Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the radio show with a strict no ketchup on hot dogs policy, This is Vertically Striped Radio. I am your host Craig Dodge, the hardest working man on BlogTalk…talk about damning with faint praise. What a weekend we have going, here. NFL Football, NBA basketball, the World Series, NHL Hockey, college football, Favre returns to Green Bay, the Broncos in Baltimore, possibly the worst matchup in NFL history with the Rams paying a visit to Detroit to play the Lions. I’m telling you this weekend has got it all. Thanks for squeezing in the big show between all of this good stuff going down, or if you’re podcasting us and it’s Tuesday, hopefully you enjoyed your weekend.
Joining us from the self-appointed center of the known universe, a.k.a. New York City. A man who loves him some Broadway plays like TO loves him some him, our co-host and man about town, Mr. MJ Amory. How are you sir?
Two questions that our audience is dying to know. What play did you attend? And what row are your seats for the Broncos/Eagles game?
I’ve got some big news, Dave Dameshek is going to be joining us next week just ahead of the Steelers/Broncos Monday night matchup. We’ll discuss the game of course, plus I’m hoping to get his take on the AFL throwback uniforms being worn this season, and we may even talk a little puck or even hoops…We may not be on at our regular time, as we may need to schedule around Dave’s busy calendar, so check your local listings, but Dave has agreed to come on and I’m very much looking forward to having Dave on the show.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio, It’s Halloween, I gotta know if it’s okay for an adult to wear a costume. We’ll take the pulse of the room here on VSR. We’ll take a look at the World Series and try to place a voodoo curse on the Yankees, although I am not a licensed VooDoo practitioner, I’m only a novice so your results may vary, We’ll talk up the world of sports as it stands right now. Plus, I think my MP3 player may be gay, I’ll explain. Naturally, as is Vertically Striped Radio’s custom we’ll have the News and another music recommendation, and whatever else we feel like chatting up on the program today, and if you feel like calling in to defend the indefendable position that it is okay to put ketchup on your hot dog, I welcome your calls though I profoundly disagree with you. I’d love to get your calls regardless of your position on ketchup, The number to dial in to the show is…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
If you want to follow me on Twitter, and really, why not? @socnorb777
Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
SOFIA, BELGUIM (Reuters) – Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating a new gambling game in which drivers defy death by speeding through red lights for bets of up to 5,000 euros ($7,400), the chief prosecutor's office said Thursday.
Known as 'Russian road roulette', the driver must jump red lights at busy intersections at high speed and not crash into any other cars or pedestrians, according to local media reports. Onlookers also gamble on the result.
Prosecutors launched their investigation after media reported the new game had been held at night at busy crossroads in Sofia since the summer.
In June, two people died after a motorcyclist crashed into an onlooker at a similar rally on Sofia's ring road.
"Every time we receive a signal for such an unregulated race, we send patrols," Commissioner Vanio Stoevski, head of the Sofia Road Police, told Reuters. Since the deaths in June, police have monitored roads where such races are typically held.
Local media report that participants in the 'Russian road roulette' are informed via text messages of the venue for that particular night -- depending on the presence of police.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Police said a man who smashed a window at a car dealership claimed he was following a higher calling. Police said a 36-year-old man was collared by a security guard at Freedom Dodge before he could get inside the showroom. WLEX-TV reported the man told the guard that God wanted him to steal a Dodge Charger.
When police arrived, the suspect initially told them his name was "Seven."
The man faces charges including criminal mischief.
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – It's one thing for shoplifters to hide plunder in their pants. But a live ferret? Police said a homeless man in north Florida did just that. And he made it out the door before being challenged. Rodney Bolton, 38, was charged with theft over the $129 animal that police say he took from a pet store in Jacksonville Beach.
A 17-year-old witness confronted Bolton in the parking lot and was bitten by the animal after the man allegedly shoved it in the teen's face.
That confrontation makes the ferret a "special weapon" under Florida law. So Bolton also faces battery charges for dangerously wielding the animal.
CARROLL, Iowa – Police had no trouble identifying two men accused of trying to break into a Carroll apartment. Police were responding to a call about an attempted burglary when they pulled over a car matching the alleged suspects' vehicle. Inside the car, officers found two men with their faces blackened with permanent marker. Police said the caller described two men with painted faces attempting to break into an apartment Friday night before driving off.
Matthew McNelly, 23, and Joey Miller, 20, were arrested at gunpoint after officers were told they might be armed. Neither man had a weapon. McNelly and Miller were each charged with attempted second-degree burglary. Both men were released after posting bond.
Attorneys for the men declined comment Tuesday.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Topics:
-Carmelo Anthony looks like a beast, and the NBA refs look like…NBA refs. I was watching the Nuggets/Blazers game Thursday night, and they were foul crazy. I’d like it if they’d just let the players decide the game by playing the game instead of turning it into a free throw shooting contest.
-Larry Johnson – Gay slurs, bad football, and beating up women. I’m no Dave Dameshek, but I know when a guy needs this… (play Blaster clip)
-Brett Favre – Returns to Green Bay. What else can we say about it?
-Returning to the cereal well, Have you seen Breakfast Blitz cereal in your town? A quick Google search reveals boxes from the Redskins, Eagles, Packers and Cardinals plus I bought a box of them here in Denver with the Broncos mascot Miles prominently displayed. So I want to know, has anyone else seen the Breakfast Blitz in their team’s colors? If so, can you send me a photo of a box?
-Attack of the Sit Down guy at the Patriots game a few weeks ago.
-On the train, the blind guys who say see you later.
-*NSYNC song stuck on the Zune – My Zune may be gay.
-Women and sports is this a good combination? My wife is tolerates sports, but she isn’t a real big fan. She picks up bits and pieces but gets it wrong a lot. Things like when Dave Dameshek was asking people to see how many football players their wives could name and she said Troy Aiken or last night at dinner she wondered who used to play for the Garden State Warriors.
-Ketchup and Hot Dogs? Bleech.
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Ben Folds Five “Whatever and Ever Amen” (1997)
The entire album was recorded in a house Ben Folds rented in Chapel Hill. Due to this fact, the album has several lo-fi occurrences. A phone ring can be heard at approximately 2:54 in "Steven's Last Night in Town"; Ben Folds has said the ring was a friend calling from Minnesota, but it came at such a perfect timing, the band decided to leave it in the song. Robert can be heard laughing slightly after it rings as well.
Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played bass and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played drums, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the songs. The band is best known for the hit single "Brick" from their 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen, which gained airplay on many mainstream radio stations. Ben Folds Five disbanded in October 2000, apparently under amicable circumstances. They were, in fact, a trio in spite of their name, and the primary motivation behind the name, apart from just to be funny and ironic, was simple preference, according to Ben: "I think it sounds better than Ben Folds Three". Folds once described their music as "punk rock for sissies", a reaction to the angst prevalent in 90s rock. One thing that people constantly mention when discussing Ben Fold Five is that they didn’t use a traditional guitar. It was Piano, Bass, and Drums, which is a little weird, but it totally works.
Whatever and Ever Amen hits pretty much every rung of the emotional ladder. There are poignant songs like Brick (Their most famous song) and Evaporated, and Missing the War, then there are fun and peppy songs like Kate, Song for the Dumped, One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces, and the song I’m going to go out with today, Steven’s Last night in town.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Show Prep #22
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the radio show that Fort Collins, Colorado police now believe may be a hoax. This is Vertically Striped Radio, and I am your host Craig Dodge. You may have heard that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but I say Christmas gets it’s butt kicked by this time of year, and not just because football is mid-season, basketball is about to get going, hockey is a few weeks old, and we’re about to get cranking on the World Series. Of course, the fact that all four major sports are playing is a good thing, but the REAL reason it’s such a good time of the year is because Boo Berry cereal is available in stores. Yes, I’m a 33 year old man who is way too excited about a sugary cereal. It’s one of my weaknesses. When I was a kid, my parents always ate cereal that was more like vitamins. Stuff like Maximum Strength Muslix with extra tree bark. Ugh. So, I have rebelled as an adult. I don’t eat the sugary stuff every day, but every now and then, I like to throw in a box of fruit loops or Peanut Butter Crunch, and around Halloween time, MY FAVORITE! The Blueberry flavored cereal with little marshmallow pieces known as Boo Berry. It’s only available for about a three week window around Halloween, but it is GOOD! I had a bowl of it for breakfast this morning, and I can feel it’s power surging through me!
Today on Vertically Striped Radio, I’ve got another great moment in BlogTalk history, we’ll discuss the juggernaut that is the undefeated Denver Broncos, We’re down to 3 teams left in baseball…so perhaps we’ll take a look at postseason baseball. I have a story about how last week I not only put my foot in my mouth, but halfway down my esophagus. Plus, I have the weirdest music recommendation in the history of Vertically Striped Radio. MJ will not be joining us today, as his parents are taking him to a Broadway play, so I’ll by flying solo today unless you like to call in. Since I am all alone, I’d love to get your calls today, so if you’re feeling up to it, dial on in to Vertically Striped Radio at…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Our friend Andrew Tobey, also known to the Dameshek.com faithful as Major Minority, actually emailed me last week to let me know he’d be calling in to listen but not to talk unless he raised his hand, which I appreciated, because as you may know, I can get confused pretty easily when people call in. I’m very smart.
One other update, as I haven’t done this for awhile…a twitter update…(08- Ed’s Twitter Song)
I’m following: 46 people
I have: 69 Followers (Although to be fair, I don’t know how many of those are fake twitter accounts that are just people trying to sell me real estate or sex toys.)
If you’d like to get my awe inspiring insights from Twitter, you can follow me at @socnorb777
Let’s get to the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African traditional leaders plan to perform ritual animal slaughters to bless stadiums for the 2010 World Cup tournament ahead of the start of the showcase event next June, they said on Friday.
Zolani Mkiva, chairman of the Makhonya Royal Trust, a grouping responsible for co-ordinating cultural activities, said the tournament, the first to be held in Africa, needed to be blessed in true "African style."
"We must have a cultural ceremony of some sort, where we are going to slaughter a beast (cow)," said Mkiva.
"We sacrifice the cow for this great achievement and we call on our ancestors to bless, to grace, to ensure that all goes well. It's all about calling for the divinity to prevail for a fantastic atmosphere."
South Africa is set to host the World Cup -- the world's most watched sports spectacle -- in less than eight months, with the tournament expected to attract about 500,000 foreign tourists.
Mkiva said the Trust has sent letters to the chief executive and chairman of the World Cup Local Organizing Committee (LOC), proposing traditional ceremonies to be performed at each of the 10 stadiums that are going to be used for the event.
The officials have yet to respond to the request.
"We believe that from the start we've got to do things in accordance with our own traditions," Mkiva said.
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) – A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday.
Santo Gambino, age 30, did time in the big house for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in his home town of Villabate, just outside the Sicilian capital of Palermo.
Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who was nagging him and accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children.
Police charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and forced him to go home and patch things up with his wife.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – In a story that would make Glenn Close’s character in Fatal Attraction happy and surely has PETA preparing to do something wacky, the city of Stockholm, Sweden is apparently allowing wild rabbits to breed for…get this…fuel.
The city of Stockholm shoots thousands of wild rabbits spread across the green spaces of the Swedish capital and sends their bodies to be burned as heating fuel, a practice which has enraged animal rights groups.
City official Mats Freij (Fry) said Stockholm killed 6,000 wild rabbits last year and has said that a subcontractor decided to use the cadavers as fuel.
"One should put this in the perspective that we (humans) are actually cremated ourselves and that generates a completely different reaction," Freij (Fry) said in response to criticism.
Animal Rights Sweden spokeswoman Lise-Lott Alsenius (Lisa Al-sen-ee-us) questioned whether the practice was humane or ethical and suggested neutering the male rabbits as an alternative method of holding down the population.
"One at least has to evaluate what the alternatives are to just simply shooting them and burning them for heat," she said.
Konvex, the company handling the operation, said the rabbits were ground up with the cadavers of other beasts, and reduced to flammable form and incinerated.
"Just as with us people ... the bodies contain a lot of fat and fat has exactly the same energy content as normal heating oil for instance," Konvex Chief Executive Leo Virta said.
And now we have a special report from the Onion Radio News about a beverage that would definitely fit my lifestyle. Let’s go to Doyle Redland for the story… (Clip 18)
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 41-year-old man in Germany due to face questioning over theft got himself in even more trouble by squeezing in another robbery on the way to the police station, police said.
"It was a case of 'just nipping out to do a bit of thieving before being interrogated for shoplifting'," police in the western region of Lippe (Lip) said Tuesday.
Officers were following up a supermarket robbery in the town of Blomberg with detailed descriptions of two thieves and their getaway car when they had to return to the police station.
To their amazement, they said they discovered a man at the reception waiting to be interrogated for shoplifting who looked suspiciously like one of the pair wanted for the morning raid.
Outside, they said they found his accomplice sitting with the stolen goods in a car with the matching number plate.
Now the man faces a second set of charges, police said.
I guess this makes sense, if you’re going to get in trouble for stealing, you may as well really get good at doing it.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Topics:
-My Story of Michael Johnson and making fun of Colorado State.
-The Broncos just keep on winning in their, “Making new believers every week”, tour. This week’s victim? The Chargers in San Diego on Monday Night Football. After an iffy first half, once again the clamps came down in the second half on defense, and the Broncos powered their way to a huge divisional win. They now lead the AFC West by 3.5 games, and look to be the prohibitive favorite to win it.
-How do we feel about NFL games in London? Is this a good thing for the NFL? Roger Goodell this week says that he expects the NFL to start playing multiple games in Great Britain (they are scouting locations in Manchester and Glasgow, apparently) and he hopes to expand to England at some point in the future. The NFL is not, however, considering putting the Super Bowl overseas just yet. Goodell says that the league would expand rather than move existing franchises, and that the other likely spot for expansion would be back to LA, especially since California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just signed a bill allowing construction on a 75,000 seat stadium.
