A wonderful short documentary about my favorite sport.  I'd love to play with this team, if only to enjoy their spirit of the game.


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I realize a story about underwear, specifically my underwear, is an odd topic and maybe even one you have zero interest. But, I promise, this is not about how perfectly shaped my butt is. This is about America! I have no real gauge of how the rest of you care about how your undergarments feel, or to their quality. At some point in my adult life I really began to care about how they fit, felt and stuff. It may be when I realized that I preferred boxer briefs, the longer versions that extended more down the thigh. And most certainly I realized the difference between your standard Fruit of the Loom/Jockey...


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A while ago I posted a couple of blogs about my excitement over Peter Gabriel's announcements that included the news he was going to do a limited tour of North America to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the tour he did for the album, "So". The tour, called, "So: Back to Front", features the band as it was back in 1987, with the addition of two female singers - one of which sings the Kate Bush part in "Don't Give Up".  The show is broken up into three parts: A brief acoustic set starting with a new, unfinished song and then a few favorites stripped down into shiny new pieces of greatness,...


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Saw this today and was really pleased to see a company the size of Home Depot working hard to manage their Twitter account. The Home Depot twitter account is self described as "Hey, this is Kelly and Blake on our social media team, joined by Jon and team from @HomeDepot_Care. Tell us about the project you're working on!"  A look thru the account appears that 99% of the content are today's sales and suggestions on home improvement projects. But today, faced with a satirical tweet from the very funny, usually 'offensive' comedian and Mitt Romney nemesis Rob Delaney (@robdelaney), Home Depot...


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I love cars.  I have owned so many different cars that I seriously now have to sit, count, think and make sure I didn't miss any.  While this probably reads as bragging, and maybe it is, I don't intend it to be.  In fact, I sometimes feel like an idiot for the number of cars I have burned through. Anyway, my current ride, a 2012 Golf R, has been with me for almost three months and I am still deciding if it everything I really wanted it to be.  Some background: The best car I've ever owned, my 2004 VW MkIV R32, I sold during what I call my "Don Draper Moment".  I had a perfectly hot,...


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Dave Chappelle rolled into Dallas on his motorcycle (literally) Monday and held a very last-minute announced show at the House of Blues. First time I saw Dave was when he was a teen and was telling a story about spinach.  Like Popeye.  It was outstanding. Several people recorded and posted the show online so here it is.  Enjoy...


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On the heels of my last blog post about Peter Gabriel, we get this stunning and unexpected announcement: He will be touring the US this summer and playing "So" in its entirety, and in the order of the original CD.  Called, "The Front to the Back Tour" he will be joined by several of the original members that toured with him in the "So" tour, and will also include other songs from his catalog. So will also be released in several different versions including a 3 disc set and then a Super Deluxe Box Set (no idea what that would include). I now simply have to plan which show to attend since...


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Peter Gabriel is really important in the music part of my life. In 1986 he released "So", an album that was met with a lot of derision from his hardest core fans, but also introduced him to a wider, more mainstream audience, such as myself.  "So" lead me to his other, darker, works and then to his part in Genesis (the original, cool progressive rock version). Anyway, fast forward to 1993.  Gabriel had released "Up" and went on a tour.  I didn't get to see the tour he did for "So" and when he brought the 'Secret World Tour' to Dallas I was about as excited as I'd ever been in my young...


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I was driving back from a out of office meeting today and listening to the replay of today's Howard Stern show (something I've done a lot lately since getting a free trial of Sirius, and have a 1000 thoughts about Howard that probably aren't of interest to anyone but me).  The show was talking to this kid, KillaKarisma who posted this insane video on YouTube.  You can watch it below.  It is NSFW (language), but with Howard there was a whole discussion about how kids today can do these types of things and suddenly be seen all over the world and have no idea of how it could impact them later...


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This is a story that appeared in the Dallas Observer blog yesterday.  Driven largely by Lana Massey, the owner of the tattoo seen to the right (and according to her Facebook page a manager of a Gas Pipe - a long standing chain of Dallas area head shops)  and her claims that the manager of an area Legoland children's park found her tat offensive enough to ask her to leave and receive a full refund. You can read all the full details on the blog, but essentially Massey is claiming that she was discriminated against because of her looks.  While she insists that she was never told it was a specific...


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