Your Bag of Nothing for Tuesday, February 18, 2025

  • BoyGeeding is now officially a teenager. He had two of his friends stay the night on his birthday over the weekend. I’m thankful he’s surrounded by some well-mannered boys full of respect and potential.
  • I had most of the house carpet steamed cleaned for my son’s overnight 13th birthday party. A very friendly 80-year-old man who owned the company came over. Sure, he had a middle-aged man as a helper, but I just had a feeling an octogenarian isn’t helping to steam clean carpets on a Saturday morning if he did have to. When I made the appointment on the phone, he even gave me a discount as a first-time customer. The total bill was $89, and I agreed I’d pay cash. I knew the wad of cash I had was either $110 or $120. I didn’t care to count it; I just felt he needed it more than me, even if that day was my first day of officially being unemployed. He asked that I sign a receipt and handed me a pen. After I signed, I tried to hand it back to him, but he told me to keep it because it’s one way he advertises.
  • It feels weird being unemployed. There’s so much uncertainty in my industry because of DOGE, something that didn’t even exist a month ago. I received an email from my congressman yesterday updating his constituents about how he is fighting the liberals who all are overreacting at DOGE, eliminating government waste, and how our lives are going to be better.
  • Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has two children with his stepdaughter.
  • AMC has been playing a marathon of Mad Men, which is great to have on in the background as I job hunt.
  • Charlie Chaplin died in 1977 at the ripe old age of 88. His youngest son is a musician and is now 62; he was born when his father was 73.
  • Made me laugh.
  • I enjoyed watching the SNL 50th Anniversary Special on NBC last night. Seeing cast members from different eras perform in a skit together was great. But then again, I had a sense of melancholy thinking of the possibility of seeing Chris Farley working with John Belushi or John Mulvaney work
    • Seeing Jack Nicolson introduce a musical segment was a nice surprise, and I think everyone was delighted that he looked pretty good
    • Loyal friends. She died on a Saturday. Here’s how the show honored her that night.
  • I’m going to start cooling it on the Luka trade, but I saw this recently and it really stood out.

  • This is a work of beauty.

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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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Your Bag of Randomness for Monday, February 10, 2025

  • Have you ever had one of those weeks where the richest man in the world lords over a federal department your company has a contract with, and his actions cause them to use another strategy and exercise certain options in their government contract, resulting in you losing your private sector job? Well, that was how the week ended for me. Good times, yo. Hopefully, I can make the most of this opportunity.
  • Thumbs up for America the Beautiful and the National Anthem last night. Trombone Shorty, now that’s a great nickname. I had never heard of Laren Daigle, but I liked her version of the song and really liked her fashion choice, especially the pattern. I did a little research, and that was a bit of a redemption for her. And just being a Stephen Colbert fan, I think it’s great to see John Baptiste.
  • That blowout last night reminded me of the long streak of Super Bowls won by the NFC, which I watched as a kid first exposed to the NFL. I didn’t root for either team, but I think seeing the NFC East once again prevent an AFC team from becoming legendary made it less painful. If you aren’t sure what I’m referring to, it’s the time the Patriots were vying for an undefeated season but had one Giant loss.
  • Fox debuted a new sports bug, that center-graphic with the time and score, to mixed reaction. I liked how it always displayed the quarterback’s stats in each corner when their team had the ball.
  • Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam was a nice surprise.
  • I’m guessing the Harrison Ford Jeep commercial won the night because I thought it appealed to all American’s, but I guess someone will find something to be upset with.
  • Not to mention, that was the last NFL team he interviewed with, and they didn’t hire him.
  • I thought this was an impressive throw, considering he was in a sports coat and threw a dart.

  • I wonder if Jimmy Johnson is going to retire from the Fox crew or if he’s dying, but the tribute was neat, and so was his emotional reaction. Here’s the segment in its entirety. The crew almost eulogized a living Johnson during the broadcast, reminiscing about previous moments they had with the coach. But you know, we as a society don’t do this enough; we need to give the people we love and appreciate their flowers now, when they are alive, instead of when they are gone and can’t appreciate them. I hope I reach this level of happiness and gratitude one day.

  • Deion Sanders hires Marshall Faulk as Colorado’s running backs coach
  • Something overlooked because of the Super Bowl, 91-year-old Hubie Brown had his final television broadcast. Below is also a video of him coaching some youth in his prime. I underappreciated him.

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