-George Visger dropped in to do an interview with me on Thursday night, and he is a very interesting guy. He spoke a bit about his football career as well as some startling stories of the casual way they handled concussions as well as brain hemorrhaging back in the early 80’s.
-Can you be a fan of more than one team? I say no. I got into this conversation inadvertently at work, as a guy I work with claimed he was fans of multiple teams. Even worse, he said he was a Raiders fan but also a Broncos fan, I tried to explain 1. That is impossible especially with those two teams, but 2. You can have one team, and have an affinity for others, but you can’t be a FAN of both. Eventually these two teams are going to play against each other, and you will have to choose. Your heart will go with one team, and the other team will turn into your enemy.
-Fantasy update: I’m 4-2 in the Dameshek.com league, as my team which I feared may be terrible has actually been okay to this point. I’m also 4-2 in the league I play in for money. So despite having teams that I don’t love, I’m doing okay. I’m joining up in a fantasy NBA league with some of the guys from Dameshek.com where our draft is tomorrow. I’m thinking the draft may take forever, as there are TWENTY guys in the league. I’m not even sure there are enough NBA players to fill out all of our 13 team rosters. The draft may take a few years to complete, yikes. I’m planning on drafting live until I lose all interest, and I may let the computer round out my roster with auto-draft.
-Go to VSS.com to read off weekend predictions
-The Ed’s Gambling Competition. MJ is in first and I’m dead last at the moment. The
-Jen and the Muppet Movie: How can I be married to a woman who doesn’t appreciate the Muppets? I love her, so I guess I’ll find a way.
-I sung out loud the theme to Gilligan’s Isle at work this week.
-Kyle Orton’s retro helmet looks like an eight ball.
Great Moments in the History of BlogTalk Radio: Ed does pushups.
Thriller classes - Downtown Thriller Dance EventAttention, Grisly Ghouls! DanzArtz Studios is a hot, new dance studio located at 520 Cherokee in central Denver. DanzArtz Studios is teaching a series of affordable group classes for people of all ages and skill levels to learn the group zombie dance from Thriller. Thriller will be performed in zombie costumes on the 16th Street Mall at dusk, on Halloween, by all dancers who have been trained to do the routine. The final round of Thriller classes are being offered on Wed, Friday, and Sunday nights in October, and cost $32 for four, one-hour sessions. Classes are filling up, and you must reserve your space in advance. Amateur dancers are learning the choreography in four weeks flat, and having a great time as well! Classes are taught by Vicky Fields, of Vicky Fields Dance, Inc., the co-owner of the studio. She has 25 years of experience in jazz, ballet, swing, Latin and ballroom dancing. If you want to learn Thriller and dance it in costume on the 16th Street Mall on Halloween, visit: www.DanzArtzStudios.com, or www.ThrillerDanceNight.com.
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
“Has Been” by William Shatner (2007)
Yes, that’s right. William Shatner. Captain James T Kirk. He made an album. I can’t completely recommend this album, since I have only heard one song from it, but this song is so goofy and cool that I am going out on a limb and recommending it. The song I’ve heard is called “Common People.” It’s a bit weird, but I dig it, and come on…it’s William freaking Shatner! Plus it was produced and some of the music was played by Ben Folds, who rules, and on this song Joe Jackson does a lot of the vocals. The Shat man does mostly spoken word stuff, and it’s different from anything else I’ve ever heard. It’s just so out there, that I love this song. So we’ll go out today with “Common People” by William Shatner.
Give thanks to people who showed up, wrap it up with “Shalom and Good Evening to you all!”
(Clip 16) – Common People
Today on Vertically Striped Radio, I’ve got another great moment in BlogTalk history, we’ll discuss the juggernaut that is the undefeated Denver Broncos, We’re down to 3 teams left in baseball…so perhaps we’ll take a look at postseason baseball. I have a story about how last week I not only put my foot in my mouth, but halfway down my esophagus. Plus, I have the weirdest music recommendation in the history of Vertically Striped Radio. MJ will not be joining us today, as his parents are taking him to a Broadway play, so I’ll by flying solo today unless you like to call in. Since I am all alone, I’d love to get your calls today, so if you’re feeling up to it, dial on in to Vertically Striped Radio at…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Our friend Andrew Tobey, also known to the Dameshek.com faithful as Major Minority, actually emailed me last week to let me know he’d be calling in to listen but not to talk unless he raised his hand, which I appreciated, because as you may know, I can get confused pretty easily when people call in. I’m very smart.
One other update, as I haven’t done this for awhile…a twitter update…(08- Ed’s Twitter Song)
I’m following: 46 people
I have: 69 Followers (Although to be fair, I don’t know how many of those are fake twitter accounts that are just people trying to sell me real estate or sex toys.)
If you’d like to get my awe inspiring insights from Twitter, you can follow me at @socnorb777
Let’s get to the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African traditional leaders plan to perform ritual animal slaughters to bless stadiums for the 2010 World Cup tournament ahead of the start of the showcase event next June, they said on Friday.
Zolani Mkiva, chairman of the Makhonya Royal Trust, a grouping responsible for co-ordinating cultural activities, said the tournament, the first to be held in Africa, needed to be blessed in true "African style."
"We must have a cultural ceremony of some sort, where we are going to slaughter a beast (cow)," said Mkiva.
"We sacrifice the cow for this great achievement and we call on our ancestors to bless, to grace, to ensure that all goes well. It's all about calling for the divinity to prevail for a fantastic atmosphere."
South Africa is set to host the World Cup -- the world's most watched sports spectacle -- in less than eight months, with the tournament expected to attract about 500,000 foreign tourists.
Mkiva said the Trust has sent letters to the chief executive and chairman of the World Cup Local Organizing Committee (LOC), proposing traditional ceremonies to be performed at each of the 10 stadiums that are going to be used for the event.
The officials have yet to respond to the request.
"We believe that from the start we've got to do things in accordance with our own traditions," Mkiva said.
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) – A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday.
Santo Gambino, age 30, did time in the big house for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in his home town of Villabate, just outside the Sicilian capital of Palermo.
Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who was nagging him and accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children.
Police charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and forced him to go home and patch things up with his wife.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – In a story that would make Glenn Close’s character in Fatal Attraction happy and surely has PETA preparing to do something wacky, the city of Stockholm, Sweden is apparently allowing wild rabbits to breed for…get this…fuel.
The city of Stockholm shoots thousands of wild rabbits spread across the green spaces of the Swedish capital and sends their bodies to be burned as heating fuel, a practice which has enraged animal rights groups.
City official Mats Freij (Fry) said Stockholm killed 6,000 wild rabbits last year and has said that a subcontractor decided to use the cadavers as fuel.
"One should put this in the perspective that we (humans) are actually cremated ourselves and that generates a completely different reaction," Freij (Fry) said in response to criticism.
Animal Rights Sweden spokeswoman Lise-Lott Alsenius (Lisa Al-sen-ee-us) questioned whether the practice was humane or ethical and suggested neutering the male rabbits as an alternative method of holding down the population.
"One at least has to evaluate what the alternatives are to just simply shooting them and burning them for heat," she said.
Konvex, the company handling the operation, said the rabbits were ground up with the cadavers of other beasts, and reduced to flammable form and incinerated.
"Just as with us people ... the bodies contain a lot of fat and fat has exactly the same energy content as normal heating oil for instance," Konvex Chief Executive Leo Virta said.
And now we have a special report from the Onion Radio News about a beverage that would definitely fit my lifestyle. Let’s go to Doyle Redland for the story… (Clip 18)
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 41-year-old man in Germany due to face questioning over theft got himself in even more trouble by squeezing in another robbery on the way to the police station, police said.
"It was a case of 'just nipping out to do a bit of thieving before being interrogated for shoplifting'," police in the western region of Lippe (Lip) said Tuesday.
Officers were following up a supermarket robbery in the town of Blomberg with detailed descriptions of two thieves and their getaway car when they had to return to the police station.
To their amazement, they said they discovered a man at the reception waiting to be interrogated for shoplifting who looked suspiciously like one of the pair wanted for the morning raid.
Outside, they said they found his accomplice sitting with the stolen goods in a car with the matching number plate.
Now the man faces a second set of charges, police said.
I guess this makes sense, if you’re going to get in trouble for stealing, you may as well really get good at doing it.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Topics:
-My Story of Michael Johnson and making fun of Colorado State.
-The Broncos just keep on winning in their, “Making new believers every week”, tour. This week’s victim? The Chargers in San Diego on Monday Night Football. After an iffy first half, once again the clamps came down in the second half on defense, and the Broncos powered their way to a huge divisional win. They now lead the AFC West by 3.5 games, and look to be the prohibitive favorite to win it.
-How do we feel about NFL games in London? Is this a good thing for the NFL? Roger Goodell this week says that he expects the NFL to start playing multiple games in Great Britain (they are scouting locations in Manchester and Glasgow, apparently) and he hopes to expand to England at some point in the future. The NFL is not, however, considering putting the Super Bowl overseas just yet. Goodell says that the league would expand rather than move existing franchises, and that the other likely spot for expansion would be back to LA, especially since California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just signed a bill allowing construction on a 75,000 seat stadium.
-George Visger dropped in to do an interview with me on Thursday night, and he is a very interesting guy. He spoke a bit about his football career as well as some startling stories of the casual way they handled concussions as well as brain hemorrhaging back in the early 80’s.
-Can you be a fan of more than one team? I say no. I got into this conversation inadvertently at work, as a guy I work with claimed he was fans of multiple teams. Even worse, he said he was a Raiders fan but also a Broncos fan, I tried to explain 1. That is impossible especially with those two teams, but 2. You can have one team, and have an affinity for others, but you can’t be a FAN of both. Eventually these two teams are going to play against each other, and you will have to choose. Your heart will go with one team, and the other team will turn into your enemy.
-Fantasy update: I’m 4-2 in the Dameshek.com league, as my team which I feared may be terrible has actually been okay to this point. I’m also 4-2 in the league I play in for money. So despite having teams that I don’t love, I’m doing okay. I’m joining up in a fantasy NBA league with some of the guys from Dameshek.com where our draft is tomorrow. I’m thinking the draft may take forever, as there are TWENTY guys in the league. I’m not even sure there are enough NBA players to fill out all of our 13 team rosters. The draft may take a few years to complete, yikes. I’m planning on drafting live until I lose all interest, and I may let the computer round out my roster with auto-draft.
-Go to VSS.com to read off weekend predictions
-The Ed’s Gambling Competition. MJ is in first and I’m dead last at the moment. The
-Jen and the Muppet Movie: How can I be married to a woman who doesn’t appreciate the Muppets? I love her, so I guess I’ll find a way.
-I sung out loud the theme to Gilligan’s Isle at work this week.
-Kyle Orton’s retro helmet looks like an eight ball.
Great Moments in the History of BlogTalk Radio: Ed does pushups.
Thriller classes - Downtown Thriller Dance EventAttention, Grisly Ghouls! DanzArtz Studios is a hot, new dance studio located at 520 Cherokee in central Denver. DanzArtz Studios is teaching a series of affordable group classes for people of all ages and skill levels to learn the group zombie dance from Thriller. Thriller will be performed in zombie costumes on the 16th Street Mall at dusk, on Halloween, by all dancers who have been trained to do the routine. The final round of Thriller classes are being offered on Wed, Friday, and Sunday nights in October, and cost $32 for four, one-hour sessions. Classes are filling up, and you must reserve your space in advance. Amateur dancers are learning the choreography in four weeks flat, and having a great time as well! Classes are taught by Vicky Fields, of Vicky Fields Dance, Inc., the co-owner of the studio. She has 25 years of experience in jazz, ballet, swing, Latin and ballroom dancing. If you want to learn Thriller and dance it in costume on the 16th Street Mall on Halloween, visit: www.DanzArtzStudios.com, or www.ThrillerDanceNight.com.
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
“Has Been” by William Shatner (2007)
Yes, that’s right. William Shatner. Captain James T Kirk. He made an album. I can’t completely recommend this album, since I have only heard one song from it, but this song is so goofy and cool that I am going out on a limb and recommending it. The song I’ve heard is called “Common People.” It’s a bit weird, but I dig it, and come on…it’s William freaking Shatner! Plus it was produced and some of the music was played by Ben Folds, who rules, and on this song Joe Jackson does a lot of the vocals. The Shat man does mostly spoken word stuff, and it’s different from anything else I’ve ever heard. It’s just so out there, that I love this song. So we’ll go out today with “Common People” by William Shatner.
Give thanks to people who showed up, wrap it up with “Shalom and Good Evening to you all!”
(Clip 16) – Common People
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Vertically Striped Interview #2 - George Visger
If you have been keeping up with the news over the past week, you may have heard some talk of the effect that football has on the brain, and how these brain injuries even minor may lead to serious health consequences for the brain. At the center of this storm is a Nigerian neuropatholigist named Bennett Omalu. Dr. Omalu over the past five years has been physically reviewing the damages caused to the brains of football players and uncovering some troubling findings. These football brains have shockingly high levels of tau in their brains, a protein that is commonly found in the brains of people afflicted with Alzheimers. Dr. Omalu is uncovering a definite medical connection between playing football and later on in life suffering from mood swings, confusion, memory issues, erratic behavior, depression, and dementia, among other concerns.
I had always assumed that football was hard on the body, and have heard a ton of anecdotal stories of football players bodies breaking down later on in life. This always struck me as a risk that these people undertook knowingly, but after reading an article about Dr. Omalu by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker along with another article about it by Jeanne Marie Lakas in GQ, I am stunned by some of the research and the NFL’s rather tepid response to it.
I am a huge football fan, I have loved to watch the game since I was just a small boy. I spend a ridiculous amount of time and energy thinking about the game, but even I have had to take a serious pause this week as I uncover more and more unflattering facts about the dire consequences of playing the game. I am not suggesting that we immediate put a stop to football, but I think that it is important that we inform ourselves about the risks being undertaken by the men playing the game we love.
