7.28.2014

I Hope This Is The Weirdest Thing I Read All Week

More.
at 9:01 AM

Random Monday Morning Thoughts


Bonus pic from Star-Telegram's Rockin' The River. The heights confuse me.


  • One of my guilty pleasure movies is Executive Decision (which, frankly, was way before its time.)
  • I woke up sick yesterday but then something weird happened: Whenever I laid down, I would go to sleep. I slept all day. I mean all day. And when I woke up around 11:00 p.m. (an oddly decided to go outside and water the lawn), I went back to bed and slept all night. 
  • I tried to get the Sixth Grader In The House to watch Evil Roy Slade with me on Saturday. I pointed out to her that I had never met a female that thought the movie was funny but that guys loved it. (Baiting her.) As the credits rolled, she said, "Meh."
  • Weirdest moment of the weekend: Getting involved in a Twitter fight with the very grumpy ex-Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark over Beatle songs. 
  • The pig won't stop growing. 
  • I found it odd once when I saw the statue of former Fort Worth mayor Bob Bolen at Alliance Airport. With news over the weekend that the Perot boys may be involved in the John Wiley Price scandal, I read that Bolen was instrumental of granting the Perots request to annex their Alliance land. Hmmmm.
  • Sometimes I feel bad for whomever has to write the Update. But they have plenty of material today. What a wheels off Wise County weekend. 
  • I watched the 30 for 30 episode on Greg Lemond and was pretty confused. Maybe it was because I couldn't see past his blue eyes and full upper body brace.
  • A five star running back recruit for OU allegedly punched a Euless girl in the face at 2:30 a.m. as he was out celebrating his 18th birthday. Nice start. 
  • The over/under line for total Cowboy wins is eight. I'm working on my "bet the house" prediction that made so many of your rich last year. I'm leaning towards the under (especially since Tony Romo couldn't even take part in the second practice.) 
  • I wonder if my Baseball Nemesis is currently in therapy after picking a fight with a Sports Expert. 
  • The Texas Bar Journal has a "short story" contest every year, and I've always thought I could win it. But, man, this year's top three finishers were really, really good and extremely dark. Although this sentence in the winner almost made me throw the magazine across the living room: "Wafts of fresh scone from the nearby bakery pirouette through aircraft doors deliberately cracked." How pretentious. 
  • “The idea that we can’t assimilate these eight-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.” - George Will this weekend on immigration. There may be hope after all.







at 8:38 AM

7.27.2014

Tweet from Kristen Tribe (@WCMtribe)

Kristen Tribe (@WCMtribe)
The woman killed in this afternoon's accident was from Lake Bridgeport. More details here ... wcmessenger.com/2014/update/ac…


at 4:27 PM

I Wonder If Joseph Is In Trouble?

at 2:00 PM

7.26.2014

Kids Seriously Hurt Trying To Get To Reunion

Messenger story.

Edit: And we had a stabbing!





at 6:33 AM

7.25.2014

Above The Fold

at 9:43 PM

That American Ninja Warrior Chick Taking You Into The Weekend








at 2:42 PM

Get Me This Dog Who Passes Out When He Finally Sees His Owner!

at 1:43 PM

Take That, Bud!!!!


He later clarified that it came from Boyd.

at 10:48 AM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts



  • Israeli rockets hit a U.N. school in Gaza killing fifteen. Can they not hit the broad side of a barn?
  • They are building an In-N-Out Burger by the new Costco right off 287 and 35 in north Fort Worth. 
  • Man, the Charlie Strong era at Texas is off to a horrible start with the suspension of two players yesterday for what looks like a horrible sexual assault. (On a lighter note, the typos in the 2014 Media Guide doesn't ooze "discipline".) Edit: Wow. I completely missed these two that were dismissed yesterday. Edit: Three more gone today. Chaos!
  • I love the sign that says, "Obey All Traffic Signs - State Law". Oh, okay. I wasn't going to until you posted that sign. 
  • Fox and Friends hosted Twisted Sister this morning. Demographics, my friends. Demographics.
  • There have been some silly prostitution busts in Denton and Cooke counties and some believe that there might have been some embarrassing arrests of high profile residents. Oddly, the Cooke County Sheriff said the prostitution arrests carry no jail time and are "fine only" offenses. That ain't right. 
  • Wow: Two night's ago the Lifetime Channel had scheduled to air a program called Good Grief - "Take a step deep into the heart of Texas with the Johnson Family Mortuary!" That's the mortuary under investigation for abuse of corpse.  The show didn't air. 
  • Heard this morning that Tony Romo has only missed one game in the last three years. That surprised the heck out of me. But his collar bone injury was back in 2010.
  • More reasons to hate the NFL: They suspended Ray Rice for only two games for knocking his girlfriend unconscious And, at 27, WR Sydney Rice has to retire because of concussions.
  • "Tarrant County Clerk Mary Louise Garcia was cited last month for assault following a domestic disturbance with her husband." Looking further, it was a Class C Assault by Contact which means "offensive touching" without causing pain. Here's a tip: If you ever hear about someone being charged with Class C Assault, be very suspicious about the accusation. 
  • Man, that GIF that BagOfNothing posted is funny.
  • I finally watched the HBO new documentary Newburgh Four about the FBI's ridiculous tricks to find and entrap "terrorists".  It is exactly what I've been preaching for five years. At times, I felt like I had been the director and editor for this must see documentary. 


