4.29.2006
I Did A 180
After seeing all the glowing reviews of the movie United 93, I went and saw it this afternoon.
It was absolutely incredible. It was more like an experience than a movie. No over-acting. No super heroes. Just a gut wrenching re-enactment of an amazing day.
I don't think DVD or HBO will do it justice. Go see it in on the big screen - and the intensity of the audience makes it an even greater experience.
Vince Goes #3 To Tennessee
4.28.2006
Good Friday

And WBAP has been promoting his appearance in Dallas on May 11th.
Edit: The entire incident appears to be part of a plea bargain that has already been agreed upon (sounds like pre-trial diversion). I suspect that Florida law (or its bureaucracy) requires an arrest if formal criminal charges are filed.
Flight 93
I said yesterday that I had no desire to see this movie.
But Channel 8's Gary Cogill says this: "I'm stunned. United 93 is one of the most profound movie going experiences of my life. It's a film made on the highest level; re-creating, in real time, the morning of 9/11, specifically focusing on the crew and passengers on board United flight 93. "
Pretty high praise from a guy who is usually right.
Birthdays
Demote Her To Elementary School And Maybe They'll Win State
From the Update:
Bridgeport won its first playoff game in more than seven years with a 3-0 win over Whitney in Crowley. Pitcher Cami Riley held Whitney to three hits while the Sissies pounded out 10 hits. The Sissies will face Graham next week as they aim for a state title under Coach Lori Lammers.
Wasn't it announced a couple of months ago that the coach would be demoted beginning next year? Yep.
Good Lord
SPRING, Texas - A 16-year-old Hispanic boy was beaten, sodomized and left for dead because two other teens at an unsupervised house party were offended that he tried to kiss a 12-year-old girl, authorities said Thursday.
The attackers were white and shouted racial slurs "associated with being Hispanic" at the boy during the vicious 10- to 15-minute beating, Harris County Sheriff's officers said. The victim lay behind the house for more than 10 hours before he was found and someone called an ambulance.
(Source)
Big Bag of Nothing
4.27.2006
Old Man, Sad Man
4.26.2006
"To Catch A Predator"
John Wiley Price
Baseball Talk

Do You Spank?
"No reasonable middle-aged woman would want to be put up there before a group of young men, turned around to show her buttocks, [and] get spanked . . . ."
The story here.
(I'd do it in a heartbeat for $1.2 million)
Channel 8's John McCaa Back In The Day

Ka Ching

I'm Going Back
Flight 93

(Oddly, the Internet Movie Database lists the movie as "United 93".)
I Don't Care, But You Might
From the D Magazine Blog:
NEW CLASSIC COUNTRY RADIO STATION
Lone Star 1190 promises to play Waylon, Merle, Reba, Willie, and the Man in Black. Remember "Moby in the Morning"? Yup, he'll be your morning host. Remember Fast Eddie Coyle? Middays. Now you know.
Wedding Betting
View a random photo of newlyweds, and take a guess on how long their marriage will last. The website can be found here.
It's Official: Fox News Really Is The Mouth Piece for the Republican Party

Attention Hardliners
Be it resolved that any person that commits the offense of murder shall be executed due to the death penalty.
Let's see a show of hands.
Ok, who wants to inject the lethal fluid on this one.
4.25.2006
A Buddy Pointed This Out To Me
Sportzzzz

Retreat!

Most Expensive Housing Zip Codes In the Nation

Ricky Williams . . .

"I Shot A Man In Reno . . . . "

Oh, When We Were At Peace And Gas Was $1.50 a Gallon
If You Are Interested In This Kind of Thing
Talking Death
I wonder what this does to one's mind. I wonder what I would do. I wonder what regrets I would have:
Dallas City Council member James Fantroy confirmed Monday that he is suffering from inoperable cancer in both of his kidneys. Mr. Fantroy, 67, who was first elected to represent southern Dallas' District 8 in 2000, has been on dialysis for five years because of kidney failure.
(Source)
4.24.2006
A Nice Mixture of Sumptin Sumptin

Parade Magazine

Paradise Man Killed Over The Weekend
FORT WORTH - A 49-year-old Wise County man has been identified as the worker who was killed Saturday in an explosion at a natural gas well in the 3600 block of Lon Stephenson Road in Forest Hill.
Robert Gayan of Paradise was one of four people working on the TXO Energy owned well when the well head blowout happened, about 7:45 a.m. Saturday. None of the other workers was seriously injured.
Hundreds of Forest Hill residents were evacuated from their homes while emergency personnel secured the well head and recovered Gayan’s body from the site.
(Source)
Edit: Longer and more detailed story here.
4.23.2006
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