My guest this evening played on the Defensive line for the University of Colorado football team in the late 70’s where he was part of the Big 8 Champion team of 1976. He also played for the San Francisco 49ers in 1980. His career was cut short due to severe brain injuries and he has had to endure 9 different brain surgeries to try and correct multiple issues. His short term memory suffers as a result of his injuries, but despite that handicap, he has been able to find success as a wildlife engineer and motivational speaker. With brain injuries being in the news so much lately with Malcolm Gladwell and others writing about the research of Dr. Bennett Omalu who is doing some groundbreaking research regarding brain injuries in football players and their connection with troubling physical problems later on in life, I thought that it would be very interesting to get the perspective of a former football player who has not only suffered from injuries on the football field, but has overcome a lot of difficulties to find success in life despite the adversity. It is my pleasure to welcome to the Vertically Striped Interview, Mr. George Visger. Sir, how are you this evening?
Can you tell me a bit about how you became interested in football, and how the game helped shape the early part of your life?
I was born and raised in Colorado and grew up as a big Colorado Buffaloes fan, can you tell me a little bit about what it was like being part of a major Division 1 football program and the positives that being a part of the football program in Boulder has brought to your life?
That team at Colorado that you were a part of must have been very talented, as I was researching the NFL draft, I saw that you were the 149th pick overall and the 7th Buffalo to be picked that day, I know the draft was not nearly as big a deal in 1980 as it is today, but what memories do you have of that day and being drafted.
As I was reading about you, I came across a tidbit that you in the past ran a big game guide service. That’s an interesting little tidbit, can you tell me a little bit about what that looked like and what type of big game you would hunt?
Your career was cut short due to injury, can you tell me a little bit about your time with the 49ers before the injury? What was it like coming out onto the field as an NFL player?
I know your career as a football player was cut short due to injury, can you tell us what happened, was it during a game or a practice? What is the story of your injury?
I have read that your parting with the 49ers was far from amicable, and that you had to sue the organization to pay for some of your surgeries., I can imagine that you may have felt betrayed by the organization in that you gave your heart and soul to playing for them, but then the minute that you are of no use to them, you have to fight them just to get medical care that you required as a result of your efforts on their behalf. Can you give us some insight into what was that time of your life felt like both physically and emotionally as you were going through these legal battles?
The bond of brotherhood among college teammates is legendary, and I know that to be true for you also. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about your brothers from the Bee and Buff Honor Fund and how they came to your aid recently?
I know as a result of the blessings from others in your life that you feel obligated to help our former players wherever you can. That has led you to start giving motivational and goal setting talks which you title, “Whatever it Takes – USING Adversity to Reach Your Goals.” Can you tell me a little bit about your message that you send when you give these talks?
I learned about you after reading about Dr. Bennett Omalu who is a Neuropathologist who has been studying the effects that playing football has on the brain. You were able recently to speak with Dr. Omalu about his ongoing research into CTE in football players, can you share your insights into Dr. Omalu the man as well as tell me a little bit about the conversation that you shared?
Studies have shown that former football players have up to five times higher rates of cognitive impairment over people who did not play football.
I first learned about you when I read a post you read about your story on GQ.com in the comments in a story about Dr. Omalu by Jeanne Marie Laskas. In that post, you mentioned how even at the young age of 13 in Pop Warner football, you were knocked unconscious in a tackling drill. I’m a father of a two year old boy, and up until the point where I started reading this story, if he had wanted to play football, I was planning on letting him. What advice would you have for parents of young boys who are considering playing the game. If you had a young boy at the age of 11 or 12, how would you feel about him playing football?
Football has been the cause of both good and bad things in your life. Can you share how you feel about the pro game when you see it today?
In our brief communications in setting up this interview, I know that you expressed a lot of dissatisfaction with the way the NFL treats former players, in an ideal world, what would you like to see the NFL do differently. In which ways are the falling short of providing the things that they should, in your opinion?
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Show Prep #21
Greetings and Salutations, people. Broadcasting live from Colorado, the state that pretends to send our six year old children sailing away in homemade dirigibles, this is Vertically Striped Radio. I am your host Craig Dodge. VSR is brought to you by the fantabulous website VerticallyStripedSocks.com, where you can currently find the NFL Weekend preview, NFL Power Rankings, and photos of yours truly wearing the goofy socks from which my blog and this show derive their name. It’s truly a treasure trove over at the website, I recommend checking it out!
Programming alert!! – We will have a special show this Thursday. The second ever episode of the Vertically Striped Interview. My guest will be former University of Colorado Buffalo and San Francisco 49er George Visger. George played at CU in the late 70’s and went on to briefly play with the San Francisco 49ers, his career was cut short due to traumatic brain injuries, and he has battled through this disability to become a successful businessman and motivational speaker. George has had 9 brain surgeries due to his football injuries, and has recently spoken with Dr. Omalu who has been in the news due to his research into NFL football players and brain trauma. Dr. Omalu has asked George to sit on his board. George is going to join us to talk about his playing days as well as his injuries, recovery and overcoming difficulties to find success. We will also discuss the physical and moral implications of brain injuries to football players. I am very excited to spend some time Thursday night talking with George, you can listen live if you like, or since I will be going directly up against the Ed show, you can download the podcast and listen later, but this should be a fascinating show.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio…We’ll have another installment of the Magnificent 7, this time it will be a Top 7 Beers, I’ll share an interesting and sad but somewhat obscure moment in the history of our nation, We’ll take a look at the Broncos 5-0 start and assess their prospects for Monday night’s showdown with the Chargers, I’ll share a bit about my crazy day of sports last Sunday attending both the Broncos-Patriots game and the Rockies playoff Game 3 against the Phillies, of course we’ll have the news and another music recommendation for you, and if you’d like to take part in today’s show, you may call in by dialing…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Without any further ado, Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
Our first story is one that proves that you’re never too old for your Dad to think you’re your music is too loud…
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- San Antonio police are investigating the wounding of a man after his elderly father allegedly opened fire when the victim refused to stop drumming. Police said the son, in his 50s, suffered a non-life threatening head wound early Friday while at the home the men share. Police said his 83-year-old father was detained on an aggravated assault charge.
Police said the son, who was grazed in the head, ran down the block to call for help.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police are investigating a chilli sauce to determine whether it was so spicy that it was capable of causing grievous bodily harm when used in an attack.
Police took a sample of the sauce from a kebab stand in Bremen's central train station after a kebab salesman threw it into the eyes of a customer during a fight over napkins.
"Legally, the question of whether the spiciness of the kebab sauce constituted 'normal' or grievous bodily harm must be addressed," local police in the northern city said on Friday.
Officers broke up a scuffle that kicked off after a 23-year-old wiped his kebab-soiled hands on the stand because the salesman refused to give him a paper napkin. The seller responded by flinging a ladle of sauce in the man's face.
The victim's eyes became bloodshot and police are investigating why the napkin dispute broke out, a spokesman said. Both men could end up facing charges, he added.
UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A Pennsylvania Civil War buff faces a felony charge for accidentally firing a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor's home.
Fifty-four-year-old William Maser had been charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. Authorities on Thursday added a felony count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure
Maser has acknowledged firing a homemade cannon outside his house in Georges Township, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, in early September. The cannonball, about two inches in diameter, ricocheted and hit the neighbor's home about 400 yards away, smashing through a window and a wall before landing in a closet. Police say nobody was hurt.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Well, My big mouth got me in trouble again, I was reading the sports section of the Denver Post in the break room at work with a CSU football player on the cover…The story I was reading was about how Miami football players are watching nothing but Spongebob Squarepants during this season, however a co-worker came in who made a comment about the CSU player. I said I don’t follow bad football, to which he responded, “You know I played for them, right?”
Magnificent 7: 7 Best Beers Going! (Clip #7 for Intro Music)
7. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale – A truly fantastic beer, you can’t go wrong with a Sierra Nevada.
6. Guiness – Yes it’s thick and dark as motor oil, but sometimes in life you need a good solid stout, and Guiness is the definition of a solid stout!
5. Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale – This beer is almost sweet, but that’s a good thing. It goes down smooth and tastes delicious.
4. Pacifico (Especially if you can get it in Mexico) I’m not a huge fan of Mexican beers, but this one hits the spot, it’s perfect with fish tacos.
3. Warsteiner Dunkel – This German beer just screams quality, it’s very tasty. Plus it’s fun to say.
2. Fuller’s, ESB (Extra Special Bitter)– Just tried this for the first time last night and WOW! It rules. It’s Malty and Hoppy and smooth as silk, it’s a bitter ale in name only, as it is 100% delicious. It’s a definite winner. I need more Fuller’s in my life.
1. Newcastle – My Favorite Beer ever. When in doubt, go with Newcastle
Broncos – So perhaps the Broncos are for real. Taking down the Pats was huge, and they have another great chance to prove themselves Monday night against the Chargers. A win would give them a huge divisional lead and would definitely make a statement.
Rockies – Lost in 4 to the Phillies (Discuss Baseball playoffs) Phillies vs. Dodger and Yankees vs. Angels.
-Great Moments in the History of Blog TalkRadio (Clip 15 for intro) Set up clip (Pick one for tomorrow)
(Clip 16) – Ed meets Minerva on the LCS show in October 2008
(Clip 17) – Ed does 9 pushups August 2009
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Ludlow Massacre:
Southern Colorado was a hotbed for Gold and Silver mines in the early part of the 20th century. The three major companies in the area were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF).
These companies had harsh management tactics under the conservative and distant Rockefellers and other investors. To prevent strikes, the coal companies had lured immigrants, mainly from southern and Eastern Europe and Mexico. CF&I's management purposely mixed immigrants of different nationalities in the mines to discourage communication that might lead to organization.
As was typical in the industry of that day, miners were paid by tons of coal mined and not reimbursed for "dead work," such as laying rails, timbering, and shoring the mines to make them operable. Given the intense pressure to produce, mine safety was often given short shrift. More than 1,700 miners died in Colorado from 1884 to 1912, a rate that was between 2 and 3.5 times higher than the national average during those years. Furthermore, the miners felt they were being short-changed on the weight of the coal they mined, arguing that the scales used for paying them were different from those used for coal customers. Miners challenging the weights risked being dismissed.
Most miners also lived in "company towns," where homes, schools, doctors, clergy, and law enforcement were provided by the company, as well as stores offering a full range of goods that could be paid for in company currency, scrip. However, this became an oppressive environment in which law focused on enforcement of increasing prohibitions on speech or assembly by the miners to discourage union-building activity. Also, under pressure to maintain profitability, the mining companies steadily reduced their investment in the town and its amenities while increasing prices at the company store so that miners and their families experienced worsening conditions and higher costs. Colorado's legislature had passed laws to improve the condition of the mines and towns, including the outlawing of the use of scrip, but these laws were rarely enforced.
Despite attempts to suppress union activity, secret organizing continued by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in the years leading up to 1913. Once everything had been laid out according to their plan, the UMWA presented, on behalf of coal miners, a list of seven demands:
Ludlow labor demands:
1. Recognition of the union as bargaining agent
2. An increase in tonnage rates (equivalent to a 10% wage increase)
3. Enforcement of the eight-hour work day law
4. Payment for "dead work" (laying track, timbering, handling impurities, etc.)
5. Weight-checkmen elected by the workers (to keep company weightmen honest)
6. The right to use any store, and choose their boarding houses and doctors
7. Strict enforcement of Colorado's laws (such as mine safety rules, abolition of scrip), and an end to the dreaded company guard system
Management refused to comply with these demands, and so huge numbers of miners went on strike, setting up tent cities at the opening to many of the mines in the area to barricade the mines and prevent the “scabs” from crossing the picket lines to work the mines. The violence slowly started to escalate as the miners would get violent to keep scabs away and the mining companies hired Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to help break the strike by protecting the replacement workers and otherwise making life difficult for the strikers.
Baldwin-Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking. Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and fired bullets into the tents at random, occasionally killing and maiming people. They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun that the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Because of frequent sniping on the tent colonies, miners dug protective pits beneath the tents where they and their families could be better protected.
On October 28, 1913 as strike-related violence mounted, Colorado governor Elias M. Ammons, called in the Colorado National Guard. At first, the guard's appearance calmed the situation and the strike went on relatively peacefully until the spring of 1914. By then, the state had run out of money to maintain the guard, and was forced to recall them. Rockefeller offered to pay to have his camp guards act as the national guard, so during that spring, the men in National Guard uniforms were paid employees of the CF&I company. As you can imagine, having people acting with the authority of the National Guard but with sympathies completely in line with the management of the mining companies the peace was not going to last.
On March 10, 1914, the body of a replacement worker was found on the railroad tracks. The “National Guard” asserted that the man had been murdered by the strikers. And the order came down that the tent colony be destroyed in retaliation. The militia set up machine guns and began an attack on the tent city, and the strikers retaliated and a full scale firefight broke out. By 7:00 that night the tent city was in flames, and the militia descended to loot the city. The leader of the strikers a man named Louis Tikas remained in the tent city until he was captured late in the day by the militia. While he was being held by two militiamen, Lt. Karl Linderfelt, commander of one of two Guard companies and a man who had confronted Tikas several times in the previous months broke a rifle butt over Tikas’ head. Tikas and two other miners were later found shot to death. Their bodies lay along the Colorado and Southern tracks for three days in full view of passing trains. The militia officers refused to allow them to be moved until a local chapter of a railway union demanded the bodies be taken away for burial.
During the battle, four women and eleven children who had been hiding in a pit beneath a tent trying to avoid the gunfire were trapped when the tent above them was set on fire. Two of the women and all of the children suffocated. These deaths became a rallying cry for the UMWA, who called the incident the "Ludlow Massacre."
