Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Twitter Tracks: Football, Marching Bands and More

Twitter tracks from November, 2010:

  • 2010 11 01 - Lots of people interested in finding out about George M. Clayton. Too late, I'm afraid. Schoolchildren could have used you last March.
  • 2010 11 01 - Northwestern’s opinion of getting picked for the Jan 1 Dallas Football Classic bowl game. "Lord have mercy; please, no!" http://goo.gl/64zv
  • 2010 11 01 - Rally To Restore Sanity is already paying dividends: Headline: "Keith Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' Segment" http://goo.gl/rY0o
  • 2010 11 02 - Today's the day. UIL State marching contest. Representing DFW ... "Berkner. Duncanville. Bell. Marcus. All are giants." http://goo.gl/Q5u1
  • 2010 11 02 - The forecast is for conditions to be cold, wet and inhospitable to man or beast. The weather ain't so good, either.
  • 2010 11 02 - Berkner's Mighty Ram Band has qualified for tonight's Finals competition at UIL State marching contest in San Antonio. "Blow my face off."
  • 2010 11 03 - Kudos to Marcus (1), Bell (2), Duncanville (3), Coppell (5), Hebron (6), Berkner (8) for representing DFW well at UIL State marching contest
  • 2010 11 03 - "The only surprise election night was that [Texas Gov. Rick Perry] didn't give his acceptance speech in Iowa." -- Glenn Smith.
  • 2010 11 03 - Likely? How about definitely? Headline: "Huge GOP majority in Texas House likely dooms transportation funding increase." http://goo.gl/jekLj
  • 2010 11 04 - @DalArtsDistrict and @WalkableDFW are talking. That's something at least. Right?

After the jump, more Twitter tracks.


