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• I’ve researched the symbolism or reason why there is a giant eyeball in downtown Dallas. There’s no symbolism behind it and it’s mainly there just to be there, it’s part of the Joule Hotel’s art collection and it used to reside Chicago and St. Louis before arriving in Dallas in 2013. It was created by Tony Tasset in 2007, he’s the same guy who created the Randy’s Donuts facade.
  
• Minnesota news – ‘I kept going’: Nine-year-old enters 5km race … and accidentally wins 10km event
• First-Ever ‘House Hunters’ Couple Recalls Their ‘Horrific’ Experience
• Well, at least the Secretary of State wasn’t listening on that “perfect” phone call made by POTUS. Oh, well, at least the AG isn’t associated with wrongdoing with foreign governments. Oh, well, at least the VP isn’t included in anything.
• I’m not sure I’ll ever understand how Dr. Robert Jeffress’ denomination or leadership ever repudiate him. At least a local conservative DJ won’t hold back.
  
• Nolan Ryan threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Rangers’ last home game at Globe Life Park. No one in the history of ever could show less enthusiasm or effort for a first pitch. Somewhat related – The time Trump landed his helicopter at center field and threw out a first pitch (I really thought the pitch was impressive).
  
• This man saved the airline a lot of repair costs and prevented a lot of passengers from being delayed, I’m guessing.
  

  Crazy event at ORD. Heads up safety move by a ramp worker! pic.twitter.com/SQi5zB0Ooz

  — Kevin Klauer DO, EJD (@Emergidoc) September 30, 2019

• I’m not sure if I’m using the correct terminology, but I’m guessing most children’s first experience with mechanical engineering is the disassembly and reassembly of a retractable pen.
• Chris Wallace exposed Stephen Miller for the fool that he is yesterday morning and the same thing happened to Rep. Jim Jordan with Jake Tapper. Wallace summed it up perfectly with, “This is an exercise in obfuscation.” Perhaps Miller’s most laughable comment was “I’ve worked in the federal government now for nearly three years ― I know what the Deep State looks like.” Whoa, three years of experience! The guy is only 34-years-old.  I’m reminded of all the military movies when a second lieutenant arrives and tells a first sergeant or master sergeant how things ought to be done because of what he learned in officers school.
• When Jason Witten did his Sunday Night Football introduction last night, I was hoping he’d say, “Jason Witten, Monday Night Football” instead of “Jason Witten, Tennessee.”
• I liked but didn’t like the NBC Sports graphic of Dak Prescott in a modified Captain America outfit which had a Cowboys star on the chest. We all know the real Captain America is my good friend Roger Staubach. Good friend, you may ask, but hey, we did watch Hamilton together. 😉
• BoyGeeding made a sports observation about something which didn’t dawn on me until my mid-twenties. He pondered about the score on the television and the order of the teams, that the second team is always the home team because it’s like saying, “Dallas at New Orleans”.  I told him I like the way he’s thinking and asking questions, he was indeed correct, and it was something which took me much longer to figure out.
• I never played any organized baseball and pretty ignorant to a lot of things, but I help out BoyGeeding’s team by managing the dugout – helping with the batting order and putting on all the catcher’s armor between innings. One of his teammates is a special needs child and most of us fear for his safety anytime he’s on the field. As I was helping strap on his shin guards he bluntly told me I was sweating a lot. I playfully told him that’s a result of me not eating healthy and not exercising. He sternly replied with, “You look like you exercise a lot, how else would get all those big muscles?” That kid made my weekend.
• WFAA made two notable appearances on last night’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. David Schwimmer also made had a few notable appearances on the show, and speaking of his appearance, it looks like he had some plastic surgery performed on his face.
• Mack Brown sure has North Carolina playing some pretty good football in his first year back. His team came ‘this’ close to beating number top-ranked Clemson and have respectable wins against Miami and South Carolina. Also, SMU is having quite a football season.
• Seth Green made Robot Chicken, then Robot Chicken made Seth Green
• Well, I couldn’t help but think of WifeGeeding
  • “At first glance, it seems natural tar mixed with animal fat has been used in making [the eye]…whoever made the eye likely used a fine golden wire, thinner than half a millimeter, to draw even the most delicate eye capillaries…”
    

    5,000-year-old prosthetic eye made from a mixture of natural tar and animal fat. This incredible object was found near the city of Zabol in Iran. The world's earliest prosthetic eye, which was once painted gold, was worn by a woman who stood 6’ tall: https://t.co/itXiYFQb6e pic.twitter.com/YC6T3IYKCC

    — Lindsey Fitzharris (@DrLindseyFitz) September 28, 2019

• Just Jerry Jones being Jerry Jones, he’s larger than life. And, of course, by his side is his longtime body man Roosevelt, who wears shades no matter the time of day. That man has to have some of the most unbelievable and entertaining stories.
  

  How many NFL owners would walk down Bourbon Street on a Saturday night. I’ll go with…just one pic.twitter.com/e9FZmWmruv

  — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 29, 2019

• Cross falls on the drummer during the opening song of worship at church.
  

• Usually, I could easily tell you the name of the White House Press Secretary since they were always delivering the news. I can’t name the person who now occupies that role because I don’t think there’s been a press briefing under her watch. But, I do see that she tweets every now and then.
• Airline introduces baby seat map to allow passengers to avoid infants
• A former Texas judge is sentenced for accepting cash bribes stashed in beer boxes
• A teacher has apologized for telling students to write captions for photos of freed slaves and to ‘make it funny’
  • The teacher at J.W. Dodd Middle School instructed three eighth-grade classes to write captions for the images of Reconstruction-era sharecroppers, telling students to “make it funny,” and “don’t bore me,” according to a statement from Freeport Public Schools Superintendent Kishore Kuncham.
• The Atlantic – Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why? – “Not religious” has become a specific American identity—one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.
• Male clergy reading actual comments shared by parishioners to female clergy
  
• The Font That Makes Everyone Read Faster – Cheddar Explains
  

It’s academy tradition to sound off a cannon using a blank shotgun shell whenever the team scores, according to the sheriff’s office. But authorities said an alumnus of the school who brought his own cannon to Saturday’s homecoming game against Massachusetts Maritime Academy had loaded it with black powder and “a substance that he had made into a wad.” The referee was struck by the wad and taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening.

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