Saturday, July 28, 2012

Show Prep 170

Greetings and Salutations, People:
Because the world needs some good news: I just read a story about a Brooklyn bus driver in Coney Island saving the life of a little girl who fell from a 3 story building.

Tweet of the Week:  
SpencerAlthouse
Imagine how much self-control the people who make bubble wrap must have.

Today on VSR – It’s a short show, but there is much to cover. Today is the 4th annual VSR “Sockie” awards, also we will touch on the tragic events at the Aurora Century 16 theater on Thursday night.


Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

TEMPERANCE, Mich. (AP) -- Martin Tucker won his latest boxing match, but a bloody nose in the ring could send him to prison for bank robbery.

The FBI said it obtained a swab used to stop the bleeding and found that DNA matched Tucker's DNA on other evidence from a 2009 robbery at Monroe County Community Credit Union in Temperance, near the Michigan-Ohio border.

In a court filing, agent Robert Schmitz said he got the swab while attending Tucker's bout in April in Toledo, Ohio. He described it as "discarded" but didn't disclose any other details about how he got it.

Tucker's DNA matched DNA from a mask believed to have been used in the robbery and from the steering wheel of the getaway car, the FBI said.

Tucker, 32, of Toledo, was arrested this week and ordered held without bond Wednesday. The government alleges he wore a mask and had a handgun during the $5,400 robbery.

Defense attorney Haytham Faraj said there seems nothing illegal about the FBI acquiring the bloody swab. "We leave our fingerprints, bits of hair and skin all over the place. If you're a boxer, sometimes you leave your blood around," Faraj said in an interview Thursday.

He declined to comment on Tucker's alleged role in the robbery but doubts the blood sample really was necessary based on other DNA evidence.

"It is a dramatic twist. It makes for an interesting read," Faraj said.

NEW TRIPOLI, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania woman allegedly changed her children's grades after logging into a school computer system using passwords obtained when she worked for the district.

Investigators say Catherine Venusto used the Northwestern Lehigh School District superintendent's password to change the grades. She was arraigned Wednesday on a half-dozen felony counts and released on bail.

Officials say Venusto changed a failing grade to a medical exception for he daughter in 2010, when she was still a district secretary. The New Tripoli woman is also accused of bumping one of her son's grades from 98 to 99 percent in February.

State police say Venusto admitted changing the grades, saying she thought her actions were unethical but not illegal.

And finally…Courtesy of our friend Matt Sullivan:

WAUSAU, Wis. - A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead found himself bound, blindfolded and assaulted by a group of women out for revenge, according to court documents.

Four women, including his wife, eventually showed up to humiliate the man, who ended up with his penis glued to his stomach in a bizarre plot to punish him for a lover's quadrangle gone bad. Now it's the women who face punishment, perhaps as much as six years in prison.

Sewell, Therese Ziemann, 48, of Menasha, Michelle Belliveau, 43, of Neenah, and the man's wife are charged with being party to false imprisonment, a felony. Ziemann also is charged with fourth-degree sexual assault.

The women are free on $200 cash bails. Investigators say all the women but Belliveau were romantically involved with the man. Online court records didn't list defense attorneys for any of the women Monday.

The Associated Press is not naming the man's wife to protect his identity as an alleged victim of sexual assault.

The women's plot for revenge unfolded last Thursday at the Lakeview Motel about 30 miles southwest of Green Bay in the tiny village of Stockbridge near the scenic shores of Lake Winnebago.

The man agreed to be bound with "sheer sheets" and blindfolded with a pillowcase for a "rub down" by Ziemann. She instead cut off his underwear with a scissors and summoned the others to the room with a text message.

Ziemann struck the man in the face, and used Krazy Glue to attach his penis to his stomach as the other women arrived.

He started screaming and the women rushed off fearful that he could get loose and hurt them but allegedly took his wallet, vehicle and cell phone.

Ziemann told investigators she met the man online through Craigslist, fell in love and paid for his use of a room at the motel for the past two months. She said she gave him about $3,000. Then last Wednesday, she learned from the man's wife that he was married, had other girlfriends and was "using them for money." She had expected the money she had given him to be repaid.

During Thursday's confrontation with the man, Sewell asked him, "Which one do you love more?" and the man's wife made a derisive remark about him being scared.

