- I haven’t read the Gone Girl book or seen the movie, but I think some of the girls I hang out with have it in the back of their mind at all times. For instance, they were talking about the Midlothian fitness instructor/mother that was murdered in a church earlier this week. Her husband was away on a fishing trip in Mississippi at the time. They think he hired that fake policeman in the surveillance video to be the hitman.
- Prince was found dead in an elevator, that doesn’t beat the King being found dead on a toilet. Long live the King! Oh, wait.
- 11 Songs Prince Wrote That Were Hits for Other Artists – Here are two: The Bangles, “Manic Monday” and Sinead O’Connor, “Nothing Compares 2 U”
- Buzzfeed – An Old Video Of Michael Jackson, Prince, And James Brown Has Resurfaced And We Feel All The Things
- The Texas Rangers baseball club honored prince last night. As did the downtown Dallas Omni.
- I’m too lazy to look it up, but I wonder what Price was doing Dec 31, 1998. Booking him to perform “1999” right after the year started surely would have cost someone big bucks.
- Someone from my project team will be making a presentation at the White House next week. It’s all about how our project is making things more efficient, eliminating waste, and saving taxpayer dollars.
- Buzzfeed – A TV Crew Rescued A Castaway Stranded On A Remote Island – A TV crew with Animal Planet became unexpected heroes when they found a man stranded for nearly three days without water on an uninhabited part of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in Northern Australia.
- @FiveThirtyEight – Most people believe politicians don’t keep their promises. Most people are wrong.
- GIF – The Denver Nuggets changed their “Kiss Cam” to “The Lion King Cam”
- Busted by body cam: Fort Worth officer accused of lying, fired
- Just a reminder, but just because I post a story or an image, that doesn’t mean it’s something I endorse or embrace.
- The story behind the top image on this post here.
- Tomorrow will mark the 29th anniversary of my grandmother’s death. It was the first loss of a loved one for me, and for some reason, April 23 has always stuck in my mind since I was a ten-year-old.
- How a Senator used Facebook ads to influence employees in a single D.C. building
- The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia’s Economy Off Oil – Eight unprecedented hours with “Mr. Everything,” Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- I found this map of the U.S. which shows the spending per student, per school district, interesting.
- Tony Romo wrote a piece about Jordan Spieth in TIME.