Off the cutting room floor:

I had dinner with my brother at Hungry Hunter the other day and over there, they've got tableside salad service. They ask what kind of toppings you want on your salad. So my brother's up and he starts, "lettuce, tomato..." and I'm like, hello, it's a salad. Of course it'll have lettuce. So as we're waiting for our entrees, I'm looking around the room. There are two floors and we were seated on the second floor. Lots of minorities around us. Mexicans, blacks, Asians, all represented. Except for the white people, which for some reason, were all seated on the first floor. Things that make you go hmmm.

Every time I go to the Silver Legacy in Reno, I always make it a point (multiple times in fact) to make fun of this guy (http://www.silverlegacy.com/dining/victorian.aspx). Not only does he look goofy with his smile, and his arms extended to showcase the massive amount of food, it's just fun to mimic.

Sitting in traffic, I found a license plate with the same prefix as mine but his last 3 digits were 840 and mine is 836. And we both had Mazda 3's. Freaky.

In Berkeley, 3 people were charged with putting marijuana into cookies and serving them to a bunch of college kids in a co-op. After being characterized as suppliers, the defense attorneys vigourously defended these students not as suppliers but as bakers. Yeah, right.

After Steve Irwin's untimely death, it's been reported that 10 stingrays have been killed since then. You heard right folks, we've declared war on the stingrays. We just need President Bush's backing and Congress' approval, two things that should come swiftly since they like war.

Speaking of President Bush, a film has been made depicting his assassination in 2007. The filmmakers, in using President Bush instead of a fictional president, had hoped they would portray the horror that comes from the assassination of a president. It sure does because it shows Dick Cheney taking over the presidency. Now that would be horrific on any scale.

I was listening to the Raiders game on the way home Monday so it was on that station when I turned on the car this morning. They were reading the news when a story about vandalism came up. The newsreader goes: "That punk, Vincent...whoops, I shouldn't have said that."

I know Cal football, coming off a loss to Tennessee and a win against Minnesota, is angling to squeeze any penny it can, but this is getting ridiculous. Hours after the win, they were selling t-shirts that announced the final score and the teams involved. Seriously? A lopsided win over a mediocre team gets a t-shirt. You might've thought we'd won the Rose Bowl. What's on the site now? Get your t-shirt commemorating the upcoming battle between the Golden Bears and Arizona State, a matchup between two run-of-the-mill Pac-10 teams!

Happy belated birthdays go out to Datman, Trang, and Peter and if I don't have time in the future, Christy and Leslie will also be celebrating.