The man got free from the bed by chewing through one of his bindings, went outside and borrowed a telephone from the motel owner to call police.


I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring in the Whale:

The 4th Annual Sockie Awards:

History:
2009 - 1st  Annual – July 11th
The Sockies:
1. Best Holiday –Thanksgiving
2. Best Color –Brown
3. Sports Team of the Year – Pittsburgh Penguins
4. Best Picture…that Craig has actually seen this year –Up
5. Website of the Year – LCSHockey.com
6. Sports Idiot of the Year – Plaxico Burress
7. The People’s Choice Sockie - Best Dameshek Amalgamated Messageboard Network Radio Show - The Ed Show


2010 - 2nd  Annual – July 3rd

1. Best Color: Orange
2. Sports Team of the Year: Chicago Blackhawks
3. Best Message Board Kid not named Ed: Face Ventura
4. Best Ed Storyline of the Year: Ed plans to go to the Swap Meet for Male Enhancement Surgery.
5. Sports Idiot of the Year: Ben Roethlisberger
6. The People's Choice Sockie - Best Dameshek Amalgamated Messageboard Network Show: (Voting taking place on Dameshek.com through July 2nd)
The Ed Show – 11 Votes
The LCS Hockey Show – 11 Votes


2011 - 3rd  Annual – July 16th

1. Color of the Year: Black
2. Sports Team of the Year: Green Bay Packers
3. Vertically Striped Radio Totally Random Thing of the Year: Admiral Ackbar
4. Message Board Kid of the Year that is not named Ed: Adam Miezin (Amiezin)
5. Sports Idiot of the Year: Lebron James
6. (Non-Dave related) Dameshek.com Podcast of the Year: (People’s Choice)
(Must have done a show since the last Sockie awards to be eligible)
LCS Hockey Show


2012 – 4th Annual – July 21st

Late Addition to the Awards: VSR Song of the Year:
- Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
-Ben Folds Five – Army
- Florence + The Machine - Shake it Out
- Tim Berry - Avoiding Catatonic Surrender
-Blind Pilot – One Red Thread

1. Color of the Year:
-Green
-Orange
-Purple
-Red
-White

2. Sports Team of the Year:
-Denver Broncos
-Florida Panthers
-Nashville Predators
-Baltimore Ravens
-Oklahoma City Thunder

3. Vertically Striped Radio Moment of the Year:
-Craig picks all 3 Triple Crown races correctly
-Celebrating Cinco De Mayo by honoring Barney Fife
-Craig and Face declare their love for Mike Tyson’s Punchout
-Calling a White Sox perfect game live on air
-Holly Marie Combs Holy War
-Craig’s Peyton Manning Rant
-Hiding a Flash Drive in a Vagina
-Craig hates Santa
-Zombie License Plated woman goes on a rampage
-Capitalist.fox calls in and plays a vulgar song

4. Sports Idiot of the Year:
-Metta World Peace,
-Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather,
-Roger Goodell,
-Kyle Williams (49ers Punt Returner)
-Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky

5. Message Board Kid of the Year NOT named Ed:
-StreetDreamer83
-porkcarrot
-pinedagger
-cjmack
-18nalax

6. Word of the Year:
-Awkward
-Putrescence
-Eviscerated
-Fortuitous
 -The





Thoughts from Andrew Arndt- Pastor of Bloom Church in Denver

On Responding to Tragedy:

Last night’s shooting in Aurora leaves us vacillating in our souls between numbness and horror, and grasping for meaning; for we are “meaning makers”, we human beings, and so it is that “senseless tragedy” is particularly hard for us to swallow.  We feel that something must be done or said to put it all in perspective.

And it is just there that we are likely to go wrong, for the wise writer of Ecclesiastes says:

What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted. (Eccl 1:15)

Not everything that happens “under the sun” simply “fits” the way we’d like it to.  With that in mind, let me make five suggestions for responding to this (and any) tragedy:

1) Resist the temptation to spout theological platitudes.  This is all part of God’s perfect plan… God has a purpose in this… Everything works together for good for those who love God… Everything happens for a reason… Fools blather on in the face of tragedy; wise people watch their mouths, and few things in life are more harmful or insensitive than the bloviating of foolish armchair theologians when life hits the fan.  Enough.  Be silent.

