Two Notable Shots Of Cowboys Stadium

A hole in the roof (oh, my) and a coke machine crushed by falling ice.

Random Taunting Flashback

TCU fan taunts Baylor players after the Frog beat down of the Bears in September.  Gets a little intense.

If I'm Baylor's head coach, I know what I'm showing before the rematch this Fall. Baylor will still probably get killed, but I'm firing that video up nevertheless.

Reader Email

"Guy riding a bike south on Trinity Street [in Decatur]. Almost saw him wreck several times."

Small Rant

There are a ton of Super Bowl parties this week but I'm beaten down by the "star power" and the crazy prices. A party sponsored by Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed? Really? In an interview this week promoting the party, Simmons said that it would be a chance to meet some "important people." I promise that  Tweed, who was by his side during the interview, let out an audible sigh at that moment. (She's still hot by the way.) 

And why on god's green earth would anyone walk across the street to meet "The Situation".

Complete list of the parties.

Edit: At least you didn't pay $1,500 to see Prince on Friday night and have him fail to show up. 

UFO Spotted In Jerusalem?

Almost as amazing as someone from Mississippi being in Jerusalem.

That's Something . . .

. . .that everyone should have seen coming, but I didn't even think about it when I saw that snow covered dome.

Edit: The local news stations keep showing a helicopter shot of the ice and snow sliding off the roof. Fox 4 finally noted last night that no one knows if that was the snow slide that caused the injuries.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts - Delayed

Uh, I might be out in the snow.

Edit a couple of hours later:

• Mrs. LL and I might have taken a quick walk around the block at midnight when we saw the snow had fallen.
• It didn't start off too well as I ended up on my back on the sidewalk after my first step. No injuries. Miracle.
• That wouldn't be the last time I fell down. It's a little tricky to see the ice when its covered in snow. 
• Before we took off, I coaxed the Mrs. into waking the kids up to see the snowfall. She did. They blurry eyed looked outside, uttered a collective "meh", and went back to bed.
• Odd moment this morning when I was fully dressed to go out in the snow and woke Mrs. LL to make her get the kids up. She told me I was crazy and went back to sleep.
• We ended up sledding later in the morning on the same hill that I separated my shoulder on about one year ago. Man, I landed on it one time and was scared to death I had done it again. But, nope, they built me back stronger.
• I helped push the car of a stranded motorist on the street this morning. 
• Craziest weather week in a long, long time, no?
• Kids sledding down the hill in a laundry basket is a funny scene.
• Everyone is friendly when playing in the snow. It's kind of a "this is the way life is supposed to be" mindset. 

Houston Police Abuse Video

For months I've been hearing that once a video of a beating of a suspect by police was released, the public would be shocked.

Maybe I'm getting jaded, but I'm not particularly outraged. The guy doing the kicking needs to throttle it back a bit, but this isn't a Rodney King incident.

The Metroplex Has Gone Crazy

I'm seeing things. I could have sworn there's a pic floating around of Nolan Ryan and Bugs Bunny on Radio Row at the Super Bowl media center.

But that's just ridiculous.

I'm So Stir Crazy That I Was Actually Entertained By That Snake Charmer Move

Yeah, it's a wrestling video. But the NFL could learn a thing or two about absolute silliness.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Anyone else about to go crazy?
• Actually walked the dogs around the block yesterday. The fear of slipping and ending up unconsciousness in 19 degree weather kind of took the joy out of it. 
• Watched Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work last night. I'm really indifferent towards her, but that documentary was fantastic. 
• Earlier Mrs. LL and I were trying to watch a movie which didn't seem appropriate for kids so I kept my finger on the  pause/change button in case they walked in. Moments later I learned that if a kid thinks you are trying to hide something from them then their curiosity meter goes off the chart. 
• Just looked up at the TV and saw a Fed Ex truck wrecked on some freeway. Like I said yesterday, those things are wrecked everywhere.
• Dallas County [Administrative] Judge Clay Jenkins has kept the Dallas County government and courthouse open all week. That didn't serve much of a purpose since the DA's office and basically every judge shut down, and he received a lot of criticism for it. Yesterday, on his way to work, he slipped and broke his leg. 
• Question: Jimmy Johnson spent the entire day yesterday making quick appearances on local TV stations and every radio station on Radio Row at the Super Bowl media center. He was promoting some liquor company and it's free ride home program for Sunday.  Basically, the company knows any station will want Jimmy on, those stations agree to let him promote the product for a bit, and then they can talk to him about anything else. Question: How much does it cost to hire Jimmy Johnson for one day of work like that? I'd guess $200,000 but I might be way off. 
• The conflict in Egypt yesterday was riveting television.  I really don't know anything about the country, but it sure looks like it's about to implode.  But does the public not have guns? 
• I had a pipe freeze yesterday which scared me to death as I pictured the house flooded. But I must have caught it early because a hair dryer and a couple of minutes solved the problem. I've had is in Slow Drip Mode ever since.
• There was a heck of an apartment/condo fire in Dallas this morning off of Central Expressway. 
• The cars stuck on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago may have been one of the craziest things this storm has caused. 

