What I Heard This Week 10-20-2022
In high school, a million years ago, Taco Bell was the most amazing place for all of us – it stayed open until 10pm, and that seemed like all-night to us at the time. I have just never lost my love for their Crunchy Tacos and Burrito Supremes. Between Thursday, October 20th and Monday, October 24th, you can get a free Crunchy Taco when you spend $12 or more. The deal is valid on all qualifying orders during lunch hours, between 11 am and 2 pm.
You can always tell when I am hungry, I write about food. At Olive Garden, they are now offering alcohol delivery with $18 select bottles of wine and $10 Bud Light six-packs, but only with purchase of food. At Wendy’s, the Boo Book is back. For just a dollar, you can get a coupon book that gives you five free junior Frosty’s through October 31st. Plus, you’ll be supporting the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. I went online and ordered several books for my Halloween treats. They’re waiting for me at the drive-thru. I will be the talk of the neighborhood this year. For a limited time At Carl’s Jr. grab a Double Cheeseburger, California Classic Double Cheeseburger, or Bacon Double Cheeseburger for $2.99 all month. I love their Lettuce Wrapped Hamburgers. At Domino’s take 20% off all menu-priced items when you order online.
The Brazosport Art League is presenting Images from Life, Our Views, the art of Lil ’anna Klein and Ron White, two incredibly talented local artists. Their work will be on display October 18th to November 13th at the Gallery for the Center of Arts and Sciences, 400 College Blvd. Sponsor for this event is 24HourNation.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says that Sandy Hook families will not get his money after the courts awarded eight families almost $1 BILLION for him calling the shooting a hoax. What he doesn’t understand is that those families just wanted him to apologize after receiving online hate, some of them having to move repeatedly for their own safety, some of his followers even desecrating the children’s graves by urinating on them and threatening to dig them up. Can you imagine being told that your child’s death was not real – that you had actually killed and dismembered your own child? There is no amount of money that can replace their children or the grief, but people seem to be very vulnerable to misinformation right now. Perhaps we will all learn to think for ourselves again soon.
Many years ago (many), my friend Susan lived here in LJ, and we had so many wonderful adventures and vacations together. She now lives in North Carolina and plays Pickleball. I just sent her a PICKLE t-shirt this week (because I love her.) I have continued to read what I can about the Pickleball sport, but I’m just not coordinated enough to play… but it really does pique my interest. Pickleball is America’s fastest-growing sport with more than 4.8 million players in 2021. Enter Los Angeles Lakers basketball great Mr. LeBron James, along with his investment group, who have just purchased the rights to a Major League Pickleball team. Then today I was reading about Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, the latest superstar athlete (and part of an ownership group that includes Tennis Hall of Famer Kim Clijsters) to purchase the rights to a Major League Pickleball team. The MLP now plans to expand from 12 to 16 teams. Add Draymond Green, Kevin Love and Super Bowl champ Drew Brees, as well as billionaire investor and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry and former tennis star James Blake, to the pickleball list. This should be fun. Who would have guessed… a new sport that is not a head-banger.
To all my friends and readers that are going through cancer treatment right now… I am so proud of you. What a huge challenge. I am so honored when you share the good and the bad with me during this time. I only wish that there were boxes of cancer-cure band-aids that I could pick up for you at HEB, or a sweet-tasting vitamin cure I could feed you, even a special brew that would make it all better. Those of us that have been through something like this know how hard it is. We just wish we could pick you up and take you straight into the future.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: R&B singer Nona Hendryx of LaBelle is 78. Singer Jackson Browne is 74. Manager-TV personality Sharon Osbourne is 70. Actor Scott Bakula is 68. Actor John O’Hurley of Dancing with the Stars & Seinfeld is 68. Singer Sean Lennon is 47. (His dad, John Lennon was 40 years old when he died.) Actor-dancer Ben Vereen is 76. Singer Cyril Neville of The Neville Brothers is 74. Singer David Lee Roth of Van Halen is 68. Country singer Tanya Tucker is 64. Actor Julia Sweeney of Saturday Night Live is 63. Country singer Gene Watson is 79. Singer Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates is 76. TV chef Emeril Lagasse is 63. Saxophonist Andrew Woolfolk of Earth, Wind & Fire is 72. Actor Joan Cusak is 60. Singer Sam Moore of Sam and Dave is 87. TV host Chris Wallace is 75. Actor-singer Susan Anton is 72.
