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- This Random Thought Girl hangs out at some Dallas place called Siso Uptown Resort with other chicks. Edit: Link fixed.
- "Yeah," [his dad] says one evening, driving in his car, "it could come unraveled. And when it does, it's gonna be bad. Real bad." He imagines a late-night call, and the cable news ticker, and the next morning's headlines. "It's one night away from the phone ringing," he says, "and [my son is] in jail. And you know what he's gonna say? 'It's better than all the pressure I've been under. This is better than that.'" -- From yesterday's ESPN The Magazine article on Johnny Football that caused quite the stir.
- Breaking Bad's one minute teaser for this Fall's finale taught me about poetry: Walter White recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias It will probably come as no surprise for me to tell you that I was ignorant about the poem, but I had a shockingly good time learning about it. And White's anger and cadence as he spoke of an empire gone was really, really cool.
- Last night, hours apart, I was over come with a wave of deep and hard yawning attacks. It was weird. Not normal yawns. Like I was being hit with something.
- That Tongan community in Euless is really tight, isn't it? Yesterday, a Ticket personality who grew up in North Richland Hills said you didn't wrong one of them."Ten of them would show up in ten minutes. And they weren't messing around . . . . And the same thing went for the girls."
- With the news that Cumulus was going to dump Rush Limbaugh, he made a rare appearance on TV last night just to his spew his normal rhetoric (and maybe because he's in panic mode.) . Nor surprisingly, he was on Fox's Greta Van Susteren's show. When he does appear on TV (which is basically never), it will be somewhere cozy and comfortable. You'll never see him on a show where he is challenged.
- Kidd Kraddick has a heart attack and now I'm overly aware of every chest pain I have.
- I knew Kidd Kraddick's show was syndicated, but I didn't know he ran the whole company. He didn't contract with a third party to do all the heavy lifting, logistics, and distribution. I haven't heard a number yet, but it sounds like a ton of people worked for him.
- Another walk off home run for the Rangers last night, and one of these days I'm actually going to watch it live. (That game took 4 hours and 46 minutes.)