2) Resist the temptation (for now) to engage in social analysis.  People with particular social and political agendas will be out in full force shortly, using tragedy as a platform to push their agenda.  Gun control, the presence of violence in entertainment, the moral erosion of America…  And on and on it will go.  I said a moment ago that few things are more harmful or insensitive in such times as theological bloviating.  One thing that comes pretty close is political or social opportunism.  Stop it.  There will be a time and place for such conversations; now is not the time.  And in any event, we should remember the Teacher’s words quoted above: “What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.”  These things tend to defy our comprehension, so when the analysis begins, let it be chastened with humility.

3) Resist the temptation to demonize the perpetrator.  #1 and #2 usually collide with a collective demonization of the perpetrator in society’s eyes.  Christians should be smarter than to do that, for we know that the stain of sin touches all of us and therefore all of us are equally objects of Christ’s redeeming work – the very same Christ of whom St. Matthew says, “A bruised reed he will not break; and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out” (Matt 12:20).  Our prayer should be that whatever good is left in the perpetrator would somehow be blown into flame not in spite of but THROUGH the punishment he is likely to receive.  A chastisement that brings about “shalom” in him.
And then of course…

4) We pray.  We stand with everyone affected by this horrible tragedy as though we ourselves were directly affected by it.  We pray comfort for the newly bereaved and health and healing for those injured.  We pray that evil would be turned to good, and that Aurora and the greater Denver area would become stronger through what has transpired.  We pray that evil in every way would be defused, and that peace would reign.  We pray.

5) We determine to enter the story with those affected, however we can.  One thing that stands out about the life of Jesus is his categorical determination not to analyze pain but to enter it with those who suffer, bringing his light, life, and redemption.  We are his Body.  Let us also do the same.
Praying grace and peace to the citizens of Aurora and all whose lives have been touched by this tragedy.  Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy… even as we put our hope in you.
Amen.

  

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Jars of Clay – Oh My God

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!



Sunday, July 15, 2012

Show Prep 169

Greetings and Salutations, People: Vertically Striped Radio: This Machine Kills Fascists

Woodie Guthrie’s 100th Birthday. (If he hadn’t died in 1967 at age 55) – What kind of fake Communist would I be if I didn’t honor Woody?

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.
I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built.
I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work."
Guthrie on songwriting


Tweet of the Week:  
sucittaM
I could probably kill this woman, serve my prison sentence, come back here and buy my diet coke before she finishes writing her check.


Today on VSR – We’ve got some deep thoughts in “Something to think about”, we’ll have some fun with Craigslist, the Olympics haven’t even started and are already being criticized on many fronts, so we’ll take a look at some of those, and I’ve got a wonderful “to do” list.

If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB
To contact VSR via email:
Email address:
radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Voice Mail – 720-CUB-1-ACE (720-282-1223)
Twitter: @socnorb777

(Bring on Face) –


Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)



Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A 27-year-old police officer in Louisiana has resigned after authorities say he stole an iPhone from the scene of a drunken-driving crash.

Cpl. Tommy Stubbs, a police spokesman in Baton Rouge, says the phone wasn't in the car when the driver got out of jail. Stubbs says a tracking feature showed that its name had been changed to "Jake Shoots’ iPhone," and the driver recognized the name as that of an officer who had worked at the wreck June 2. He filed a complaint.

Stubbs says Shoots was booked late Wednesday with felony theft and malfeasance in office, and resigned early Thursday. He had worked for the department for five years.



GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) -- Investigators say a Southern California doctor saw enough from an X-ray to prescribe pain killers to an undercover cop but missed the tail showing it was an image of a dog.

Police and Los Angeles County deputies on Thursday raided the Glendora urgent care clinic of 69-year-old Dr. Rolando Atiga after a two-month investigation that included three undercover deputies posing as patients.

One of the undercover deputies showed Atiga an X-ray to prove she needed pain killers. The scan of her German shepherd clearly shows the dog's tail. Atiga examined the X-ray and asked the undercover officer if she wanted Vicodin, oxycodone, Valium or Xanax.

Glendora police Capt. Timothy Staab says Atiga is well known among drug addicts and was considered the go to doctor for no questions asked pain meds.



