Odds Of Producer/Cameraman Expecting This?

100%

This Kid Is Going To Be More Despised Than Craig James' Son

I'll post a video of this when someone (certainly) posts it. Texas Tech got beat 66-6 by Oklahoma State in Lubbock and the cameras zoomed in on this kid auditioning for Dance Fever at the end of the game.

(Other football news: Unfortunate caption. And Miami class. Baylor almost gave me a heart attack trailing 24-3 to a horrible Kansas team in the 4th. TCU beats Boise by going for 2 and then survives a horrible penalty. The Aggies give away more games than Santa.)

Edit (thanks to the comments):

Hey, Hans, I Bet You're A Real Joy To Be Around

From Star-Telegrams Cheers and Jeers.

Messenger Above The Fold And A Little More

And find this lost puppy dog!!

Boyd Excluded, That Was Quick

Oh. my.

Oh, my again.

Box.

Taking You Into The Weekend

Movies Of The New Century

I've fallen out of the movie watching business over the last year of so, but I'm doing my best to catch up.  And, in the past,  I've fired off hot sports opinions  about how movies aren't movies anymore. We've got cartoons and sequels -- TV on the big screen it seems --but that's it.

Anyway, I was roaming the Internets today and saw a few articles about what has been produced since 2000 that will stand the test of time. A classic, that is. Dramas, to me, are those movies where I didn't necessarily get blown away as I walked out of the theater but which caused me to think about it time and time again over the next few weeks.

Those I've seen suggested so far in the drama category that I agree with:

There Will Be Blood (2007)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Sin City (2005)
Slumdog Millionarrie (2008)
Grizzly Man (2005) <-- Yeah, a documentary but I'm not leaving it out.
Gladiator (2000)
Lost in Translation (2003)

Black Swan (2010)

List of movies here for your suggestions. Man, this is hard. 

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Bridgeport and Decatur always played Whitesboro when I was a kid, but I had no idea they had never made the football playoffs. A streak which lasted until this year.
• I wonder if the town has ever thought about changing its name. 
• Trophy Club Byron Nelson high school made the playoffs in its second full year of play. And they won a playoff game last night. Throw in Southlake and we've got a White Boy 114 Football Corridor going on.
• Fox 4 did a feature on the new Omni hotel in Dallas. Man, that thing looks cool (i.e. a night light kicks on when your feet hit the carpet when getting out bed). But is that the one financed by the city?
• I've listened to a ton of sports talk radio over the years, but I've never heard the level of vitriol that I have this week over the Penn State scandal. 
• I saw a shot of Central Park this morning on one of the news shows. The trees have turned beautiful. I'll jog through that place within the next five years.  At least that is on my ever shrinking Bucket List. 
• 11/11/11
• Mrs. LL is going on a Girls Night Out tonight. Oh, my. (And I actually heard her on the phone say something about a "flash mob".)  I'm raising my own Terror Alert. 
• Baylor has a course called "Homosexuality as a Gateway Drug."  Gateway to what?
• I've been dreaming non-stop for the last three days. The type of dreams that aren't scary, but leave me stressed and exhausted when I wake up.
• If someone told me I had to re-live Middle School, I'd ask for a list of horrible alternatives and then choose one of them.
• It would take some miracle marketing, but it's possible Rick Perry could turn his memory lapse gaffe into a See-I'm-A-Regular-Guy-Just-Like-You positive. His campaign is at least smart enough to try and pull that off right now. 
• On CNN this morning, John McCain's wife, Cindy, said "there are over 18 suicides a day in our veteran's community."  If true, that would be more killed in one year than the Iraq War to date.
• Then again, she also said the GOP had a "great field of candidates" this year.
• The Fort Worth Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed the throwing out of a lawsuit against Wise County about a bridge. I lasted about four sentences before I got Tired Head. 
• There has been a Sports Illustrated reporter "embedded" all year long with Joe Paterno and Penn State in preparation for a book he was writing about the man and the program. Man, what timing. (But he wrote a column yesterday which indicates he may be too close to the situation.) 
• I changed how early I get to work about two years ago so I no longer get to see the beginning of The Today Show.  That's why my Ann Curry references have trailed off. 
• How not to run from the police. 
• Edit: Forgot to mention that the cat-in-the-wall guy in Dallas was found "not guilty" yesterday. I saw the prosecutor on the news talking about what a high bar "beyond a reasonable doubt" is.  Smart prosecutors think about that before they file a case. The bad ones only think about it after an acquittal. And then forget it just as quickly.

