Yesterday, the revamped CBS Evening News broadcast live from SMU. During the intro, which started with “Live from America!”, they teased that their final story would be an interview with Jerry Jones. The new anchor had the audacity to say, “We’ll speak with the man who built America’s Team.”
DUDE! That ticked me off.
Jerry didn’t build America’s Team. He bought it. Coach Landry, Tex Schramm, and Gil Brandt made it America’s Team. Other than hiring Jimmy Johnson, who restored the star’s shine, he’s done nothing but ruin this franchise in terms of the actual sport aspect, which should be the main one. Sheesh!
There was also a small crowd of folks lined up as if they were a choir. It was beyond obvious, especially given how diverse those 15 or so folks were. However, I’m also certain the Tarrant County Sheriff was one of them, which really made me raise an eyebrow.
It’s not even allergy season. This is why you may have been feeling like crud over the past month.
Happy New Year, folks. May 2026 be the year of gainful employment for me, and nothing but joy and growth for you. I for sure haven’t had a “good” year in over five years, so here’s hoping my luck changes.
Let’s cue Fleetwood Mac – Landslide (Live) (Official Video) since it’s the first song I can think of with the word “changes,” even though I never really have paid attention to the lyrics or the song as a whole to know what it means.
I used to hate all things manga or anime. Perhaps I should clarify, all things manga or anime other than Star Blazers and G-Force. I can only guess the number of times I used to pass the time hand-drawing the Space Battleship Yamato.
However, I’ve proudly eaten some humble pie. I’ve been watching a couple of series with BoyGeeding to bond with him, and I’m very impressed with Hunter x Hunter. I never liked the animation style and expected predictable storylines, mundane plots, and a lack of simplified character development. I could not have been more wrong, and I’m happy about that.
I haven’t worn a pair of jeans in probably five years. For some reason, I came to the conclusion that they are either out of fashion or something old geezers wear. I don’t wear dress pants or khakis, but something similar.
I’ve watched A LOT of Star Wars AI, but this one blows them all away. Huge. Quickly. I can only imagine what the future holds for entertainment. I don’t want to see anyone else play Luke other than Mark Hamill, and I can totally see him signing his likeness away for a good sum for the fans. I promise I’m not under-selling how cinematic this is, and it looked great on my big screen.
Bob Sturm, who lives in Coppell, spotted a mountain lion* in his neighborhood.
Tony Dokoupil’s debut as the CBS Evening News lead anchor was a disaster and validates my fear that it’s a sinking ship. A mini-meltdown is not a great way to start things. And to think over the weekend he had the audacity to say on social media, “I can promise you we’ll be more accountable and more transparent than Cronkite or any one else of his era.”
Here’s an article video about it if you are interested: Inside the World’s Craziest Wave: ‘Everyone Thinks It’s AI’ (Video) “Never seen anything remotely close to that.” – behind-the-scenes of the Western Australia wave that’s been blowing minds and breaking the internet.
I wonder how our power grid is going to account for all of this.
The big names are going big: Meta is adding a $197M facility in Temple. Google has an $880M build in Midlothian and a $350M project in Haskell.
The most expensive of these projects all year is in Midlothian, just south of Dallas/Fort Worth, where Google has budgeted $880 million for a one-story, 288,000-square-foot data center.
And in Haskell, Google began work on a $350 million, 350,000-square-foot project this month. It’s the company’s second data center project in the area, following plans for a 280,000-square-foot building filed earlier this year.
Cloud computing company CoreWeave and Poolside, a Nvidia-backed startup, are planning a 500-acre data center named Horizon. Capitalizing on the promise of cheap power offered by the Permian Basin’s oil and natural gas reserves.
I know DeWalt makes great battery-powered tools, but I had no idea they also make wireless earbuds.
Yesterday, I found out that all the Knives Out movie series are named after songs that writer and director Rian Johnson and his music composer cousin Nathan Johnson find meaningful to them. This is what the latter told U2.com:
‘Ever since I was a kid in Colorado, my interest has constantly tipped back and forth between sonic and visual artistry. Add to that the fact that I grew up deeply entrenched in church culture, and it’ll be clear why U2 connected with me in such a formative and multi-layered way.’
‘I’ve just finished composing the score for the third Benoit Blanc film, which was written and directed by my cousin and lifelong collaborator Rian Johnson. Each of these movies takes its title from a song that’s been meaningful to us in one way or another. First, there was Knives Out (Radiohead), followed by Glass Onion (the Beatles), and now Wake Up Dead Man (tucked away at the end of U2’s Pop).The new film wrestles with questions of faith and doubt, much like my favorite U2 music, and so, in light of the movie’s release, I’m honored to share my very own U2 playlist.’
After Brigitte Bardot’s death earlier this week, in Billy Joel’s song We Didn’t Start The Fire, there are only three people mentioned who are still alive. Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernard Goetz.
I’ll admit, I didn’t know much about Bardot other than her beauty, but I had no idea she was a terrible mother. She rejected her son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, due to her deep-seated resentment of motherhood, feeling she wasn’t cut out to be a parent and viewing her pregnancy as a burden, famously calling her unborn son a “cancerous tumor” and wishing for a dog instead, leading to a fractured relationship and years of estrangement.
Apparently, it’s a popular thing for principals and teachers to dress like the Elf on the Shelf and show up in random places in between periods to lighten the mood during the last week of school before winter break. I’m just now hearing about this, but it’s been going on for over five years.
Related: The latest episode of SNL had a fun Elf on the Shelf skit.
Whether you’re a working actor or an aspiring one, you might be curious to know which movies and TV shows are casting roles near you. Backstage compiled a list of projects casting right now in Dallas, nearby cities, and nationwide, and which roles they’re looking to fill.
To mark the winter holidays — an especially popular time to break up — we asked people around the world for their most striking parting words to each other.
Weiss also killed a story ready to air on 60 Minutes, and it was big news on the socials last night: Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.
1. BREAKING
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
I’ve only seen Andor, Adolescence, and Pluribus. I thought Adolescence was exceptional, and the other two were also more than solid.
This year, the Texas Longhorns beat both Oklahoma and Texas A&M by double digits. Texas didn’t make the college football playoff but the latter two did, and lost home playoff games. But then again, Texas lost to a Florida team they should have beatened. But that Aggie lost was easy to see coming, it’s just so typical Aggie. They like to think they are this legendary football powerhouse program when they are just the little brother in the state who really hasn’t done anything legendary. All hat, no cattle, that would be the Aggies, year in and year out.
This quote by Jimmy Kimmel in his last monolog of the year resonated with me.
“You know, you grew up reading Superman, and you learn to value truth, justice and the American way, and then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore,” Kimmel said. “But when I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show and the shows that my friends and colleagues do on the other channels, and that it makes them feel less crazy. It makes me feel less crazy too, and I think that’s an important thing.
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