College football: If Alabama wins out, they will leap over a no loss TCU team. 

Sweet

I really don't know the story behind this pic, but I was browsing around the Bridgeport ISD Facebook page when I came across it.

Love it.

For You Journey Fans Out There

I'm not a music guy. At all. But in my younger days I was a huge Journey fan. It's the only band I paid to go see three times in Reunion Arena.

The band's lead singer, Steve Perry, was at the World Series and can be seen at about the 1:00 minute mark singing along with "Don't Stop Believing". The second part of the video catches him on the big screen singing "Lights."

Good times. I'm getting all nostalgic up in here.

The Death Star Just Exploded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the greatest moment of my life since the birth of my second marriage!!!

Attendance: 100,452. 

A New Plan To Battle Terrorism: Let Them Do It For Us

Friday Night Lights

Alvord at	15
Jacksboro	7
Callisburg at	16
Boyd	34
Chico at	8
Valley View	50
Mineral Wells at	35
Decatur	16
Ponder at	0
Paradise	27

For the score of the night: Jacksonville 84, Nacogdoches 81 in TWELVE overtimes.

Oh, My

Want to see an 8 point deer knocked through my buddy's chain-linked fence in Seven Wires last night?

Look.

Hey, it's the circle of life.

(Thanks, Mike.)

Lil' Ron Washington and His Dad Were on Fox 4's Good Day

And in three...two...

Link.

In Defense of Defense Lawyers

This is another one of those "create your own" videos which is kind of funny. At least to me.

(I haven't tried it yet, but apparently it's pretty easy to create your own cartoon.)

Credit.

Taylor Swift Scared By Ellen

I didn't want to laugh, but I did.

Breaking News: Bombs? This May Be Big

(CNN) -- Authorities were responding to reports of suspicious items on cargo flights that landed Friday in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I caught the tail end of a CBS Radio news alert (they broke into programming) and I'm pretty sure it said one of the packages has been confirmed to be a bomb.  They are UPS planes.

Developing . . .

Edit: The bomb was on a UPS plane in London headed to the U.S.  Get ready for every UPS plane to be grounded and searched. 

Talk Radio News

This will find a limited audience, but I know quite a few of you are sports talk radio fans.

The News: Delicious.   105.3 The Fan's Richie Whitt and The Hammer will be moving to the 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. time slot beginning in November.   This puts them in direct competition with The Ticket's "The Hardline" -- the gig that Greg Williams was booted from.

(And in other news, former Ranger's Play by Play man Josh Lewin is getting his own show on The Fan.)

Spotted Near Boyd Yesterday

And if you listen carefully, you can hear techno music coming from that field.

Honestly, I don't have a clue as to what that sign means.

(Thanks, James.)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• If you watched the Ranger game in the 8th inning last night, you saw a Walkfest of biblical proportions. It felt like I was watching a little league game when the pitcher can't throw a strike to save his life.
• Not that it mattered, because if you can't score a single run, you ain't winning. 
• And the starter for the Giants hasn't given up a single earned run in the playoffs? Was no one concerned about this?
• Funny tweet from Ranger starter C.J. Wilson yesterday before the game: "Rangers on the bus, random citizens/street people giving us salutes of some sort. A city this diverse, united by hatred of buses."
• In a post game interview, he said the pitching staff walked "a metric ton" of batters. Kinda funny.
• The best friend of Debra Winger's character in An Officer And A Gentleman has died. I never forgave her for tricking that guy into believing she was pregnant. 
• Newy Scruggs had 15 minutes of fame yesterday after his "They're smoking weed over there!" broadcast went viral. And it sounds like they smoke a metric ton of weed in San Francisco. 
• The 2nd grader in my house had a full fledged ballerina outfit on for school this morning. Either it's Halloween or she's obsessed with dance.
• The 7th grader advised me last night that she has no fashionable boots to wear like the other kids because she has outgrown them (I wonder why she came to me? Oh. Now I get it.)
• At 8:15 tomorrow morning, all the DFW stations will be covering the First Baptist of Dallas blowing up four of its buildings in downtown Dallas to make way for new construction. Both believers and non-believers can be entertained.
• Sexy Halloween outfits offensive? Please. That's the best way to combat evil spirits -- it distracts them. 
• Anybody else think Rick Perry has a creepy smile when he flips over that "Open For Business" sign?
• Decatur cops had someone stopped at the courthouse square this morning. I've never seen that before.
• Football fans: I always hear announcers say, "And on the first play from scrimmage in the second half . . . . "  Is that possible?
• The Fort Worth murder case I wrote about last week that gave you Tired Head when I referenced "Factual Sufficiency" finally made it to the Star Telegram yesterday.

Fainting Cats?!

I want 'em!!!

(Better than the classic "fainting goats")

"I Guess I've Lived Long Enough"

Wow. A Notre Dame student who was filming a football practice from a sixty foot tower died yesterday when the tower toppled in high winds.

Shockingly, he left a couple of prophetic tweets (that also went to his Facebook page) shortly before his death. Link (Language warning.)

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts.

• I kept saying that you can't consider Cliff Lee to be a 100% sure thing. 
• The ballpark in San Francisco looks cool. I may go there next year.
• Fox 4 had a couple of stories of Texans found outside the stadium who just decided to "fly in at the last minute" and buy tickets from scalpers. It seems like the going rate was close to $1,500 a ticket. Think they are happy this morning? 
• Former Boyd resident Greg "The Hammer" Williams is there covering the World Series for 105.3 The Fan. In a heartfelt segment yesterday, he almost teared up talking about how six months earlier he was an outcast (due to being unemployed due to a drug problem) and now he's got a great job and watching the Rangers in San Fran. (He also proclaimed the city the "greatest" one in the world.) 
• I'll stick to my proclamation that this Claws & Antlers stuff is a beat down. And then this gets circulated yesterday.
• Mrs. LL's root canal was successful but she was in pain last night. Get this: She won't take prescription pain medication.
• From my Liberally Lean Traffic Center: 1810 was shut down this morning due to a big wreck. 
• I had to use cash to buy gas this morning which is something I haven't done in ages. Man, that last 50 cents takes about a day and half to trickle in.
• Hot Batgirl.
• I have no problem with the Republicans winning the House next week. I love me some Washington gridlock. 
• Arkansas school board member is no friend of The Gay. Pretty shocking stuff. I wonder what political party he's associated with?
• And to the commenter that predicted I'd be divorced in 1 to 2 years? That's ridiculous. I can make it to four easily. 
• A very funny Ron Washington impersonation by a kid. 
• Previously unreleased clip of a 1928 Charlie Chaplain movie shows woman talking on cell phone? Sure, I'll buy that. 
• It looks like we finally have such a glut of lawyers, that new graduates can't find jobs. And, to compound the problem in our area, the University of North Texas is about to open a law school in Dallas. 
• Bill White has a commercial about border security that says something to the effect that Sheriff's representing "90% of the Texas border population" support him.  I guess that means the two Sheriffs for the counties that include Brownsville and El Paso support him. 
• I fear a huge Texas beat down of Baylor this weekend. The Empire is only a six point favorite but I bet Mack Brown has been all over them this week.
• Massive collection of NFL cheerleaders proving that Halloween is the greatest holiday of the year.