Greetings and Salutations, people. Direct from beautiful Centennial, Colorado. It’s the radio show that’s better than getting your eye poked with a sharp stick, this is Vertically Striped Radio…and we’re only guessing about being better than the sharp stick to the eye bit, it hasn’t been scientifically proven that this show is better than that… we’re just going with the anecdotal evidence, your results may vary. My name is Craig Dodge, and we are ready to roll with another edition of Vertically Striped Radio.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio: We will talk some NFL football as we move into the Final week of the season with the Super Bowl fast approaching. We will have the initial edition of the Schadenfreude File, a new feature here on VSR. We may talk a little bit of movies and definitely talk about the upcoming NHL 94 tournament taking place over at Dameshek.com
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Twitter: @socnorb777
Chatroom: DAMNradio.blogspot.com
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.
"He burned the vehicle out completely," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Hildesheim. Police said the man left the heater on next to the frozen windshield washer tank and returned indoors. Shortly afterwards he heard two explosions and returned to find the car ablaze.
He alerted fire services, who arrived in time to prevent the flames from destroying his house. Including charring of the building, total damages were estimated at 40,000 euros ($56,240).
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina's president recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra Wednesday, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating barbecued pork.
"I've just been told something I didn't know; that eating pork improves your sex life ... I'd say it's a lot nicer to eat a bit of grilled pork than take Viagra," President Cristina Fernandez said to leaders of the pig farming industry.
She said she recently ate pork and "things went very well that weekend, so it could well be true."
Argentines are the world's biggest per capita consumers of beef, but the government has sought to promote pork as an alternative in recent years due to rising steak prices and as a way to diversify the meat industry.
"Trying it doesn't cost anything, so let's give it a go," Fernandez said in the televised speech.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off "evil eyes" and protect him from "black magic," a newspaper reported Wednesday.
A spokesman for the president told the Dawn newspaper the goats were slaughtered as an act of Sadaqah -- meaning "voluntary charity" in Islam whereby one gives out money or the meat of a slaughtered animal to the poor to win Allah's blessing and stave off misfortune.
"It has been an old practice of Mr Zardari to offer Sadaqah. He has been doing this for a long time," the spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, told the paper.
Pakistan is a predominantly Muslim country where many of the well-off offer Sadaqah. Though Muslim, many people also follow certain superstitious practices.
Hundreds of goats had been sacrificed at Zardari's house since he was sworn in September 2008, the Dawn newspaper reported.
It said Zardari's detractors would see in his "new-found religiosity" a sign of nervousness in the face of growing woes.
Zardari, who rose to power after the assassination of his wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in late 2007, has become increasingly unpopular and faces a range of problems from Islamist militancy to a stagnant economy and political rivalry.
A Supreme Court ruling last month throwing out an amnesty for Zardari, several top aides and thousands of political activists and government figures triggered a political storm and expectation that Zardari was on his way out.
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said.
The man, identified as Fabrizio R., suffered a deep cut to the throat after his 16-year-old son, Mario, attacked him during an argument on Sunday over the soccer video game FIFA 2009.
Police said the argument broke out when the 46-year-old storekeeper offered his son advice on tactics to improve his play, and then turned the television off in response to his son's behavior.
Fetching a knife from the kitchen, Mario stabbed his father in the neck before returning to clean the weapon at the kitchen sink in front of his mother and leaving it to dry on the draining-board. Forty-six year-old housewife Monica B,. told Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera that she had no idea what had happened until her husband stumbled into the room, clutching his throat.
"I saw Mario come back into the room, he seemed calm, he went to the sink and I noticed him washing a knife," Monica told the newspaper. "Then my husband came into the room with a hand round his neck, dripping blood."
The teenager shut himself in his bedroom after the attack and made no attempt to resist arrest, police said.
The game had been given to Mario a few days earlier, as a birthday present.
"Mario is obsessed. He's forever playing on his PlayStation, and we bought him FIFA 2009 because we didn't want him playing violent games," his mother told Il Corriere.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MAIN TOPIC:
NFL Talk:
Schadenfreude Files: (Clip 16) Debut edition with Brett Favre. (Clip of Minnesota Radio Broadcast and then One Shining Moment. – Clip 20)
Super Bowl: Saints and Colts
-Colts going to wear blue. (Teams wearing white have won five straight.)
43 – Steelers 27 Cardinals 23
42 – Giants 17 Patriots 14
41 – Colts 29 Bears 17
40 – Steelers 21 Seahawks 10
39 – Patriots 24 Eagles 21
38 – Patriots 32 Panthers 29 (Last time non-white team won the Super Bowl)
Media Day: Is this still fun, or has it outlived it’s usefulness?
Look back at NFL Playoffs:
Jets-Colts: Colts 30 Jets 17 (My guess Colts 33 Jets 13)
Vikings-Saints: Saints 31 Vikings 28 (My guess was exactly right)
Pro-Bowl: This game is weak. (List players who should be all-stars playing in Pro Bowl.
Other football news:
Broncos to play 49ers in London next year: All around London folks were saying, (Play Clip 19)
Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks. Is this a move because he wanted the challenge of an NFL gig, or is it rats fleeing the Titanic?
Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?
NHL ’94 Tournament – Talk about how it’s going to work, and what needs to be done.
Joe – Canucks
StreetDreamer83 – Sabres
face ventura – Nordiques
socnorb777 – Bruins
#1 Sploser – Mighty Ducks
Amiezin – Rangers
PhillyBillyRules – Penguins
#19 – Whalers
Richie – Kings
Fourthand26 – Canadiens
Mjmartin78 – Red Wings
Microserf – Stars
Coming up soon on the DAMN Radio Network:
-Larry vs. Beer
-The Major Minority Report
Movie reviews: “Avatar”, “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog”
-Avatar
-The Road
-The Princess and the Frog
Defend Movies:
-Almost Famous
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Fight Club
Magnificent 7: Seven things people driving around me need to stop doing.
1. Stopping at a flashing yellow.
2. Stopping at a continuous turn lane.
3. Driving the speed limit or slower in the left lane.
4. Getting over into my lane directly in front of me and then slowing down.
5. Three Words: No turn signal
6. Braking for no logical reason
7. Not pulling into the intersection to turn left when the light is green but you don’t have a green arrow.
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
MGMT – Kids (Clip 18)
Thanks to: (Whoever called)
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Extra or future stuff:
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?
Imelda Marcos:
Pants on the Ground
Great Moments in Blog Talk History: (Find Clip of Mike Dell and Jerry Fairish reenacting Ed moments on the Sports Contraption.)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Ed
Sometimes there's a man, I won't say a hero, cause what's a hero? But sometimes there's a man. And I'm talkin' about The Ed here--sometimes there's a man who, well, he's the man for his time and place, he fits right in there--and that's The Ed, in Las Vegas. Sometimes there's a man, sometimes there's a man who--Well, I lost my train of thought here, but aw hell, I've done introduced him enough...
Okay, so I haven't posted any new Edisms in awhile, but I've saved up quite a bit of them, and figured that in these dark and troubled times as the NFL season is just about over and the specter of a long horible offseason is before us, well, I figured we could use a little Ed wisdom.
The last time Vertically Striped Socks did a story on Ed (or "The Ed" as he is often known) was back in May of 2009. If you missed that story, and need a little bit of background on this interesting man from Vegas, you can read that story here:
http://www.verticallystripedsocks.com/2009/05/one-only-ed.html
If you're up to speed on The Ed, then you know what you're in for. So without further ado, I present to you another batch of Edisms, fresh and piping hot from the oven for all you kids...
This one pretty much sums up The Ed's philosophy on life:
"As long as I know what I’m sayin’, It don’t matter what I’m talkin’ about. "
The Ed is a huge Colts fan, here are some of his recent Indianapolis related thoughts...
"The Colts gonna win it all, man. Listen. It’s a forgiven conclusion."
"The Colts defense is a lot better now that we got rid of that god dang devil, Tony Dungy, trying to run it."
"You gotta feel sad for the Colts cause for some unknown reason these people still think that Tom Brady is better than the Peyton Manning. And we all know that's a fabrication of elushinations. "
Craig Dodge: "How much longer is Peyton Manning going to play?"
Ed: "He'll play 'til he's 57, probably."
"The destiny is that Peyton Manning is the greatest quarterback of all time, and people, he got to get at least two to verify it. Three will superfy it. And the fourth one he gets will triple dipple try it. And that’s all I’m sayin’. "
Yeah, it's safe to say that Ed is convinced that the Colts are going to beat the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV and win it all. He's not even worried about it. Another thing he doesn't even worry about is talking about other people...Here are some more Ed quotes where Ed let's people know the situation in America when it comes to his friends and acquaintances on the Dameshek.com message board.
"First of all, you’re a Veginarian, you don’t even eat no food! You’re always sick, you always got problems, you always busy. I’ve never seen somebody who don’t eat meat who’s busy and always sick. That’s three unbelievable combinations, that’s like a combination platter at Taco Bell, it don’t even make sense. "
"This guy makes rhymes that don't even rhyme. I've never seen a poem kid who don't even know how to make nothing rhyme. "
"He had no competition, every entry form we sent back had his name on it. It was a unonimous selection."
"It take me 9 hours a day to update this stuff (FYI, "this stuff" is a wide array of games which Ed runs for the kids on Dameshek.com), and then don’t no one even care about it. They just sign up like God dang munchkins, man."
"You’re like a god dang Canadian Football field. Too many yards, man."
"You cry all the time, man. You’re like 2nd down and 36."
"Him and his Dad went to a Father-Son picnic, and his Dad took a stuffed animal."
"The (message) board is chalk full of haters, all these kids from Haiti."
"Look, this kid knows what he's talking about, Face Ventura. (Ed says as he reads a message from a message boarder with the screen name Face Ventura congratulating Ed for the Colts winning) "Congrats Ed." Now see, that kid knows what he's talkin about, that kid is always on time for school. He'll make sure people got lunches, he'll make sure that people got their clothes ironed and pressed. Every. Single. Time. He don't fool around."
"He afraid to call in, cause he don't even know how to dial a phone, he's so scared. "
"These guys always got, like a, conspiracy theory, Like Number 1-9, when he lose his shoelaces in the mall. He think the guy who's the security guard took em, and I'm like, 'No, he didn't do nothing.' "
"Man, this kid, The Whale (A message boarder with a screen name of The Whale, not an actual whale.), he does a lot of things for that kinda species, you know. He goes out and feeds fishes, and he goes out and buys fish tanks for other cities that don't got em."
"Why do you like hockey so much, what, you got a winter coat of somethin’?" (Ed doesn't understand the appeal of hockey as a sport.)
As much fun as it is to hear Ed talk about other people, some of his best lines come when he's talking about himself:
"This guy has a vendella against me, He’s got to, there’s no other choice about it. I don’t know if it’s somebody that’s jealous of me and my good looks or me and things that happen in America that go down when people got on sweaters."
"I just found a nickel right here on the ground! Ah, I found two of em. Heh, A quarter, A quarter and a nickel. That’s 44 cents!"
"It was a long Stupedulous altitude of different arrays of things for me to do."
"I don’t wanna hear no gripin, no cryin, no airplane flyin."
"The people talk all kinds of stuff about me and say, “Aw, man, you got pillows on both sides of your bed.” And all this stuff like that."
"Santa Claus got Rudolph and Donner and Blitzen and Mary Jo, all the reindeer. I don’t got those."
"They afraid to say it to my face, that’s why they don’t call in. They probably think they’ll catch a cold when they talk to me, cuz I’m sick, but I’m not gonna contagious em."
"These guys always get mad when I'm right, and they know that I'm always right. I'm usually right over 100% of the time."
