Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, March 30, 2016

mlknobelspeech

  • I listen to The Ticket while I work and I wish I could filter out all Reagor Dykes Auto Group and George DiGianni commercials.
  • I keep seeing stuff about the new Michael Keaton movie that will be released in August in which he plays Ray Kroc, the man that bought McDonalds and turned it into the behemoth it is today. A few random thoughts:
    • Keaton really has resurrected his career.
    • My favorite bit of trivia about Keaton is that his name is actually Michael Douglas, but some “other actor” already had that name as well as a big band singer. It’s my understanding he chose Keaton because of the influence of Buster Keaton.
    • Ray Kroc went to a school in Connecticut to learn how to drive ambulances, one of his classmates was Walt Disney. Imagine if that school did yearbooks, I wonder who would have been chosen as “Most Likely to Succeed”.
    • I think I found the PDF of the script.
  • Rolling Stone – Edge: U2 Have ’50 Ideas’ for Next Album
  • Burger King’s Fiery New Whopper Comes on a Red-Hot Bun – In a news release, the chain says “the Angriest Whopper” will consist of “flame-grilled beef, piled high with thick-cut bacon, American cheese, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, crispy onion petals, jalapeños, creamy mayonnaise and spicy angry sauce all layered between a fiery red bun that has hot sauced baked in.”
  • If you’ve ever wanted one of those Smokey and the Bandits cars, your time has come.
Posted in Personal | Comments Off on Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Tough way to lose a game

Middle School Basketball Team Loses Title Game After Final Shot Gets Stuck On Rim

https://youtu.be/lSIWBdcnByU

Posted in Interesting, Sports | Comments Off on Tough way to lose a game

Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, March 29, 2016

27616-1458858019-8

  • The Flash made a guest appearance on ‘Supergirl’ last night, and the cross-promotion may have worked on me. After I finish with ‘Daredevil’ on Netflix, I might give ‘The Flash’ a try.
  • The woman that places Supergirl is gosh darn cute.
  • Speaking of the DC Comic universe, I enjoyed Batman v. Superman so much, it’s one of the few movies that I want to watch again in the theater. Star Wars The Force Awakens didn’t even do that to me.
  • Though I don’t believe it, I get a kick out of the conspiracy theory that Disney (which owns Marvel) paid off a bunch of critics and bloggers to write negative reviews of Batman v. Superman as a way to challenge their chief competitor in the superhero and comic business. I don’t prefer one over the other, I just want to be entertained in such a way that I can escape the reality of everyday life for a few moments.
  • Speaking of conspiracy theories, I don’t think Ted Cruz has ever cheated on his wife. But the one thing that would lead me to do so is the time she was found alongside a road with her head in her hands late at night and police thought she was a danger to herself. That seems like the kind of thing a woman would do if she found out about her husband’s infidelity. I know she just postponed a New Jersey event, but I doubt it has anything to do with all the drama.
  • ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ had a segment on jelly beans. To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never eaten a jelly bean.
  • It’s been a bad season for them anyways – Picking bluebonnets isn’t chill, but it’s legal
  • Go ahead and laugh at this, Rev. Hart, you Yankee – Dallas-area apartment rents set new record with $1,083 average in February – In February, rents topped $1,000 for the first time, according to research firm Axiometrics. That’s an average of $58 more a month and almost 6 percent more than a year earlier. Dallas renters paid an average of $1,083 in February. In the Fort Worth area, rents averaged $974.
  • io9 – All the Ways Batman v Superman Sets Up a Future DC Universe
  • Even though ‘Better Call Saul’ is itself a flashback, I really enjoy all the flashbacks of Jimmy/Saul. Also, Kim Wexler is so very well cast.
  • Never would I’ve thought I’d hear Whataburger mentioned in ‘Better Call Saul’. Damn, now I’m craving Whataburger.
  • I love how certain buildings have a mail slot that’s see-through and goes starts from many stories on high.
  • When I put my head on my pillow each night, I wish my mind would stop racing with thoughts of what happened and what’s to come.
  • Interesting fact I heard on the radio yesterday about the Carrier Dome at Syracuse University – Despite carrying the name Carrier (an HVAC manufacturer), there is no air conditioning in the dome.
Posted in Personal | 9 Comments