Apparently, it’s a popular thing for principals and teachers to dress like the Elf on the Shelf and show up in random places in between periods to lighten the mood during the last week of school before winter break. I’m just now hearing about this, but it’s been going on for over five years.
Related: The latest episode of SNL had a fun Elf on the Shelf skit.
Rob Reiner was the first Saturday Night Live host to appear in one of the episode’s sketches. Granted, it was just the third episode in the show’s history, which was previously hosted by George Carlin and Paul Simon.
For those of you locals looking to make it onto television or the silver screen, or just to work in the industry.
Movies and TV shows casting in Dallas
Whether you’re a working actor or an aspiring one, you might be curious to know which movies and TV shows are casting roles near you. Backstage compiled a list of projects casting right now in Dallas, nearby cities, and nationwide, and which roles they’re looking to fill.
Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender – Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
This list from The New York Times gave me a few laughs.
The 52 Best Breakup Lines – (Said in Real Life)
To mark the winter holidays — an especially popular time to break up — we asked people around the world for their most striking parting words to each other.
I was really enjoying the CBS Evening News co-anchored by Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson. I was especially a fan of Dickerson, and bummed he (and DuBois) are gone. Now I fear what it’s going to turn into with Bari Weiss at the helm. I was glad to see her much hyped special with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop.
Weiss also killed a story ready to air on 60 Minutes, and it was big news on the socials last night: Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.
1. BREAKING
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) December 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) December 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The 10 Best Shows Of 2025, According To 10 ‘Best Shows Of 2025’ Lists
I’ve only seen Andor, Adolescence, and Pluribus. I thought Adolescence was exceptional, and the other two were also more than solid.
This year, the Texas Longhorns beat both Oklahoma and Texas A&M by double digits. Texas didn’t make the college football playoff but the latter two did, and lost home playoff games. But then again, Texas lost to a Florida team they should have beatened. But that Aggie lost was easy to see coming, it’s just so typical Aggie. They like to think they are this legendary football powerhouse program when they are just the little brother in the state who really hasn’t done anything legendary. All hat, no cattle, that would be the Aggies, year in and year out.
This quote by Jimmy Kimmel in his last monolog of the year resonated with me.
“You know, you grew up reading Superman, and you learn to value truth, justice and the American way, and then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore,” Kimmel said. “But when I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show and the shows that my friends and colleagues do on the other channels, and that it makes them feel less crazy. It makes me feel less crazy too, and I think that’s an important thing.