Singer Tito Jackson is 69. Jazz musician Chris Botti is 60. Actor Hugh Jackman is 54. Actor Adam Rich of Eight Is Enough is 54. Fiddler Martie Maguire of The Chicks is 53. Actor Kirk Cameron is 52. Musician Paul Simon is 81. Keyboardist Robert Lamm of Chicago is 78. Country singer Lacy J. Dalton is 76. Actor Demond Wilson of Sanford and Son is 76. Singer Sammy Hagar is 75. Singer John Ford Coley of England Dan and John Ford Coley is 74. Model Beverly Johnson is 70. Singer-actor-talk show host Marie Osmond is 63. Singer Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues is 76. Country singer Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks is 48. Singer Barry McGuire is 87. Eve of Destruction. Actor Linda Lavin of Alice is 85. Drummer Don Stevenson of Moby Grape is 80. Musician Richard Carpenter of The Carpenters is 76.
Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane who was best known for his role as the lovable half-giant, half-human gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, died at just 72. The actor had struggled with his health for years and was spotted using a wheelchair in 2019 after speaking out about his osteoarthritis years prior which had disintegrated the cartilage in his knees. He was certainly one of a kind. He once stated, “Everybody in the world would like a really big, huge, strong, good man on their side, simple as that. That’s the attraction of Superman and these things,” he said. “Hagrid was always obviously the good guy, wasn’t he?”
Don’t forget to make your voting plan… go with a friend and make it a fun day. Here are a few thoughts and security tips to stay safe during elections in 2022. I cannot believe it is necessary to even think this.
- Do not argue about politics in public. Never.
- Vote, then get back home. Do not loiter at the polls.
- Do not criticize any politician. Do not talk recklessly. Never.
- Listen to a trusted news source. Always.
- Do not disclose who you will vote for at the polls.
- Only vote once. Duh.
- Celebrate your candidate wins in a civil manner.
- Do not partake in violence. Another duh.
Next week we can discuss how to properly wear a bulletproof vest, (one inch below the clavicle notch), where it the safest and best shows off the color of your eyes. If you are going to wear one, it might as well look good on you.
A giant Warsaw grouper was landed at the Destin Fishing Rodeo last week that weighed nearly 350 pounds – 333.8 pounds after he was gutted. I guess you must gut all tournament fish now in case someone added additional pounds with weights, ice cubes, rocks, and fish filets. He was empty.
The remains of a pregnant woman murdered in England by her husband in 1999, were found recently during a garden excavation. She had been reported missing by her husband who denied responsibility for his wife’s disappearance, but he was still found guilty of murder and received a life sentence but not until 2019. It was believed he was having an affair with a 15-year-old girl at the time. No body until now.
Amid a historic drought and record water shortages, the city of Coalinga, California is expected to run out of water in just two months. Russia is grabbing men off the streets to fight in Ukraine. An unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007 in its original box could auction for more than $30,000, 50 times its original price. Thanks to RJ for the quilting jokes. Marlon Brando, often unprepared for filming, once read his lines for Superman from the bottom of the baby’s diaper. The cost of candy is up 13%.
The Galveston Railroad Museum is celebrating the return of The Polar Express Train Ride on Galveston Island from November 11th to December 23rd. Passengers will relive the magic of the classic story on a one-hour trip to meet Santa. Golden tickets, the North Pole, hot chocolate, and a cookie are served by dancing chefs. Wear your pajamas. www.GalvestonRRMuseum.org. (I WANT TO GO!!)
After an 80% population drop in snow crabs in the past 4 years, Alaska has canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest and is also holding off on the winter harvest of snow crab. Snow crab populations dropped after a 2019 Bering Seas warming. “Management of Bering Sea snow crab must now focus on conservation and rebuilding given the condition of the stock.” – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Protecting the ocean is what friends are for.
OK, this is the last time I am talking about Herschel Walker. In January, Walker announced he had just found out from his mother that he is 40 percent Native American. He has repeated this information with a new and different twist several times since, even using a 23andMe ancestry test. Last month he claimed that his mom had just told him that that his grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee. Cherokee Nation says they have no record of Walker in their database. Walker’s mother says, “she has no idea if an immediate ancestor was full-blooded Cherokee.” So, his momma won’t even back up his story.
A Los Angeles man filed a lawsuit in California against Texas Pete Hot Sauce. The bottle has a label with a white star (like the Texas flag) and an all-red cartoon cowboy, which he believed made the hot sauce distinctly Texas. However, the sauce originated at a Winston-Salem, North Carolina barbeque restaurant in 1929. The LA man says it is false advertising, and he wants them to change the name, brand, and then pay up. Well, I had to think about this. False advertising. Does that mean that sweetbreads are really sweet bread? Does that mean that Rocky Mountain oysters come from the ocean? Why is toasted bread with melted cheese sauce called Welsh Rabbit? I’m just not sure I can live another day without monetary compensation for all the misinformation that could be solved by picking up a can or bottle and reading the label. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for sharing your time with us.
LISA
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