Bag of Randomness

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  • “Hello Playoffs, we’re the Cowboys, remember us?” – Cowboys Announcer Brad Sham after last night’s Cowboys victory.
  • Making the playoffs is one thing, winning a playoff game is another, but it’s amazing to think how bad things looked after that first game against San Francisco and that Johnny Manziel was almost drafted and to see where things are now.
  • Gov Chris Christi is our lucky charm and needs to attend every Cowboys game from here on out.
  • It’s gonna feel weird not being let down in week 17 of the NFL season by the Cowboys.
  • Mack Brown is happy for Jason Garrett.
  • We drove to East Texas to do Christmas with WifeGeeding’s parents.  As soon as we got on the road DaughterGeeding wanted to play the quiet game.  Gosh, I love her.
  • BoyGeeding has a fascination with garbage trucks, and you may remember that for Halloween he dressed up as a garbage man.  His aunt gave him an unexpected Christmas present, a trip to the garbage truck facility.  He was a little intimidated at first with the loud sounds and the size of the truck, but after a little bit you never saw a happier kid when he got to pull the lever to compact the trash.  Sidenote:  I learned garbage trucks run around $250,000 -$300,000.
  • How cool is my father-in-law?  He bought tickets for everyone to attend the Cotton Bowl, but not everyone can or willing to attend (myself included).  He also gives us cash every year as a Christmas present.  For those not attending the game, he gave us an extra Benjamin.
  • I don’t feel like Lexus has beaten us up with their “December to Remember” commercials as much as they use to.
  • NFL football is great this time of year not only because the chances of watching a snow game is greater, but so are the chances of seeing cheerleaders wearing Santa outfits.
  • In the early years of this blog, I use to change the banner at the top to a Christmas theme and give a shout out to PHE, the only Jewish person I knew that read this blog.  I wonder if he still reads this thing.
  • I also use to ask people to send me Christmas cards and I don’t know why I stopped.  It was cool getting them from out of state, but it was really cool getting a few from Europe and Canada.  I specifically remember a Heather from Toronto that said WifeGeeding and I would be invited for dinner anytime we were in the area.  I wonder if the offer still holds.
  • Those last two bullet points came about because I was looking at some old emails and was reminded how this blog has changed (as have I) over time, and how I use to be funnier and more open about my thoughts and observations.
  • Friday night was a bit emotional for me in that pop-culture-I’m-getting-older-and-things-are-changing-and-I-feel-uncomfortable-about-it-kind-of-way.  It was the last ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ Christmas show that featured the phenomenal Darlene Love.  It’s amazing how her first time singing that song with Dave in 1986 on NBC was with just the house band of four and how it has turned into a theatrical event.  This year it was still grand but toned down a bit.  And then right after her song the last ‘Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’ started with a great opening of singing with a cattle call of celebrities.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, no one has done more with less, and with class and humor than Ferguson.
  • One more note about Darlene Love and that song.  The song was released the day JFK was assassinated and flopped, and a teenage Cher sang backup vocals.
  • Okay, one more final note about that song, I promise.  Christmas is pushed on us earlier and earlier each year and I grow spiteful.  It’s hard for me to really appreciate the season until it’s almost over, and the Late Show Christmas episode with Darlene Love joyfully boasting that song finally flips the switch in me that allows me to take in the Christmas season.
  • Ferguson’s last guest was Jay Leno, who looked more relaxed and at peace than I’ve ever seen him.  It was a bit weird seeing him on CBS, and I still hope he shows up on Dave’s show before all is said and done.  But Jay did air a little grievance when he commended Ferguson for being fair and not joining the “late night talk show host snippy club”.  I read a review that said having Leno on as the last guest was a bit of a shot at Letterman since Letterman’s production company is associated with Ferguson’s show, but I think people are looking too much into things.
  • After President Obama’s appearance on Colbert the mic was left on and you can hear both of them sing ‘We’ll Meet Again’.  I qued the video to get straight to the singing part.
  • Pictures of what the roofless Pontiac Silverdome looks like today, which is a lot like Chernobyl.
  • In New Jersey – A man who can’t use his arms because of a spinal condition and faces a gun possession charge was released from jail without having to pay bail on Friday.
  • One of the great joys of my childhood was walking and riding my bike to school with classmates.
  • I hear a certain Wise County lawyer will be making a television appearance – TLC to Air ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’ Special in January
  • A lot of people are upset with Sony Pictures pulling The Interview but their anger should be directed at all the movie chains, I think five major ones, that decided not to show it because they didn’t want to be held liable should a terrorist attack actually unfold.  It wasn’t until almost all theaters pulled out that Sony Pictures decided to back out.  Their official statement should have lead with a reference that they were only pulling the movie because of the theaters, thus shifting the blame.
  • I wish North Korea’s official response would have been more on the lines of “We were not responsible for this cyber attack, but we thought it was really cool.”
  • All of this movie-dictator-terrorist talk reminds me of this great opening scene from The Naked Gun:
  • The death of those two NYPD officers is horrible, and is eerily similar to the death of a NYPD cop in the last episode of ‘Elementary’.
  • I bet when you read this headline your first thought isn’t of a white male, mine wasn’t – At 22, student is youngest ever to earn Ph.D. (Physics) from UT-Dallas
  • New plan for Astrodome includes indoor park, zip lines
  • Cadillac will let you replace your rearview mirror with a video feed in 2016 – With the wide-angle video feed enabled, the “mirror” will offer a field of view up to four times greater than that of a standard mirror
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
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2 Responses to Bag of Randomness

  1. He Hate Me says:

    " I don’t feel like Lexus has beaten us up with their “December to Remember” commercials as much as they use to."

    They've been replaced with Infinity commercials. They start out with this hipster character who really wants an Infinity. So he buys Santa a cup of coffee and sews a hole in the red suit. On Christmas morning he comes out of his high-end, up-scale home to find that he's been rewarded for all of his "hard work" with a new luxury car sitting in the driveway

  2. warren says:

    Don't know about Heather but the offer stands for me as well…so you've got two dinners in Toronto (at least).

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