Then of course, there are the times when I have no idea what Ed is talking about...sometimes those are some of The Ed's best moments:
Ed: "I’m super deluxe mad at this point."
Mike Dell: "Why are you so mad, though, The Ed? It’s just competition, you know, what’s wrong?"
Ed: "No No No No, there’s no competition when I’m the champ. Listen, They already know that I’ve set, I’ve set the pattern for this whole rotation of the earth and then they go around and act like that they run a Taco Bell or some stuff like that, you know? They act like light sockets don’t even got switches on em, you know? That’s how they act, sometimes."
"You don't know what the heck go on in the Philippines, I don't, You don't, People who run airlines, and people who make stop signs don't."
"No one knows what can happen, you know, it's like going down a one-way street three different directions. It's uncharted territory."
"Sometimes if you get a black pen and you try to write in blue ink, it don’t always work."
"It's all in the scheme of things, man, in America. When you look in the sky and you turn it to the degrees of the what you want it to be, that's what happens."
Yup, The Ed Abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, the Ed, takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.
Okay, so I haven't posted any new Edisms in awhile, but I've saved up quite a bit of them, and figured that in these dark and troubled times as the NFL season is just about over and the specter of a long horible offseason is before us, well, I figured we could use a little Ed wisdom.
The last time Vertically Striped Socks did a story on Ed (or "The Ed" as he is often known) was back in May of 2009. If you missed that story, and need a little bit of background on this interesting man from Vegas, you can read that story here:
http://www.verticallystripedsocks.com/2009/05/one-only-ed.html
If you're up to speed on The Ed, then you know what you're in for. So without further ado, I present to you another batch of Edisms, fresh and piping hot from the oven for all you kids...
This one pretty much sums up The Ed's philosophy on life:
"As long as I know what I’m sayin’, It don’t matter what I’m talkin’ about. "
The Ed is a huge Colts fan, here are some of his recent Indianapolis related thoughts...
"The Colts gonna win it all, man. Listen. It’s a forgiven conclusion."
"The Colts defense is a lot better now that we got rid of that god dang devil, Tony Dungy, trying to run it."
"You gotta feel sad for the Colts cause for some unknown reason these people still think that Tom Brady is better than the Peyton Manning. And we all know that's a fabrication of elushinations. "
Craig Dodge: "How much longer is Peyton Manning going to play?"
Ed: "He'll play 'til he's 57, probably."
"The destiny is that Peyton Manning is the greatest quarterback of all time, and people, he got to get at least two to verify it. Three will superfy it. And the fourth one he gets will triple dipple try it. And that’s all I’m sayin’. "
Yeah, it's safe to say that Ed is convinced that the Colts are going to beat the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV and win it all. He's not even worried about it. Another thing he doesn't even worry about is talking about other people...Here are some more Ed quotes where Ed let's people know the situation in America when it comes to his friends and acquaintances on the Dameshek.com message board.
"First of all, you’re a Veginarian, you don’t even eat no food! You’re always sick, you always got problems, you always busy. I’ve never seen somebody who don’t eat meat who’s busy and always sick. That’s three unbelievable combinations, that’s like a combination platter at Taco Bell, it don’t even make sense. "
"This guy makes rhymes that don't even rhyme. I've never seen a poem kid who don't even know how to make nothing rhyme. "
"He had no competition, every entry form we sent back had his name on it. It was a unonimous selection."
"It take me 9 hours a day to update this stuff (FYI, "this stuff" is a wide array of games which Ed runs for the kids on Dameshek.com), and then don’t no one even care about it. They just sign up like God dang munchkins, man."
"You’re like a god dang Canadian Football field. Too many yards, man."
"You cry all the time, man. You’re like 2nd down and 36."
"Him and his Dad went to a Father-Son picnic, and his Dad took a stuffed animal."
"The (message) board is chalk full of haters, all these kids from Haiti."
"Look, this kid knows what he's talking about, Face Ventura. (Ed says as he reads a message from a message boarder with the screen name Face Ventura congratulating Ed for the Colts winning) "Congrats Ed." Now see, that kid knows what he's talkin about, that kid is always on time for school. He'll make sure people got lunches, he'll make sure that people got their clothes ironed and pressed. Every. Single. Time. He don't fool around."
"He afraid to call in, cause he don't even know how to dial a phone, he's so scared. "
"These guys always got, like a, conspiracy theory, Like Number 1-9, when he lose his shoelaces in the mall. He think the guy who's the security guard took em, and I'm like, 'No, he didn't do nothing.' "
"Man, this kid, The Whale (A message boarder with a screen name of The Whale, not an actual whale.), he does a lot of things for that kinda species, you know. He goes out and feeds fishes, and he goes out and buys fish tanks for other cities that don't got em."
"Why do you like hockey so much, what, you got a winter coat of somethin’?" (Ed doesn't understand the appeal of hockey as a sport.)
As much fun as it is to hear Ed talk about other people, some of his best lines come when he's talking about himself:
"This guy has a vendella against me, He’s got to, there’s no other choice about it. I don’t know if it’s somebody that’s jealous of me and my good looks or me and things that happen in America that go down when people got on sweaters."
"I just found a nickel right here on the ground! Ah, I found two of em. Heh, A quarter, A quarter and a nickel. That’s 44 cents!"
"It was a long Stupedulous altitude of different arrays of things for me to do."
"I don’t wanna hear no gripin, no cryin, no airplane flyin."
"The people talk all kinds of stuff about me and say, “Aw, man, you got pillows on both sides of your bed.” And all this stuff like that."
"Santa Claus got Rudolph and Donner and Blitzen and Mary Jo, all the reindeer. I don’t got those."
"They afraid to say it to my face, that’s why they don’t call in. They probably think they’ll catch a cold when they talk to me, cuz I’m sick, but I’m not gonna contagious em."
"These guys always get mad when I'm right, and they know that I'm always right. I'm usually right over 100% of the time."
Then of course, there are the times when I have no idea what Ed is talking about...sometimes those are some of The Ed's best moments:
Ed: "I’m super deluxe mad at this point."
Mike Dell: "Why are you so mad, though, The Ed? It’s just competition, you know, what’s wrong?"
Ed: "No No No No, there’s no competition when I’m the champ. Listen, They already know that I’ve set, I’ve set the pattern for this whole rotation of the earth and then they go around and act like that they run a Taco Bell or some stuff like that, you know? They act like light sockets don’t even got switches on em, you know? That’s how they act, sometimes."
"You don't know what the heck go on in the Philippines, I don't, You don't, People who run airlines, and people who make stop signs don't."
"No one knows what can happen, you know, it's like going down a one-way street three different directions. It's uncharted territory."
"Sometimes if you get a black pen and you try to write in blue ink, it don’t always work."
"It's all in the scheme of things, man, in America. When you look in the sky and you turn it to the degrees of the what you want it to be, that's what happens."
Yup, The Ed Abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, the Ed, takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.
The Ed Abides
These kids is like pirates who eat sunshine. It don't make no sense!
Originally uploaded by socnorb777
Okay, so I haven't posted any new Edisms in awhile, but I've saved up quite a bit of them, and figured that in these dark and troubled times as the NFL season is just about over and the specter of a long horible offseason is before us, well, I figured we could use a little Ed wisdom.
The last time Vertically Striped Socks did a story on Ed (or "The Ed" as he is often known) was back in May of 2009. If you missed that story, and need a little bit of background on this interesting man from Vegas, you can read that story here:
http://www.verticallystripedsocks.com/2009/05/one-only-ed.html
If you're up to speed on The Ed, then you know what you're in for. So without further ado, I present to you another batch of Edisms, fresh and piping hot from the oven for all you kids...
This one pretty much sums up The Ed's philosophy on life:
"As long as I know what I’m sayin’, It don’t matter what I’m talkin’ about. "
The Ed is a huge Colts fan, here are some of his recent Indianapolis related thoughts...
"The Colts gonna win it all, man. Listen. It’s a forgiven conclusion."
"The Colts defense is a lot better now that we got rid of that god dang devil, Tony Dungy, trying to run it."
"You gotta feel sad for the Colts cause for some unknown reason these people still think that Tom Brady is better than the Peyton Manning. And we all know that's a fabrication of elushinations. "
Craig Dodge: "How much longer is Peyton Manning going to play?"
Ed: "He'll play 'til he's 57, probably."
"The destiny is that Peyton Manning is the greatest quarterback of all time, and people, he got to get at least two to verify it. Three will superfy it. And the fourth one he gets will triple dipple try it. And that’s all I’m sayin’. "
Yeah, it's safe to say that Ed is convinced that the Colts are going to beat the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV and win it all. He's not even worried about it. Another thing he doesn't even worry about is talking about other people...Here are some more Ed quotes where Ed let's people know the situation in America when it comes to his friends and acquaintances on the Dameshek.com message board.
"First of all, you’re a Veginarian, you don’t even eat no food! You’re always sick, you always got problems, you always busy. I’ve never seen somebody who don’t eat meat who’s busy and always sick. That’s three unbelievable combinations, that’s like a combination platter at Taco Bell, it don’t even make sense. "
"This guy makes rhymes that don't even rhyme. I've never seen a poem kid who don't even know how to make nothing rhyme. "
"He had no competition, every entry form we sent back had his name on it. It was a unonimous selection."
"It take me 9 hours a day to update this stuff (FYI, "this stuff" is a wide array of games which Ed runs for the kids on Dameshek.com), and then don’t no one even care about it. They just sign up like God dang munchkins, man."
"You’re like a god dang Canadian Football field. Too many yards, man."
"You cry all the time, man. You’re like 2nd down and 36."
"Him and his Dad went to a Father-Son picnic, and his Dad took a stuffed animal."
"The (message) board is chalk full of haters, all these kids from Haiti."
"Look, this kid knows what he's talking about, Face Ventura. (Ed says as he reads a message from a message boarder with the screen name Face Ventura congratulating Ed for the Colts winning) "Congrats Ed." Now see, that kid knows what he's talkin about, that kid is always on time for school. He'll make sure people got lunches, he'll make sure that people got their clothes ironed and pressed. Every. Single. Time. He don't fool around."
"He afraid to call in, cause he don't even know how to dial a phone, he's so scared. "
"These guys always got, like a, conspiracy theory, Like Number 1-9, when he lose his shoelaces in the mall. He think the guy who's the security guard took em, and I'm like, 'No, he didn't do nothing.' "
"Man, this kid, The Whale (A message boarder with a screen name of The Whale, not an actual whale.), he does a lot of things for that kinda species, you know. He goes out and feeds fishes, and he goes out and buys fish tanks for other cities that don't got em."
"Why do you like hockey so much, what, you got a winter coat of somethin’?" (Ed doesn't understand the appeal of hockey as a sport.)
As much fun as it is to hear Ed talk about other people, some of his best lines come when he's talking about himself:
"This guy has a vendella against me, He’s got to, there’s no other choice about it. I don’t know if it’s somebody that’s jealous of me and my good looks or me and things that happen in America that go down when people got on sweaters."
"I just found a nickel right here on the ground! Ah, I found two of em. Heh, A quarter, A quarter and a nickel. That’s 44 cents!"
"It was a long Stupedulous altitude of different arrays of things for me to do."
"I don’t wanna hear no gripin, no cryin, no airplane flyin."
"The people talk all kinds of stuff about me and say, “Aw, man, you got pillows on both sides of your bed.” And all this stuff like that."
"Santa Claus got Rudolph and Donner and Blitzen and Mary Jo, all the reindeer. I don’t got those."
"They afraid to say it to my face, that’s why they don’t call in. They probably think they’ll catch a cold when they talk to me, cuz I’m sick, but I’m not gonna contagious em."
"These guys always get mad when I'm right, and they know that I'm always right. I'm usually right over 100% of the time."
