Need one more thing to distract you this morning as you wonder how you’re going to motivate yourself before the weekend? Here are five such things, each one of which put a bee in my bonnet.

1. Just let Jack Matthews buy Museum Tower already.
I don’t have any insider knowledge about how much the Omni’s developer has bid for the controversial laser-beam generator in the Arts District. He could be bidding high, bidding low, bidding just right.

But I have spent an afternoon, about a decade ago, in the Cedars with Mr. Matthews as he calmly laid out his plans for urban development domination. And, with very little help from the city (until the Omni deal), he set out and made it happen.

It’s easy to think now it was obvious that his South Side on Lamar was a slam-dunk, but that’s hindsight talking. It’s easy to say now that the Omni was obviously going to be a huge moneymaker, but there were plenty of doubts. The man is soft-spoken but thoughtful, practical but visionary, and he would surely do a better job of finding a solution with the Nasher than Museum Tower’s current owners.

2. Alan King has to have a big smirk this morning.
The former DISD chief of staff quits in October, and now he’s coming back just a few months later to head up the auditor’s office? The guy who warned everyone they were spending too much before Mike Miles got in trouble for spending too much? He’s the one who’s going to make sure the rules are being followed? Oh, baby. Let me tell you how I’d play this.

If I’m Alan King, I would wait until about 10:30 or 11 in the morning, then walk very slowly through the front doors wearing a replica of Elvis’ white jumpsuit and about 30 gold chains, complete with sunglasses and platform shoes. I would walk into the first high-level meeting I could find, take a big drink out of an executive’s coffee cup, lean back in a chair so far I’m horizontal, and yell, “Please … CONTINUE.” In Spanish, just because it sounds cooler.

3. Schools’ car drop-off lanes are tinderboxes, people.
So, two dads got in a fist fight in the car drop-off lane at an elementary school in Fort Worth. This doesn’t surprise me. Tensions run very high during the morning drop-off procedures. And we’re not going to put a stop to bad dads until we populate the drop-off lanes with good dads, preferably ones who can stop the fighting by threatening to fight the dads who think they should be fighting. I’ve seen this logic elsewhere, and it seems solid to me.

4. Please let there be Sunday liquor sales.
Please.

5. Planned Parenthood is asking a judge to not be such an idiot.
I really can’t believe this Planned Parenthood ban has gone on as long as it has. [Checks which state I’m in.] Oh. Yes I can.

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Well, if it’s breaking …

Teresa Gubbins broke the news earlier this week , but I know this means at least one thing: more Starwood points for Daddy!