Random Wreck Caught On Channel 8

The News 8 helicopter just panned down to show this wreck.

Hey, wait!! Does anybody see anything which might give us an indication of one of the driver's general level of safety?

From The Messenger's Flickr Page

From yesterday.

Link.

And, hey, Messenger, don't try that "All Rights Reserved" stuff on the photo. We all know everything is free on the Internet. The way it works is that I steal it and give you credit and provide a link to your Flickr page. It's a win-win. (I'm joking, but that's basically the premise behind the book What Would Google Do?)

You Don't Get To See Molotov Cocktails Thrown Every Day

But you can if you turn on CNN or a national news channel right now at 9:52 a.m.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Finally got in the car late yesterday afternoon to run to the grocery store. It was a heck of a lot slicker than I expected. Can I say that I'm a great fish-tail stopper? (Which feels really weird to type.)
• I've got a house with very high ceilings. The concept of heat rising is on full display. As well as the concept of my-gas-bill-is-going-to-be-outrageous.
• It seemed like every time the local news showed a stuck truck on a freeway yesterday it belonged to Fed Ex. 
• Watched March of the Penguins again last night. Fantastic.
• Can't get Mrs. LL to appreciate Arrested Development as much as I do. 
• Team Media Day during Super Bowl week is a time waste. (But the hot Mexican reporter was there.)
• I saw in the paper that a guy from Boyd was arrested for DWI and the cops found child porn on his cell phone.  That'll be an interesting legal issue: Can the cops search a cell phone after an arrest without a warrant? I've never researched that one but I would suspect there have been some court decisions on it by now. 
• Child porn is bad enough but do you really need to keep it on your cell phone?
• After the Steelers arrived on Monday, several of them promptly visited a strip club. They can't keep away for one week?
• Well, the Family Cat knocked over a plant I had kept alive for eight years so many times that it died. (The plant, not the cat.)  I'm sure the cat is very, very sorry. Edit 8 hours later: That was the worst sentence I've ever written. 
• The developments in Egypt were exciting to watch yesterday. But there is this feeling that the Middle East is on the verge of collapse.
• This morning there were 15 minute intentional rolling black outs all over the State due to power demands. Dallas was being hit pretty hard by it. Oncor is having major issues. (Update: Some of the reports are saying power is going out for over an hour. And when it impacts psuedo-important ESPN employees, this isn't good for Dallas.)
• It was supposed to get into single digits last night. It didn't make it. (But I did walk outside around midnight to see what negative wind chill felt like. Verdict: I got back inside.)
• Why do we care what someone's Super Bowl prediction is? 
• If the news would put a live camera on a slick portion of the highway which has traffic and stick with it, I think I'd watch it all day. (Fox 4 did this about three years ago and it was big time entertainment.)
• Had six kids in the house at one time yesterday. Try watching a documentary with that going on. 

Fox News Mislabels Egypt On A Map (In Place Of Iraq)

Funny comments I saw:

"Now that's what I call liberating a country! It's not even there anymore."

"See, this is what I like about Fox. They let you decide where Egypt is instead of having some fancy pants elitist tell ya!"

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as . . . ."

"Looks like Egypt is between Iraq and a hard place."

"Let Me Show You Some Footage From 3:30 Last Night"

That's what the Channel 8 reporter said at noon while do a live shot from Decatur. The footage showed high winds and snow and this mysterious lady running across a parking lot.

Certainly there's a reason.

And faithful reader Mike sends a pic of the Channel 8 van at McDonalds:

And the reporter proclaimed: "Look, there's no one at Taco Casa!"

Is This Former Cowboy Nate Newton?

I knew he had that thumb stomach surgery and was almost unrecognizable at Cowboys training camp last fall, but sheesh.