at 9:40 AM

7.24.2014

From Dallas Morning News Facebook Page


A photo on the Metro cover in Saturday's paper has a lot of people talking. One letter writer, Richard Elsea of Sachse, shared a common reaction: "As I continued reading Saturday’s paper I kept returning to the photo of the protester and her fellow activists. Why did that hate-filled visage resonate so deeply? Seeing angry protesters screaming at someone or about something isn’t uncommon. Then I realized how much it reminded me of a 1957 photo from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. If you squint and let the image blur to a monochrome, you can almost see Elizabeth Eckford walking just to the right of the photo."



at 1:50 PM

If The Guy Had Only Thrown in a "When The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor" Line



Youtube - Patrick Benson identifies the man being detained as his co-worker Alex. Benson claims the incident began when stadium staff assumed there was underage drinking within their group but says he and his friends are all at least 21 years old.

The video shows the officer allowing Alex to tell his side of the story but when he does not sit down on command, the officer is seen aggressively shoving Alex multiple times. A defiant Alex then demands to be shoved by the officer again and is then handcuffed. “All he had to do is shut up and he would have left,” the officer is heard saying. During his detainment, Alex continues to give what was probably meant to be a patriotic speech but seemed more half-thought drunken ramblings.

Benson says he believes Alex was simply escorted out of the stadium without further incident. In the end f the video, another officer can be heard saying Alex was being physically ejected for trespassing because he refused to leave.

 I think I'm more annoyed by that drunken "United States of America!" rant than the overly aggressive cop. 

 And what's that guy writing down in the background? Talk about focus!

 Edit with an excerpt from Deadspin which posted this later:

 Abuse me again! As a citizen of the United States of America, abuse me again!"

 Alex is shoved and placed in cuffs. Alex is now yelling.
"This is an illegal recremendation [reprimandation? recommendation?? reckaimininldjsation???] of an American citizen," Alex cries. "Thank you!"
at 1:34 PM

I Should Be A Detective



(NBC-LA) Authorities are asking for the public’s help to help find a man that is suspected of killing a peacock in Rolling Hill Estates, officials said. A witness saw the man stop his silver four-door Mercedes-Benz in the 27000 block of Eastvale Road around 8:20 p.m. on July 9, according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles said in a statement. The man fired from a pellet gun, hitting a peacock in a driveway.

 Mike Ditka has always had a temper, probably drives a Mercedes, and would kill a peacock just for looking at him wrong. Boom!:

at 12:17 PM

Random Face On Fire

at 11:41 AM

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts


  • The location I saw the car backing up on the 820 freeway over the weekend is about the exact same place where a car took out a huge overhead sign this morning. Photo. If you've ever come up east 820 from I-30, you've seen that sign. 
  • It's been a year since Kidd Kraddick's death and the ratings for his show are, amazingly, up.
  • I've noticed what  I believe to be Decatur's girls' cross country team running the streets of the town around 7:00 a.m. 
  • There was another botched execution last night. This time in Arizona. 
  • Highs will only be in the 80s mid to late next week.
  • I wonder if this is the Twitter feed for the young girl injured in the wreck southeast of Decatur yesterday. 
  • Jerry Jones said they didn't have formal conditioning tests on the first day of training camp but was encouraged that most of the players did it anyway. Jason Garrett later said that the conditioning test was cancelled because it could give rise to injury in conjunction with practices the next day. He then was asked if he was concerned then that the players did it anyway. He had a deer-in-headlights explanation as he realized he had just painted himself into a corner.
  • As soon as I heard Garrett speak yesterday, I thought, "We've got to go through another season of listening to him say nothing?" Oh, well, it's a process.
  • Heard a weird rumor of a local lady dying which may or may not be associated with an infection she obtained after going to the dentist. 
  • Whenever I see one of those "Cash With Car Title" stores I think there's someone inside getting ripped off. And I'm pretty sure I'm right. 
  • I think one of the goofiest retorts is a comment that says something along the lines of, "You wouldn't feel that way if that happened to one of your family members!" 
  • An Algerian airliner with 110 or more on board has crashed this morning in Northern Africa. Been a heck of a season for commercial jets in the Eastern Hemisphere. 
  • WFAA's Joe Trahan tweeted late last night: "Sources tell me former defensive lineman Josh Brent will be released next Thursday." I thought he meant that the Cowboys would cut him, but he was actually talking about being released from rehab after his Intoxication Manslaughter conviction. Makes sense since I guess he's not on the roster to release. 
  • I did my normal jog yesterday but have finally become smart enough to walk a short distance every now and then if the heat and humidity gets too much. Cloud cover helps but not much. I'd rather run when it is in the 30s.
  • The horrificness of the Fort Worth mortuary which hadn't properly disposed of a few bodies got ratcheted up yesterday when it was revealed that one of the bodies discovered was an infant who had died two years ago. 


at 8:38 AM

7.23.2014

Guilty . . .




. . . of being cheap and hanging out at the Glass Cactus.
at 1:21 PM

War Crimes By Whom?


Edit: Maybe committed by both Hamas and Israel.

at 12:10 PM

AP Twitter Feed And The Need For A Comma Or Two


at 9:33 AM
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