I'm thinking I will be a pool boy this morning.
After that I think I'll go check out the Dallas Cowboy Stadium zone this morning. It is a week to go before Super Bowl Sunday.
I read a letter to the editor a few days ago from a man in Arlington complaining about the irony of the fact that the City of Arlington has spruced itself up for the Super Bowl, and then the NFL came to town and totally tackified the area surrounding the stadium.
I am a big fan of all things tacky, so I figure it's worth a look.
Yesterday, in various cities around the country, there were protests in support of those protesting in Egypt. I don't know if there were any support rallies in the D/FW zone. I know several west coast cities had rallies, including Seattle.
When the Egypt type events occur, like when Iran went into upset mode, is about the only time I somewhat get the utility of Twitter. Reading the Twitter Egypt Tweets is sort of like instant news. Within minutes thousands of Tweets show up.
Like right now apparently the Egyptian Air Force is buzzing protesters with jets.
Below is an example of the Tweet flood from a minute ago...
@emptywheel Audible on AJE: Two jet fighters just flew overhead #Egypt
@Di438 #Egypt Protesters shouting over noise of Jets flying overhead @AlJazeera #Freedom
@KristoferKeane Egypt deploying fighter jets against protestors? What outcome do they even expect from that? Are they planning to bomb them?
@TheNewsBlotter #egypt protesters in #Tahrir Square writing “Down w Mubarak” in Arabic in big white letters
@jhagel RT @nolanjazeera: Aljazeera Cairo bureau has been shut down. Just visited by plain clothes govt security, TV uplink is now closed #Egypt
@JodyField Egypt protests: U.S. advises all Americans to leave and 30,000 Brits are stranded
That's enough Egypt Tweeting. Time to go swimming now. Talk to you later.
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