Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, September 23, 3024

  • I was supposed to go to jury duty today but I received a text saying it was cancelled. I was notified by a large postcard that I almost tossed out, thinking it was junk mail. It just didn’t look official to me.
  • It’s an interesting world we live in when the number one-ranked college football team in the country can’t be watched by traditional means, and you have to stream it. Crap like this didn’t happen in the Reagan administration. Gosh, I hope you get the humor in that last sentence.
  • Speaking of Reagan. Perhaps the most rememberable and grandest state dinner he and Nancy held was for Prince Charles and Diana. I recently found out that Nancy deliberately left Vice-President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, off the guest list. It turns out that Barbara and Nancy never got along after that, and it carried on through the first Bush administration when Nancy said something unpleasant about Bush losing his re-election bid. Nancy called to try to set the record straight, but Barbara told her to never call again and hung up on her. You can listen to that 1:41 segment here.
  • The Eagles made a Hotel California video for the Sphere, but I thought it would have been better. But, I saw some clips from some other songs that were quite impressive.
  • Allen’s pep rally went viral with all of its LED lights, smoke, lasers, and flame thrower-type contraptions. Here’s another video but without the fire and lasers.

  • Anyone remember the Gramatica brothers who kicked in the NFL? One of their sons is now kicking in college and celebrates like his old man. He should be careful since one of the elders injured himself in such a celebration.
  • It’s the 25th anniversary of the West Wing’s debut on NBC. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden invited the cast to the White House, and for fans like me, it was a delight to follow them on Twitter.
  • This is pretty funny; both guards pull in opposite directions only to run into and block each other.

  • I haven’t thought about Sonny Dykes in a while until I saw this tweet from the weekend. Dykes had that fantastic first season at TCU, making it to the title game, and then it’s been downhill ever since. I forgot he left SMU and went down the road to rival TCU. At the time, he was leaving to go to a school in a better conference. But now, SMU is in the ACC and I would say a better conference than the Big 12. Not to mention, his old school whipped his current team’s arse. I wonder if he would have been better off staying at SMU, and TCU holding on to Gary Patterson. But taking a team to the title game in your first year eclipses a lot of mistakes.
  • Hey, Cowboys fans, how about our kicker! He’s all we have to look forward to.
  • Umpires and other officials and referees often get a bad rap, so I thought it was cool that someone noticed the good merits of this guy.

  • I wonder if cancelling the whole thing was the right move, but then again, I don’t have much information to go on – Oklahoma high school cancels homecoming football game after students display racial slur in viral image
  • This is an interesting approach to solving the speeding problem.

  • I know I’m biased as a fan, but that’s some great camera work and a decent spiral.

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