Then of course, there are the times when I have no idea what Ed is talking about...sometimes those are some of The Ed's best moments:
Ed: "I’m super deluxe mad at this point."
Mike Dell: "Why are you so mad, though, The Ed? It’s just competition, you know, what’s wrong?"
Ed: "No No No No, there’s no competition when I’m the champ. Listen, They already know that I’ve set, I’ve set the pattern for this whole rotation of the earth and then they go around and act like that they run a Taco Bell or some stuff like that, you know? They act like light sockets don’t even got switches on em, you know? That’s how they act, sometimes."
"You don't know what the heck go on in the Philippines, I don't, You don't, People who run airlines, and people who make stop signs don't."
"No one knows what can happen, you know, it's like going down a one-way street three different directions. It's uncharted territory."
"Sometimes if you get a black pen and you try to write in blue ink, it don’t always work."
"It's all in the scheme of things, man, in America. When you look in the sky and you turn it to the degrees of the what you want it to be, that's what happens."
Yup, The Ed Abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, the Ed, takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Show Prep #35
Greetings and Salutations, people. Direct from beautiful Centennial, Colorado. It’s the radio show that is like 101 Dalmations, only with more dogs. This is Vertically Striped Radio. I am your host Craig Dodge,
Okay, before we get cranking on the show today, two weird things that happened to me this week. 1. I was standing at the light rail station waiting to go South when a North bound train pulled up on the other track, and I saw a big fat guy shaving. 2. The phone rang on Monday night, I picked it up and it was a telemarketer, I answered with my customary, “Hello.” And I was treated to this, “Is your Mommy or Daddy home?”
Today on Vertically Striped Radio: As mandated by the sports talk gods, we will talk a little bit about the AFC and NFC Championship games going down tomorrow. I am going to seek to restore a little bit of order in the world by providing a better Top 10, nay Top 20 list of the top dogs in pop culture. The American Kennel Club list left a nasty taste in my mouth, so with the help of some friends on the Dameshek.com message board, I’ve compiled a better list. It’s still probably not perfect, but it’s so much better than the AKC’s list.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
If you’d like to chat with the show and it’s listeners as Vertically Striped Radio broadcasts live, you can point your internet machine over to DAMNradio.blogspot.com where there is a chat room open for your convenience.
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
LONDON (Reuters) – International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month.
If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain's London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets.
"The new Holiday Inn bed warmers service is a bit like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed," Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
The bed-warmer is equipped with a thermometer to make sure the bed reaches the required temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
Holiday Inn said the warmer would be fully dressed and leave the bed before the guest occupied it. They could not confirm if the warmer would shower first, but said hair would be covered.
Florence Avis, Holiday Inn spokeswoman told Royters that the "innovative" bed-warming method was a response to Britain's recent cold weather, She could not explain why the beds were not being warmed by hot water bottles or electric-blankets, but did admit that the human method was quirky.
Holiday Inn are promoting the service with the help of sleep-expert Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Center, who said the idea could help people sleep. Idzikowski was quoted as saying "There's plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night when body temperature starts to drop," he said. "A warm bed - approximately 68 to 76 degrees Fahrenheit - is a good way to start this process whereas a cold bed would inhibit sleep."
LONDON (Reuters) – A British department store chain has created a gift list for those wishing to help a loved one with the pain...and party atmosphere of modern divorce.
Debenhams said it launched a divorce gift list service to reflect the increasing popularity of greeting cards, parties and cakes celebrating divorces as well as provide assistance to someone who has had to divide the assets.
"A divorce means that one partner will be leaving the marital home and therefore be left without any essentials in their new house," Debenhams head of retail services Peter Moore said in a statement.
"Divorcing can be an expensive time and registering for a divorce gift list means that family and friends can help the newly separated begin their new life."
Items on the divorce gift list include cookware, cutlery, crockery, glasses, bed linen, towels, small electrical goods such as toasters and microwaves as well as non-iron shirts, large plasma screen TVs and computer games.
Our last two stories are rather dripping with irony, which I always enjoy.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Organizers of the "Antiquities Theft in Israel" exhibition could not have chosen a more fitting name for their display.
Burglars on Wednesday broke into the Ashdod Museum where hundreds of artifacts recovered from the black-market were on show and snatched several valuable items, including a silver ring belonging to Alexander the Great and gold earrings.
The Israel Antiquities Authority said the popular exhibition had been running for four years.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Sheriff's deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the "Grand Theft Auto" video game, and they later charged him with just that.
Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes on Thursday. They found the SUV outside a Haines City home. Ekes was inside in the house, playing the popular video game.
Ekes was charged with grand theft auto, burglary and drug possession. At the time of his arrest, he was out of jail on bond for another grand theft auto charge.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MAIN TOPIC:
NFL Playoffs: (Play Clip 18 – Luke predicts the weekend’s games)
Jets-Colts: Colts 33 Jets 13
Vikings-Saints: Saints 31 Vikings 28
What is the best possible Super Bowl Match-Up?
Other football news:
Broncos to play 49ers in London next year: All around London folks were saying, (Play Clip 19)
Is Washington a good place for Mike Shanahan?
Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks. Is this a move because he wanted the challenge of an NFL gig, or is it rats fleeing the Titanic?
Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog”
(and defend “Almost Famous” and “The Shawshank Redemption)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
The new improved Top 10, er 20:
Just Missing the Cut:
25 Puffy from Something About Mary
24 Petey from the Little Rascals
23 Lassie
22 Pluto
21 Cujo
20 The Bumpus Hounds from A Christmas Story
19 Odie
18 Huckleberry Hound
17 Cleveland Dawg Pound
16 Santas Little Helper
15 Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
14 Toto
13 Old Yeller
12 Baxter from Anchorman – Play Clip 21 – Eating whole wheels of cheese and pooping in the fridge
11 Dog the Bounty Hunter
10 Mr. Peabody – Play Clip 22 – The WABAC machine made history fun
9 Uga - University of Georgia
8 Scooby Doo
7 Cerberus
6 The Taco Bell "Yo Quiero" Chihuahua – Play Clip 23
5 Mike Vick's Dogs
4 Snoop Dogg
3 Snoopy
2 Spuds McKenzie – Play Clip 24 – So Cheesy…it just had to be the 80’s
1 Tina Fey
Magnificent 7: Seven things people driving around me need to stop doing.
1. Stopping at a flashing yellow.
2. Stopping at a continuous merging lane.
3. Driving the speed limit or slower in the left lane.
4. Getting over into my lane directly in front of me and then slowing down.
5. Three Words: No turn signal
6. Braking for no logical reason
7. Not pulling into the intersection to turn left when the light is green but you don’t have a green arrow.
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?
Imelda Marcos:
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky (White Light – Clip 20)
Thanks to: (Whoever called)
We’ll be meeting up with our friend Trace Smith pretty soon, he’ll be coming on Vertically Striped Radio soon, and I’ll be making an appearance on his very fine Southeast Sports Beat Program…He had The Ed on earlier this week in a solid appearance from Mr. Miller. You can check Trace out over at blogtalkradio.com/southeastsportsbeat
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Okay, before we get cranking on the show today, two weird things that happened to me this week. 1. I was standing at the light rail station waiting to go South when a North bound train pulled up on the other track, and I saw a big fat guy shaving. 2. The phone rang on Monday night, I picked it up and it was a telemarketer, I answered with my customary, “Hello.” And I was treated to this, “Is your Mommy or Daddy home?”
Today on Vertically Striped Radio: As mandated by the sports talk gods, we will talk a little bit about the AFC and NFC Championship games going down tomorrow. I am going to seek to restore a little bit of order in the world by providing a better Top 10, nay Top 20 list of the top dogs in pop culture. The American Kennel Club list left a nasty taste in my mouth, so with the help of some friends on the Dameshek.com message board, I’ve compiled a better list. It’s still probably not perfect, but it’s so much better than the AKC’s list.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
If you’d like to chat with the show and it’s listeners as Vertically Striped Radio broadcasts live, you can point your internet machine over to DAMNradio.blogspot.com where there is a chat room open for your convenience.
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
LONDON (Reuters) – International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month.
If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain's London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets.
"The new Holiday Inn bed warmers service is a bit like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed," Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
The bed-warmer is equipped with a thermometer to make sure the bed reaches the required temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
Holiday Inn said the warmer would be fully dressed and leave the bed before the guest occupied it. They could not confirm if the warmer would shower first, but said hair would be covered.
Florence Avis, Holiday Inn spokeswoman told Royters that the "innovative" bed-warming method was a response to Britain's recent cold weather, She could not explain why the beds were not being warmed by hot water bottles or electric-blankets, but did admit that the human method was quirky.
Holiday Inn are promoting the service with the help of sleep-expert Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Center, who said the idea could help people sleep. Idzikowski was quoted as saying "There's plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night when body temperature starts to drop," he said. "A warm bed - approximately 68 to 76 degrees Fahrenheit - is a good way to start this process whereas a cold bed would inhibit sleep."
LONDON (Reuters) – A British department store chain has created a gift list for those wishing to help a loved one with the pain...and party atmosphere of modern divorce.
Debenhams said it launched a divorce gift list service to reflect the increasing popularity of greeting cards, parties and cakes celebrating divorces as well as provide assistance to someone who has had to divide the assets.
"A divorce means that one partner will be leaving the marital home and therefore be left without any essentials in their new house," Debenhams head of retail services Peter Moore said in a statement.
"Divorcing can be an expensive time and registering for a divorce gift list means that family and friends can help the newly separated begin their new life."
Items on the divorce gift list include cookware, cutlery, crockery, glasses, bed linen, towels, small electrical goods such as toasters and microwaves as well as non-iron shirts, large plasma screen TVs and computer games.
Our last two stories are rather dripping with irony, which I always enjoy.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Organizers of the "Antiquities Theft in Israel" exhibition could not have chosen a more fitting name for their display.
Burglars on Wednesday broke into the Ashdod Museum where hundreds of artifacts recovered from the black-market were on show and snatched several valuable items, including a silver ring belonging to Alexander the Great and gold earrings.
The Israel Antiquities Authority said the popular exhibition had been running for four years.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Sheriff's deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the "Grand Theft Auto" video game, and they later charged him with just that.
Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes on Thursday. They found the SUV outside a Haines City home. Ekes was inside in the house, playing the popular video game.
Ekes was charged with grand theft auto, burglary and drug possession. At the time of his arrest, he was out of jail on bond for another grand theft auto charge.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MAIN TOPIC:
NFL Playoffs: (Play Clip 18 – Luke predicts the weekend’s games)
Jets-Colts: Colts 33 Jets 13
Vikings-Saints: Saints 31 Vikings 28
What is the best possible Super Bowl Match-Up?
Other football news:
Broncos to play 49ers in London next year: All around London folks were saying, (Play Clip 19)
Is Washington a good place for Mike Shanahan?
Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks. Is this a move because he wanted the challenge of an NFL gig, or is it rats fleeing the Titanic?
Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog”
(and defend “Almost Famous” and “The Shawshank Redemption)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
The new improved Top 10, er 20:
Just Missing the Cut:
25 Puffy from Something About Mary
24 Petey from the Little Rascals
23 Lassie
22 Pluto
21 Cujo
20 The Bumpus Hounds from A Christmas Story
19 Odie
18 Huckleberry Hound
17 Cleveland Dawg Pound
16 Santas Little Helper
15 Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
14 Toto
13 Old Yeller
12 Baxter from Anchorman – Play Clip 21 – Eating whole wheels of cheese and pooping in the fridge
11 Dog the Bounty Hunter
10 Mr. Peabody – Play Clip 22 – The WABAC machine made history fun
9 Uga - University of Georgia
8 Scooby Doo
7 Cerberus
6 The Taco Bell "Yo Quiero" Chihuahua – Play Clip 23
5 Mike Vick's Dogs
4 Snoop Dogg
3 Snoopy
2 Spuds McKenzie – Play Clip 24 – So Cheesy…it just had to be the 80’s
1 Tina Fey
Magnificent 7: Seven things people driving around me need to stop doing.