After the massacre, the organized labor called upon as many men as they could get to rally to their cause, and a group of 700 to 1000 men ended up enacting a large scale guerrilla war. These men attacked mine after mine and shut down operations, all told over somewhere between 100 and 200 people lost their lives in the ten days of fighting. This conflict became known as the Colorado Coalfield war was the most violent labor conflict in American history. In the end, the UMWA ran out of money, they didn’t get their demands met, and most of the workers were replaced. Over 400 strikers were arrested, 332 were indicted on murder charges, only one man, John Lawson, the leader of the strike was convicted and his conviction was eventually overturned by the Colorado Supreme Court. 22 National Guardsmen were court-marshalled, but all were acquitted except for Lt. Linderfelt who was found guilty of his attack on Louis Tikas, but he was only given a slight reprimand.
Although the strike failed, it’s legacy led Rockefeller with the prodding of some government officials to enact sweeping changes for the mines. Safety and health regulations were enacted, an eight hour work day was established, and child labor was abolished. Still, it’s crazy to think that the National Guard got into a war with American People and it all happened less than 100 years ago.
Extra Talking points:
-Can you be a fan of more than one team? I say no.
-The Ed’s Gambling Competition. MJ is in first and I’m dead last at the moment.
-Jen and the Muppet Movie: How can I be married to a woman who doesn’t appreciate the Muppets? I love her, so I guess I’ll find a way.
Thriller classes - Downtown Thriller Dance Event
Attention, Grisly Ghouls! DanzArtz Studios is a hot, new dance studio located at 520 Cherokee in central Denver. DanzArtz Studios is teaching a series of affordable group classes for people of all ages and skill levels to learn the group zombie dance from Thriller. Thriller will be performed in zombie costumes on the 16th Street Mall at dusk, on Halloween, by all dancers who have been trained to do the routine.
The final round of Thriller classes are being offered on Wed, Friday, and Sunday nights in October, and cost $32 for four, one-hour sessions. Classes are filling up, and you must reserve your space in advance. Amateur dancers are learning the choreography in four weeks flat, and having a great time as well! Classes are taught by Vicky Fields, of Vicky Fields Dance, Inc., the co-owner of the studio. She has 25 years of experience in jazz, ballet, swing, Latin and ballroom dancing. If you want to learn Thriller and dance it in costume on the 16th Street Mall on Halloween, visit: www.DanzArtzStudios.com, or www.ThrillerDanceNight.com.
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
I can’t even express how much I love this album. It’s got a great mix of sharply written lyrics, crazy vocals, cool harmonies, loud and angry stuff, beautiful stuff…It doesn’t even what kind of mood I’m in, I’m always in the mood for Modest Mouse, and this album just makes me happy. It’s varied and interesting, and it’s one of my absolute favorite albums, I just love it! The song I’m going to go out with isn’t one that got a lick of radio play, but it’s one of my favorites on the album, but I honestly could have played any song on the entire thing and been okay with that. I’m going to leave you today with the song, “Parting of the Sensory”
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Programming alert!! – We will have a special show this Thursday. The second ever episode of the Vertically Striped Interview. My guest will be former University of Colorado Buffalo and San Francisco 49er George Visger. George played at CU in the late 70’s and went on to briefly play with the San Francisco 49ers, his career was cut short due to traumatic brain injuries, and he has battled through this disability to become a successful businessman and motivational speaker. George has had 9 brain surgeries due to his football injuries, and has recently spoken with Dr. Omalu who has been in the news due to his research into NFL football players and brain trauma. Dr. Omalu has asked George to sit on his board. George is going to join us to talk about his playing days as well as his injuries, recovery and overcoming difficulties to find success. We will also discuss the physical and moral implications of brain injuries to football players. I am very excited to spend some time Thursday night talking with George, you can listen live if you like, or since I will be going directly up against the Ed show, you can download the podcast and listen later, but this should be a fascinating show.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio…We’ll have another installment of the Magnificent 7, this time it will be a Top 7 Beers, I’ll share an interesting and sad but somewhat obscure moment in the history of our nation, We’ll take a look at the Broncos 5-0 start and assess their prospects for Monday night’s showdown with the Chargers, I’ll share a bit about my crazy day of sports last Sunday attending both the Broncos-Patriots game and the Rockies playoff Game 3 against the Phillies, of course we’ll have the news and another music recommendation for you, and if you’d like to take part in today’s show, you may call in by dialing…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Without any further ado, Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
Our first story is one that proves that you’re never too old for your Dad to think you’re your music is too loud…
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- San Antonio police are investigating the wounding of a man after his elderly father allegedly opened fire when the victim refused to stop drumming. Police said the son, in his 50s, suffered a non-life threatening head wound early Friday while at the home the men share. Police said his 83-year-old father was detained on an aggravated assault charge.
Police said the son, who was grazed in the head, ran down the block to call for help.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police are investigating a chilli sauce to determine whether it was so spicy that it was capable of causing grievous bodily harm when used in an attack.
Police took a sample of the sauce from a kebab stand in Bremen's central train station after a kebab salesman threw it into the eyes of a customer during a fight over napkins.
"Legally, the question of whether the spiciness of the kebab sauce constituted 'normal' or grievous bodily harm must be addressed," local police in the northern city said on Friday.
Officers broke up a scuffle that kicked off after a 23-year-old wiped his kebab-soiled hands on the stand because the salesman refused to give him a paper napkin. The seller responded by flinging a ladle of sauce in the man's face.
The victim's eyes became bloodshot and police are investigating why the napkin dispute broke out, a spokesman said. Both men could end up facing charges, he added.
UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A Pennsylvania Civil War buff faces a felony charge for accidentally firing a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor's home.
Fifty-four-year-old William Maser had been charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. Authorities on Thursday added a felony count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure
Maser has acknowledged firing a homemade cannon outside his house in Georges Township, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, in early September. The cannonball, about two inches in diameter, ricocheted and hit the neighbor's home about 400 yards away, smashing through a window and a wall before landing in a closet. Police say nobody was hurt.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Well, My big mouth got me in trouble again, I was reading the sports section of the Denver Post in the break room at work with a CSU football player on the cover…The story I was reading was about how Miami football players are watching nothing but Spongebob Squarepants during this season, however a co-worker came in who made a comment about the CSU player. I said I don’t follow bad football, to which he responded, “You know I played for them, right?”
Magnificent 7: 7 Best Beers Going! (Clip #7 for Intro Music)
7. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale – A truly fantastic beer, you can’t go wrong with a Sierra Nevada.
6. Guiness – Yes it’s thick and dark as motor oil, but sometimes in life you need a good solid stout, and Guiness is the definition of a solid stout!
5. Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale – This beer is almost sweet, but that’s a good thing. It goes down smooth and tastes delicious.
4. Pacifico (Especially if you can get it in Mexico) I’m not a huge fan of Mexican beers, but this one hits the spot, it’s perfect with fish tacos.
3. Warsteiner Dunkel – This German beer just screams quality, it’s very tasty. Plus it’s fun to say.
2. Fuller’s, ESB (Extra Special Bitter)– Just tried this for the first time last night and WOW! It rules. It’s Malty and Hoppy and smooth as silk, it’s a bitter ale in name only, as it is 100% delicious. It’s a definite winner. I need more Fuller’s in my life.
1. Newcastle – My Favorite Beer ever. When in doubt, go with Newcastle
Broncos – So perhaps the Broncos are for real. Taking down the Pats was huge, and they have another great chance to prove themselves Monday night against the Chargers. A win would give them a huge divisional lead and would definitely make a statement.
Rockies – Lost in 4 to the Phillies (Discuss Baseball playoffs) Phillies vs. Dodger and Yankees vs. Angels.
-Great Moments in the History of Blog TalkRadio (Clip 15 for intro) Set up clip (Pick one for tomorrow)
(Clip 16) – Ed meets Minerva on the LCS show in October 2008
(Clip 17) – Ed does 9 pushups August 2009
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Ludlow Massacre:
Southern Colorado was a hotbed for Gold and Silver mines in the early part of the 20th century. The three major companies in the area were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF).
These companies had harsh management tactics under the conservative and distant Rockefellers and other investors. To prevent strikes, the coal companies had lured immigrants, mainly from southern and Eastern Europe and Mexico. CF&I's management purposely mixed immigrants of different nationalities in the mines to discourage communication that might lead to organization.
As was typical in the industry of that day, miners were paid by tons of coal mined and not reimbursed for "dead work," such as laying rails, timbering, and shoring the mines to make them operable. Given the intense pressure to produce, mine safety was often given short shrift. More than 1,700 miners died in Colorado from 1884 to 1912, a rate that was between 2 and 3.5 times higher than the national average during those years. Furthermore, the miners felt they were being short-changed on the weight of the coal they mined, arguing that the scales used for paying them were different from those used for coal customers. Miners challenging the weights risked being dismissed.
Most miners also lived in "company towns," where homes, schools, doctors, clergy, and law enforcement were provided by the company, as well as stores offering a full range of goods that could be paid for in company currency, scrip. However, this became an oppressive environment in which law focused on enforcement of increasing prohibitions on speech or assembly by the miners to discourage union-building activity. Also, under pressure to maintain profitability, the mining companies steadily reduced their investment in the town and its amenities while increasing prices at the company store so that miners and their families experienced worsening conditions and higher costs. Colorado's legislature had passed laws to improve the condition of the mines and towns, including the outlawing of the use of scrip, but these laws were rarely enforced.
Despite attempts to suppress union activity, secret organizing continued by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in the years leading up to 1913. Once everything had been laid out according to their plan, the UMWA presented, on behalf of coal miners, a list of seven demands:
Ludlow labor demands:
1. Recognition of the union as bargaining agent
2. An increase in tonnage rates (equivalent to a 10% wage increase)
3. Enforcement of the eight-hour work day law
4. Payment for "dead work" (laying track, timbering, handling impurities, etc.)
5. Weight-checkmen elected by the workers (to keep company weightmen honest)
6. The right to use any store, and choose their boarding houses and doctors
7. Strict enforcement of Colorado's laws (such as mine safety rules, abolition of scrip), and an end to the dreaded company guard system
Management refused to comply with these demands, and so huge numbers of miners went on strike, setting up tent cities at the opening to many of the mines in the area to barricade the mines and prevent the “scabs” from crossing the picket lines to work the mines. The violence slowly started to escalate as the miners would get violent to keep scabs away and the mining companies hired Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to help break the strike by protecting the replacement workers and otherwise making life difficult for the strikers.
Baldwin-Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking. Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and fired bullets into the tents at random, occasionally killing and maiming people. They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun that the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Because of frequent sniping on the tent colonies, miners dug protective pits beneath the tents where they and their families could be better protected.
On October 28, 1913 as strike-related violence mounted, Colorado governor Elias M. Ammons, called in the Colorado National Guard. At first, the guard's appearance calmed the situation and the strike went on relatively peacefully until the spring of 1914. By then, the state had run out of money to maintain the guard, and was forced to recall them. Rockefeller offered to pay to have his camp guards act as the national guard, so during that spring, the men in National Guard uniforms were paid employees of the CF&I company. As you can imagine, having people acting with the authority of the National Guard but with sympathies completely in line with the management of the mining companies the peace was not going to last.
On March 10, 1914, the body of a replacement worker was found on the railroad tracks. The “National Guard” asserted that the man had been murdered by the strikers. And the order came down that the tent colony be destroyed in retaliation. The militia set up machine guns and began an attack on the tent city, and the strikers retaliated and a full scale firefight broke out. By 7:00 that night the tent city was in flames, and the militia descended to loot the city. The leader of the strikers a man named Louis Tikas remained in the tent city until he was captured late in the day by the militia. While he was being held by two militiamen, Lt. Karl Linderfelt, commander of one of two Guard companies and a man who had confronted Tikas several times in the previous months broke a rifle butt over Tikas’ head. Tikas and two other miners were later found shot to death. Their bodies lay along the Colorado and Southern tracks for three days in full view of passing trains. The militia officers refused to allow them to be moved until a local chapter of a railway union demanded the bodies be taken away for burial.
During the battle, four women and eleven children who had been hiding in a pit beneath a tent trying to avoid the gunfire were trapped when the tent above them was set on fire. Two of the women and all of the children suffocated. These deaths became a rallying cry for the UMWA, who called the incident the "Ludlow Massacre."
After the massacre, the organized labor called upon as many men as they could get to rally to their cause, and a group of 700 to 1000 men ended up enacting a large scale guerrilla war. These men attacked mine after mine and shut down operations, all told over somewhere between 100 and 200 people lost their lives in the ten days of fighting. This conflict became known as the Colorado Coalfield war was the most violent labor conflict in American history. In the end, the UMWA ran out of money, they didn’t get their demands met, and most of the workers were replaced. Over 400 strikers were arrested, 332 were indicted on murder charges, only one man, John Lawson, the leader of the strike was convicted and his conviction was eventually overturned by the Colorado Supreme Court. 22 National Guardsmen were court-marshalled, but all were acquitted except for Lt. Linderfelt who was found guilty of his attack on Louis Tikas, but he was only given a slight reprimand.
Although the strike failed, it’s legacy led Rockefeller with the prodding of some government officials to enact sweeping changes for the mines. Safety and health regulations were enacted, an eight hour work day was established, and child labor was abolished. Still, it’s crazy to think that the National Guard got into a war with American People and it all happened less than 100 years ago.
Extra Talking points:
-Can you be a fan of more than one team? I say no.
-The Ed’s Gambling Competition. MJ is in first and I’m dead last at the moment.
-Jen and the Muppet Movie: How can I be married to a woman who doesn’t appreciate the Muppets? I love her, so I guess I’ll find a way.
Thriller classes - Downtown Thriller Dance Event
Attention, Grisly Ghouls! DanzArtz Studios is a hot, new dance studio located at 520 Cherokee in central Denver. DanzArtz Studios is teaching a series of affordable group classes for people of all ages and skill levels to learn the group zombie dance from Thriller. Thriller will be performed in zombie costumes on the 16th Street Mall at dusk, on Halloween, by all dancers who have been trained to do the routine.
