Hey, all. If you're like me, you're about to (finally) head out to the grocery store to pick up all of the Thanksgiving groceries. So I just wanted to take a few seconds to wish everyone a good and safe holiday. Hopefully you get to spend it with some people that don't hate your guts. That way, when Black Friday hits -- people are already lined up at Best Buy for their Black Friday sales, by the way -- you can tag team it to make sure you come out alive.

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And if you happen to have to spend it by yourself, or if you just really don't like cooking, you can celebrate at one of these fine restaurants. They'll be serving Thanksgiving dinner all Thursday. Thanks for all of your support. Well wishes and whatnot.

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Who's Dual Kim? File this under "Weird Things I Know Now," I suppose.

Dual Kim is a South Korean model who possibly committed suicide. I know this because this morning I found no less than three emails from readers in my inbox asking how I felt about the situation.

Now, I'm aware that my fashion sense is the source of a lot of envy (a hearty collection of sweat pants will usually do that), but that's about where my association with this story ends. I'm much more concerned with the list that our excellent food critic, Fred Lutz, put together of restaurants serving Thanksgiving dinner in Houston.

If you're not planning on cooking (perhaps you want to spend your extra time purchasing sweat pants), you should check it out. And if you know of another restaurant around town that will be open for Thanksgiving, leave it in the comments.

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Thanksgiving is but seven days away, which means that Black Friday, the day when ordinary townsfolk transform into Herculean shopping beasts, is eight days away.

Naturally, after that Wal-Mart Black Friday information leak hit the internet, people have been getting ramped up for the Black Friday sales. Houstonians are no different. If you've never participated in Black Friday shopping before, it's pretty much like the first nine minutes of Saving Private Ryan, only more gruesome. It really is a spectacle and you owe it to yourselves to check it out.

Lucky for you, here's a listing of big name stores in Houston that have some noteworthy deals going on that day. If you know of another, add it in the comments section below.

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Okay, so I caught a climpse of this earlier and wanted to put it up. Apparently, a youth was arrested for marijuana possession, right. They took him down to the juvenile detention center and, per standard, had him walk through a metal detector.

Only thing is, the metal detector wasn't plugged in. The youth smuggled in a gun. And if that weren't perfect enough, Harvey Hetzel, the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department Executive Director, let it be known that the metal detector "may well have been off for weeks."

Can you beat the inanity of this story?

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