Burton Gilliam Does Woodrow

Is Blazing Saddles the funniest movie of all time? I’m not sure. It’s up there, though. And for that reason, I shall forever love Burton Gilliam (aka the black-kerchief-wearing Lyle). So when a Woodrow graduate sent me the below photo, I gave it a home. Says our photographer: “Actor Burton Gilliam, Woodrow class of 1956, points to one of the ladies of the Lakewood Theater prior to his keynote speech at the WWW 2010 Senior Dinner last night. A lot of us have grown up with those ladies, who, at times, were much more interesting than the movies on the screen. I remember when the Frisco Art teacher got in trouble with her district for taking her students ‘to see nekkid statues’ at the Dallas Museum of Art. Woodrow is different, as you all know!”

Update: Oh, hell. Four hours after Big Bob.

Grapevine Store Owner Answers Age Old Question By Dropping Pants

So Robert Paul Raincsuk has a store in downtown Grapevine, called The Edge. During Grapevine’s Main Street Days, he reportedly got a little verklempt, at the noise complaints about his store, and then the fact that the police wouldn’t let him put dancers outside the store.

So he allegedly threatened to open fire on the folks at the festival, and the police. So the police, being police, came to question him about the alleged threats.

To answer their question (and the age-old one, “Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”) Raincsuk allegedly dropped his pants – and underwear.

It got him arrested, so in the future, I recommend answering the question verbally, and not with a demonstration.

One Frontburnervian’s Take On Our Hamster Problem

Many longtime Frontburnervians will recognize Amanda Cobra, who writes the excellent You Go Live in Utah blog. She is also the Amanda Cobra of the “Pontiac of Justice” fame.

She has a little something to say about In-n-Out Burger, and the traffic yesterday’s post generated.

Kwame Kilpatrick Won’t Be a Southlake Resident For About 5 Years

It looks like the judge threw the book at former Detroit mayor, now Southlake resident, Kwame Kilpatrick. He could’ve gotten as little as 18 months, but a Detroit judge gave him the maximum.

Leading Off (5/25/10)

1. A homeless man was arrested for stealing some chicken nuggets from a Wendy’s on Greenville. Don’t really want to poke fun at that, but it’s still cool if “I paid for those nuggets!” becomes my new all-purpose catchphrase, right? Because I’m kind of going to do it anyway.

2. Jupiter Lanes is closing in early June. So I’ll have to find another place to drink bourbon from a Styrofoam cup well before noon. My porch is currently in pole position.

3. The only way I’d be less interested in Rick Perry’s forthcoming book is if Dan Brown was his co-writer. And even then it probably would be better, because you know Perry would wind up in some antechamber below the governor’s mansion trying to decipher ancient masonic symbols in his race against time (and the federal government!) to find a piece of the true cross or something.