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Thank God for people who have entirely too much time on their hands for if it wasn't for them, the workday would surely be a little more boring. Not even Weird Al can touch this parody. A bunch of sock puppets thrashing out to Metallica's Master of Puppets...

In the days of Netflix and Redbox, kids just don't know how easy they have it. These kids will never know the struggle of having to return tapes to Blockbuster and especially the fines that come if you don't "be kind and rewind". I'm sure you will all join me in sitting back and thinking "Geez, these kids have it easy"...

In the land of "everyone gets a participation trophy" it seems America, once again, is pandering to the lowest common denominator. Students at Plano High School in Plano, TX are petitioning their school administration to have a change of heart...

In what seems to be straight out of Jurassic Park, a pair of golfers in Palmetto Florida caught something on video that surely made my jaw drop the first time I saw it. An absolutely Goliath alligator can be seen leisurely strolling along on his way back to water...

Congrats to the Victoria Fire Department on receiving the American Heart Association Award. The following is a press release from the City of Victoria.... The Victoria Fire Department has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks...

As if Star Wars music wasn't epic and iconic enough check this out. This is video taken at a movie theater in Canada on opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In the lobby, just before movie time, kids from Quebec's schools École de l'Harmonie St Édouard and École secondaire de La Seigneurie joined "forces" (see what I did there...

Meanwhile in Houston... You hear about road rage all the time. And thanks to cell phones we get to see the videos posted online within minutes of the event taking place. And this is literally no different except...it happened in Houston...

To say there are left over tensions from last years MLB playoffs is an understatement. If there was any doubt the Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays didn't like each other before...that doubt is now gone. During the game yesterday, tensions reached breaking point in the top part of the 8th inning...

I remember when I was a kid, my dad would wake me up by opening the door and yelling at me to wake up and go mow the yard. He never woke me up in such a cool way as this and there were always chores involved shortly after. This dad wins first place for Dad of the Year...

If you've ever seen the movie Idiocracy then this story will probably scare the shit out of you because it appears we're headed in that direction. Ft. Bend County (near Houston TX) officials are under scrutiny today for the sheer stupidity they showed towards one of their students recently...

We all remember Blockbuster Video stores right? I mean it wasn't all that long ago you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a brick and mortar store. Well, the days of renting over priced DVD's and paying incredibly ridiculous late fees are a thing of the past...

McAdams Floral and KLUB Classic Rock 106.9 delivered a goodie basket this week to Breanne Wood at South Texas Crane. Breanne was nominated by Andrea Mendoza. Here is what Andrea had to say about Breanne: Breanne is one of those people that always comes to work with a smile and brightens everyone's day...