1. Stopping at a flashing yellow.
2. Stopping at a continuous merging lane.
3. Driving the speed limit or slower in the left lane.
4. Getting over into my lane directly in front of me and then slowing down.
5. Three Words: No turn signal
6. Braking for no logical reason
7. Not pulling into the intersection to turn left when the light is green but you don’t have a green arrow.
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?
Imelda Marcos:
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky (White Light – Clip 20)
Thanks to: (Whoever called)
We’ll be meeting up with our friend Trace Smith pretty soon, he’ll be coming on Vertically Striped Radio soon, and I’ll be making an appearance on his very fine Southeast Sports Beat Program…He had The Ed on earlier this week in a solid appearance from Mr. Miller. You can check Trace out over at blogtalkradio.com/southeastsportsbeat
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Show Prep #34
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the radio show that’s all the hip internet kids are listening to, This is Vertically Striped Radio.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio: NFL Playoffs! Only 7 games left in the NFL season unless you count the Pro Bowl…and if you count the Pro Bowl, you probably use IRC Chat. We’ll chat up the playoffs as well as try to figure out what in God’s name Ladainian Tomlinson is doing…I’ll explain in a bit. We’ll talk about a woman who would have been all about American Idol if such a program had existed in the roaring 20’s. The American Kennel Club released a list of Top 10 dogs in pop culture, we’ll see how many of these dogs our callers can name on this ridiculous list. Do you know who Imelda Marcos is? If not, you will by the end of the show. Could you bet EVERYTHING on one spin of roulette? We’ll talk a bit about one guy who did. Of course, we have a fresh batch of news and yet another music recommendation for the betterment of your musical knowledge and refinement…or something like that. Plus your calls…if, you know, you want to call in.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
If you’d like to chat with the show and it’s listeners as Vertically Striped Radio broadcasts live, you can point your internet machine over to DAMNradio.blogspot.com where there is a chat room open for your convenience.
1. Stopping at a flashing yellow.
2. Stopping at a continuous merging lane.
3. Driving the speed limit or slower in the left lane.
4. Getting over into my lane directly in front of me and then slowing down.
5. Three Words: No turn signal
6. Braking for no logical reason
7. Not pulling into the intersection to turn left when the light is green but you don’t have a green arrow.
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.
The owner of the advertising screen, which sits atop a main road about two km (1.2 miles) south of the Kremlin, told the state-run RIA news agency that hackers had broken into the screen's computer system and turned on the porn.
"They were either acting out of hooliganism or were from a rival company," Viktor Laptev, commercial director of advertising firm Panno.ru, told RIA.
A short clip showing cars slowing to a halt to look at the screen sprung up on youtube.com and internet sites Friday across Russia, a country which banned nudity on television before the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
PODGORICA (Reuters) –Montenegro, the small European Nation just south of Serbia and Bosnia has a problem. It appears that Montenegro's only hippopotamus has escaped from the mountainous nation's zoo during floods this week, officials said Wednesday.
The two-ton female hippo called Nikica broke out of her cage and swam away after seasonal floods hit the zoo just outside the Montenegrin capital Podgorica,
The Zoo manager says, "She remains at large, but one of the guards is keeping an eye on her and is feeding her daily."
The hippo found a dry spot a mile away from the zoo as shelter from cold flood waters. Zoo management said that zoo guards would have to wait until the water recedes to try to lure the animal back to its enclosure with food.
In its native Africa, hippos (the world’s third largest land mammal) are considered aggressive and dangerous. But zoo owner Nikola Pejovic said that the Hippo Nikica was not a threat to people.
"People like her, and she is used to people, villagers are bringing her fresh hay," he said.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canada's second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers.
The Beaver was founded in 1920 as a publication of the Hudson's Bay Company, then a fur trader and now a department store chain. It has long since become a broader magazine about Canadian history and will change its name to Canada's History with its
April issue, editor-in-chief Mark Reid said on Tuesday.
When The Beaver started publication, the name evoked only Canada's thriving fur industry. Ninety years later, the fur trade has diminished and the magazine's name has become slang for female genitals.
Readers complained that Internet filters were blocking emails and newsletters from The Beaver, Reid said. The society also had concerns about attracting readers.
"Market research showed us that younger Canadians and women were very very unlikely to ever buy a magazine called The Beaver no matter what it's about," said Reid, adding he has mixed feelings about the name change. "For whatever reasons, they are turned off by the name."
Print subscriptions to the Winnipeg-based magazine, which publishes six issues a year, range between 45,000 and 50,000. It is published by Canada's National History Society.
Changing the name also makes sense because the fur trade, while an important part of early Canadian history, isn't meaningful to all Canadians today, especially as the population's makeup has changed through immigration, Reid said. Readers have been generally understanding about the need for the change, he said.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MAIN TOPIC:
WHAT IT DO! – Ladainian Tomlinson and his ridiculous music video.
NFL Playoffs:
Cowboys - Vikings: Cowboys 33 Vikings 30
Colts - Ravens: Colts 27 Ravens 14
Saints - Cardinals: Saints 27 Cardinals 24
Jets - Chargers – Chargers 38 Jets 19
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) – Clip 17 - Her infamous rendition of "Der Holle Rache" - Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria from "The Magic Flute". This woman was simply born too soon, she was clearly decades ahead of her time, as her high lack of self-awareness would have her perfectly at home on American Idol or Jersey Shore.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jenkins received music lessons as a child, and expressed a desire to go abroad to study music. Her wealthy (and reasonable) father refused to pay the bill, so she eloped to Philadelphia with Frank Thornton Jenkins, a medical doctor. The two divorced in 1902. She earned a living there as a teacher and pianist. Upon her father's death in 1909, Jenkins inherited a sum of money which allowed her to take up the singing career that had been discouraged by her parents and former husband. She became involved in the musical life of Philadelphia, and later New York City, where she founded and funded the Verdi Club, took singing lessons, and began to give recitals, her first in 1912.
From her recordings, it is apparent that Jenkins had little sense of pitch and rhythm and was barely capable of sustaining a note. Her accompanist can be heard making adjustments to compensate for her tempo variations and rhythmic mistakes. Her dubious diction, especially in foreign language songs, is also noteworthy. Nonetheless, she became tremendously popular in her unconventional way. Her audiences apparently loved her for the amusement she provided rather than her musical ability. Critics often described her work in a backhanded way that may have served to pique public curiosity.
Despite her patent lack of ability, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her greatness. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the laughter which often came from the audience during her performances as coming from her rivals consumed by "professional jealousy." She was aware of her critics, however, saying "People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing."
The music Jenkins tackled in her recitals was a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire such as Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and Johann Strauss among others (all of which were well beyond her technical ability and songs composed by herself or her accompanist, Mr. Cosmé McMoon, who reportedly made faces at Jenkins behind her back to get laughs.
Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, she would throw flowers into the audience while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After each performance Cosmé McMoon would collect these flowers from the auditorium in readiness for redistribution at the next one.
After a taxicab crash in 1943 she found she could sing "a higher F than ever before." Instead of a lawsuit against the taxicab company, she sent the driver a box of expensive cigars.
In spite of public demand for more appearances, Jenkins restricted her rare performances to a few favorite venues, and her annual recital at the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in New York City. Attendance at her recitals was always limited to her loyal clubwomen and a select few others – she handled distribution of the coveted tickets herself. At the age of 76, Jenkins finally yielded to public demand and performed at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 1944. So anticipated was the performance that tickets for the event sold out weeks in advance. Jenkins died a month later.
Her career was the subject of the 2004 play, “Souvenir”, written by Stephen Temperley; the Broadway singer Judy Kaye commented that "It's hard work to sing badly well. You could sing badly badly for a while but you'll hurt yourself if you do it for long."
She had a Posthumously released album titled “The Glory (????) of the Human Voice.” Its liner notes recount the history of Florence Foster Jenkins, "the first lady of the sliding scale." The socialite appears on the cover in one of her many recital costumes, "Angel of Inspiration."
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog” (and “Almost Famous”)
Imelda Marcos:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
What is the best Candy Bar of all time?
Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?
Is Washington a good place for Mike Shanahan?
Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks? Is this a move because he wanted the challenge of an NFL gig, or is it rats fleeing the Titanic?
Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?
Imelda Marcos:
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Sufjan Stevens – “Illinoise” (Casimir Pulaski Day – Clip 17)
(Next Week – Wilco – Sky Blue Sky (White Light – Clip 20)
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Today on Vertically Striped Radio: NFL Playoffs! Only 7 games left in the NFL season unless you count the Pro Bowl…and if you count the Pro Bowl, you probably use IRC Chat. We’ll chat up the playoffs as well as try to figure out what in God’s name Ladainian Tomlinson is doing…I’ll explain in a bit. We’ll talk about a woman who would have been all about American Idol if such a program had existed in the roaring 20’s. The American Kennel Club released a list of Top 10 dogs in pop culture, we’ll see how many of these dogs our callers can name on this ridiculous list. Do you know who Imelda Marcos is? If not, you will by the end of the show. Could you bet EVERYTHING on one spin of roulette? We’ll talk a bit about one guy who did. Of course, we have a fresh batch of news and yet another music recommendation for the betterment of your musical knowledge and refinement…or something like that. Plus your calls…if, you know, you want to call in.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
If you’d like to chat with the show and it’s listeners as Vertically Striped Radio broadcasts live, you can point your internet machine over to DAMNradio.blogspot.com where there is a chat room open for your convenience.
1. Stopping at a flashing yellow.
2. Stopping at a continuous merging lane.
3. Driving the speed limit or slower in the left lane.
4. Getting over into my lane directly in front of me and then slowing down.
5. Three Words: No turn signal
6. Braking for no logical reason
7. Not pulling into the intersection to turn left when the light is green but you don’t have a green arrow.
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.
The owner of the advertising screen, which sits atop a main road about two km (1.2 miles) south of the Kremlin, told the state-run RIA news agency that hackers had broken into the screen's computer system and turned on the porn.
"They were either acting out of hooliganism or were from a rival company," Viktor Laptev, commercial director of advertising firm Panno.ru, told RIA.
A short clip showing cars slowing to a halt to look at the screen sprung up on youtube.com and internet sites Friday across Russia, a country which banned nudity on television before the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
PODGORICA (Reuters) –Montenegro, the small European Nation just south of Serbia and Bosnia has a problem. It appears that Montenegro's only hippopotamus has escaped from the mountainous nation's zoo during floods this week, officials said Wednesday.
The two-ton female hippo called Nikica broke out of her cage and swam away after seasonal floods hit the zoo just outside the Montenegrin capital Podgorica,
The Zoo manager says, "She remains at large, but one of the guards is keeping an eye on her and is feeding her daily."
The hippo found a dry spot a mile away from the zoo as shelter from cold flood waters. Zoo management said that zoo guards would have to wait until the water recedes to try to lure the animal back to its enclosure with food.
In its native Africa, hippos (the world’s third largest land mammal) are considered aggressive and dangerous. But zoo owner Nikola Pejovic said that the Hippo Nikica was not a threat to people.
"People like her, and she is used to people, villagers are bringing her fresh hay," he said.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canada's second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers.
The Beaver was founded in 1920 as a publication of the Hudson's Bay Company, then a fur trader and now a department store chain. It has long since become a broader magazine about Canadian history and will change its name to Canada's History with its
April issue, editor-in-chief Mark Reid said on Tuesday.