DALLAS (AP) -- Police say a naked man crashed a pickup truck into a Dallas mall, then drove over a few kiosks before stopping to try on clothes.

Dallas police were called to the Southwest Center Mall around 7:30 a.m. Friday. Officers say the man was apparently covered only in a blanket when he drove his truck through the glass entrance doors, then crashed through several kiosks before driving into a Champs Sporting Goods store.

Once inside the store, police say he left his blanket in the truck and started putting on clothes and a pair of Air Jordan shoes.

No one was injured.

A police statement identifies the man as 35-year-old Arthur Walker of Dallas. He's jailed without bond on a burglary charge.


I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)


London Olympics Logo: Iran threatened boycott of Olympics because they thought it said “Zion” and some people think it looks like Lisa Simpson doing some nasty things.
London Athlete Photos: Amateurish


Something to Think About:

1 – Tip for Vegetarians – Don’t be so aggressive.
2 - How intimidating are biker gangs really, when all you have to do is swerve?
3 – Tuesday is worse than Monday
4 – 99% of humans are incapable of sitting in a chaise lounge without moving it first.
5 - The Mentally Handicapped travel in packs          
6 – Few things are as hard to get rid of as Canadian Quarters
7 –If you’re at Olive Garden and they start to shave parmesan cheese onto your plate, how long will they keep doing it if you never say “When”?




Most attractive redheads in history:

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Woody Guthrie – The Car Song

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!



Saturday, July 7, 2012

Show Prep 168

Greetings and Salutations, People: I AM THE TERROR THAT FLAPS IN THE NIGHT! Okay, I can neither confirm nor deny that in the past hour I have watched the Darkwing Duck theme song multiple times. Okay, I’ll just confirm it. And no, I don’t know the technical term for what’s wrong with me.

Welcome to Vertically Striped Radio, I am your host and Darkwing Duck theme song enthusiast, Craig Dodge. It’s 3:30 in the Mountain Pine Cone on a lovely Saturday in Centennial, Colorado. Which means it’s time once again for Vertically Striped Radio.

I want to start out with a plea for someone to explain women and children to me.

First women:
Jen calling right before she gets into an elevator.

Second children:
Luke asking what a turkey sounds like and then telling me “NO!”


Tweet of the Week:  
michelleisawolf
If banks were as fiercely regulated as McDonalds breakfast cut off time, there'd be no problems.

Today on VSR – An odd Magnificent Seven, as we discuss my Top 7 Musically Dropped F-Bombs, The Vertically Striped Academy of Arts, Sciences, and other Neato Stuff announce the nominees for the fourth annual Sockie Awards, and we’ll induct a fourth member into the VSR Hall of Fame today.

If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB
To contact VSR via email:
Email address:
radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Voice Mail – 720-CUB-1-ACE (720-282-1223)
Twitter: @socnorb777

(Bring on Face) –


Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)



Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) -- Police say they followed a trail of potato chips to catch a southwestern Pennsylvania burglary suspect.

Washington police say 21-year-old Benjamin Sickles was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly broke into a Subway restaurant and stole several bags of snacks.

Investigators say Sickles broke a glass door before trying to open the cash register. They say he made off with nine bags of chips after he couldn't get to the cash.

Officers say they followed a trail of chip bags to Sickles, who had a bloody hand and foot when he was taken into custody.


MILFORD, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts man who pledged to make the last mortgage payment on his home with pennies has fulfilled that promise.

After warning his bank, Thomas Daigle dropped off about 62,000 pennies weighing 800 pounds in two boxes for the final payment on the Milford home he and his wife, Sandra, bought in 1977.

He tells The Milford Daily News ( http://bit.ly/NseYqK ) he just wanted to make his last payment on April 24 "memorable."

He started saving his pennies when he moved in.

The optician says his wife laughed whenever he would pick up a penny he found on the ground and say it was going to the mortgage.

Daigle says he's just glad to have the coins out of his house.



PHOENIX (AP) -- A Phoenix mother has been arrested after authorities say she put beer in her 2-year-old son's sippy cup.

Phoenix police were called to a pizza restaurant Tuesday night after witnesses say they saw 36-year-old Valerie Marie Topete pour beer from a pitcher into her son's cup and then the child drank some of it.

Phoenix police say Topete admitted pouring the beer in the cup because the child kept reaching for the beer pitcher.

