Here are a few pop culture tidbits that caught our eye this week

Here are a few pop culture tidbits that caught our eye this week.

■ The Bureau of Land Management says setting clocks back in the fall can increase the chances of car-burro collisions around Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. And you don’t even want to know what burros think about extended retail hours on Black Friday.

■ British singer Katie Melua has a live spider removed from her ear, and guesses it climbed in via headphones she wore during an airline flight. Thanks ever so much for giving us something else to freak out about at 30,000 feet.

▶ Taylor Swift pulls all of her music off of the music streaming service Spotify. Expect her next album to feature a classic Swiftian breakup epic that includes the puzzling lyric, “hotify.”

JOHN PRZYBYS (jprzybys@reviewjournal.com)

■ The National Finals Rodeo will continue at Thomas &Mack Center for 10 more years and not move to a new arena being built on the Strip. Keeping alive our dearest hopes one of these days for a combination NFR-monster truck competition.

■ Michael Waltrip is eliminated from “Dancing With the Stars.” Turns out being eliminated from a celebrity dance show isn’t nearly as fun to watch as being eliminated from a NASCAR race.

■ New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick disses weather forecasters, saying they almost never get kickoff forecasts right (and a Weather Channel forecaster proves him wrong). Next week: Bill rants for no apparent reason about Patriots cheerleaders’ “uninspired” choreography.

JOHN PRZYBYS (jprzybys@reviewjournal.com)