The final round of Thriller classes are being offered on Wed, Friday, and Sunday nights in October, and cost $32 for four, one-hour sessions. Classes are filling up, and you must reserve your space in advance. Amateur dancers are learning the choreography in four weeks flat, and having a great time as well! Classes are taught by Vicky Fields, of Vicky Fields Dance, Inc., the co-owner of the studio. She has 25 years of experience in jazz, ballet, swing, Latin and ballroom dancing. If you want to learn Thriller and dance it in costume on the 16th Street Mall on Halloween, visit: www.DanzArtzStudios.com, or www.ThrillerDanceNight.com.
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
I can’t even express how much I love this album. It’s got a great mix of sharply written lyrics, crazy vocals, cool harmonies, loud and angry stuff, beautiful stuff…It doesn’t even what kind of mood I’m in, I’m always in the mood for Modest Mouse, and this album just makes me happy. It’s varied and interesting, and it’s one of my absolute favorite albums, I just love it! The song I’m going to go out with isn’t one that got a lick of radio play, but it’s one of my favorites on the album, but I honestly could have played any song on the entire thing and been okay with that. I’m going to leave you today with the song, “Parting of the Sensory”
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Show Prep #20
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the radio show that may be 4-0, but still hasn’t played anybody…it’s Vertically Striped Radio. Brought to you as always by VerticallyStripedSocks.com, Vertically Striped Socks…we do less all day than most people get done by 9 AM.
I’m a little worried about my brain’s comprehension ability today, I was in the drive through at Burger King, and I wanted to order some Chicken Nuggets, but I noticed halfway through the word that they call them Tenders, so my order came out as, “I’d like an order of 4 piece Chicken Nuggers.” Yes, I sounded very intelligent. Then as I was producing a new intro for the Magnificent 7, I saved the sound file as Magnificent Sever, I’m very good.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio. The winner of the Fantasy Comedy Tournament will be announced, We have another great moment in the history of BlogTalkRadio, to honor the Broncos breaking out the Vertically Striped Socks this weekend we will unveil the Magnificent 7: Worst 7 Uniforms in the NFL, we’ll have the news, and of course another music recommendation for you, plus we will also welcome your calls if you’d be so bold as to call in.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Let’s get to the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03) GAZA (Reuters) – Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Thursday who had never seen a zebra in the flesh.With their long ears, drooping heads and sleepy eyes, the impostors probably would not have fooled the zoo's only lioness. But the effect achieved by the zoo owners' dye job looks not so bad -- to the unpracticed eye, and from a distance.On closer inspection it resembles the classic striped convict suit of cartoon strips.Nidal Barghouthi, whose father owns the Marah Land zoo, said the two female donkeys were striped using masking tape and women's hair dye, applied with a paint-brush."The first time we used paint but it didn't look good," he said. "The children don't know so they call them zebras and they are happy to see something new."A genuine zebra would have been too expensive to bring into Israel-blockaded Gaza via smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt, said owner Mohammed Bargouthi. "It would have cost me $40,000 to get a real one."Gaza's Palestinians are impoverished by their isolation under an Israeli embargo against its Islamist Hamas rulers, who refuse to give up armed resistance against the Jewish state.Bargouthi's zoo charged an entrance fee of just $15 for a full busload of children.
TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290) ticket.The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable Shawna Coulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County."We enforce the legislation and this truck driver was in violation of that," she said.
SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean passenger jet was grounded just before taking off so that crew members could catch a sparrow that was flying around in the cabin, airline officials said on Wednesday."The bird got in through an open airplane door and was spotted during boarding," said Cho Hyung-chul, a spokesman for Korean Air Line. The passengers on the flight were asked to leave the plane as the airline tried to prevent the bird from taking the domestic flight."The bird was captured and set free," Cho said.The flight's 123 passengers were put on board a different plane and sent on their journey, which was delayed for nearly three hours, the airline said.Birds are a growing problem for the global airline industry, with an increasing number of planes getting damaged after hitting flocks of birds.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Broncos – 4-0 and ready to rock the Vertically Striped Socks versus the Pats. I dig the retro uniforms, but they are undeniably ugly. They’re retro ugly chic right now, but lets face it, they were such an abomination back in the 60’s that they inspired a bonfire. The Vertically Striped Sock uniforms were not exactly universally beloved. It is in their honor that we do today’s Magnificent 7. (Clip 19)
Magnificent 7: 7 Worst Current Uniforms in the NFL7. Bengals – So close to being cool, but they’re just off6. Redskins – Racist and Desperately in need of an update5. Jaguars – Teal, ugh. Plus the new ones this season are about as dull as a uni can be4. Texans – All Red – They look like blood sausages out there3. Bills – Too much weird stuff going on. A very bad update2. Dolphins (Orange jerseys) – I love orange, but not accented by teal1. Seahawks – Puke Green – These uniforms were put up on uniwatchblog.com as An April fools joke.
Rockies – Game 3 tonight (Discuss Baseball playoffs)-Great Moments in the History of Blog TalkRadio (Clip 07 for intro) Set up clip (Pick one for tomorrow)(Clip 15) – Ed sings a song about Boogers(Clip 16) – Ed meets Minerva on the LCS show in October 2008(Clip 17) – Ed does 9 pushups August 2009Jen and the Muppet Movie(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)-The Ed’s Gambling Competition. MJ is in first and I’m dead last at the moment.
Thriller classes - Downtown Thriller Dance EventAttention, Grisly Ghouls! DanzArtz Studios is a hot, new dance studio located at 520 Cherokee in central Denver. DanzArtz Studios is teaching a series of affordable group classes for people of all ages and skill levels to learn the group zombie dance from Thriller. Thriller will be performed in zombie costumes on the 16th Street Mall at dusk, on Halloween, by all dancers who have been trained to do the routine. The final round of Thriller classes are being offered on Wed, Friday, and Sunday nights in October, and cost $32 for four, one-hour sessions. Classes are filling up, and you must reserve your space in advance. Amateur dancers are learning the choreography in four weeks flat, and having a great time as well! Classes are taught by Vicky Fields, of Vicky Fields Dance, Inc., the co-owner of the studio. She has 25 years of experience in jazz, ballet, swing, Latin and ballroom dancing. If you want to learn Thriller and dance it in costume on the 16th Street Mall on Halloween, visit: www.DanzArtzStudios.com, or www.ThrillerDanceNight.com.
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:Notes from Elsewhere by Peter MulveyJust a dude with a guitar, but he’s an interesting song writer and has a cool voice. The song I chose is…well I’m going to play two songs, because I couldn’t pick, and screw it, it’s my show, I do what I want. The first one is more of a spoken word song, it’s called “The Dreams” (Clip 20) he sorta sings it, he sorta speaks it, but it’s pretty cool. Here it is… The second song is also pretty cool. It’s called “Shirt” (Clip 18) and it’s a song of regrets in a way, mostly it’s just a song to me that feels like he wishes he wasn’t so used to life the way he lives it right now as if he feels stuck in a rut. It’s a feeling I’m sure many of us have had before, and I dig the way he expresses the feeling, not exactly sadness but sort of a regretful familiarity with life. I really dig Peter Mulvey’s work. I leave you with “Shirt” today, thanks for tuning into Vertically Striped Radio…as always I appreciate you listening and until next time…Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
I’m a little worried about my brain’s comprehension ability today, I was in the drive through at Burger King, and I wanted to order some Chicken Nuggets, but I noticed halfway through the word that they call them Tenders, so my order came out as, “I’d like an order of 4 piece Chicken Nuggers.” Yes, I sounded very intelligent. Then as I was producing a new intro for the Magnificent 7, I saved the sound file as Magnificent Sever, I’m very good.
Today on Vertically Striped Radio. The winner of the Fantasy Comedy Tournament will be announced, We have another great moment in the history of BlogTalkRadio, to honor the Broncos breaking out the Vertically Striped Socks this weekend we will unveil the Magnificent 7: Worst 7 Uniforms in the NFL, we’ll have the news, and of course another music recommendation for you, plus we will also welcome your calls if you’d be so bold as to call in.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Let’s get to the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03) GAZA (Reuters) – Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Thursday who had never seen a zebra in the flesh.With their long ears, drooping heads and sleepy eyes, the impostors probably would not have fooled the zoo's only lioness. But the effect achieved by the zoo owners' dye job looks not so bad -- to the unpracticed eye, and from a distance.On closer inspection it resembles the classic striped convict suit of cartoon strips.Nidal Barghouthi, whose father owns the Marah Land zoo, said the two female donkeys were striped using masking tape and women's hair dye, applied with a paint-brush."The first time we used paint but it didn't look good," he said. "The children don't know so they call them zebras and they are happy to see something new."A genuine zebra would have been too expensive to bring into Israel-blockaded Gaza via smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt, said owner Mohammed Bargouthi. "It would have cost me $40,000 to get a real one."Gaza's Palestinians are impoverished by their isolation under an Israeli embargo against its Islamist Hamas rulers, who refuse to give up armed resistance against the Jewish state.Bargouthi's zoo charged an entrance fee of just $15 for a full busload of children.
TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290) ticket.The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable Shawna Coulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County."We enforce the legislation and this truck driver was in violation of that," she said.
SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean passenger jet was grounded just before taking off so that crew members could catch a sparrow that was flying around in the cabin, airline officials said on Wednesday."The bird got in through an open airplane door and was spotted during boarding," said Cho Hyung-chul, a spokesman for Korean Air Line. The passengers on the flight were asked to leave the plane as the airline tried to prevent the bird from taking the domestic flight."The bird was captured and set free," Cho said.The flight's 123 passengers were put on board a different plane and sent on their journey, which was delayed for nearly three hours, the airline said.Birds are a growing problem for the global airline industry, with an increasing number of planes getting damaged after hitting flocks of birds.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
The Broncos – 4-0 and ready to rock the Vertically Striped Socks versus the Pats. I dig the retro uniforms, but they are undeniably ugly. They’re retro ugly chic right now, but lets face it, they were such an abomination back in the 60’s that they inspired a bonfire. The Vertically Striped Sock uniforms were not exactly universally beloved. It is in their honor that we do today’s Magnificent 7. (Clip 19)
Magnificent 7: 7 Worst Current Uniforms in the NFL7. Bengals – So close to being cool, but they’re just off6. Redskins – Racist and Desperately in need of an update5. Jaguars – Teal, ugh. Plus the new ones this season are about as dull as a uni can be4. Texans – All Red – They look like blood sausages out there3. Bills – Too much weird stuff going on. A very bad update2. Dolphins (Orange jerseys) – I love orange, but not accented by teal1. Seahawks – Puke Green – These uniforms were put up on uniwatchblog.com as An April fools joke.
Rockies – Game 3 tonight (Discuss Baseball playoffs)-Great Moments in the History of Blog TalkRadio (Clip 07 for intro) Set up clip (Pick one for tomorrow)(Clip 15) – Ed sings a song about Boogers(Clip 16) – Ed meets Minerva on the LCS show in October 2008(Clip 17) – Ed does 9 pushups August 2009Jen and the Muppet Movie(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)-The Ed’s Gambling Competition. MJ is in first and I’m dead last at the moment.
Thriller classes - Downtown Thriller Dance EventAttention, Grisly Ghouls! DanzArtz Studios is a hot, new dance studio located at 520 Cherokee in central Denver. DanzArtz Studios is teaching a series of affordable group classes for people of all ages and skill levels to learn the group zombie dance from Thriller. Thriller will be performed in zombie costumes on the 16th Street Mall at dusk, on Halloween, by all dancers who have been trained to do the routine. The final round of Thriller classes are being offered on Wed, Friday, and Sunday nights in October, and cost $32 for four, one-hour sessions. Classes are filling up, and you must reserve your space in advance. Amateur dancers are learning the choreography in four weeks flat, and having a great time as well! Classes are taught by Vicky Fields, of Vicky Fields Dance, Inc., the co-owner of the studio. She has 25 years of experience in jazz, ballet, swing, Latin and ballroom dancing. If you want to learn Thriller and dance it in costume on the 16th Street Mall on Halloween, visit: www.DanzArtzStudios.com, or www.ThrillerDanceNight.com.
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:Notes from Elsewhere by Peter MulveyJust a dude with a guitar, but he’s an interesting song writer and has a cool voice. The song I chose is…well I’m going to play two songs, because I couldn’t pick, and screw it, it’s my show, I do what I want. The first one is more of a spoken word song, it’s called “The Dreams” (Clip 20) he sorta sings it, he sorta speaks it, but it’s pretty cool. Here it is… The second song is also pretty cool. It’s called “Shirt” (Clip 18) and it’s a song of regrets in a way, mostly it’s just a song to me that feels like he wishes he wasn’t so used to life the way he lives it right now as if he feels stuck in a rut. It’s a feeling I’m sure many of us have had before, and I dig the way he expresses the feeling, not exactly sadness but sort of a regretful familiarity with life. I really dig Peter Mulvey’s work. I leave you with “Shirt” today, thanks for tuning into Vertically Striped Radio…as always I appreciate you listening and until next time…Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Show Prep #19
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the show that won’t be stopped by the Swine flu, this is Vertically Striped Radio, I am Craig Dodge, your host and the record holder for going from #1 on the Bad Side to #1 on the Good side. Welcome to Episode #19, which is appropriate since the Avalanche just retired 19 for Mr. Sakic.
In the past week I have won second place in a wiffleball tournament, I have turned 33, I have tried Bacon Ice-Cream, I have been accused of cheating in the fantasy comedy tournament and consequently reached #1 on the bad side, I completed my masterpiece…The Ed’s “Oh No” video, I subsequently was promised that I would be number 1 on the good side. I attended the game where the Rockies clinched a playoff spot, and I appear to have contracted the H1N1 virus. Needless to say, it’s been a busy week for me, and I’ll try to touch on all of those things today, plus…
Today on Vertically Striped, MJ and I will take a look at the crazy good start for our Denver Broncos, and see if we think it can last. We’ll check in on the baseball playoffs, in which my Colorado Rockies will be taking part. We’ll set up the championship matchup in the Fantasy Comedy Tournament, Andy Peterson our Raiders correspondent is scheduled to call in to take his lumps due to the dismantling of his team by the Broncos in Oakland last Sunday. The Ed may even check in. We also welcome your calls if you’d like to call in.
