I never heard of Flag Pole Hill until the last two winter storms, but from all the local news reports and Corby Davidson from The TICKET, that’s the place to take your kids when it snows.
While channel surfing last night I think a girl on ‘American Idol’ wore the blue/black-white/gold dress.
Is Texas Southern, Western, or Truly a Lone Star? | Texas Monthly – I didn’t expect much when I started reading this article but I learned some new stuff and found it pretty insightful on how Texas chose to distance itself from Dixie and to be more aligned with the American West:
Nationally, Dixie was stigmatized as a backward, ignorant, and violent hotbed of Ku Kluxry and religious hypocrisy. Why remain linked to all that baggage? Why not, forward-looking Texans began to think, align with the West instead? Back then, and to a certain degree today, the West was seen as optimistic, the place of second chances, the land of the golden tomorrow, a stark contrast when compared to Dixie’s melancholy and tragic yesterdays.
More proof that HOA’s are heartless – A 6-year-old Missouri girl with leukemia wanted a playhouse in her backyard and Make-A-Wish was going to make it happen, even going as far as making sure the shingles on the playhouse would match the house. But as you would guess, the HOA said no and didn’t really provide any detail as to why. After word leaked to the public, they are now in the reconsidering phase.
Regarding Sunday morning political shows, there was a time when I thought nothing would beat ‘Meet The Press’, but then Tim Russert died. And for some reason, I thought ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ would easily take over the top spot. But to my surprise, ‘Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer’ is now the top program in the most important demographic.
LiberallyLean.com posted a Dallas Morning News article about a bad purchase experience at Target. Of all things that bugged me about the article, the one thing that stood out was his reference to a Blu-ray player. Instead of using the correct spelling, Blu-ray, he used “Blue-Ray” and “blue ray”.
More exodus at ‘The Daily Show’ – The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee leaves to start her own satirical news show – Her show will be on TBS, and I’m assuming it will wither lead or follow Conan. I think this is a big win for TBS, and there’s been grumbling of a lack of a female presence in late night talk shows.
I talked to an old college friend yesterday and most of our conversation was around a literature class we had together.
We were all assigned a poem and instructed to go to the library (no Internet back then) and research the material, and then the next time the class met, we were to stand in front of the class, read it, talk about our research, and provide our own interpretation. I can’t recall the poem now, but all the research stated it was about masturbation and I was too embarrassed to discuss such a thing standing in front of class. I ended up calling the professor at his house (something common at a small university) explaining the situation and he allowed me to select my own poem. I chose one about basketball called ‘Fast Break‘ because I thought it was really cool how it’s was written – one long run-on sentence that picked up speed as you read it, as an actual fast break. Looking back at the event, I wish I would have followed through with the original assigned poem.
In one lecture the professor referenced C.S. Lewis, who I wasn’t familiar with, and talked about the author’s great writing and his strong Christian faith. I confused Lewis for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and those Dianetics commercials, and questioned the professor how he could praise such man at a Christian university. He and the rest of the class laughed at my ignorance, which didn’t bother me, and looking back, it’s pretty funny.
I guess I should have been more clear with my line of thinking, there’s a different expectation when it comes to grammar and spelling between an idiot blogger like myself who writes as a hobby and a professional journalist who gets paid for that line of work.
Flag Pole Hill hasn't been developed by now? I have some great memories of that place. We used to take field trips there in pre-school–1974.
I have a lot of opinions on Texas and its southern-ness. In general, the further east you go, the more KKK-ish it is. It can be both deep south in Vidor, and western-opportunity from I-35 westward. And we can't throw off our slave-owning history. It is one of the primary reasons some people wanted independence from Mexico. The Constitution of 1824 was more liberal than the United States Constitution for that very reason–it prohibited slavery.
I think an entire Samantha Bee show will be too much Samantha Bee. I loved Colbert on the Daily Show, but quickly tired of him on his own. I'm hoping the schtick goes away when he takes over for Letterman, and I don't expect to watch Samantha Bee at all.
If Hewitt PD is investigating the Stolen Valor incident, she's as good as acquitted.
