Re: Satan’s Spawn or Man’s Creation

Since the cat…er hell demon is essentially out of the bag. I thought I might point our more skeptical readers toward a place where they are gossiping ad nauseam about the “monster.”

Gawker peels back the curtain on a form of advertising called “viral” that uses slow news days to prey upon us naive bloggers.

Kudos are in order to the public relations company that “tipped” us earlier today about the supposed government-created mutant that washed up in Montauk, if for nothing other than its timing. The firm, described by its owner as a purveyor of “grassroots viral marketing,” was wise to try and place a campaign than in the midst of the summer news doldrums. But neither Gawker nor Jezebel (original recipient of the tip) seem an appropriate place to plug a children’s show, which a different tipster thinks is behind the Montauk picture.

Writes Gawker after speaking with the tipster that spotted the beast on the beach. The show is Cartoon Network’s Cryptids Are Real.

Satan’s Spawn or Man’s Creation?

This has no local connection, not even a connection to Texas, but a creature (pictured left) washed up on a beach in New York and people are trying to figure out what it is. As described by a British website:

We don’t want to panic anyone, but a minion of Satan just washed up on a beach in Montauk, New York.

Kind of looks like a movie prop to me. I just hope there’s an interesting story that goes along with this creature (personally, I’m hoping it’s a science experiment gone wrong. How cool is that?).

What do you think it is?

Newsweek on Bush House Hunt

Newsweek joins the speculation about where the soon-to-be-former First Family will settle next year.

I do take issue with their description of Bluffview as being “further out from the city” than Preston Hollow. Not on my map.

One More TD for Gardner

Former Highland Park wide receiver Seth Gardner put the finishing touches on his high school career with a touchdown in last night’s Texas High School Coaches Association All-Star Game last night at San Antonio’s Alamodome.

Gardner, an Arkansas baseball signee, helped the North team rally for a dramatic 16-15 win over the South. He caught a 38-yard touchdown pass from former Southlake Carroll quarterback Riley Dodge, who is headed to North Texas to play for dad Todd, with 1:38 left in the game.

The North scored another touchdown 14 seconds later and added a field goal with 25 seconds left for the win. Gardner had six catches for 77 yards.

Time to Join the Mustache Club?

So first the Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi starts hitting again, after he grows a mustache. Yankees fans have embraced it.

Now comes this photo (at left) featuring three of the big names down at Highland Park Town Hall. On the left is town secretary James Fisher. In the center is the newly hired town administrator Bill Lindley. On the right is outgoing, longtime town administrator George Patterson. They’re laughing it up at the Monday ceremony during which Lindley signed his new contract. What do they all have in common? That’s right.  (You can also see intrepid reporter Cassie Clark in the back, talking to the mayor. But she doesn’t have any facial hair, at last report.)

I’ve thought you could only pull off the lip fur if you’re Magnum. But I’m beginning to think that I’ve been wrong.

Anyway, photo caption contest in the comments below: Example: “My town pension plan includes free mustache combs for life.”