Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, December 17, 2019

  • We ate at Panda Express recently, I got a kick out of the fortune in my fortune cookie.
  • DaughterGeeding is a happy little camper, she had her braces removed yesterday. Our orthodontist gives patients a treat bag of items they couldn’t eat when they were wearing braces. The only item missing in the bag were Tootsie Rolls, so we stopped at the grocery store to pick a small package of them up. Personally, I’ve never liked them, always thought of them of fake or substitute chocolate. Our local grocery store just happened to have the Planters NUTmobile parked in front of it. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know it was a thing, I guess they are trying to be like the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile.
  • I watched the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday and during the Linda Ronstadt honor, Aaron Neville and Trisha Yearwood sang “Don’t Know Much“. I forgot how much I liked that song, which led me to do a little research and got me trapped in an Internet wormhole. To my surprise, that song was recorded at Skywalker Ranch.  One of the authors of the song is Barry Mann. Other than writing the songs for  songs for National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Mann also helped write “Somewhere Out There” for An American Tail and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin”.
  • I recently read that the star on the California flag was there to honor Texas but didn’t believe it. However, this is what I found on the state of California’s official website:
  • Dolly Parton statue may replace KKK leader memorial at Tennessee Capitol
  • https://twitter.com/mental_floss/status/1206672001676587008?s=09
  • I never heard of this prank until yesterday, but that’s some high comedy.

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Bag of Randomness for Friday, December 13, 2019

  • A new Nothing Bundt Cakes opened in the neighborhood and I thought I’d be a good husband and buy a small snickerdoodle cake and drop it off at her school. My mom used to do that sort of stuff for my dad and it rubbed off me. The clerk placed the cake in a bag and I asked if she included any forks, she oddly replied, “We don’t carry any forks but you can walk to Sonic to see if they have any.”
  • Last night, Troy Aikman pointed out that Baltimore Raven QB Lamar Jackson is likely to win the NFL MVP award and LSU QB Joe Burrow is favored to win the Heisman Trophy. If that happens, the NFL MVP would be younger than the Heisman Trophy winner. Jackson is 22 (January 7, 1997) and Burrow is 23 (December 10, 1996). He also mentioned this has happened several times.
  • The Heisman Trophy isn’t what it used to be, at least for me. I’m not sure when that happened. It might have been when they moved the ceremony from the cramped New York Athletic Club or when college players started to leave for the NFL after two seasons and winners became younger. I think the last ceremony I watched was when Sam Bradford won and was totally turned off when Sooner alumni and past winner of the Heisman, Billy Sims, continuously screamed “Boomer” after Bradford’s name was announced, selfishly drawing attention to himself instead of letting the young man have his own moment in the spotlight. It’s one thing to cheer for your school, but don’t be an ass about it. It pains me to say that because I met Mr. Sims once and he couldn’t have been kinder, he even let me pick up his Heisman and it’s as heavy as you’d imagine. Oh, and one of his daughters lives in our neighborhood.
  • My alumni newsletter highlighted a lecture named “Women of the Old Testament“. In an effort of transparency and an admission my mind is always in the gutter, I immediately thought of those old Playboy special editions. For you local folks, I did some very limited and restrictive research and saw the last “Girls of the Southwest” was in 1988, which means all those women would be in the fifties now and possibly grandmothers.
  • All employees of my wife’s and children’s school must cover any visible tattoo. Some have a very small one, like on their wrist, and cover it with a band-aid every day. A few students will ask their teacher why they are always hurt.
  • OK, I have to admit, I thought they had more than one aircraft carrier – Russia’s only aircraft carrier catches fire; 1 dead and 2 missing
    • Why does Russia only have one aircraft carrier? The best answer I could find comes from The National Interest. In short, it came to money, and Russia preferred to spend it on their army, air force, and nuclear weapons.
    • In case you were wondering
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA! – An octopus caught a bald eagle in a death grip. Thanks to some salmon farmers, the eagle survived
  • Nature is brutal and I can’t help but think of Austin Powers – Thousands of ‘penis fish’ appear on California beach – 
    Fat innkeeper worms typically burrow under the sand but recent storms have swept away layers, leaving them exposed


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