I wasn't aware of that aspect of the Constitution of 1824, which is a cool bit of history. And I agree with your thoughts about Samantha Bee, she'll have to depart from her Daily Show character to make it more appealing.
I think that's my problem with all of the current crop of regular Daily Show correspondents – they are all way too similar in their over-the-topness (made up word). I think Asif Mandvi pulls it off better than any, but it gets lost in the fact that Sam Bee, Jason Jones, Jessica Williams, and Al Madrigal are all doing slightly similar versions of the same character. Wyatt Senac seemed to have a delivery that differentiated him from the rest of them. It's becoming obvious that the next host of TDS is going to be an outsider, the question is just is it going to be a newbie or a known quantity. I've read a lot of pieces suggesting Steve Carrell as a replacement, which is an idea I love. But I don't know why he would ever be interested in working on a 4-night a week show when he can clean up making movies (even in dramatic roles now).
Those are some great observations that have been in front of me the whole time but never really realized it. I guess I'd just add that Trevor Noah seems to bring something a bit different to the show, and that's probably because he's from another country.
The constitution of 1824 didn't prohibit slavery, it was just a national law that was added shortly after the founding of the Mexican republic.
Of course, that constitution was effectively thrown out in 1835 which directly lead to multiple Mexican states declaring independence. (Only Texas was successful)
The Bag of Nothing guy complaining about someone's spelling? Excuse me while I go look up the definition of "ironic."
I guess I should have been more clear with my line of thinking, there’s a different expectation when it comes to grammar and spelling between an idiot blogger like myself who writes as a hobby and a professional journalist who gets paid for that line of work.
I realize that. My post was meant in the spirit of good-natured teasing.
I should have realized that, I’m sorry if I came off harsh. #sleepdreprived #deadlines
No worries. I hope that you get some well deserved rest this weekend.
Flag Pole Hill hasn't been developed by now? I have some great memories of that place. We used to take field trips there in pre-school–1974.
I have a lot of opinions on Texas and its southern-ness. In general, the further east you go, the more KKK-ish it is. It can be both deep south in Vidor, and western-opportunity from I-35 westward. And we can't throw off our slave-owning history. It is one of the primary reasons some people wanted independence from Mexico. The Constitution of 1824 was more liberal than the United States Constitution for that very reason–it prohibited slavery.
I think an entire Samantha Bee show will be too much Samantha Bee. I loved Colbert on the Daily Show, but quickly tired of him on his own. I'm hoping the schtick goes away when he takes over for Letterman, and I don't expect to watch Samantha Bee at all.
If Hewitt PD is investigating the Stolen Valor incident, she's as good as acquitted.
I wasn't aware of that aspect of the Constitution of 1824, which is a cool bit of history. And I agree with your thoughts about Samantha Bee, she'll have to depart from her Daily Show character to make it more appealing.
I think that's my problem with all of the current crop of regular Daily Show correspondents – they are all way too similar in their over-the-topness (made up word). I think Asif Mandvi pulls it off better than any, but it gets lost in the fact that Sam Bee, Jason Jones, Jessica Williams, and Al Madrigal are all doing slightly similar versions of the same character. Wyatt Senac seemed to have a delivery that differentiated him from the rest of them. It's becoming obvious that the next host of TDS is going to be an outsider, the question is just is it going to be a newbie or a known quantity. I've read a lot of pieces suggesting Steve Carrell as a replacement, which is an idea I love. But I don't know why he would ever be interested in working on a 4-night a week show when he can clean up making movies (even in dramatic roles now).
Those are some great observations that have been in front of me the whole time but never really realized it. I guess I'd just add that Trevor Noah seems to bring something a bit different to the show, and that's probably because he's from another country.
The constitution of 1824 didn't prohibit slavery, it was just a national law that was added shortly after the founding of the Mexican republic.
Of course, that constitution was effectively thrown out in 1835 which directly lead to multiple Mexican states declaring independence. (Only Texas was successful)
I was also a Russert fan, although for me Brinkley was the gold standard.