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)
1. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy.
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.
"Incomprehensible," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
"He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a 'Spanish womn,'" the judge wrote. "He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers."
Chin has experience with big numbers. He's the judge who sentenced Bernard Madoff to a 150-year prison sentence for what the government called a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Bank of America Corp faces real legal problems, including New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's threat to sue its chief executive and a judge's embarrassing rejection of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yet the money Chiscolm wants could dwarf all the bank's other problems.
It's larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros. Chiscolm's request is equivalent 1 followed by 22 digits.
The sum also dwarfs the world's 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.
"These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale," said Sylvain Cappell, New York University's Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. "If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense."
Judge Chin gave Chiscolm until October 23 to better explain the basis for his claims, or else see his complaint dismissed.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian police warned shopkeepers Tuesday not to use mannequins without headscarves or which exposed body curves, official news agency IRNA reported.
"Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without Hijabs (Muslim veil) are prohibited to be used in the shops," Iran's moral security police in charge of Islamic dress codes said in a statement carried by IRNA.
Iranian police have stepped up a crackdown on both women and men, boutiques and small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to office in 2005.
The measures are the latest in a country-wide campaign against Western cultural influences in the Islamic Republic, where strict dress codes are enforced.
"Both showing necktie and bowtie behind the windows ... and (the) selling (of) women's underwear by men are prohibited," said the police statement.
In the past, crackdowns tended to be launched at the start of Iran's hot summers and petered out soon after. But last year they extended into winter and included a drive against tight women's trousers and even men with spiky "Western" hairstyles.
Those who violate dress codes are usually cautioned on a first offence, sometimes after a brief visit to a police station. But they can be detained for longer, taken to court and required to have "guidance classes" after repeat offences.
Dress codes are most often flouted in wealthier, urban areas. Conservative dress is the norm in poorer, rural areas.
DUBLIN (AP) -- Dublin's traffic is often snarled, but this could be the first time that llamas are to blame.
Five of the South American animals accompanied by two goats ran rampant Thursday on the Irish capital's major ring road, the M50, causing 5-mile (8-kilometer) traffic jams. Police eventually corraled the animals safely into a trailer.
Circus owner Alexander Scholl says his animals bolted when fuel deliverymen failed to shut a gate. He rejects rival circus owners' claims that he deliberately loosed the llamas on to the highway to gain attention for his Circus Sydney, which has previously lost elephants and a wallaby.
"There's no way this was a publicity stunt. If these llamas hit a car and killed somebody, who are they going to arrest, me or the llamas?" Scholl said.
New York - Man Plays Dead Mom
A NEW YORK man who "breathed his mom's last breath" six years ago has become the very same, er, woman.
At least he thinks so, but authorities aren't so sure.
They suspect he might just be dressing up as her to claim $117,000 in benefits, including $65,000 in rent subsidies by also claiming to be his disabled self, who was being looked after by his landlord.
Who was also his mother. Who was actually him, as his real mother had died six years ago.
Thomas Parkin, 49, told authorities that because he held his mom as she died: "I am my mother."
He was caught when he turned up at the Brooklyn Department of Motor Vehicles dressed in drag to renew his driver's licence. Her licence.
Parkin even showed up for an interview with investigators wearing a red cardigan, lipstick, manicured nails and "breathing through an oxygen tank".
His friend sometimes completed the ruse by playing her nephew. His cousin.
Unfortunately, it all got a bit hard to maintain after investigators showed Parkin a photograph of his mother's tombstone.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Andy Peterson update: The Oakland Raiders correspondent (Play music) –
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Rockies – Playoff run ready to commence? (Discuss Baseball playoffs)
The Ed Feud – Thankfully over
The Mariners prophet – (Clip 15)
The Broncos – Mirage, or are the for real? They are getting harder to dismiss.
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Heart Attack Time Machine – Waterdeep (2007)
Husband and wife team of Don and Lori Chaffer.
Alt-Folk
In the past week I have won second place in a wiffleball tournament, I have turned 33, I have tried Bacon Ice-Cream, I have been accused of cheating in the fantasy comedy tournament and consequently reached #1 on the bad side, I completed my masterpiece…The Ed’s “Oh No” video, I subsequently was promised that I would be number 1 on the good side. I attended the game where the Rockies clinched a playoff spot, and I appear to have contracted the H1N1 virus. Needless to say, it’s been a busy week for me, and I’ll try to touch on all of those things today, plus…
Today on Vertically Striped, MJ and I will take a look at the crazy good start for our Denver Broncos, and see if we think it can last. We’ll check in on the baseball playoffs, in which my Colorado Rockies will be taking part. We’ll set up the championship matchup in the Fantasy Comedy Tournament, Andy Peterson our Raiders correspondent is scheduled to call in to take his lumps due to the dismantling of his team by the Broncos in Oakland last Sunday. The Ed may even check in. We also welcome your calls if you’d like to call in.
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)
1. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy.
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.
"Incomprehensible," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
"He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a 'Spanish womn,'" the judge wrote. "He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers."
Chin has experience with big numbers. He's the judge who sentenced Bernard Madoff to a 150-year prison sentence for what the government called a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Bank of America Corp faces real legal problems, including New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's threat to sue its chief executive and a judge's embarrassing rejection of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yet the money Chiscolm wants could dwarf all the bank's other problems.
It's larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros. Chiscolm's request is equivalent 1 followed by 22 digits.
The sum also dwarfs the world's 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.
"These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale," said Sylvain Cappell, New York University's Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. "If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense."
Judge Chin gave Chiscolm until October 23 to better explain the basis for his claims, or else see his complaint dismissed.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian police warned shopkeepers Tuesday not to use mannequins without headscarves or which exposed body curves, official news agency IRNA reported.
"Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without Hijabs (Muslim veil) are prohibited to be used in the shops," Iran's moral security police in charge of Islamic dress codes said in a statement carried by IRNA.
Iranian police have stepped up a crackdown on both women and men, boutiques and small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to office in 2005.
The measures are the latest in a country-wide campaign against Western cultural influences in the Islamic Republic, where strict dress codes are enforced.
"Both showing necktie and bowtie behind the windows ... and (the) selling (of) women's underwear by men are prohibited," said the police statement.
In the past, crackdowns tended to be launched at the start of Iran's hot summers and petered out soon after. But last year they extended into winter and included a drive against tight women's trousers and even men with spiky "Western" hairstyles.
Those who violate dress codes are usually cautioned on a first offence, sometimes after a brief visit to a police station. But they can be detained for longer, taken to court and required to have "guidance classes" after repeat offences.
Dress codes are most often flouted in wealthier, urban areas. Conservative dress is the norm in poorer, rural areas.
DUBLIN (AP) -- Dublin's traffic is often snarled, but this could be the first time that llamas are to blame.
Five of the South American animals accompanied by two goats ran rampant Thursday on the Irish capital's major ring road, the M50, causing 5-mile (8-kilometer) traffic jams. Police eventually corraled the animals safely into a trailer.
Circus owner Alexander Scholl says his animals bolted when fuel deliverymen failed to shut a gate. He rejects rival circus owners' claims that he deliberately loosed the llamas on to the highway to gain attention for his Circus Sydney, which has previously lost elephants and a wallaby.
"There's no way this was a publicity stunt. If these llamas hit a car and killed somebody, who are they going to arrest, me or the llamas?" Scholl said.
New York - Man Plays Dead Mom
A NEW YORK man who "breathed his mom's last breath" six years ago has become the very same, er, woman.
At least he thinks so, but authorities aren't so sure.
They suspect he might just be dressing up as her to claim $117,000 in benefits, including $65,000 in rent subsidies by also claiming to be his disabled self, who was being looked after by his landlord.
Who was also his mother. Who was actually him, as his real mother had died six years ago.
Thomas Parkin, 49, told authorities that because he held his mom as she died: "I am my mother."
He was caught when he turned up at the Brooklyn Department of Motor Vehicles dressed in drag to renew his driver's licence. Her licence.
Parkin even showed up for an interview with investigators wearing a red cardigan, lipstick, manicured nails and "breathing through an oxygen tank".
His friend sometimes completed the ruse by playing her nephew. His cousin.
Unfortunately, it all got a bit hard to maintain after investigators showed Parkin a photograph of his mother's tombstone.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Andy Peterson update: The Oakland Raiders correspondent (Play music) –
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Rockies – Playoff run ready to commence? (Discuss Baseball playoffs)
The Ed Feud – Thankfully over
The Mariners prophet – (Clip 15)
The Broncos – Mirage, or are the for real? They are getting harder to dismiss.
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Heart Attack Time Machine – Waterdeep (2007)
Husband and wife team of Don and Lori Chaffer.
Alt-Folk
Show Prep #18 - Fantasy Comedy Draft
Stand-up Comedians:
Mitch Hedberg
Stephen Wright
Steve Martin
Brian Regan
Jerry Seinfeld
George Carlin
Dave Chappelle
Chris Rock
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Movie Actors:
Bill Murray (Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Groundhog Day, What about Bob?, Scrooged, Kingpin)
Woody Allen
Jim Carrey
Will Farrell (Anchorman, Old School, Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction, Wedding Crashers, Elf)
Mel Brooks
Mike Myers (Wayne’s World, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Austin Powers)
Eddie Murphy
Steve Martin (The Jerk, Roxanne, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball)
Jon Heder (Napolean Dynamite)
Leslie Nielson
John Goodman (Big Lebowski, O Brother Where art Thou?)
Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
Robin Williams (Good Morning Vietnam, Aladdin, Hook, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jack, Patch Adams)
TV Shows:
Bob Newhart
David Letterman
Conan O’Brian
Johnny Carson
Jason Alexander (George Costanza)
Jerry Seinfeld
Gary Shandling
Ted Danson (Sam Malone)
Cliff Claven (John Ratzenberger)
Norm Peterson (George Wendt)
Kramer (Michael Richards)
Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor)
Bill McNeil (Phil Hartman)
Homer Simpson
Cartman (From South Park)
Alf
Christopher Lloyd (Jim Ignatowski)
Stephen Colbert
Message Boarders:
The Ed
Jerry Fairish
Mike Dell
Major Minority
Dave Dameshek
BonaduceSux
The Ryan
Mario Speedwagon
UMass Dameshek
Mitch Hedberg
Stephen Wright
Steve Martin
Brian Regan
Jerry Seinfeld
George Carlin
Dave Chappelle
Chris Rock
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Movie Actors:
Bill Murray (Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Groundhog Day, What about Bob?, Scrooged, Kingpin)
Woody Allen
Jim Carrey
Will Farrell (Anchorman, Old School, Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction, Wedding Crashers, Elf)
Mel Brooks
Mike Myers (Wayne’s World, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Austin Powers)
Eddie Murphy
Steve Martin (The Jerk, Roxanne, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball)
Jon Heder (Napolean Dynamite)
Leslie Nielson
John Goodman (Big Lebowski, O Brother Where art Thou?)
Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
Robin Williams (Good Morning Vietnam, Aladdin, Hook, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jack, Patch Adams)
TV Shows:
Bob Newhart
David Letterman
Conan O’Brian
Johnny Carson
Jason Alexander (George Costanza)
Jerry Seinfeld
Gary Shandling
Ted Danson (Sam Malone)
Cliff Claven (John Ratzenberger)
Norm Peterson (George Wendt)
Kramer (Michael Richards)
Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor)
Bill McNeil (Phil Hartman)
Homer Simpson
Cartman (From South Park)
Alf
Christopher Lloyd (Jim Ignatowski)
Stephen Colbert
Message Boarders:
The Ed
Jerry Fairish
Mike Dell
Major Minority
Dave Dameshek
BonaduceSux
The Ryan
Mario Speedwagon
UMass Dameshek
Show Prep #17
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the show that is not currently under investigation for the choking of Tila Tequila, this is Vertically Striped Radio. Brought to you by the very prestigious VerticallyStripedSocks.com, we are here to serve and to protect. I am your host, Craig Dodge, doing what I can to promote the cause of righteousness in the sports world.
I am excited because this is one of my favorite weekends of the entire year, Opening weekend of NFL season. My excitement is dulled a tiny bit by the fact that I will be missing the bulk of the football games tomorrow, sadly including the Broncos-Bengals game.
I will be boarding an airplane to Seattle tomorrow morning at 10:30, and I will be enjoying a week of vacation up in Washington State this week. There are even plans being formulated to get together with our friend Aaron aka BonaduceSux from the Dameshek.com message board at a Seattle Mariners game on Wednesday night, so hopefully that works out. (Aaron is a guy who has his very own very solid BlogTalk show on Sunday nights, which you can hear at www.blogtalkradio.com/No-Name-Show)
Best of all, I will be away from work for a whole week plus this weekend and next, so that’s definitely a good thing.
To join in the conversation today…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Today on Vertically Striped Radio: We will set the order for the Fantasy Comedy League Draft, we will also explain what exactly a Fantasy Comedy League is. We have a new contender in the crazy news department…look out Florida and Germany, Istanbul is in the house! We will take a look at the new kid on the block that is taking the animation world by storm…that’s right! The Vertically Striped Animation Studios. Plus, I’ll share how I was able to get prominently featured on ESPN.com this week. Since we are ostensibly a sports show, we may even discuss which is better…college football or the NFL. And I have a crappy fight song showdown for the ages. All this goodness, plus if you feel like calling in…your calls.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Before we get any further into this crazy little thing called Vertically Striped Radio, let’s do the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
The weird news which we are so fond of doing has long been dominated by two places. Which are of course…
Germany and Florida
However, we have a new contender in the ring which if stories like the next two keep coming out, may have to join the other two stalwarts as official weird news locales. Istanbul, Turkey is definitely bringing it strong this week. In fact, this week’s news is sort of an unofficial throw down between Istanbul and Florida, let’s see who you think wins the title this week. First the contender…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish woman accused of cutting off her lover's penis must wait 18 months for a verdict and sentencing while a court determines whether his re-attached penis still functions, a court source said Thursday.
