Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Give these high school kids a college scholarship: "One dressed as a banana and the other as a gorilla and, shockingly, the banana chased the gorilla across the football field." (Youtube clip.) Monkey humor is always genius.
• I'm not sure what Fergie's "My Humps" was doing playing in the background at a high school football game.
• I nailed a penny to a tree with a huge nail in the woods behind my house when I was a kid . One of these days I'm going to try and find it but I suspect it's been swallowed by the tree trunk.
• "Most political positions are emotions wrapped with words."
• I had a confusing dream last night. It started out being confronted by a gang member in Dallas and then morphed into me rooming with a black guy at the Dallas Cowboy's training camp as I was trying out for wide receiver. Talk about Crazy Head.
• David Blaine is one weird guy. Now he's hanging upside down in Manhattan which seems a long way from, "Pick a card, any card."
• A gal up at the courthouse claims that I can't say I "read" a book when I "only" listened to the audio version.
• I've never watched Dancing With the Stars but I might since I've heard the very hot Kim Kardashian is on it this season.
• NBC announcer Al Michaels once has a very small role playing a lawyer on Hawaii Five-0.
• Sarah Palin is set to meet with Bono in New York today. I predict some awkward pauses.
• I think my bathroom scale is broken. It fluctuates by four or more pounds per day.
• A man who just happens to be black is at the top of the Country Music Charts. That's only the third time ever. Wise County demands recount - "wants every vote counted."
• If you ever hit those ridges dug out on the shoulder of 287, it'll get your attention.
• Is it more tragic when someone dies in the middle of the day in a traffic accident (as happened in Decatur yesterday) as opposed to dying in a similar car wreck at 2:00 in the morning?
• I don't think TCU has a chance against Oklahoma this weekend. Unrelated college note: You can see a University of Texas horrific tight end injury from last week here (and I refuse to watch it.)
• Despite the Google Street View van being in Decatur a few weeks back, the street view version of Decatur still isn't available on Google Maps.
• I know at least two people that will TIVO a football game and begin watching it 45 minutes after it starts so as to skip through the commercials. Good idea.
• The exit ramp from 380 eastbound going to 287 southbound in Decatur is poorly designed.
• The sound of gloom on the horizon: Big Barnett Shale player "Chesapeake Energy said Monday that it will scale back its spending on drilling and development because of the sharp drop in natural gas prices since early July, a move that could be followed by other producers." Man, if we have a natural gas bust in Wise County, it'll be ugly. And a lot of empty motels.