When The Beaver started publication, the name evoked only Canada's thriving fur industry. Ninety years later, the fur trade has diminished and the magazine's name has become slang for female genitals.
Readers complained that Internet filters were blocking emails and newsletters from The Beaver, Reid said. The society also had concerns about attracting readers.
"Market research showed us that younger Canadians and women were very very unlikely to ever buy a magazine called The Beaver no matter what it's about," said Reid, adding he has mixed feelings about the name change. "For whatever reasons, they are turned off by the name."
Print subscriptions to the Winnipeg-based magazine, which publishes six issues a year, range between 45,000 and 50,000. It is published by Canada's National History Society.
Changing the name also makes sense because the fur trade, while an important part of early Canadian history, isn't meaningful to all Canadians today, especially as the population's makeup has changed through immigration, Reid said. Readers have been generally understanding about the need for the change, he said.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MAIN TOPIC:
WHAT IT DO! – Ladainian Tomlinson and his ridiculous music video.
NFL Playoffs:
Cowboys - Vikings: Cowboys 33 Vikings 30
Colts - Ravens: Colts 27 Ravens 14
Saints - Cardinals: Saints 27 Cardinals 24
Jets - Chargers – Chargers 38 Jets 19
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) – Clip 17 - Her infamous rendition of "Der Holle Rache" - Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria from "The Magic Flute". This woman was simply born too soon, she was clearly decades ahead of her time, as her high lack of self-awareness would have her perfectly at home on American Idol or Jersey Shore.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jenkins received music lessons as a child, and expressed a desire to go abroad to study music. Her wealthy (and reasonable) father refused to pay the bill, so she eloped to Philadelphia with Frank Thornton Jenkins, a medical doctor. The two divorced in 1902. She earned a living there as a teacher and pianist. Upon her father's death in 1909, Jenkins inherited a sum of money which allowed her to take up the singing career that had been discouraged by her parents and former husband. She became involved in the musical life of Philadelphia, and later New York City, where she founded and funded the Verdi Club, took singing lessons, and began to give recitals, her first in 1912.
From her recordings, it is apparent that Jenkins had little sense of pitch and rhythm and was barely capable of sustaining a note. Her accompanist can be heard making adjustments to compensate for her tempo variations and rhythmic mistakes. Her dubious diction, especially in foreign language songs, is also noteworthy. Nonetheless, she became tremendously popular in her unconventional way. Her audiences apparently loved her for the amusement she provided rather than her musical ability. Critics often described her work in a backhanded way that may have served to pique public curiosity.
Despite her patent lack of ability, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her greatness. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the laughter which often came from the audience during her performances as coming from her rivals consumed by "professional jealousy." She was aware of her critics, however, saying "People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing."
The music Jenkins tackled in her recitals was a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire such as Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and Johann Strauss among others (all of which were well beyond her technical ability and songs composed by herself or her accompanist, Mr. Cosmé McMoon, who reportedly made faces at Jenkins behind her back to get laughs.
Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, she would throw flowers into the audience while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After each performance Cosmé McMoon would collect these flowers from the auditorium in readiness for redistribution at the next one.
After a taxicab crash in 1943 she found she could sing "a higher F than ever before." Instead of a lawsuit against the taxicab company, she sent the driver a box of expensive cigars.
In spite of public demand for more appearances, Jenkins restricted her rare performances to a few favorite venues, and her annual recital at the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in New York City. Attendance at her recitals was always limited to her loyal clubwomen and a select few others – she handled distribution of the coveted tickets herself. At the age of 76, Jenkins finally yielded to public demand and performed at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 1944. So anticipated was the performance that tickets for the event sold out weeks in advance. Jenkins died a month later.
Her career was the subject of the 2004 play, “Souvenir”, written by Stephen Temperley; the Broadway singer Judy Kaye commented that "It's hard work to sing badly well. You could sing badly badly for a while but you'll hurt yourself if you do it for long."
She had a Posthumously released album titled “The Glory (????) of the Human Voice.” Its liner notes recount the history of Florence Foster Jenkins, "the first lady of the sliding scale." The socialite appears on the cover in one of her many recital costumes, "Angel of Inspiration."
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog” (and “Almost Famous”)
Imelda Marcos:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
What is the best Candy Bar of all time?
Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?
Is Washington a good place for Mike Shanahan?
Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks? Is this a move because he wanted the challenge of an NFL gig, or is it rats fleeing the Titanic?
Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?
Imelda Marcos:
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Sufjan Stevens – “Illinoise” (Casimir Pulaski Day – Clip 17)
(Next Week – Wilco – Sky Blue Sky (White Light – Clip 20)
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Show Prep #33
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the show whose motto is “Over-Produce and Under-Deliver” this is Vertically Striped Radio, I am your host Craig Dodge aka the Hedgehog! VSR is brought to you today, as always, by VerticallyStripedSocks.com, but I am pleased to announce that we have a new sponsor who has purchased some ad time, we’ll get to them in a little while, but first…Today I am pumped even if it is tinted with a twinge of sadness, for this is a great period of time we are living in and it will be over all too soon. It’s playoffs, baby! NFL playoffs have arrived with a series of four games this weekend which have already kicked off with the Bengals and Jets…and if my attention is somewhat lacking today, please know it’s because the game is most definitely on in the background. I love the NFL, and even though my beloved Broncos are sitting this one out since they decided like putting forth an effort in the second half of the season was beneath them…I’m still very excited about the fact that the best football of the year is here. The hors d’ oeuvres that are the NCAA season are behind us, and we are entering a time that may be my favorite of the entire year. We’ll talk a little playoffs today, to be sure, but before we get to that…I was at the local grocery store called King Soopers yesterday when it struck me…
(Anti-Math at the Grocery Store) – I’ve got a beef with grocery stores. I’m not sure why they need to make everything so annoyingly confusing. Perhaps not all grocers do this, but the store I frequent has taken to pricing everything in a manner that requires me to do complicated mental math if I want to know how much I’m paying per item. 17 yogurts for $6.75? Great, how much for just one yogurt? I’m not buying 17 of them. I don’t care how much it costs to buy 5 rolls of paper towels, I’m only buying 1. When I become King of all the World…I’m pretty sure that’s about to happen, by the way, I will decree that all stores across the land will be forced to list prices per 1 item. I don’t want to have to be packing a calculator when I go to the grocery store. Drives me crazy…anyway…
Today on Vertically Striped Radio:
We’ll talk about the NFL playoffs and ask the question, “If you HAD to bet your life on one Wildcard team this weekend, who would it be?” and I’ll break down what I want to have happen this weekend in the NFL wildcard playoff games, not necessarily what will happen, though. And seriously, Only 11 more games remain in the NFL season, let’s take a moment this Wild Card Saturday and appreciate what we have before it’s vanishes into the thin air of the longest and worst offseason in sports. I have a story about the spiritual ancestor of William Huang and the assorted non-talents who dominate the first few weeks of American Idol. This week, I will actually play the spectacular rant against neck-ties that I spoke of last week, but never got around to actually playing last week. Mike Shanahan is officially the latest Redskins savior, we can talk about that a bit, maybe. Plus, while I did talk a few weeks back about people apologizing for things they don’t need to apologize for, I have an apology to the world that I absolutely must offer for a transgression that I need to be absolved for. I’ll bear my soul and pray for forgiveness on the show today…All that, plus your calls if you are bold and courageous enough to dial in.
Could you bet EVERYTHING on one spin of roulette? We’ll talk a bit about one guy who did.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
ROME (Reuters) – A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year's Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported on Friday.
The 35-year old Sicilian first showed up at a police station on Thursday asking to be arrested because he preferred spending the night in prison rather than with his family, but was rebuffed because he had not committed a crime, the Agi news agency said.
The man immediately went to a tobacco shop next door, where he threatened the owner with a box cutter as he grabbed a few sweets and a packet of gum. He then waited until police arrived to arrest him for robbery, the news agency said.
LONDON (Reuters) – A United Airlines pilot admitted in court on Tuesday that he had turned up at London's Heathrow Airport to fly a plane to Chicago while three times over the alcohol limit.
Erwin Washington, 51, of Lakewood, Colorado, had been due to captain a Boeing 767 bound for Chicago last November with 124 passengers and 11 crew members when a colleague smelled alcohol on his breath.
The flight was "imminent" when police arrived and arrested him. A breath test recorded a reading of 31 micrograms of alcohol per 100 milliliters of breath. The legal limit is nine micrograms.
When arrested Washington, who has a military background, replied: "Okay, fine."
He pleaded guilty at London's Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Tuesday to being above the alcohol limit for flying a plane, the Press Association reported. His lawyer Chris Humphreys said the pilot was "remorseful."
Humphreys told the court that legislation relating to airline staff over the legal alcohol limit for flying had only been used seven times. "There are, thankfully, very few cases of this sort," he said.
Washington will be sentenced on February 5 and was released on unconditional bail.
United Airlines said he had been suspended pending a full investigation.
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police have uncovered at least 25 kilos of heroin hidden in boxes of plantains destined for the shelves of Madrid supermarkets, local media reported on Sunday.
A worker at the low-cost Lidl supermarket found a brick of the drug as he unloaded a box of the fruit, which is related to the banana, on Saturday morning.
Police were alerted and hunted around all the Lidl branches in the Madrid region as well as the main city market. Sniffer dogs found up to 25 packets of the drug.
"Two or three police cars came and they went straight to the bananas to search them," said an employee at one Lidl store.
Lidl has removed all the plantains, which had come from Ivory Coast and Ecuador, from its shops.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
Before we kick off the main discussion of the day…let’s take a moment to hear from our new sponsor. We’ll be right back after this short but important message! (Clip 19)
MAIN TOPIC:
NFL Playoffs:
Bengals-Jets:
New York Jets at Cincinnati – (Sportsbook.com Line: Bengals by 2.5) I feel like Vizzini in the “Princess Bride” trying to discern whether the Jets or the Bengals contain the Iocane powder. “On one hand, the Jets have a rookie quarterback and got lucky with the schedule or else they would never have made the playoffs, So I can clearly not choose the Jets in front of me. On the other hand, the Jets have a ton of confidence after just lambasting the Bengals only days ago, so I can clearly not choose the Bengals in front of you. Of course, only a great fool chooses a rookie quarterback on the road in the playoffs, I am not a great fool, so I clearly cannot choose the Jets in front of me!” Cue the Man in Black, “So you’ve made your decision then?” Me: “Not remotely! Because the Bengals come from Cincinnati, as everyone knows, the Cincinnati Bengals are entirely populated with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as the Bengals are not trusted by me. So clearly, I cannot select the Bengals in front of you! (Truly I have a dizzying intellect.) If you think I’m just stalling right now, you’re absolutely right, although I don’t think that the teams are going to give anything away in the next few days leading up to this game so I choose…“What in the world can that be!” Okay, so I am clueless on this game. I have no feel at all for what I think is going to happen in this game but I’m taking New York. Truth be told, I hate both of these teams, and I’m playing the Jets on a slight hunch. Although, I suspect that the Bengals and the Jets both contain Iocane Powder. Jets 17 Bengals 14
Cowboys-Eagles: Cowboys 37 Eagles 20
Patriots-Ravens: Patriots 23 Ravens 13
Packers-Cardinals: Packers 30 Cardinals 23
I love playoffs, but this is a pretty weak group of matchups, isn’t it?
If you’d have to pick one team to bet your life upon…who would it be out of this group of 8? For me, probably the Cowboys, MAYBE the Packers.
I have to apologize…for wearing a Yankee hat.
