You Missed It: Texas toast edition

The Internet is a harsh place. On one hand, there are thousands of young women out there who seem to take interest in us, seemingly for free, and then there are the critics of anyone on the national stage. The latter is where Internet memes come from, and they are one of the reasons I wake up every day. But we’re getting to the point where memes have a lifespan of hours, not even days. I was getting tired of the “binders full of women” jokes inside of 48 hours. Maybe one of these debates will be on Thursday night so I can be at the next meme’s height. If you were busy getting swept in the American League Championship Series this week, odds are you missed it.

The flames are bigger in Texas
Big Tex was a fixture at Texas State Fairs. For 60 years, the mechanical, 52-foot cowboy greeted fairgoers with a smile, pointing to the entrance all the while. But this year, Tex decided to end the fair with a bang. In the waning days of the fair this week, Tex caught fire and burned down to his metal frame. Fire marshals are leaning toward electricity as the cause, but it seems pretty obvious it was a pre-election self-immolation.

Never give Tom Hanks a microphone
Morning news/ talk shows have a decent following these days (thanks, unemployment!), but they can seem a little dull for the average adult viewer who is accustomed to the dirter, bloodier and louder programming fare offered nightly. But Tom Hanks is out to change that. During an interview for his new movie Cloud Atlas, Hanks was goaded into some method acting of one of his characters live on Good Morning America. And then he dropped the F-bomb. Is it sweeps week or something?

Didn’t Doc and Marty do this back in 1885?
This week, an Amtrak train in a test run hit 111 mph along a track somewhere between Chicago and St. Louis. Regardless, it still managed to show up two hours late.