  • 2010 11 05 - Tonight's the last chance to see those high school football teams that are not playoff-bound. Go out and support the kids. Dress warmly.
  • 2010 11 05 - Why, why, why would Richardson take points off the board? Huge coaching mistake.
  • 2010 11 05 - 2:00 4Q. Richardson 14, Lake Highlands 14. How big is that 3 pts Richardson took off the board?
  • 2010 11 05 - Final. Richardson 14, Lake Highlands 17. #hsgt #txhsfb
  • 2010 11 07 - Hey, weren't the Cowboys playing tonight? What channel? I ended up watching some game on NBC where the Packers were terrific.
  • 2010 11 08 - In case you tuned out early... Newsbreak from Green Bay: The score now is Packers 183, Cowboys 7.
  • 2010 11 08 - My 1000th tweet! What should I say? It deserves more than a simple status update. It should be something profound yet still fit into 140 cha
  • 2010 11 08 - Senior tax freeze discussed again in Richardson. Here's a reprint of earlier analysis: "Tax Exemption Versus Tax Freeze" http://goo.gl/808sN
  • 2010 11 11 - Hear 8th-best HS marching band in Texas play all their game music indoors tonight at Berkner HS. A 250-piece band indoors sounds awesome.
  • 2010 11 11 - Headline: "Ford, GM profits both top Toyota." Who says gov't is incompetent? General Motors went bankrupt. Government Motors turns a profit.
  • 2010 11 12 - Newsbreak: Rick Perry running for 2012 VP, not President. Headline: "Texas Gov. Rick Perry To Head Republican Governors Association"
  • 2010 11 12 - Mark's Stylebook: You can't complain about people who whine without sounding like a whiner yourself. You know who you are.
  • 2010 11 13 - They're off. And it's over. HS Playoffs: S. Garland 42, Lake Highlands 10. Frisco Liberty 70, JJ Pearce 17. McKinney Boyd 31, Richardson 11.
  • 2010 11 13 - Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen: 40 years of an average dysfunctional family. A modern War and Peace without the war. Or peace. Read it.
  • 2010 11 13 - Me and Orson Welles: Just OK. Movie makes Welles merely pompous, not a creative genius. I know why Zac Efron's here, but not his character.
  • 2010 11 14 - Wisconsin's Bucky Badger did 573 push-ups over the course of Saturday's 83-20 win over Indiana. Teach me how to Bucky: http://goo.gl/QYx4
  • 2010 11 14 - U of North Dakota to retire "Fighting Sioux" nickname after failing to get support from Sioux tribes. Goodbye, cafeteria Sioux-Per-Burgers.
  • 2010 11 14 - Please Vote For Me (2007): Documentary about 3rd grade class election in China. Democracy may be new to China, but these kids are naturals.
  • 2010 11 15 - DMN Headline: "Editorial: George W. Bush library will add intellectural [sic] dimension." This would be lol funny even w/o the misspelling.
  • 2010 11 15 - Headline: "Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars." In related news, NASA is accepting suggestions for passengers on first flights.
  • 2010 11 15 - Headline: "Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers." In other news, sun rises in the east.
  • 2010 11 16 - Headline: "Producer prices support Fed fears of low inflation." Read that slowly. Deflation is biggest danger, not federal budget deficit.
  • 2010 11 16 - Prediction: Boise State will overtake TCU in the BCS rankings in the next 3 weeks, leaving TCU unbeaten and unwanted by BCS. BCS FAIL.
  • 2010 11 16 - A pessimist sees the glass as half-empty. An optimist sees it as half-full. Amir Omar sees it as overflowing, all the time.
  • 2010 11 16 - The Proposal (2009): unfunny formulaic comedy w/ Sandra Bullock, who shows again her bad taste in scripts. Not even Betty White can save it.
  • 2010 11 16 - Headline: "School districts told to expect $3-5 billion less." And we won't have Carol Kent to look out for school kids. http://goo.gl/Vzj9g
  • 2010 11 17 - Headline: "Nukes Go Rogue." Senate plays politics with nuclear war. Despicable. http://goo.gl/oWTxB
  • 2010 11 17 - I'm embarrassed. I just spent more bandwidth ranting about a street crossing in Richardson than the Senate playing politics with nuclear war
  • 2010 11 18 - Headline: "FC Dallas, Colorado Rapids vie for MLS Cup." I don't even know what that means, but some people in Dallas think it's a big deal.
  • 2010 11 20 - The Complete World of Sports (abridged), by the Reduced Shakespeare Company: Just what the title says. Zany. Manic. See it at the Eisemann.
  • 2010 11 20 - Attending the Neiman Marcus Christmas lighting and store window unveiling in downtown Dallas is just like time travel to the 1930s.
  • 2010 11 20 - Mark's Stylebook: Use joyous instead. Or cheerful. Headline: "How to Create Memorable Holiday Moments for a Loved One with Alzheimer's."
  • 2010 11 22 - Both the Cowboys and Vikings fired head coaches only days after blowout losses to the Packers. Mike Singletary, consider yourself warned.
  • 2010 11 22 - Casino Jack (2010): documentary about Jack Abramoff. What happens when you turn Congress over to market forces. Voters have done it again.
  • 2010 11 23 - I'm embarrassed (again). I'm blogging about Richardson's walkability while totally discounting the prospect of war on the Korean peninsula.
  • 2010 11 23 - Where politics, business and sport collide - Nate Silver's blog about the Derek Jeter contract talks. http://goo.gl/FgFvQ
  • 2010 11 23 - Headline: "Vatican: Condom use less evil than spreading HIV." D'oh. Is the Vatican the last to figure this out? Maybe evil is in the mirror.
  • 2010 11 24 - Berkner Ramblers and Richardson Desperados will be in Spirit of America dance production to open Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Watch it.
  • 2010 11 24 - Mark's Stylebook: Longer is not better. Hemingway short story: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn."
  • 2010 11 24 - The Art of the Steal (2009): documentary how Philadelphia broke Albert Barnes' will and stole his art collection, worth billions. See it.
  • 2010 11 27 - TCU and Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl?!?!? Sure, why not?
  • 2010 11 27 - Everything's coming up Roses. Headline: "Another week, another jaw-dropping blowout for Wisconsin."
  • 2010 11 28 - Future Headline, Dateline 2050: "Brett Favre will start for Minnesota Vikings despite possibly having passed away."
  • 2010 11 28 - How bad is Purdue football? Indiana won at Purdue for the first time since 1996, but needed overtime to do it. Indiana fired their coach.
  • 2010 11 29 - Obama tweeted, "Small businesses and families are tightening their belts. Their government should too." He's got it backwards. cf. Keynes
  • 2010 11 29 - Maggie May is against redevelopment moratorium along Spring Valley. I'm with her except her calling moratorium "liberal" http://goo.gl/iybad
  • 2010 11 29 - Texas Tech and Northwestern in the TicketCity Bowl in Fair Park, Dallas, on January 1?!? Could be. Go, Wildcats.
  • 2010 11 30 - Tapped Out Tuesday??? RT @oldavis3: "Black Friday" ... "Cyber Monday" ... "_____________ Tuesday"
  • 2010 11 30 - The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009): and kill them with their minds. Iraq, ESP and de-bleated goats. Theater of the absurd. Not absurd enough.
  • 2010 11 30 - Tea Party sign: "Don't just stand there. Undo something."
  • 2010 11 30 - Bank bailout costs keep dropping. Was $700B, then $66B, now $25B. A bargain to save us from another Great Depression and much greater costs.
  • 2010 11 30 - Amélie (2001): Quirky French comedy about lonesome girl who loves mystery and practical jokes and seeks romance. She's delightful. It's OK.

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