Dan LeBatard hates ties – (Clip 20) If you spend any time around me at all, you’ll know that I hate tradition for tradition sake. I hate it when people do something just because it’s the way it’s always been done. Also, I hate dressing up…which is why I found so much to enjoy in this rant from Dan LeBatard on his show a while back…
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) – Clip 17 - Her infamous rendition of "Der Holle Rache" - Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria from "The Magic Flute". This woman was simply born too soon, she was clearly decades ahead of her time, as her high lack of self-awareness would have her perfectly at home on American Idol or Jersey Shore.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jenkins received music lessons as a child, and expressed a desire to go abroad to study music. Her wealthy (and reasonable) father refused to pay the bill, so she eloped to Philadelphia with Frank Thornton Jenkins, a medical doctor. The two divorced in 1902. She earned a living there as a teacher and pianist. Upon her father's death in 1909, Jenkins inherited a sum of money which allowed her to take up the singing career that had been discouraged by her parents and former husband. She became involved in the musical life of Philadelphia, and later New York City, where she founded and funded the Verdi Club, took singing lessons, and began to give recitals, her first in 1912.
From her recordings, it is apparent that Jenkins had little sense of pitch and rhythm and was barely capable of sustaining a note. Her accompanist can be heard making adjustments to compensate for her tempo variations and rhythmic mistakes. Her dubious diction, especially in foreign language songs, is also noteworthy. Nonetheless, she became tremendously popular in her unconventional way. Her audiences apparently loved her for the amusement she provided rather than her musical ability. Critics often described her work in a backhanded way that may have served to pique public curiosity.
Despite her patent lack of ability, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her greatness. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the laughter which often came from the audience during her performances as coming from her rivals consumed by "professional jealousy." She was aware of her critics, however, saying "People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing."
The music Jenkins tackled in her recitals was a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire such as Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and Johann Strauss among others (all of which were well beyond her technical ability and songs composed by herself or her accompanist, Mr. Cosmé McMoon, who reportedly made faces at Jenkins behind her back to get laughs.
Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, she would throw flowers into the audience while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After each performance Cosmé McMoon would collect these flowers from the auditorium in readiness for redistribution at the next one.
After a taxicab crash in 1943 she found she could sing "a higher F than ever before." Instead of a lawsuit against the taxicab company, she sent the driver a box of expensive cigars.
In spite of public demand for more appearances, Jenkins restricted her rare performances to a few favorite venues, and her annual recital at the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in New York City. Attendance at her recitals was always limited to her loyal clubwomen and a select few others – she handled distribution of the coveted tickets herself. At the age of 76, Jenkins finally yielded to public demand and performed at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 1944. So anticipated was the performance that tickets for the event sold out weeks in advance. Jenkins died a month later.
Her career was the subject of the 2004 play, “Souvenir”, written by Stephen Temperley; the Broadway singer Judy Kaye commented that "It's hard work to sing badly well. You could sing badly badly for a while but you'll hurt yourself if you do it for long."
She had a Posthumously released album titled “The Glory (????) of the Human Voice.” Its liner notes recount the history of Florence Foster Jenkins, "the first lady of the sliding scale." The socialite appears on the cover in one of her many recital costumes, "Angel of Inspiration."
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog” (and “Almost Famous”)
Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?
Is Washington a good place for Mike Shanahan?
Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks?
Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Against Me! – New Wave
This album was released in 2008, and at the time Against Me! Had build up a pretty good following as a punk band. This new album was much more produced and had a totally different musical feel than their previous stuff…which actually led a lot of their fans to get angry. They felt betrayed, as if Against Me! Had violated their previous ethic and sold out to the man trying to get a bigger audience and more money. The band acknowledged that this music was different than what they had done in the past, but that they were changing as people and musicians and wanted to grow. So know that this album has some controversy, as many of their early fans dislike this new direction. I however, found it to be some really good stuff. It can be angry and edgy in a lot of their stuff, but it’s some solid music that I truly enjoy.
I’m going to play their most famous song on the album, “Thrash Unreal” but there is a lot of other stuff on here that is worth checking out, so if you get it, get the WHOLE album. Which of course is how I usually roll with artists anway.
I’d like to thank (mention any callers here) AND Major Minority for his gifts and
Shalom and Good Evening to you all! (Clip 17 – The Perfect Space)
(Anti-Math at the Grocery Store) – I’ve got a beef with grocery stores. I’m not sure why they need to make everything so annoyingly confusing. Perhaps not all grocers do this, but the store I frequent has taken to pricing everything in a manner that requires me to do complicated mental math if I want to know how much I’m paying per item. 17 yogurts for $6.75? Great, how much for just one yogurt? I’m not buying 17 of them. I don’t care how much it costs to buy 5 rolls of paper towels, I’m only buying 1. When I become King of all the World…I’m pretty sure that’s about to happen, by the way, I will decree that all stores across the land will be forced to list prices per 1 item. I don’t want to have to be packing a calculator when I go to the grocery store. Drives me crazy…anyway…
Today on Vertically Striped Radio:
We’ll talk about the NFL playoffs and ask the question, “If you HAD to bet your life on one Wildcard team this weekend, who would it be?” and I’ll break down what I want to have happen this weekend in the NFL wildcard playoff games, not necessarily what will happen, though. And seriously, Only 11 more games remain in the NFL season, let’s take a moment this Wild Card Saturday and appreciate what we have before it’s vanishes into the thin air of the longest and worst offseason in sports. I have a story about the spiritual ancestor of William Huang and the assorted non-talents who dominate the first few weeks of American Idol. This week, I will actually play the spectacular rant against neck-ties that I spoke of last week, but never got around to actually playing last week. Mike Shanahan is officially the latest Redskins savior, we can talk about that a bit, maybe. Plus, while I did talk a few weeks back about people apologizing for things they don’t need to apologize for, I have an apology to the world that I absolutely must offer for a transgression that I need to be absolved for. I’ll bear my soul and pray for forgiveness on the show today…All that, plus your calls if you are bold and courageous enough to dial in.
Could you bet EVERYTHING on one spin of roulette? We’ll talk a bit about one guy who did.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
ROME (Reuters) – A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year's Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported on Friday.
The 35-year old Sicilian first showed up at a police station on Thursday asking to be arrested because he preferred spending the night in prison rather than with his family, but was rebuffed because he had not committed a crime, the Agi news agency said.
The man immediately went to a tobacco shop next door, where he threatened the owner with a box cutter as he grabbed a few sweets and a packet of gum. He then waited until police arrived to arrest him for robbery, the news agency said.
LONDON (Reuters) – A United Airlines pilot admitted in court on Tuesday that he had turned up at London's Heathrow Airport to fly a plane to Chicago while three times over the alcohol limit.
Erwin Washington, 51, of Lakewood, Colorado, had been due to captain a Boeing 767 bound for Chicago last November with 124 passengers and 11 crew members when a colleague smelled alcohol on his breath.
The flight was "imminent" when police arrived and arrested him. A breath test recorded a reading of 31 micrograms of alcohol per 100 milliliters of breath. The legal limit is nine micrograms.
When arrested Washington, who has a military background, replied: "Okay, fine."
He pleaded guilty at London's Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Tuesday to being above the alcohol limit for flying a plane, the Press Association reported. His lawyer Chris Humphreys said the pilot was "remorseful."
Humphreys told the court that legislation relating to airline staff over the legal alcohol limit for flying had only been used seven times. "There are, thankfully, very few cases of this sort," he said.
Washington will be sentenced on February 5 and was released on unconditional bail.
United Airlines said he had been suspended pending a full investigation.
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police have uncovered at least 25 kilos of heroin hidden in boxes of plantains destined for the shelves of Madrid supermarkets, local media reported on Sunday.
A worker at the low-cost Lidl supermarket found a brick of the drug as he unloaded a box of the fruit, which is related to the banana, on Saturday morning.
Police were alerted and hunted around all the Lidl branches in the Madrid region as well as the main city market. Sniffer dogs found up to 25 packets of the drug.
"Two or three police cars came and they went straight to the bananas to search them," said an employee at one Lidl store.
Lidl has removed all the plantains, which had come from Ivory Coast and Ecuador, from its shops.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
Before we kick off the main discussion of the day…let’s take a moment to hear from our new sponsor. We’ll be right back after this short but important message! (Clip 19)
MAIN TOPIC:
NFL Playoffs:
Bengals-Jets:
New York Jets at Cincinnati – (Sportsbook.com Line: Bengals by 2.5) I feel like Vizzini in the “Princess Bride” trying to discern whether the Jets or the Bengals contain the Iocane powder. “On one hand, the Jets have a rookie quarterback and got lucky with the schedule or else they would never have made the playoffs, So I can clearly not choose the Jets in front of me. On the other hand, the Jets have a ton of confidence after just lambasting the Bengals only days ago, so I can clearly not choose the Bengals in front of you. Of course, only a great fool chooses a rookie quarterback on the road in the playoffs, I am not a great fool, so I clearly cannot choose the Jets in front of me!” Cue the Man in Black, “So you’ve made your decision then?” Me: “Not remotely! Because the Bengals come from Cincinnati, as everyone knows, the Cincinnati Bengals are entirely populated with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as the Bengals are not trusted by me. So clearly, I cannot select the Bengals in front of you! (Truly I have a dizzying intellect.) If you think I’m just stalling right now, you’re absolutely right, although I don’t think that the teams are going to give anything away in the next few days leading up to this game so I choose…“What in the world can that be!” Okay, so I am clueless on this game. I have no feel at all for what I think is going to happen in this game but I’m taking New York. Truth be told, I hate both of these teams, and I’m playing the Jets on a slight hunch. Although, I suspect that the Bengals and the Jets both contain Iocane Powder. Jets 17 Bengals 14
Cowboys-Eagles: Cowboys 37 Eagles 20
Patriots-Ravens: Patriots 23 Ravens 13
Packers-Cardinals: Packers 30 Cardinals 23
I love playoffs, but this is a pretty weak group of matchups, isn’t it?
If you’d have to pick one team to bet your life upon…who would it be out of this group of 8? For me, probably the Cowboys, MAYBE the Packers.
I have to apologize…for wearing a Yankee hat.
Dan LeBatard hates ties – (Clip 20) If you spend any time around me at all, you’ll know that I hate tradition for tradition sake. I hate it when people do something just because it’s the way it’s always been done. Also, I hate dressing up…which is why I found so much to enjoy in this rant from Dan LeBatard on his show a while back…
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) – Clip 17 - Her infamous rendition of "Der Holle Rache" - Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria from "The Magic Flute". This woman was simply born too soon, she was clearly decades ahead of her time, as her high lack of self-awareness would have her perfectly at home on American Idol or Jersey Shore.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jenkins received music lessons as a child, and expressed a desire to go abroad to study music. Her wealthy (and reasonable) father refused to pay the bill, so she eloped to Philadelphia with Frank Thornton Jenkins, a medical doctor. The two divorced in 1902. She earned a living there as a teacher and pianist. Upon her father's death in 1909, Jenkins inherited a sum of money which allowed her to take up the singing career that had been discouraged by her parents and former husband. She became involved in the musical life of Philadelphia, and later New York City, where she founded and funded the Verdi Club, took singing lessons, and began to give recitals, her first in 1912.
From her recordings, it is apparent that Jenkins had little sense of pitch and rhythm and was barely capable of sustaining a note. Her accompanist can be heard making adjustments to compensate for her tempo variations and rhythmic mistakes. Her dubious diction, especially in foreign language songs, is also noteworthy. Nonetheless, she became tremendously popular in her unconventional way. Her audiences apparently loved her for the amusement she provided rather than her musical ability. Critics often described her work in a backhanded way that may have served to pique public curiosity.
Despite her patent lack of ability, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her greatness. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the laughter which often came from the audience during her performances as coming from her rivals consumed by "professional jealousy." She was aware of her critics, however, saying "People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing."
