Bag of Randomness

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  • I had no idea they made bumper stickers that wide.  If you click the image you can see the more readable version.
  • Ah, it’s September, I guess that means just two more months of summer in Texas.  But in all honesty, it hasn’t been bad this year.
  • DaughterGeeding starts her first day of school today.  It’s just preschool, but it’s the beginning of her formal education that will last for about two decades. I have memories of a life before school, I wonder at the age of three if she will be able to remember a time before school.  It’s weird, but it feels like there’s a little bit of innocence being lost.
  • I remember my mother crying as my father took me to school.  I was so confused, and kind of wondered if there was something they weren’t telling me.
  • WifeGeeding wasn’t as amused as I thought she’d be when she found out I discovered my Baskin Robbins ice cream birthday cake in the fridge and cut out a slice when she went to bed the night before.  My birthday was last week in case you were wondering.
  • So far on my vacation week I got something accomplished.  I stripped, sanded, primed, and painted an antique hutch.
  • Yes, I love potatoes.  Yesterday I had a baked potato, french fries, and mashed potatoes.  But no, no all three at once or two together.
  • My hometown high school varsity football team is ranked 7004 in the nation and 683 in Texas.  Take that Fredericktown, Ohio.
  • The the Ms Westfest contest rigged?
  • Arsenio and Queen Latifa use to have talk shows in the 90’s and now they both are bringing their shows back to the air.
  • With much reluctance and even after vowing I’d never become a Verizon customer again because of how I was treated, I’m going to drop Time Warner as my Internet provider of eight years and will be contacting Verizon as they are the only other choice.  Time Warner replaced the outside line that runs from street to the house, and I replaced my modem, router, switch, and Ethernet cords and even tested multiple computers (PC and Mac) hardwired into the modem and I’m still getting spotty service.  I have no idea what else can be done other than changing Internet providers.
  • The Rice band had some funny Johnny Manziel t-shirts.  Sometimes I think he’s just trying be the WWE villain of college football and we’re all suckered.  But I also wouldn’t be surprised if Sumlin will bench him for disciplinary reasons later this season.
  • Texas Tech has always been a bit unconventional, and the continue the tradition with a very young coach who started a walk-on freshman quarterback, which takes a pair of big brass ones.  On one play after running for a touchdown the quarterback celebrated like ants were in his pants and then coach Kiff Kingsbury was all serious talking the kid and you can tell by his body language the coach had his undivided attention.  It will be interesting watching what goes on in Lubbock.
  • Quite interesting how last year Kingsbury was coaching a Heisman winning quarterback and now he’s starting a true freshman walkon.
  • With all the passing in the college game, those games sure to last a long time.  Sometimes it feels like the same momentum as a baseball game between pitches.
  • I loved the TCU jerseys and helmets, but the names on the back were unreadable and should have been outlined in white.
  • I was on a high school team that was in district play against an Art Briles coached team.  He loved to run up the score on us even when it was well out of reach, especially by throwing it deep in the fourth quarter with his starting QB.  After seeing the Baylor score on Saturday, it appears old habits die hard.  But then again, you have to run up the score in college to move up in the polls, and it’s another reason why I prefer the NFL.
  • A few days ago I had a dream about an Under Armor football commercial in which George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were the two opposing head coaches.  I couldn’t figure out why I would have such a dream until I noticed an actual Dick’s Sporting Goods commercial that I’d seen earlier but didn’t really give it much attention, so I guess something subliminal happened.  In that commercial, one team has the name “Presidents” on their jerseys.  But I can’t make out the other team’s mascot.
  • I’m waiting for ESPN to claim Tebow off waivers.
  • After being traded and cut, at what point does it take Tebow to see that it might just be God’s will for him not to be an NFL quarterback?
  • The Redskins have a proven starting and backup quarterback, but they decided to keep four quarterbacks on their roster.  That roster move tells you how injury prone they think their starter is.
  • NPR had a short interview with the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.  I totally forgot about this, but he said that the denomination  was formed in order to defend the rights of slave holders.  He stated that because the SBC recently elected its first black president and how far they have come.  He also talks about Trayvon Martin and that we are in a post Bible-blet America.
  • Two 700-pound record breaking gators killed
  • The “hot” guy from ‘Desperate Housewives’ is starring as the father of a singing church girl who hits it big and morals is tested.  Maybe it’s a lose take on Katie Perry’s life.  Here’s the trailer – Grace Unplugged
  • Black and white images of scenes from Breaking Bad laid over their real Albuquerque locations
  • ‘Breaking Bad’ talk:
    • The opening scene was focused on a yellow fire hydrant.
    • Surely Walt was smart enough to know that there was no way of getting the smell of gasoline out of gasoline.  And the man just can’t lie to Skylar, except when he tells her that Jessie has never hurt anyone.
    • Who doesn’t get the Old Yeller metaphor?  Come on, Walt.  Oh, and Old Yeller is a yellow lab.
    • I really didn’t see the Jessie and Hank encounter coming, and that’s what’s so great about this show.
    • The Dodge subliminal advertising kills me.
    • No Jessie, you’re close, but he ain’t Satan.
    • “It just feels good to think about it.”  – I think we’ve all been there, Marie.  But her looking up untraceable poisons could really come back to bite her and Hank.
    • Marie handing Jessie the DEA mug was quite funny.  I wonder during his tape confession to Gomie and Hank if he talked about that time he and Mr White tried to kill a fly.
    • Here’s the book that Jessie picked up. “The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President–yet written with complete interpretive freedom.”  I like the insight that Wikipedia provides, which is more definitive.  Also, Reagan survived an assassination attempt and so does Jessie in this episode, at least he thinks so.  Once again, great symbolism.
    • Everyone always seems to be using Jessie.
    • Interesting camera shots of a false and true confession.
    • I thought scenes shot inside of White’s house were actually shot inside, but no.
    • Just four episodes left.
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3 Responses to Bag of Randomness

  1. toddwright says:

    You see the buzz on the internet about the DEA mug? Folks are saying that when Jesse's mug was on the table close to Marie's purple mug, the perspective made it look like it was spelling "DEAD."

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