Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, January 10, 2017

  • U2 will be playing at AT&T Stadium on Friday MAY 26 with The Lumineers as the opening act. The last time they played here, WifeGeeding had bad morning sickness and I ended up taking a blog reader. The tickets were great, we actually touched the stage and just four feet away from the band at times.
  • A question for you automotive experts – How often would you change the oil on an automobile if you only put about 5,000 miles on it annually? I hardly drive our GMC Acadia, and usually change the oil every time I go a little over 3,000 miles. But since I don’t drive it often, should I stick with the three-month/3,000 recommendation or is it okay to change the oil once or twice a year?
  • You don’t hear anything about Emeril Lagasse anymore. For a while, he was all over the place.
  • One of my closest friends is a Baptist minister in our hometown of Mineral Wells. I called him yesterday to wish him a happy birthday and wedding anniversary. Yup, he got married on his birthday. The conversation ended with me playfully telling him to be praying for Trump just as much or even more than he did for Obama. It turns out he’s not a fan of the president-elect for moral reasons, but I also playfully blamed him for being solely responsible for how all white Evangelicals voted.
  • WifeGeeding and I have been watching a lot of  ‘Black Mirror’ episodes. After the last one, she said it wasn’t as “happy” as the others, which made me raise and eyebrow since none of them are happy episodes. It made me think of this Tina Fey and Amy Phoeler moment from the 2014 Golden Globes.
  • Alabama Trounces Clemson and Everybody Else in the College Football Money Game
  • The Quiet Failure of Sony’s Giant Cassette Tape
  • Political humor – Schumer sends McConnell back his own 2009 letter on nominations
  • I drove by the Dallas Cowboys’ old facility in Valley Ranch recently, not a thing has changed. I guess I was expecting the entrance sign to be taken down.
  • I bummed to hear the Pioneer Cabin tree is no more.
  • Thanks to this Reddit post, I finally understand Meatloaf’s most famous song:
    • In each verse he lists two things he will do, then a third thing which he won’t do, that’s what he’s referring to when he says I won’t do “that”

      And I would do anything for loveI’d run right into hell and backI would do anything for loveI’ll never lie to you and that’s a fact

      Those are the two things he said he will do.

      But I’ll never forget the way you feel right now
      Oh no No way
      And I would do anything for love
      But I won’t do that

      That third thing (forgetting the way you feel) is the thing he won’t do.

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Bag of Randomness for Monday, January 9, 2017

  • The Golden Globes was on last night but CBS went ahead and ran new episodes of their primetime dramas. I always thought that was a no-no, that they would get killed in the ratings and it shows respect for the industry and those on your network who are up for awards. But then again, I don’t think the network had anyone up for an award.
  • I love me some Sherlock Holmes, but even I thought it was strange that CBS and PBS were both airing new episodes of the character at the same time.
  • You should have seen how giddy WifeGeeding was after every La La Land win. I still think Anna Kendrick would have been a better choice for the role that went to Emma Stone. But I’m willing to bet Emma Stone is a better kisser.
  • A bit of a funny moment no one may have noticed during Meryl Streep’s speech in which she referenced Trump was the camera panned to the actors who play Russian spies in ‘The American’s’ clapping.
  • Meryl Streep will be referenced over 500 times on Fox News this morning, all before lunch. Many folks are going to be upset about a Hollywood star “lecturing them”, but those folks probably voted for a reality television show star and businessman for president who “lectures” quite often.
  • In 1989, the Golden Globes’ Best Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama race was a three-way tie between Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, and Shirley MacLaine. Weaver actually won two Globes that year for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl.
  • Something for the fans of NBC’s ‘The Office – The Office Stare Machine – Type in an emotion and it will play related clips of a character looking into the camera. That site is the sister of The Office Time Machine which takes the 1,300 cultural references made and places them in an interactive time machine.
  • There’s a bit of debate about where the paperclip was invented, but this patent states it was in Mineral Wells, Texas.
  • I can’t recall if I’ve posted this or not, but when the kids saw on the news that our neighbor who plays for our local NFL franchise received a John Deere crossover utility vehicle from the starting rookie running back, they went over and asked if they could have a ride on it. He told them he would if he had it at the house, but he hasn’t brought it home and actually doesn’t have anywhere to put it.
  • The last time Joe Buck and Troy Aikman did a Green Bay game, Bob Sturm of The TICKET got to chill with them in the broadcast booth. Bob’s segment on it was quite interesting, but one non-booth related item that caught my attention was when Aikman revealed if he wanted to, he could fly home and catch the end of the second afternoon game.
  • I had zero intention in watching HBO’s special on Debbie Reynold and her daughter Carrie Fisher, but I caught a few minutes and then was sucked in. I think it was supposed to air in the spring but they moved it up because of their deaths. It was more “behind the scenes” and revealing than I thought.
    • Fisher smoked a lot and drank a lot of Coca-Cola, and not the diet kind. They showed how Lucus Film had a trainer come to her house and he would pour all the Coke down the drain, only for her assistant to fill up the fridge after he left. She also stated how Lucus Film would have him report her weight and measurements.
    • Debbie fell in her bathroom and you see her very badly bruised face. She was also in poorer health than what the public was lead to believe, pushing herself to work Vegas despite barely having the stamina to do so. They even showed her zooming around on a motorized scooter in a Vegas casino unnoticed. When she was honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award it was very touch and go if she could attend. They were making arrangements for her to have an area to lie down at the dinner, and Carrie was crying about how her mother probably couldn’t attend.
    • Eddie Fisher (Debbie’s first husband and Carrie’s father) was basically on his death bed looking horribly fragile. That scene was filmed back in 2010, I think.
  • I love it that Carrie Fisher’s ashes were put in a Prozac pill. If you knew her personality, it was so her.
  • GIF – Today’s dose of ‘MURICA! (don’t click if you are offended by a woman lifting heavy weights in athletic attire)
  • The hottest pizza girl of all time delivered our pizza last night. She was so attractive I thought there was a camera crew hidden somewhere trying to capture my reaction.
  • Pet deer named after Bambi character shot dead in front of US family in their driveway – Wardens arrive to say keeping ‘Faline‘ the deer as a pet is illegal, then shoot the animal five times minutes later
  • I use to use these for my passwords all the time – Beware of Making Jesus Your Password – These 75 popular Christian phrases and Bible verses are too predictable to be secure from hackers.
  • I have a new favorite Twitter account to follow – PresidentialTrump
    @MatureTrumpTwts – Alternative parody account of how a mature, more presidential Trump should tweet. Photo courtesy of Sam Seder & Majority Report (I think).

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