Saturday, March 2, 2013

Show Prep 204


Greetings and Salutations, People: I have fallen in love with coffee – taken it up for Lent

Tweet of the Week:  
Whenever I see two people in love it gives me hope that maybe one day I'll go blind.

VSR is brought to you by the Amazon.com link on VerticallyStripedSocks.com.

Things I liked this week:
Waiter at Pisco Sour
I’m going to be running the Bolder Boulder. It’s a 10K.
February ended – It is now spring –
Thought process of an adult vs. thought process of a child.
It’s my 4th Twitter birthday. I’ve been on Twitter since March 2, 2009.


Today on VSR – It’s a special day on the show, as we’ll enshrine a new member to the Vertically Striped Radio Hall of Fame and immediately we’ll center a Magnificent Seven list around that person.

If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB

Joe Flacco is now the highest paid player in NFL history. This bolsters my plan to be a mediocre podcaster for years and then put together one really strong month and suddenly become the highest paid person in fake radio history. Things are working out to my ultimate design! (Evil laugh)

(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) 

Sebring, FLORIDA - A Florida man has been shot in the leg by his own dog, police said.

Gregory Lanier, 35, told officers he was driving down the motorway when his dog kicked what he thought was an unloaded handgun sitting on the raised floor section between the passenger and driver's seat of his pickup truck.

But Mr Lanier soon discovered the 9mm Beretta had at least one bullet inside as it discharged and struck him in the left calf.

Mr Lanier told police he "heard a boom, saw smoke and felt a burning in his leg" as the bullet entered and then exited his leg and struck the door panel.

The wounded man pulled his Ford F250 into a nearby petrol station, where the store clerk - a friend of Mr Lanier's - called for emergency personnel.

According to the police report, Mr Lanier told his friend the dog was jumping around in the truck and kicked the unholstered weapon. He also had a rifle in the truck, which he said was unloaded.

Mr Lanier was taken to hospital for treatment.

His dog, which Sebring Police spokesman Steve Carr tells Sky News was a tan and white bulldog, was taken to a friend's home.

No charges have been filed. (Which is good since the dog is on probation.)

Houston, TEXAS - A speeding car launched into the air and landed upside down on the roof of a house.

Police say the early morning crash in Houston, Texas, happened when the driver was speeding and failed to take a bend in the road.

The crash triggered Susan Mistini's house alarm system and she thought someone was breaking into her home until a neighbor told her what happened.

Ms Mistini said: "He said, 'hurry up there's a car on your roof'. A car on my roof? And he said, 'yes a car on your roof'."

Harris County Sheriff's Assistant Chief John Laine said: "(The car) inverted and somersaulted and landed on the roof upside down."

The driver was taken to hospital and is in stable condition. Investigators have not determined whether or not alcohol was a factor in the accident.
Brockton, MASSACHUSETTS - Authorities are investigating whether a nine-year-old boy who raps under the name of Lil Poopy and appears in sexually suggestive videos is the victim of possible child abuse.
The boy, whose real name is Luie Rivera Jr, is seen slapping a woman's backside and riding in a Ferrari in some videos.
In another instance posted on YouTube, he sings: "Coke ain't a bad word" – and then appears with a Coca-Cola in his hands.
Lil Poopy music that was posted to an online mixtape site last October has lyrics that include him singing about being a "bad boy" and a "cocaine cowboy”.
Police from the boy's hometown of Brockton, Massachusetts, have filed a complaint against his father, Luie Rivera, asking state child welfare officials to look into possible abuse and neglect in relation to the videos.

 

The Department of Children and Families said officials are looking into the case, adding that the investigation will include interviews with family members and school officials.

A lawyer representing the young rapper's family has criticized the investigation as "racially-tinged". Lawyer Joseph Krowski Jr said Lil Poopy, who is of Puerto Rican descent, is a well-adjusted fourth-grader with a good family life and musical talent.

"This is just what I would call a racially-tinged investigation because whoever watched it probably doesn't understand rap," Mr Krowski said.

"This isn't some child left alone that's not going to school."

Mr Krowski argues that content in the videos is protected by the First Amendment of the US constitution.
I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Something to Think About: (Clip 05)
1. It’s not that long ago that we had to send film away to get processed.
2. I shouldn’t have to answer six questions just to fill up my gas tank.
-Do you want to use rewards?
-What kind of rewards?
-Is this a debit?
-What grade gas?
-What is your zip code?
-Do you want a receipt?
3. Why do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wear masks?
4. How is landing on the moon still our pinnacle of human achievement? It happened 43 and a half years ago!
5. “That guy has more money than God.” How much does God keep in his wallet?
6. Is pot a performance enhancing drug for competitive eating?
7. I adore maps on ESPN.com polls.

Squishy Baff – Clip 80


The Magnificent Seven: Top 7 Dr. Suess Quotes:

-If I ran the Zoo, written in 1950, is the first recorded use of the word “Nerd”

-Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss' editor, bet him that he couldn't write a book with a coherent story line using 50 words or less. "The Cat in the Hat" was pretty simple, after all, and it used 225 words. Not one to back down from a challenge, Mr. Geisel started writing and came up with "Green Eggs and Ham" -- which uses exactly 50 words.
The 50 words, by the way, are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

7. “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch

6. “You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
With your head full of brains,
And your shoes full of feet,
You're too smart to go down a not-so-good-street.
Out there things can happen, and frequently do,
To people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too! “
-Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)

5. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
― I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew

4. “Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”
As quoted in "Author Isn't Just a Cat in the Hat" by Miles Corwin in The Los Angeles Times (27 November 1983)

3. “It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”
-Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

2. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

1. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
-The Lorax (1971)

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Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
The Cold War Kids – We Used to Vacation

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