Cops Whoop Up On Cal-Berkeley Students

What the heck was that about? All that club-to-the-ribs just to get them to back up one foot? Am I missing something?

And the one guy in the grey hoodie reminds me of someone:

"Seven Minutes In Texas"

*facepalm*

Edit: I have updated reaction . . .

I Don't Even Know This State Any Longer

Story

Online Dating

What could possibly go wrong?

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• The press conference announcing the firing of Joe Paterno was good stuff last night. (CNN was the only station I found that was covering it with video.) That guy at the mic, Vice Chairman of Trustees John P. Surma, did a fantastic job in a hostile environment. He is also the CEO of United States Steel. Very appropriate.
• But the female CNN anchor left a little bit to be desired -- especially when she asked a correspondent if he knew when Penn State's next college football game was.
• Ashton Kutcher tweeted that Paterno's firing was an insult and done with no class. That is, until he apologized profusely after admitting he has been living in a cave and hadn't heard about the scandal. 
• A newspaper columnist in Pennsylvania six months ago predicted all of this in a column entitled "Sandusky a State secret".
• Wise County girl's picture in Oklahoma barber shop? [Link fixed]
• If you've ever seen Requiem For A Dream, you know it may be the best anti-drug movie ever made. Now the director has made a couple of PSA's for the the anti-meth campaign. Oh, my. 
• (For you extreme legal types who have argued about the Castle Doctrine, Texas highest criminal court handed down an opinion yesterday regarding the "new" law and how a jury should be so instructed. Knock yourselves out.)
• The Supreme Court considered this week whether the government can put a GPS tracking device on your car without a warrant. Justice Stephen Breyer asked/told the government's attorney, "“If you win this case, then there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States . . . . So if you win, you suddenly produce what sounds like 1984 from their brief.” Preach on, brother. 
• Fox 4's Tim Ryan sucked on Chip Waggoner's lollipop this morning. Video. Oh, yes. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. 
• The Boyd School Board is considering some kind of football rock like the Clemson players touch as they take the field with a slogan on it similar to Notre Dame's. You know, not a bad idea. 
• Former Decatur volleyball player Sara Oxford received an honor at Abilene Christian. 
• See Rick Perry's official response to his gaffe last night. It doesn't help. In this day and time, you just want to get through a debate without something bad happening. If you don't, that's all the public will remember. #oops
• Mrs. LL bought some weird head warmer which looks like a cross between something you'd see in Fargo and a bear's head. 
• Miranda Kerr in a $2.5 million bra last night at some Victoria's Secret even. 

I'm Going To Bed. When I Wake Up, State College Might Be Burned Down

Penn State coach Joe Paterno was fired tonight. Crazy college kids at Penn State are taking to the streets.

You see that picture up there? That's what they did on a Sunday night around midnight when it was announced Osama Bin Laden had been killed. (More.) And that's when they are celebrating.

Tonight? They are angry. Oh, my.

Updates at this newspaper twitter feed.

Perry Meltdown Tonight In The Debate

I  can see how it happens, I've just never seen it happen.

You Almost Never See A Reaction From A Defendant During Sentencing

Then again.

Link.

(Thanks, Keith . . . . I guess.)

Even I'm Surprised My Prediction Was Correct: Paterno Gone

Sandusky and Paterno In, I Assume, Happier Days

Joe Paterno, Penn State's head football coach since 1966, announced he would retire after this season  This may end up being the biggest scandal in college football history. (Wikipedia version  for those who haven't been keeping up.)

Sidenote: I actually saw one Penn State game (in the Cotton Bowl against Baylor on January 1, 1981.)  Jerry Sandusky was the defensive coordinator at the time. The last game Sandusky coached was in 1999 against the Aggies in the Alamo Bowl.

Edit: I'm losing my mind. I saw Alabama and Baylor in the Cotton Bowl. Baylor did play Penn State in the Cotton Bowl but it was about five years before.

Penn State is at home against Nebraska this weekend. The crowd reaction will be interesting. (ESPN at 11:00 a.m.)

Edit: Wow. This morning the original artist covers up Sandusky's face on a mural at Penn State.

 Before:

Edit at 9:00 p.m.: Paterno's been relieved of his duties. Chaos at Penn State.

My Conservative Family Cat Sent Me This Story

(Dateline Dallas). Count the red flags: The government is prosecuting a former government employee who is on paid administrative leave for not allowing a cat to be cut out from behind a wall of a government building because, he says, he didn't want to damage government property.

The cat died after fifteen days. The wall was then cut open to remove the dead cat.