Officers examined the contents of the cup and determined the liquid was consistent with beer.

The child was taken to a hospital for precautionary reasons and was later released to the care of his father.

Topete is being held on suspicion of child abuse.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring in the Whale:

Band name of the week:
Earful of Weasels – The Bluebox is a Shoebox

SPORTS:
Joey Chestnut: 68 Hot Dogs in 12 Minutes
Adrian Petersen arrested for resisting arrest
Steve Nash to the Lakers
Ray Allen to the Heat
Silva-Sonnen

Robin Williams on golf – Clip 84

Magnificent Seven: Top 7 Musically Dropped F-Bombs

7. Offspring – You’re gonna go far kid
6. Alanis Morrisette – You outta know
5. Everclear – White Men in Black Suits
4. TV on the Radio – Red Dress
3. Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man
2. CeLo Green – F You
1. Ben Folds Five - Army


The 4th Annual Sockie Awards:

History:
2009 - 1st  Annual – July 11th
The Sockies:
1. Best Holiday –Thanksgiving
2. Best Color –Brown
3. Sports Team of the Year – Pittsburgh Penguins
4. Best Picture…that Craig has actually seen this year –Up
5. Website of the Year – LCSHockey.com
6. Sports Idiot of the Year – Plaxico Burress
7. The People’s Choice Sockie - Best Dameshek Amalgamated Messageboard Network Radio Show - The Ed Show


2010 - 2nd  Annual – July 3rd

1. Best Color: Orange
2. Sports Team of the Year: Chicago Blackhawks
3. Best Message Board Kid not named Ed: Face Ventura
4. Best Ed Storyline of the Year: Ed plans to go to the Swap Meet for Male Enhancement Surgery.
5. Sports Idiot of the Year: Ben Roethlisberger
6. The People's Choice Sockie - Best Dameshek Amalgamated Messageboard Network Show: (Voting taking place on Dameshek.com through July 2nd)
The Ed Show – 11 Votes
The LCS Hockey Show – 11 Votes


2011 - 3rd  Annual – July 16th

1. Color of the Year: Black
2. Sports Team of the Year: Green Bay Packers
3. Vertically Striped Radio Totally Random Thing of the Year: Admiral Ackbar
4. Message Board Kid of the Year that is not named Ed: Adam Miezin (Amiezin)
5. Sports Idiot of the Year: Lebron James
6. (Non-Dave related) Dameshek.com Podcast of the Year: (People’s Choice)
(Must have done a show since the last Sockie awards to be eligible)
LCS Hockey Show




2012 – 4th Annual – July 21st

1. Color of the Year:
-Green
-Orange
-Purple
-Red
-White

2. Sports Team of the Year:
-Denver Broncos
-Florida Panthers
-Nashville Predators
-Baltimore Ravens
-Oklahoma City Thunder

3. Vertically Striped Radio Moment of the Year:
-Craig picks all 3 Triple Crown races correctly
-Celebrating Cinco De Mayo by honoring Barney Fife
-Craig and Face declare their love for Mike Tyson’s Punchout
-Calling a White Sox perfect game live on air
-Holly Marie Combs Holy War
-Craig’s Peyton Manning Rant
-Hiding a Flash Drive in a Vagina
-Craig hates Santa
-Zombie License Plated woman goes on a rampage
-Capitalist.fox calls in and plays a vulgar song

4. Sports Idiot of the Year:
-Metta World Peace,
-Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather,
-Roger Goodell,
-Kyle Williams (49ers Punt Returner)
-Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky

5. Message Board Kid of the Year NOT named Ed:
-StreetDreamer83
-porkcarrot
-pinedagger
-cjmack
-18nalax





6. Word of the Year:
-Awkward
-Putrescence
-Eviscerated
-Fortuitous
 -The


Farewell to Andy Griffith:
Hall of Fame Inductee
Died Tuesday at around 7:00 AM and was buried before noon.

VSR Moments:
Episode 49 - #1 TV Theme Song without Lyrics
Episode 63 – Andy Griffith Theme Song WITH lyrics
Episode 133 – How to freak out an opponent: Stadium whistles Andy Theme in unison

What it was, was Football

(End of show after music, Andy on Hamlet)


Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Ben Folds Five - Army

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!