The criminal court in the Black Sea town of Trabzon will wait for a medical report assessing whether the 28-year-old victim has regained full use of his organ or if he is permanently disabled, an official involved in the trial said.
"To determine which crime was committed, we first need the report," the source said. "We'll continue holding hearings in the trial from time to time until we receive the report."
The 39-year-old defendant faces between one and three years in prison if her former lover recovers, Haber Turk newspaper said. She will be jailed for at least 8 years if he does not.
The woman told the court he had broken his promise to marry her and forced her into prostitution and beat her.
Surgeons worked for 11 hours to re-attach the penis in an operation which they described as successful, and said full sexual function should return within six months, Hurriyet said.
The defendant, who has not been jailed during the trial, told the court she cut off her former lover's penis and threw it onto the roof of a neighboring building while he was drunk, the newspaper quoted her as saying.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Nine women tricked into thinking they were reality TV show contestants and lured into an Istanbul villa were rescued by Turkish military police after two months confinement, a police spokesman said Thursday.
Cameras in the villa filmed the women 24-hours a day, providing a live stream of images for Internet users who had paid to access the footage, the spokesman said.
The women, all from Turkey, according to the Turkish press, had answered an advert seeking contestants for a "Big Brother"-style television show. They passed an audition and selection process before entering the house.
"The women's parents called the police after they didn't hear anything from them. The military police went to investigate and heard the women screaming from inside," the spokesman said, adding the raid took place Monday.
Police detained three men and prosecutors are investigating, he said.
According to Turkish media, the women had signed a contract agreeing they would have no contact with their families and would face a fine of 50,000 Turkish lira if they left early.
Okay, so you’ve heard from the contender, now let’s go to one of the reigning champions…
BAYOU GEORGE, Fla. – Authorities in the Florida Panhandle say they arrested a convenience store shoplifter who demanded to drink the 12-ounce beer he had stolen before being taken into custody.
The Bay County Sheriff's office says the man told the deputy he had recently lost his job of 13 years and wanted to drink beer. The man became combative when the deputy wouldn't let him finish it.
George R. Linthicum II was charged Wednesday with shoplifting, battery, possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams and smuggling contraband into a detention facility.
Bay County Jail officials said Thursday that Linthicum II was in jail and did not yet have an attorney.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – A Boynton Beach man was trying to teach his cat a lesson when he fired his gun, but the efforts landed him in jail. Police said a 43-year-old man was upset that his cat used his bed instead of a litter box. So he took the cat to the garage and fired a handgun into a flotation device to "scare it." The cat was not injured, but the man was charged with shooting in an occupied dwelling and using a firearm while under the influence.
He's being held on a $5,000 bond.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
First item of business today:
Setting the draft order for the Fantasy Comedy League. (Need to create slips of paper to pull from the hat.)
Me (socnorb777) – Stand up and Deliver
MJ (MJA)
Aaron (BonaduceSux) – The Fashionable Males
High Plains Grifter – The Infamous El Guapos
Jerry Fairish (PhillyBillyRules) - Fusilli Larry
Face Ventura – Rant in E-Minor
Dombag85
The Ed (Pey Pey 23) – The Ed’s Super Deluxe Funny Team
-Before we get into pulling names out of the hat, let’s explain exactly what is going down. (Explain the league)
The Ryan – Honorary member of the league (Although he won’t have a team) He gets credit for two great potential franchise names
1. Larry’s Monologue
2. Tina Fey’s Puppetry of the Penis
Positions which we will be drafting:
2 Movie Stars
2 Sitcom/TV Show Stars (it doesn't have to be a traditional 30 minute sitcom)
1 Stand up Comedian
1 Message Board Member
1 Flex Position (Wild Card, draft anyone you think is funny, the only limit is your imagination and any applicable local or federal laws)
-Alrighty then, let’s set the draft order!
-My burgeoning animation career with Flipnote Studio. Vertically Striped Animation Studios is really pumping out the quality films. We have released three animals in our nature series (Elephant, Sea Lion, and Chicken) plus we have created the first ever The Ed music video (and we’re currently in production for the second Ed video), plus the Art house film, “The Unbearable Lightness of being Pac-Man” - The Animation Studios are really taking off, our next release is our biggest and best ever.
-The Treasures which I discovered at Invesco Field…my very productive shopping trip to the Invesco Field at Mile High Gift Shop. Very Good Times!
-The sidebar of the UniWatch column on ESPN.com this week.
-Electronic Cigarettes – Maybe the dumbest thing ever. “You can smoke anywhere!” Only now you have to come off like a douche, as you explain why it’s okay that you are smoking in your office or at a restaurant, because you’re not really smoking, you’re just being a dork.
Why the college football is vastly inferior to the NFL.
-Bad matchups – tons of crappy games every season
-Too many teams
-Inferior talent and inferior play
-The way the “championship” is determined
-Very little hope for everyone but a handful of schools to win it all
-Fantasy football is awesome in the NFL and barely possible in college football
-Rundown of the myriad of football contests we are a part of over at Dameshek.com
1. Fantasy Football league – Dameshek.com (ESPN.com)
2. The Ed’s Super Deluxe Football Game – Dameshek.com
3. The Ed’s Super Deluxe College Football Game – Dameshek.com
4. Joe vs. The World – Gambling Title Competition – Dameshek.com
5. UMass Dameshek’s Pick’em League – Yahoo.com
6. Vertically Striped Survivor League on ESPN.com
On ESPN.com, I’ve started an Eliminator Group for the NFL. Pick a team each week to win, and as long as they do so, you stay in. You can only pick a team one time, and there will be some manner of swell prize for the winner!
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/group?groupID=1116
NBA versus NFL…can you guess which one?
36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, repeat, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits,
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is?
NBA or NFL?
Neither... it's the 535 members of the United States Congress
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Bad fight song showdown:
Oklahoma State – (Clip 16)
Cowboys Forever lyrics
The prairie wind touches our skin
Another maverick morning begins
Wild west eyes rise before the sun
We are young guns on the run
Hang ‘em high, pistols to the sky
We ride, we ride, ‘cross the line
It’s in our veins
The feel of the reins
.45s, chaps, bandannas and spurs
We are cowboys forever
Stay here today, gone tomorrow
The open range is our home
All that we own lives inside our soul
We are cowboy to the bone
Hang ‘em high, pistols to the sky
We ride, we ride, ‘cross the line
It is in our veins
The feel of the reins
.45s, chaps, bandannas and spurs
We are cowboys forever
Riding Bullet across the plains
To avenge our kin’s blood and name
In bedlam we will rise and stand
With strength and honor to defend our land
Hang ‘em high, pistols to the sky
We ride, we ride, ‘cross the line
It’s in our veins
The feel of the reins
.45s, chaps, bandannas and spurs
We are cowboys forever
We are, we are
Cowboys forever
BC Lions (Clip 15)
C'mon and Roar you Lions Roar
Thats what a Lions Roar is for
From the mountains to the sea
You are the pride of all BC
RAH RAH!
So buckle down and play the game
You'll lead us on to football fame
We love the L
The I
The O, N, S
C'mon and Roar you Lions
Roar you Lions
Roar you Lions Roar
RAH RAH RAH!
-Educational toys – Why does everyone nowadays think that all toys have to be educational. Ugh. Hardly anything gets better if you put the word educational in front of it. (Television, Toys, Software, Video Games, Website.)
-I saw the movie “Taken” with Liam Neeson – Intense like a roller coaster, but it’s got really bad acting. 5 of out 10.
-South Africa is threatening World War 3 if Castor Semanya is not cleared of all wrong doing.
KLEINMOND, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa reacted angrily on Friday to a report that tests on its world champion runner Caster Semenya had found she was a hermaphrodite, threatening a "third world war" over the affair.
Athletics' governing body declined to confirm the report in Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which said the 18-year-old runner had both male and female sexual characteristics.
The IAAF said medical experts were examining the results of gender tests on Semenya, who won the women's 800 meters at last month's World Championships in Berlin. No decision would be taken until late November.
"I think it would be the third world war. We will go to the highest levels in contesting such a decision. I think it would be totally unfair and totally unjust," said Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile.
South African President Jacob Zuma decried the invasion of Semenya's privacy and what he called the violation of her rights, although neither he nor Stofile denied the report.
"I don't know why we should not respect the privilege between the doctor and the patient. Why, when the tests have been done, why was it published?" Zuma said.
The Telegraph report said tests had found Semenya had no womb or ovaries, but that she had internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone, and her levels of the hormone were three times that of a 'normal' female.
It said the IAAF was "ready to disqualify Semenya from future events and advise her to have immediate surgery because her condition carries grave health risks. They have also not ruled out stripping Semenya of her 800m world championships gold medal."
'SHOCK AND DISGUST'
Semenya, who was due to compete in a cross country race in Pretoria on Saturday, in her first competition since claiming the world title, withdrew from the event. Semenya's coach Michael Seme said that she was not "feeling well."
Stofile told a news conference his ministry had "noted with shock and disgust" media reports on the test results, which the South African government had not yet received.
"The issue here is that this girl has undesirable levels of testosterone -- what does it matter? That is neither here not there. She does not have a womb -- so what?," he said.
Nick Davies, spokesman for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), said media reports on the gender test results should not be considered as official statements by the sports body.
"There is a (IAAF) Council on 21 November and this will be the opportunity to conclusively finalize a decision," he said.
Some South Africans have accused the IAAF of racism for ordering the gender tests on Semenya, saying her broad shoulders and imposing musculature are common in women's athletics.
The controversy may have touched a raw nerve in a country where race is still a highly sensitive issue after decades of apartheid, which ended in 1994.
The militant Youth League of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) said in a statement: "Even if a test is done, the ANC YL will never accept the categorization of Caster Semenya as a hermaphrodite, because in South Africa and the entire world of sanity, such does not exist."
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Space Ghost’s Musical Bar-B-Que
Okay, so this isn’t really a music CD, per se, but it is hilarious. I’m not sure if you remember the Space Ghost Coast to Coast television show from the late nineties on Cartoon Network, but this is basically a CD that those guys put together. It features my favorite three characters from this cartoon universe, Brak, Space Ghose, and Zorak. They sing goofy songs and have goofy interactions, and yeah it’s basically completely goofy, but it’s fun, and I like it. It mostly just a combination of bad scat and a bad lounge singer act, but the characters from the show are what make it wonderful. We’ll leave you with a “song” from the album called “I Love You, Baby” (Clip 17)
Shalom and good evening to you all.
I am excited because this is one of my favorite weekends of the entire year, Opening weekend of NFL season. My excitement is dulled a tiny bit by the fact that I will be missing the bulk of the football games tomorrow, sadly including the Broncos-Bengals game.
I will be boarding an airplane to Seattle tomorrow morning at 10:30, and I will be enjoying a week of vacation up in Washington State this week. There are even plans being formulated to get together with our friend Aaron aka BonaduceSux from the Dameshek.com message board at a Seattle Mariners game on Wednesday night, so hopefully that works out. (Aaron is a guy who has his very own very solid BlogTalk show on Sunday nights, which you can hear at www.blogtalkradio.com/No-Name-Show)
Best of all, I will be away from work for a whole week plus this weekend and next, so that’s definitely a good thing.
To join in the conversation today…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Today on Vertically Striped Radio: We will set the order for the Fantasy Comedy League Draft, we will also explain what exactly a Fantasy Comedy League is. We have a new contender in the crazy news department…look out Florida and Germany, Istanbul is in the house! We will take a look at the new kid on the block that is taking the animation world by storm…that’s right! The Vertically Striped Animation Studios. Plus, I’ll share how I was able to get prominently featured on ESPN.com this week. Since we are ostensibly a sports show, we may even discuss which is better…college football or the NFL. And I have a crappy fight song showdown for the ages. All this goodness, plus if you feel like calling in…your calls.
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Before we get any further into this crazy little thing called Vertically Striped Radio, let’s do the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
The weird news which we are so fond of doing has long been dominated by two places. Which are of course…
Germany and Florida
However, we have a new contender in the ring which if stories like the next two keep coming out, may have to join the other two stalwarts as official weird news locales. Istanbul, Turkey is definitely bringing it strong this week. In fact, this week’s news is sort of an unofficial throw down between Istanbul and Florida, let’s see who you think wins the title this week. First the contender…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish woman accused of cutting off her lover's penis must wait 18 months for a verdict and sentencing while a court determines whether his re-attached penis still functions, a court source said Thursday.
The criminal court in the Black Sea town of Trabzon will wait for a medical report assessing whether the 28-year-old victim has regained full use of his organ or if he is permanently disabled, an official involved in the trial said.
"To determine which crime was committed, we first need the report," the source said. "We'll continue holding hearings in the trial from time to time until we receive the report."
The 39-year-old defendant faces between one and three years in prison if her former lover recovers, Haber Turk newspaper said. She will be jailed for at least 8 years if he does not.
The woman told the court he had broken his promise to marry her and forced her into prostitution and beat her.
Surgeons worked for 11 hours to re-attach the penis in an operation which they described as successful, and said full sexual function should return within six months, Hurriyet said.
The defendant, who has not been jailed during the trial, told the court she cut off her former lover's penis and threw it onto the roof of a neighboring building while he was drunk, the newspaper quoted her as saying.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Nine women tricked into thinking they were reality TV show contestants and lured into an Istanbul villa were rescued by Turkish military police after two months confinement, a police spokesman said Thursday.
