BoyGeeding doesn’t actually turn three until Monday, but his birthday party is on Saturday. As you may know, he loves garbage trucks, so I built him one for his birthday and WifeGeeding has a sanitation engineer themed party planned. As for materials used on the garbage truck, just some cardboard boxes, plastic plates, cups lids, and some things I printed out.
Perhaps the most awkward moment in TICKET history happened yesterday morning, at least a top three moment. The Musers had Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway booked as a guest but he was late calling in. They were stalling for time, and George referred to him as the late controversial Al Lipscomb, and then when they finally got him on, they found out he was in intensive care with his father who just had his leg removed. If that wasn’t bad enough, he went on to say that his father actually had both legs removed, the other the night before but the decision to remove the other one wasn’t made until this morning. Credit to Caraway, he went through the interview saying it would be a welcome distraction.
I know the late Chris Kyle had the best of intentions, but if you are driving and texting your friend in the passenger seat “This dude is straight-up nuts,” and he texts back with “He’s right behind me. Watch my six,” about the guy in the back seat, perhaps the last thing you want to do is put a weapon in his hand. If I recall correctly, Kyle’s program was designed to help combat vets cope by associating them with combat related activities, but with texts like that, it seems Kyle and his friend have already agreed the guy is insane.
FiveThirtyEight – As of now, an American turning 37 becomes older than the majority of people in the country.
Interesting tidbit I found in my cadaver book. Companies for one reason or another (plane and car crashes) will assign a dollar value on a human life when calculating cost-benefit analysis. in 1991, the Urban Institute stated the economic value of the cost of somebody dying and the effects he or she has on society is $2.7 million. I tried to find some current figures but the best I could find were about four years old and from the government. The EPA has it around $9.1 million, the FDA around,$7.9 and the Department of Transportation around $6 million.
Think this Brian Williams thing will die down? – The Akron RubberDucks, the Cleveland Indians’ Double-A affiliate team, will hold a “Brian Williams’ Pants-on-Fire Night” night. And I’m sure Williams was delighted that Charlie Sheen came to his defense. Oh, and then there’s this – The network’s internal fact-checking investigation is “nowhere near done,” a senior NBC source said Thursday.
During the NBA All Star Game, Gatorade will air a digitally remastered version of their ‘Be Like Mike’ commercial for the brand’s 50th anniversary [ESPN]. The article provides an interesting bit of trivia, Gatorade originally wanted to use “I Wanna Be Like You” from The Jungle Book but Disney wanted $350,000 for the original five week run of the commercial. Gatorade didn’t want to pay and one of their own came up with the song in 72-hours. Also, the original concept was a kid from Yugoslavia writing Jordan a letter. You know, until that article, I wasn’t aware Jordan was Gatorade’s first spokesperson.
I’ve never seen The Jungle Book.
Gatorade has also brought back Jordan’s favorite flavor, Citrus Cooler. I saw it in the store the other day and immediately put it in my cart, I forgot how gosh darn good it is. Now it’s Pepsi’s turn to bring back Crystal Pepsi, the only Pepsi product I’ve ever liked.
Until Bob Simon’s death, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “livery vehicle”.
TIME – The 5 Most Controversial Musical Guests in Saturday Night Live History – I was trying to guess the five before reading the article and could only come up with two, Ashlee Simpson and as referred by Phil Hartman’s Frank Sinatra: Sine-Aid O’Connor, Sinbad O’Connor, Uncle Fester. I remember U2 was the next band to perform on SNL after Simpson and Bone kept saying “live” to prove there was no voiceover.
There’s a new burger joint in Dallas called Dugg Burger. Their buns are designed so that it looks like some of the top bun is dug out from the inside so that your toppings will stay intact. That doesn’t matter to me all that much because I prefer my burgers with just cheese and ketchup only.
Yesterday’s SNL ranking list ruffled some feathers, so I’m sure this one will as well considering James Bond isn’t numero uno – The Greatest Spies In Pop Culture, Ranked – Also, Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne aren’t even in the top 15. But I’m just happy Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 made the list.
I'm surprised the article on controversial SNL musical guests didn't mention that Nirvana completely destroyed their instruments at the end of the second song. I don't even remember the closing credits and I watched that episode live.
I wouldn't mind having that cardboard sanitation truck for myself…looks cool!
Actually, when I was a kid I built an airplane cockpit for myself made out of old cardboard boxes. Then when I grew up I became a pilot. So, who knows, maybe BoyGeeding will be inspired….
I'm surprised the article on controversial SNL musical guests didn't mention that Nirvana completely destroyed their instruments at the end of the second song. I don't even remember the closing credits and I watched that episode live.
And that list of the greatest spies is crap because it fails to include the great Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge from Spies Like Us.
I wouldn't mind having that cardboard sanitation truck for myself…looks cool!
Actually, when I was a kid I built an airplane cockpit for myself made out of old cardboard boxes. Then when I grew up I became a pilot. So, who knows, maybe BoyGeeding will be inspired….