The music Jenkins tackled in her recitals was a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire such as Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and Johann Strauss among others (all of which were well beyond her technical ability and songs composed by herself or her accompanist, Mr. Cosmé McMoon, who reportedly made faces at Jenkins behind her back to get laughs.
Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, she would throw flowers into the audience while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After each performance Cosmé McMoon would collect these flowers from the auditorium in readiness for redistribution at the next one.
After a taxicab crash in 1943 she found she could sing "a higher F than ever before." Instead of a lawsuit against the taxicab company, she sent the driver a box of expensive cigars.
In spite of public demand for more appearances, Jenkins restricted her rare performances to a few favorite venues, and her annual recital at the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in New York City. Attendance at her recitals was always limited to her loyal clubwomen and a select few others – she handled distribution of the coveted tickets herself. At the age of 76, Jenkins finally yielded to public demand and performed at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 1944. So anticipated was the performance that tickets for the event sold out weeks in advance. Jenkins died a month later.
Her career was the subject of the 2004 play, “Souvenir”, written by Stephen Temperley; the Broadway singer Judy Kaye commented that "It's hard work to sing badly well. You could sing badly badly for a while but you'll hurt yourself if you do it for long."
She had a Posthumously released album titled “The Glory (????) of the Human Voice.” Its liner notes recount the history of Florence Foster Jenkins, "the first lady of the sliding scale." The socialite appears on the cover in one of her many recital costumes, "Angel of Inspiration."
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog” (and “Almost Famous”)
Who is the best opponent in Mike Tyson’s punchout?
Is Washington a good place for Mike Shanahan?
Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seahawks?
Is the Rooney Rule a good idea?
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Against Me! – New Wave
This album was released in 2008, and at the time Against Me! Had build up a pretty good following as a punk band. This new album was much more produced and had a totally different musical feel than their previous stuff…which actually led a lot of their fans to get angry. They felt betrayed, as if Against Me! Had violated their previous ethic and sold out to the man trying to get a bigger audience and more money. The band acknowledged that this music was different than what they had done in the past, but that they were changing as people and musicians and wanted to grow. So know that this album has some controversy, as many of their early fans dislike this new direction. I however, found it to be some really good stuff. It can be angry and edgy in a lot of their stuff, but it’s some solid music that I truly enjoy.
I’m going to play their most famous song on the album, “Thrash Unreal” but there is a lot of other stuff on here that is worth checking out, so if you get it, get the WHOLE album. Which of course is how I usually roll with artists anway.
I’d like to thank (mention any callers here) AND Major Minority for his gifts and
Shalom and Good Evening to you all! (Clip 17 – The Perfect Space)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Show Prep #32
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the show that’s ranked in the top 3 of the Ed Times “Shows That Suck” list. This is Vertically Striped Radio. I am your host, Craig “Hedgehog” Dodge…winner of the coveted 2009 Eddie for Best Message Board Kid. This is Episode 32 of Vertically Striped Radio…which is somewhat of a milestone number for me, because 32 is one of my favorite numbers. Why would that be? Would it help you to guess if I told you I like number thirty-two written like this…”XXXII” Yup, if you haven’t put it together…Super Bowl 32 was my favorite sporting event of all time. I’ll probably never have another game as a fan in which I’m THAT excited about the result. I don’t think I went to sleep that night until two or three in the morning. I was clearly over the moon. Alas, It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a sports high like that, but It’s worth remembering as we celebrate Episode #32 of the program.
Anyhow, Quite a week for me, Ed not only awarded me with a prestigious Eddie award, he also gave me the nickname “Hedgehog.” I don’t know what that could possibly mean, but I dig it. It cracks me up. Vertically Striped Radio is brought to you by VerticallyStripedSocks.com where currently you can read about and watch video clips of the odd lights that appeared in the Skies of Norway back in December. I don’t know if you have seen anything about these before, but they are pretty bizarre. I’m dying for Mike Dell to provide a conspiracy segment about them. The official story is that the strange lights are the result of a failed Russian missile test launch, but that story is beyond unbelievable when you see the photos and video of what went down. It’s interesting, and for the record…I have zero idea what it was either, I just find it to be pretty darn interesting.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio:
We have a magnificent seven list of the top seven stories in sports, the news, and in the Shek Republic for 2009. We have a Great Moment in the History of Blog Talk Radio. The American Kennel Club has nominated the top 10 dogs in Pop Culture…strange list it is, too. Playoff hope is alive, but barely for the Broncos. Plus I have a spectacular rant to play against neck-ties. The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation is an album that I just discovered and have quickly become obsessed with, plus of course, the news. If you would like to join in the festivities today, you may of course do so, the number to call is…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
…and if you should call in today, the question is…”What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten with a fork and knife?” Went to a burger joint with my wife yesterday, and it’s a place that makes burgers fancier than they probably have a right to be. My burger had corn and bean salsa on it, and it was impossible to eat the thing like a burger…I finally had to break down and eat it Costanza Candy-Bar style…on a plate with a knife and fork. I felt fully ridiculous, but hey, whatcha gonna do? So anyway, if you feel like calling in with a story of the strangest thing you have ever eaten with a fork…please do so!
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
NEW YORK – A Web designer says she was struck by the decor at a New York City restaurant — when it fell on her head. Raina Kumra says in a negligence lawsuit filed last week that a 150-pound stuffed moose head with 3-foot-wide antlers plummeted off a wall at the Scandinavian-themed White Slab Palace on Oct. 4 and hit her. She says she suffered a concussion and other injuries.
The owner of the Manhattan restaurant hasn't returned a telephone message left by The Associated Press. Nor has Kumra, who's representing herself in the case.
Kumra filed her lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. She's seeking unspecified damages.
Here’s what I find amazingly unbelievable about this story. Of all the places where you are likely to be injured by a 150 lb moose head falling on your head…how low down on the list is New York City? If you gave me a thousand guesses, I’m not sure we’d get to New York…the city that fancies itself the most important place on Earth sure seems like an unlikely place for a Moose head to hit you.
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian toy store opened at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning to help a frantic mother whose gifts for her children had been stolen from a basement.
After putting her two toddlers to bed on Christmas Eve, the mother went down to the basement storage room of the apartment block in northern Italy where she had hidden them, only to find that they had been stolen, according to Italian media reports.
Police found out about the theft while the mother was frantically making the rounds of all-night petrol stations looking for substitute gifts so her two daughters would have something under the tree when they woke up on Christmas morning.
The police contacted the owner of a toy store in a small town near Turin, who opened his store at 4 a.m.
How cool is this toy store owner? I love that story, and am happy that sort of thing can still happen in 2009.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row.
Police in Gavle, north of Stockholm, said an unknown number of attackers had torched the goat in the early morning hours, leaving a blackened skeleton standing in the town square.
"It's a tradition to burn it down," Lofberg said. "It's happened an untold number of times since the 1960s ... it's been burned down more years than it's survived."
Burning the goat has been a popular, and illegal, tradition in Gavle since the 1960s when an advertising executive first came up with the idea to endow the city with a giant replica of the goat, a Christmas decoration common in many Swedish homes.
There were no witnesses, but a bottle of lighter fluid was found near the goat's frame, which stood about 12 meters tall at the apex of its horns, police told Reuters.
"We have some leads," said Stefan Lofberg, who is leading the investigation for the Gavle police.
Police have tried a range of tactics to stop would-be arsonists, including posting guards near the straw goat, coating it with flame retardant and training security cameras on it.
But vandals have usually found a way around the foils and their assaults have become more elaborate: in recent years the goat has been run over, dragged into a river and attacked by arsonists dressed as Santa Claus and the Ginger Bread Man.
Flame retardant coating thwarted attempts to burn the goat in 2006, but the group sponsoring it then stopped flame-proofing it because of the ugly, brownish tinge its straw took on.
Goats have special meaning in Swedish Christmas tradition. Before Santa Claus became ubiquitous at the turn of the 20th century, men would dress up as goats and hand out presents to well-behaved children. Bad children received lumps of coal.
Police had tried a range of tactics to stop would be arsonists…however I have a sure-fire way to stop people from igniting a goat in the center of town, it will work better than flame retardant, security cameras, or posting guards…Are you ready? “STOP ERECTING A GIANT STRAW GOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY!!”
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MAIN TOPIC:
Magnificent Seven: 7 Big stories from 2009
News:
7. Congress fights trying to get a health care bill passed.
6. Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for…nothing?
5. Balloon Boy
4. Swine Flu
3. Obama becomes president
2. Tiger Woods car crash and subsequently his life falls apart
1. Michael Jackson dies
Sports:
7. Caster Semenya – Has to get tested for gender due to complaints that she is a he.
6. Courtney Lee misses a layup at the end of Game 2 of the NBA Finals that would have won the game for Orlando
5. Tom Watson ALMOST won the British Open
4. Olympic Hero Michael Phelps photographed taking a hit from a bong
3. Alex Rodriguez gets caught taking PED’s, then leads Yanks to World Series win.
2. Brett Favre as a Viking
1. Super Bowl 43 – James Harrison’s interception and touchdown to end the first half, the Cardinals coming back to take the lead
Shek Republic:
7. Skylar the Sass – His Mel Kiper Jr. Impersonation delights and he ruins the announcement of Studio 66 for Dave
6. Proliferation of DAMN BlogTalkRadio Shows starts in 2009: Elevation Radio in January, Barnstable Broadcast in February, Vertically Striped Radio in May, and The resumption of the No Name Show in June and the SE Sports Beat in September.
5. The Ed Games – Gambling Competitions, Football, Baseball, Basketball, and even Hockey and MMA games. Ed’s genius for sponsoring competition impresses and delights Dameshek.com
4. The Fantasy Comedy Competition: The fun of the draft, followed by some controversy regarding the tournament with the Ed…finished with Jerry Fairish winning it all thanks to his final pick of his Wild Card…Saturday Night Live.
3. The Ted Times prompts competition for the Ed Times and causes some angst to arise with The Ed.
2. Dave Dameshek joins Twitter – leads to a short but glorious revival of Hypothetical Horatio
1. Tina Fey gains entrance to the Land of the Fox, causing a lot of controversy
Great Moments in the history of Blog Talk Radio: Clip 21 – Mike Dell in the Summer of 2008 discussing why there is no way the Red Wings can possibly get back to the Stanley Cup Finals again…which sadly they did, although thankfully they did not win the Cup.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
Dan LeBatard hates ties – (Clip 20) If you spend any time around me at all, you’ll know that I hate tradition for tradition sake. I hate it when people do something just because it’s the way it’s always been done. Also, I hate dressing up…which is why I found so much to enjoy in this rant from Dan LeBatard on his show a while back…
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
You can call me Champion! – I won the Dameshek.com ESPN Fantasy league despite having the 16th overall pick and only being the 8th seed in the playoffs. Apparently a trophy is on it’s way, also I am starting to receive prizes from the other members of the league.
Bad Beat Story – My other fantasy league – 3rd place game worth $50 bucks. Adrian Peterson takes the lead, and then fumbles it away for me. Jerk.
Should the Colts have thrown in the towel in the 15th game of the year against the Jets?
I’m calling the Super Bowl Matchup – San Diego versus New Orleans
Anti-Math at the Grocery Store – I’ve got a beef with grocery stores. I’m not sure why they need to make everything so annoyingly confusing. Perhaps not all grocers do this, but the store I frequent has taken to pricing everything in a manner that requires me to do complicated mental math if I want to know how much I’m paying per item. 17 yogurts for $6.75? Great, how much for just one yogurt? I’m not buying 17 of them. I don’t care how much it costs to buy 5 rolls of paper towels, I’m only buying 1. When I become King of all the World…I’m pretty sure that’s about to happen, by the way, I will decree that all stores across the land will be forced to list prices per 1 item. I don’t want to do math when I go to the grocery store.
