Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• I don't know why I've been following this news but: Dallas filmed Lone Star was finally/actually cancelled after two episodes.
• Sent to me yesterday: "The wrong way to test an air bag."
• Give kids a bunch of oversized chalk and my driveway looks like a drunk Picasso got turned loose on it.
• You're about to see two college football bullet points. 
• Saturday's football schedule: Baylor at 11:00, OU/Tex at 2:30, Oregon/Stanford and Alabama/Florida at 700. Will I sit there and watch it all day? Not a chance. But a man can dream.
• Little UAB went to U. of Tennessee on Saturday and took them into overtime. Which is (kind of ) amazing because UAB's kicker missed five (!!!) field goal attempts during regulation. So in the first overtime, Tennessee kicks a field goal and then, after UAB fails to score a touchdown, finds itself facing a fourth down. Do you send that college kid out to try a sixth kick in front of 100,000 hostile people? Yep, you do. He made it. (They still eventually lost the game, but my heart was so rooting for that kid.)
• A phrase you don't hear much anymore: "He thinks he's God's gift to women." 
• A deaf guy was exonerated yesterday in Dallas and D.A. Craig Watson Watkins was there to meet him and say a few words as he walked out of the jail. I'm shocked, absolutely shocked, that Watson Watkins couldn't have a private moment with the guy in any place other than on the public sidewalk in front of cameras. Edit: Sheesh on the name. 
• Worst tattoo customer ever.
• Hey, now.
• Summer vacation plans anyone? I want to go somewhere not hot which has a combination of notable urban and/or historical things to see but within a quick jaunt to hiking and nature areas. Seattle? San Francisco?
• Britney was on Glee last night and I didn't watch it. I promise.
• Had a local lawyer tell me that he was at a horse race track last weekend and saw a jockey get killed right in front of his eyes. His kid just happen to be in the bathroom when it happened. 
• The Dez Bryant "$54.896 restaurant tab" story seems a little suspicious. (ESPN reported it yesterday on a blog post and then it took off.)  I want to see the bill. 
• And as I told the Mrs this morning, "That's one of the reason I don't like the NFL. We want to cheer for those guys?"
• This has been in the Update for the second day: "ALUMNI MEETING – Eastside Alumni will hold its monthly meeting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the home of . . . . " Uh, who are the "Eastside Alumni"?  Edit: A commenter says it is for those that attended a segregated school on the east side of Decatur before desegregation. Really? Where was it?