Your Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, February 11, 2025

  • It felt a little weird watching Luka play in his first game as a Laker last night. Even the announcers were in awe that such a trade took place.
  • Dirk Nowitzki was in LA to support Luka Doncic’s Lakers debut last night. Just like his statue says, loyalty doesn’t fade away.
  • The Mavs are losing their fanbase fast. They wouldn’t allow this guy into the AAC to watch the Mavs the other day, and then last night, when someone mouthed “Fire Nico” when he was on the jumbotron, he was escorted out. I guess the new ownership is taking advice from North Korea.

  • While researching Groucho Marx recently, this snippet on his Wikipedia page stood out:
    • During a tour of Germany in 1958, accompanied by then-wife Eden, daughter Melinda, Robert Dwan and Dwan’s daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler’s bunker, the site of Hitler’s death, and performed a two-minute Charleston. He later remarked to Richard J. Anobile in The Marx Brothers Scrapbook, “Not much satisfaction after he killed six million Jews!”
  • It was pretty cool seeing John Oliver make a surprise appearance on The Daily Show last night, which was hosted by Jon Stewart, who only works on Mondays. I haven’t looked it up, but I bet that means the new season of Last Week Tonight will air this coming Sunday.
  • Dallas Cowboy linebacker Micah Parsons regrets not visiting the University of Texas and stated it is only one of three colleges he will pay for his children to attend college. The other two are Penn State, his alma mater, and Duke.
  • I feel like I’m inside a glass house and about to throw a rock while saying this, but it annoys me when news articles, presumably written by professionals, are poorly written. I give myself a pass since writing isn’t my profession, and I don’t claim to be a professional. While reading this article (Super Bowl halftime protester gets lifetime ban from NFL stadiums), there was the subheadline “Here’s what’s going on in Gaza” that I thought I should read to refresh my memory of why things are the way they are and verify what I think I already understand. This sentence really bugged me for some reason:The Gaza Strip is an enclave along the Mediterranean Sea bordered by both Egypt and Israel. It covers some 140 square mile — about the twice the size of Washington and 3-and-a-half times the size of Paris. But it’s incredibly densely populated and was home to 2.3 million Palestinians before the start of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.Not only should “mile” be plural, but the writer should have indicated if the state or city of Washington is being referenced. Good writing should anticipate potential ambiguities, and in this case, adding “D.C.” or “state” would have eliminated any confusion.
  • During the Super Bowl, President Trump said he wanted to get rid of the penny on social media. So, I thought it was interesting yesterday that he had a giant penny displayed behind him.
  • It just bugs the heck out of me when people who can place their shopping cart in the proper place don’t. I shouldn’t like that this gentleman did such a thing, but I do.

  • Just a little life advice for you young journalism majors out there.

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