Skattershooting while I look at how messy my desk is:

• On a post-Christmas related note, do you remember that scene from It's A Wonderful Life where the two guys turn a key and the dance floor opens up over a swimming pool? I learned for the first time last month that one of the actors was Carl Switzer. Ring a bell? That's Alfalfa from The Little Rascals.
• Pulp Fiction came on HBO the other night and it reels me in every time. Amazingly, it is almost ten years old.
• I've become a fan of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.
• Surprise: The last Bachelor contestant, Aaron, and his chosen gal, Helena, are not getting married after all.
• Have you ever seen the "man of god" who comes on at 6:00 a.m. on one of the local channels? He hawks dietary supplements that look bogus. Check out his web site. If you don't want to buy any of his products, he'll take a donation. Sheesh.
• Some news that no one really knows about: All DWI defendants that blew into the Intoxilyzer 5000 machine at the Wise County Sheriff's Office in April of 2002 (at least) had a gift arrive the other day: All the results have been declared invalid by DPS. Every single one of them! The frustrating part of it is that it took one of the cases being called to trial, a jury brought in, and jury selection about to begin before DPS finally told the prosecutors about the problem! I know. I was there. (The prosecutors are looking into how widespread the problem was and I'm anxiously awaiting the results.)
• I bet the beer/wine election in Decatur passes.
• If the votes were public record, I bet the beer/wine election in Decatur would fail.
• I wrote in The Spin that I couldn't believe the Stephenville football coach receives thousands of dollars from a radio show. Apparently, it's been going on in Bridgeport for a few years. Hey Kyle Story, I'd look for the nearest microphone.
• Can we please just invade Iraq and get it over with.
• Did you catch Colt's QB Peyton Manning's comments at the Pro Bowl about Colt's Kicker Mike Vanderjadt? Manning said he was an "idiot kicker" who "got liquored up" and "ran his mouth." Vanderjadt had criticized Manning for not being a team leader. Funny stuff.
• I used to like Dallas mayor Laura Miller. Now I'm not so sure.
• Bill Parcell's really doesn't do much for me.
• The State of the Union bores me to death - especially the very slow start that it has. If I were President, I'd walk straight up to the podium, tell everybody to sit down, and say "I know folks in America have kids to feed, houses to clean and they have to go to bed soon because they have to work tomorrow - so let's get this started right now."
• I think I'd rather watch an Arena League Football game that  Major League Baseball game.
• I still hate Bill O'Reilly of The O'Reilly Factor.
• I'm fascinated with the case down in Houston where on female dentist ran over and killed her husband-dentist after she caught him at a hotel with another woman. For some crazy reason, she decided to use the defense of "it was an accident." I would use the unwritten defense of "I freaked out but he probably deserved it."
• Michael "I'm Slowly Losing My Mind" Jackson will say in his ABC interview tomorrow that when his third child was born he grabbed it an ran out of the hospital - placenta and all. What a freak.
• Channel 8's Scott Sams sure is soooooooo smug.
• A great line I heard regarding the (silly) possibility of the space shuttle Columbia being the target of terrorists: "If they could do that, I really would be scared."
• These new sized soft drink containers that are long and skinny don't really make a lot of sense to me.
• Shania Twain lip sync so badly at the Super Bowl that she should be embarrassed. (Sting and the No Doubt chick managed to sing live). But the most irritating part of Twain's performance was when she began her short show by screeching "Let's go football fans!"
• The two girls that are part of the Miller Light commercial (they get in a fight, mud wrestle, etc.) were on The Ticket (KTCK 1310) the other day.  Those ladies are dumb, dumb, dumb.
• I'll give the Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez marriage 18 months.
• There is nothing more predictable than any college coach on National Signing Day: "We've got as good of a recruiting class as I've seen since I've been here."
• I don't think I've ever watched an episode of  SpongeBob SquarePants but the name makes me laugh.
• I rented Magnolia the other day. Thumbs Down. Make that three hours of thumbs down.
• I rented an obscure Bill Murray film called Rushmore. It might have been funny - I have to think about it a little more.
• High school basketball sensation LeBron James will have a tough time keeping his head on straight.
• Since when have the Supreme Court Justices stopped attending the State of the Union speech?
• Did you know that no road can run perpendicular to an Interstate Highway? That is, you'll never see a road end with a stop sign as it meets an interstate roadway.  Only on ramps and off ramps the entire way.
• One of the finalist on Joe Millionaire apparently made a few bondage films. (see thesmokinggun.com). It seemed a little funny the other night when "Joe" said he "bonded with her" and she didn't seem "tied up" in his money. (I am not making that up).