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog” (and “Almost Famous”)
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
The Avett Brothers – “I and Love and You” -
17 – The Perfect Space or 18 – I and Love and You
Okay, so I just discovered this band this week, but I’m addicted to listening to it. I heard the title track on the radio driving into work, and then listened to Brandon Dameshek on the LCS show mention the band, I downloaded the whole album, and it’s magnificent. I’m going to go out today with (The Perfect Space), but my absolute favorite song from the album is “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise” which I liked so much I posted it to my blog. If you like the song I’m going to play, go check out the other one on VerticallyStripedSocks.com, because it’s an AMAZING tune. This album is definitely slower, and several songs almost have a country feel to them (Or maybe saying bluegrass would be more appropriate), but despite the fact that I strongly dislike country, this is some of the best music I have heard all year. I flat out LOVE this album.
I’d like to thank (mention any callers here)
Shalom and Good Evening to you all! (Clip 17 – The Perfect Space)
Anyhow, Quite a week for me, Ed not only awarded me with a prestigious Eddie award, he also gave me the nickname “Hedgehog.” I don’t know what that could possibly mean, but I dig it. It cracks me up. Vertically Striped Radio is brought to you by VerticallyStripedSocks.com where currently you can read about and watch video clips of the odd lights that appeared in the Skies of Norway back in December. I don’t know if you have seen anything about these before, but they are pretty bizarre. I’m dying for Mike Dell to provide a conspiracy segment about them. The official story is that the strange lights are the result of a failed Russian missile test launch, but that story is beyond unbelievable when you see the photos and video of what went down. It’s interesting, and for the record…I have zero idea what it was either, I just find it to be pretty darn interesting.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio:
We have a magnificent seven list of the top seven stories in sports, the news, and in the Shek Republic for 2009. We have a Great Moment in the History of Blog Talk Radio. The American Kennel Club has nominated the top 10 dogs in Pop Culture…strange list it is, too. Playoff hope is alive, but barely for the Broncos. Plus I have a spectacular rant to play against neck-ties. The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation is an album that I just discovered and have quickly become obsessed with, plus of course, the news. If you would like to join in the festivities today, you may of course do so, the number to call is…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
…and if you should call in today, the question is…”What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten with a fork and knife?” Went to a burger joint with my wife yesterday, and it’s a place that makes burgers fancier than they probably have a right to be. My burger had corn and bean salsa on it, and it was impossible to eat the thing like a burger…I finally had to break down and eat it Costanza Candy-Bar style…on a plate with a knife and fork. I felt fully ridiculous, but hey, whatcha gonna do? So anyway, if you feel like calling in with a story of the strangest thing you have ever eaten with a fork…please do so!
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
NEW YORK – A Web designer says she was struck by the decor at a New York City restaurant — when it fell on her head. Raina Kumra says in a negligence lawsuit filed last week that a 150-pound stuffed moose head with 3-foot-wide antlers plummeted off a wall at the Scandinavian-themed White Slab Palace on Oct. 4 and hit her. She says she suffered a concussion and other injuries.
The owner of the Manhattan restaurant hasn't returned a telephone message left by The Associated Press. Nor has Kumra, who's representing herself in the case.
Kumra filed her lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. She's seeking unspecified damages.
Here’s what I find amazingly unbelievable about this story. Of all the places where you are likely to be injured by a 150 lb moose head falling on your head…how low down on the list is New York City? If you gave me a thousand guesses, I’m not sure we’d get to New York…the city that fancies itself the most important place on Earth sure seems like an unlikely place for a Moose head to hit you.
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian toy store opened at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning to help a frantic mother whose gifts for her children had been stolen from a basement.
After putting her two toddlers to bed on Christmas Eve, the mother went down to the basement storage room of the apartment block in northern Italy where she had hidden them, only to find that they had been stolen, according to Italian media reports.
Police found out about the theft while the mother was frantically making the rounds of all-night petrol stations looking for substitute gifts so her two daughters would have something under the tree when they woke up on Christmas morning.
The police contacted the owner of a toy store in a small town near Turin, who opened his store at 4 a.m.
How cool is this toy store owner? I love that story, and am happy that sort of thing can still happen in 2009.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row.
Police in Gavle, north of Stockholm, said an unknown number of attackers had torched the goat in the early morning hours, leaving a blackened skeleton standing in the town square.
"It's a tradition to burn it down," Lofberg said. "It's happened an untold number of times since the 1960s ... it's been burned down more years than it's survived."
Burning the goat has been a popular, and illegal, tradition in Gavle since the 1960s when an advertising executive first came up with the idea to endow the city with a giant replica of the goat, a Christmas decoration common in many Swedish homes.
There were no witnesses, but a bottle of lighter fluid was found near the goat's frame, which stood about 12 meters tall at the apex of its horns, police told Reuters.
"We have some leads," said Stefan Lofberg, who is leading the investigation for the Gavle police.
Police have tried a range of tactics to stop would-be arsonists, including posting guards near the straw goat, coating it with flame retardant and training security cameras on it.
But vandals have usually found a way around the foils and their assaults have become more elaborate: in recent years the goat has been run over, dragged into a river and attacked by arsonists dressed as Santa Claus and the Ginger Bread Man.
Flame retardant coating thwarted attempts to burn the goat in 2006, but the group sponsoring it then stopped flame-proofing it because of the ugly, brownish tinge its straw took on.
Goats have special meaning in Swedish Christmas tradition. Before Santa Claus became ubiquitous at the turn of the 20th century, men would dress up as goats and hand out presents to well-behaved children. Bad children received lumps of coal.
Police had tried a range of tactics to stop would be arsonists…however I have a sure-fire way to stop people from igniting a goat in the center of town, it will work better than flame retardant, security cameras, or posting guards…Are you ready? “STOP ERECTING A GIANT STRAW GOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY!!”
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
MAIN TOPIC:
Magnificent Seven: 7 Big stories from 2009
News:
7. Congress fights trying to get a health care bill passed.
6. Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for…nothing?
5. Balloon Boy
4. Swine Flu
3. Obama becomes president
2. Tiger Woods car crash and subsequently his life falls apart
1. Michael Jackson dies
Sports:
7. Caster Semenya – Has to get tested for gender due to complaints that she is a he.
6. Courtney Lee misses a layup at the end of Game 2 of the NBA Finals that would have won the game for Orlando
5. Tom Watson ALMOST won the British Open
4. Olympic Hero Michael Phelps photographed taking a hit from a bong
3. Alex Rodriguez gets caught taking PED’s, then leads Yanks to World Series win.
2. Brett Favre as a Viking
1. Super Bowl 43 – James Harrison’s interception and touchdown to end the first half, the Cardinals coming back to take the lead
Shek Republic:
7. Skylar the Sass – His Mel Kiper Jr. Impersonation delights and he ruins the announcement of Studio 66 for Dave
6. Proliferation of DAMN BlogTalkRadio Shows starts in 2009: Elevation Radio in January, Barnstable Broadcast in February, Vertically Striped Radio in May, and The resumption of the No Name Show in June and the SE Sports Beat in September.
5. The Ed Games – Gambling Competitions, Football, Baseball, Basketball, and even Hockey and MMA games. Ed’s genius for sponsoring competition impresses and delights Dameshek.com
4. The Fantasy Comedy Competition: The fun of the draft, followed by some controversy regarding the tournament with the Ed…finished with Jerry Fairish winning it all thanks to his final pick of his Wild Card…Saturday Night Live.
3. The Ted Times prompts competition for the Ed Times and causes some angst to arise with The Ed.
2. Dave Dameshek joins Twitter – leads to a short but glorious revival of Hypothetical Horatio
1. Tina Fey gains entrance to the Land of the Fox, causing a lot of controversy
Great Moments in the history of Blog Talk Radio: Clip 21 – Mike Dell in the Summer of 2008 discussing why there is no way the Red Wings can possibly get back to the Stanley Cup Finals again…which sadly they did, although thankfully they did not win the Cup.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The "Peanuts" comic strip character Snoopy was named the top dog in pop culture by the American Kennel Club on Tuesday as part of its 125th anniversary celebration, beating out a college sports mascot.
Nearly 76,000 online voters chose their favorites from a list of pop culture dogs drawn from television, film, literature, sports and art, the kennel club said.
Snoopy was the pensive dog whose best friend was a bird and who seemed to be smarter than his human master in the comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, who died in 2000.
"Peanuts," which for close to five decades served as a mirror for the baby boom generation, appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages. Its daily readership was believed to be the most of any comic strip in history.
Second place went to Texas A&M University's mascot Reveille, followed by Scooby Doo, the television cartoon character.
The top 10:
1. Snoopy
2. Texas A&M's Reveille
3. Scooby Doo
4. Eddie from the TV show "Frasier"
5. Pound Puppy toys
6. Painting "Dogs Playing Poker"
7. Song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window"
8. Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog
9. The song "Who Let the Dogs Out"
10. Brian Griffin from the animated TV show Family Guy
Dan LeBatard hates ties – (Clip 20) If you spend any time around me at all, you’ll know that I hate tradition for tradition sake. I hate it when people do something just because it’s the way it’s always been done. Also, I hate dressing up…which is why I found so much to enjoy in this rant from Dan LeBatard on his show a while back…
Ashley Revell - (born 1972) is a London resident who briefly achieved fame for selling all his possessions (including all his clothes) and gambling US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004.
Revell won his bet (on Red; the result was 7 Red) and left with $270,600. The event was filmed by Sky One as a reality mini-series. Ashley used his winnings to set up his own online poker company called POKER UTD.
You can call me Champion! – I won the Dameshek.com ESPN Fantasy league despite having the 16th overall pick and only being the 8th seed in the playoffs. Apparently a trophy is on it’s way, also I am starting to receive prizes from the other members of the league.
Bad Beat Story – My other fantasy league – 3rd place game worth $50 bucks. Adrian Peterson takes the lead, and then fumbles it away for me. Jerk.
Should the Colts have thrown in the towel in the 15th game of the year against the Jets?
I’m calling the Super Bowl Matchup – San Diego versus New Orleans
Anti-Math at the Grocery Store – I’ve got a beef with grocery stores. I’m not sure why they need to make everything so annoyingly confusing. Perhaps not all grocers do this, but the store I frequent has taken to pricing everything in a manner that requires me to do complicated mental math if I want to know how much I’m paying per item. 17 yogurts for $6.75? Great, how much for just one yogurt? I’m not buying 17 of them. I don’t care how much it costs to buy 5 rolls of paper towels, I’m only buying 1. When I become King of all the World…I’m pretty sure that’s about to happen, by the way, I will decree that all stores across the land will be forced to list prices per 1 item. I don’t want to do math when I go to the grocery store.
Movie reviews: “The Road” and “The Princess and The Frog” (and “Almost Famous”)
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
The Avett Brothers – “I and Love and You” -
17 – The Perfect Space or 18 – I and Love and You
Okay, so I just discovered this band this week, but I’m addicted to listening to it. I heard the title track on the radio driving into work, and then listened to Brandon Dameshek on the LCS show mention the band, I downloaded the whole album, and it’s magnificent. I’m going to go out today with (The Perfect Space), but my absolute favorite song from the album is “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise” which I liked so much I posted it to my blog. If you like the song I’m going to play, go check out the other one on VerticallyStripedSocks.com, because it’s an AMAZING tune. This album is definitely slower, and several songs almost have a country feel to them (Or maybe saying bluegrass would be more appropriate), but despite the fact that I strongly dislike country, this is some of the best music I have heard all year. I flat out LOVE this album.
I’d like to thank (mention any callers here)
Shalom and Good Evening to you all! (Clip 17 – The Perfect Space)
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