Bag of Randomness

  • Yes, BabyGeeding is looking at you.
  • At the end of the Cowboys’ practice yesterday our kicker, David Buehler, miss his last four field goal attempts, all within the forty.   Even BabyGeeding can tell that isn’t a good sign.
  • Rumors of Wade Phillips being fired are starting to circulate, with names like Cowher (yawn), Billick (not a bad idea), Mariucci (soft, but I know Deion is pushing him on Jerry) and Schottenheimer (meh).  Unfortunately Gruden isn’t on that list.
  • There’s a FireWadePhillips.com URL but surprisingly . . . it hasn’t been updated since July.  The owner(s) should really should take advantage of what’s going on right now.
  • If Jerry does let him go, well, that means we are also without a defensive coordinator.
  • Scooter, I love you¹, thanks again for all your help.  Maybe I can reward you with a do-it-yourself gun that fires a projectile with magnetic force instead of gunpowder for your next hunting trip.
  • I enjoyed Survivor last night, and it’s fun to hear the coach and wisdom of Jimmy Johnson, it really is insightful.  But geez, their are some psycho women this season and that was one wild tribal council.
  • I think I may have mentioned this before – ABC has nabbed the Darren Star-produced dramedy based on Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches. “often described as “Desperate Housewives in Dallas.””
  • I’m not sure what was harder to believe, that Tiger Woods was lifting weights in downtown Fort Worth or that he can rep 315 lbs on the bench press.  Article
  • Speaking of ABC, I wonder how many peopled tried chocolate milk with a dash of salt last night.
  • Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter
  • An interesting piece of history . . . June 25, 1930 – Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones
  • When you want to trash talk a rival, send a Rival Gram
  • Grace

¹ In the most Christian heterosexual way possible, of course.

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Boy holding garage sale to buy dad a headstone

KINGSTON, Ont. – A Kingston, Ont., youngster is holding a special garage sale this coming weekend, hoping to raise enough money to buy his father a gravestone.

Blake McGinness, 9, lost his father, Rick Lees, to a stomach aneurysm in March 2009.

His dad is buried in Wilmer Cemetery, where he was interred without a headstone.

Blake visits the grave regularly with his mother, Linda, and recently decided that he wanted his father to have a marker at his grave.

“My grandmother has a headstone and my grandfather has a headstone, and I want my dad to have a headstone, too,” the youngster said with great seriousness.

“I was originally thinking I’d have a yard sale and use the money to buy an iPod, but the more I thought about it, the more I decided that this was what I wanted to do for my dad.”

McGinness has ruthlessly winnowed his toys and games, filling a room of his house with the items he plans to sell Saturday morning.

“We’re going to fill the driveway,” he said with confidence.

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