Cameras in the villa filmed the women 24-hours a day, providing a live stream of images for Internet users who had paid to access the footage, the spokesman said.
The women, all from Turkey, according to the Turkish press, had answered an advert seeking contestants for a "Big Brother"-style television show. They passed an audition and selection process before entering the house.
"The women's parents called the police after they didn't hear anything from them. The military police went to investigate and heard the women screaming from inside," the spokesman said, adding the raid took place Monday.
Police detained three men and prosecutors are investigating, he said.
According to Turkish media, the women had signed a contract agreeing they would have no contact with their families and would face a fine of 50,000 Turkish lira if they left early.
Okay, so you’ve heard from the contender, now let’s go to one of the reigning champions…
BAYOU GEORGE, Fla. – Authorities in the Florida Panhandle say they arrested a convenience store shoplifter who demanded to drink the 12-ounce beer he had stolen before being taken into custody.
The Bay County Sheriff's office says the man told the deputy he had recently lost his job of 13 years and wanted to drink beer. The man became combative when the deputy wouldn't let him finish it.
George R. Linthicum II was charged Wednesday with shoplifting, battery, possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams and smuggling contraband into a detention facility.
Bay County Jail officials said Thursday that Linthicum II was in jail and did not yet have an attorney.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – A Boynton Beach man was trying to teach his cat a lesson when he fired his gun, but the efforts landed him in jail. Police said a 43-year-old man was upset that his cat used his bed instead of a litter box. So he took the cat to the garage and fired a handgun into a flotation device to "scare it." The cat was not injured, but the man was charged with shooting in an occupied dwelling and using a firearm while under the influence.
He's being held on a $5,000 bond.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
First item of business today:
Setting the draft order for the Fantasy Comedy League. (Need to create slips of paper to pull from the hat.)
Me (socnorb777) – Stand up and Deliver
MJ (MJA)
Aaron (BonaduceSux) – The Fashionable Males
High Plains Grifter – The Infamous El Guapos
Jerry Fairish (PhillyBillyRules) - Fusilli Larry
Face Ventura – Rant in E-Minor
Dombag85
The Ed (Pey Pey 23) – The Ed’s Super Deluxe Funny Team
-Before we get into pulling names out of the hat, let’s explain exactly what is going down. (Explain the league)
The Ryan – Honorary member of the league (Although he won’t have a team) He gets credit for two great potential franchise names
1. Larry’s Monologue
2. Tina Fey’s Puppetry of the Penis
Positions which we will be drafting:
2 Movie Stars
2 Sitcom/TV Show Stars (it doesn't have to be a traditional 30 minute sitcom)
1 Stand up Comedian
1 Message Board Member
1 Flex Position (Wild Card, draft anyone you think is funny, the only limit is your imagination and any applicable local or federal laws)
-Alrighty then, let’s set the draft order!
-My burgeoning animation career with Flipnote Studio. Vertically Striped Animation Studios is really pumping out the quality films. We have released three animals in our nature series (Elephant, Sea Lion, and Chicken) plus we have created the first ever The Ed music video (and we’re currently in production for the second Ed video), plus the Art house film, “The Unbearable Lightness of being Pac-Man” - The Animation Studios are really taking off, our next release is our biggest and best ever.
-The Treasures which I discovered at Invesco Field…my very productive shopping trip to the Invesco Field at Mile High Gift Shop. Very Good Times!
-The sidebar of the UniWatch column on ESPN.com this week.
-Electronic Cigarettes – Maybe the dumbest thing ever. “You can smoke anywhere!” Only now you have to come off like a douche, as you explain why it’s okay that you are smoking in your office or at a restaurant, because you’re not really smoking, you’re just being a dork.
Why the college football is vastly inferior to the NFL.
-Bad matchups – tons of crappy games every season
-Too many teams
-Inferior talent and inferior play
-The way the “championship” is determined
-Very little hope for everyone but a handful of schools to win it all
-Fantasy football is awesome in the NFL and barely possible in college football
-Rundown of the myriad of football contests we are a part of over at Dameshek.com
1. Fantasy Football league – Dameshek.com (ESPN.com)
2. The Ed’s Super Deluxe Football Game – Dameshek.com
3. The Ed’s Super Deluxe College Football Game – Dameshek.com
4. Joe vs. The World – Gambling Title Competition – Dameshek.com
5. UMass Dameshek’s Pick’em League – Yahoo.com
6. Vertically Striped Survivor League on ESPN.com
On ESPN.com, I’ve started an Eliminator Group for the NFL. Pick a team each week to win, and as long as they do so, you stay in. You can only pick a team one time, and there will be some manner of swell prize for the winner!
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/group?groupID=1116
NBA versus NFL…can you guess which one?
36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, repeat, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits,
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is?
NBA or NFL?
Neither... it's the 535 members of the United States Congress
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Bad fight song showdown:
Oklahoma State – (Clip 16)
Cowboys Forever lyrics
The prairie wind touches our skin
Another maverick morning begins
Wild west eyes rise before the sun
We are young guns on the run
Hang ‘em high, pistols to the sky
We ride, we ride, ‘cross the line
It’s in our veins
The feel of the reins
.45s, chaps, bandannas and spurs
We are cowboys forever
Stay here today, gone tomorrow
The open range is our home
All that we own lives inside our soul
We are cowboy to the bone
Hang ‘em high, pistols to the sky
We ride, we ride, ‘cross the line
It is in our veins
The feel of the reins
.45s, chaps, bandannas and spurs
We are cowboys forever
Riding Bullet across the plains
To avenge our kin’s blood and name
In bedlam we will rise and stand
With strength and honor to defend our land
Hang ‘em high, pistols to the sky
We ride, we ride, ‘cross the line
It’s in our veins
The feel of the reins
.45s, chaps, bandannas and spurs
We are cowboys forever
We are, we are
Cowboys forever
BC Lions (Clip 15)
C'mon and Roar you Lions Roar
Thats what a Lions Roar is for
From the mountains to the sea
You are the pride of all BC
RAH RAH!
So buckle down and play the game
You'll lead us on to football fame
We love the L
The I
The O, N, S
C'mon and Roar you Lions
Roar you Lions
Roar you Lions Roar
RAH RAH RAH!
-Educational toys – Why does everyone nowadays think that all toys have to be educational. Ugh. Hardly anything gets better if you put the word educational in front of it. (Television, Toys, Software, Video Games, Website.)
-I saw the movie “Taken” with Liam Neeson – Intense like a roller coaster, but it’s got really bad acting. 5 of out 10.
-South Africa is threatening World War 3 if Castor Semanya is not cleared of all wrong doing.
KLEINMOND, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa reacted angrily on Friday to a report that tests on its world champion runner Caster Semenya had found she was a hermaphrodite, threatening a "third world war" over the affair.
Athletics' governing body declined to confirm the report in Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which said the 18-year-old runner had both male and female sexual characteristics.
The IAAF said medical experts were examining the results of gender tests on Semenya, who won the women's 800 meters at last month's World Championships in Berlin. No decision would be taken until late November.
"I think it would be the third world war. We will go to the highest levels in contesting such a decision. I think it would be totally unfair and totally unjust," said Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile.
South African President Jacob Zuma decried the invasion of Semenya's privacy and what he called the violation of her rights, although neither he nor Stofile denied the report.
"I don't know why we should not respect the privilege between the doctor and the patient. Why, when the tests have been done, why was it published?" Zuma said.
The Telegraph report said tests had found Semenya had no womb or ovaries, but that she had internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone, and her levels of the hormone were three times that of a 'normal' female.
It said the IAAF was "ready to disqualify Semenya from future events and advise her to have immediate surgery because her condition carries grave health risks. They have also not ruled out stripping Semenya of her 800m world championships gold medal."
'SHOCK AND DISGUST'
Semenya, who was due to compete in a cross country race in Pretoria on Saturday, in her first competition since claiming the world title, withdrew from the event. Semenya's coach Michael Seme said that she was not "feeling well."
Stofile told a news conference his ministry had "noted with shock and disgust" media reports on the test results, which the South African government had not yet received.
"The issue here is that this girl has undesirable levels of testosterone -- what does it matter? That is neither here not there. She does not have a womb -- so what?," he said.
Nick Davies, spokesman for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), said media reports on the gender test results should not be considered as official statements by the sports body.
"There is a (IAAF) Council on 21 November and this will be the opportunity to conclusively finalize a decision," he said.
Some South Africans have accused the IAAF of racism for ordering the gender tests on Semenya, saying her broad shoulders and imposing musculature are common in women's athletics.
The controversy may have touched a raw nerve in a country where race is still a highly sensitive issue after decades of apartheid, which ended in 1994.
The militant Youth League of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) said in a statement: "Even if a test is done, the ANC YL will never accept the categorization of Caster Semenya as a hermaphrodite, because in South Africa and the entire world of sanity, such does not exist."
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Space Ghost’s Musical Bar-B-Que
Okay, so this isn’t really a music CD, per se, but it is hilarious. I’m not sure if you remember the Space Ghost Coast to Coast television show from the late nineties on Cartoon Network, but this is basically a CD that those guys put together. It features my favorite three characters from this cartoon universe, Brak, Space Ghose, and Zorak. They sing goofy songs and have goofy interactions, and yeah it’s basically completely goofy, but it’s fun, and I like it. It mostly just a combination of bad scat and a bad lounge singer act, but the characters from the show are what make it wonderful. We’ll leave you with a “song” from the album called “I Love You, Baby” (Clip 17)
Shalom and good evening to you all.
Show Prep #16
Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the show that is currently in negotiations to acquire Jonathan Nalbone from The Ed, it’s Vertically Striped Radio. As always the big show is brought to you by VerticallyStripedSocks.com, your home for choppily animated music videos and overly in depth breakdowns of Denver Broncos preseason games.
Joining us at the tail end of his first week as a college student, it’s It’s the show that’s still working on its degree in Kitchen Utensilry, this is Vertically Striped Radio brought to you as always by VerticallyStripedSocks.com. I am your host Craig Dodge, and joining us from the great state of New York, a man who is ticked that his fantasy football team’s name is not properly respected, a co-host and a gentleman, it’s MJ Amory! How are’s college life treating you you today, sir?
To join in the conversation today…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Today on the big show: No shirt, no thumbs, no service. Don’t drink and chess. Is ESPN mad with power? What are your highest and lowest moments as a sports fan? Plus we may be hearing from The Ed, although I don’t want to promise anything until he actually shows up. We’d love to hear from you and your stories of sports fan highs and lows as well, if you’d like to call in!We will help MJ pick an NHL team to call his own. We have a Magnificent Seven list for you today of underrated movies, Germany and Florida make their triumphant return to the news, why college football is inferior to the NFL,
All of this good stuff and more is on tap, but first…The News…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
1. BERLIN (Reuters) – Visitors to a tourist attraction in Berlin have been making off with an unusual memento -- the 30 cm long tail of a Lego giraffe.
The Lego tail belongs to a six meter tall model that has stood outside the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Center since 2007.
"It's a popular souvenir," a spokeswoman for the center said Tuesday. "It's been stolen four times now ..."
The tail is made out of 15,000 Lego bricks. It takes model workers about one week to restore it at a cost of 3,000 euros ($4,300), the spokeswoman said.
(30 CM is 12 inches long. So basically this story is saying that a one foot long lego giraffe tail takes a week to restore, and takes 15,000 lego pieces at a value of $4300. This is a Reuters story, published on Yahoo, and yet I don’t think anyone did any fact checking, because these numbers just don’t make any sense. Apart from that…why would anyone want a Lego Giraffe tail?)
2. NICEVILLE, Fla., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested a woman for attacking a smoker with air freshener sprayed from a can.
Niceville police allege the woman was waving the can of Glade Potpourri Air Freshener around the other woman's head while dispensing its contents at a Niceville apartment complex Friday, the Northwest Florida Daily News of Fort Walton Beach reported Thursday.
The woman then allegedly pointed the can at the back of the other woman's head and sprayed it for nearly a full minute. Police said she told the victim she would keep using the spray can as long as the victim kept smoking in front of the attacker's apartment.
"I will do it again, and take it to the Supreme Court because I have the right to breathe fresh air," the police report quoted the suspect as saying.
The woman was arrested and charged with battery.
I’m not a big fan of sharing air with tobacco smoke, either. But how messed up in the head are you if you are spraying a can of Glade Potpourri all over someone’s head? That is some serious pent up anger and frustration!
3. MOUNT VERNON, WASHINGTON (AP) A northwest Washington man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while hunting an opossum that had been snatching his chickens.
Larry Tenbrink of Mount Vernon was watching TV when he heard his chickens "carrying on" late Sunday. He figured the problem was the opossum that had already killed more than a dozen of his chickens over the past few months.
Tenbrink grabbed his .22 caliber pistol, headed outside and spotted an opossum the size of a large cat wandering his property. But he accidentally pulled the trigger too early, sending a bullet through his lower right thigh.
The 61-year-old handyman told the Skagit Valley Herald on Monday that he's back home after a trip to the hospital. And though the opossum is free for now, he'll be hunting it again. But next time, he says he'll use a trap.
This guy accidently shot himself in the thigh with a pistol and he isn’t going to prison for two years? Plaxico is reported to be furious.
1. Tampa – Bank of America has a policy which requires non-customers provide two forms of identification and a thumb print in order to cash a check. This sounds like a reasonable requirement to fight fraud, but apparently they are not very flexible on it, even when the situation really demands it.
Steve Valdez doesn’t have an account at Bank of America, but he figured he could go in on his lunch hour to cash the check from his wife’s account. Steve tried to cash a check his wife wrote to him on her B of A Account., but a bank branch in Tampa insisted he had to put his thumbprint on the check before it could be cashed.
But Valdez couldn't give a thumb print because he was born without arms and doesn't have hands and fingers. The teller checked with the manager, and she said that since he couldn’t provide a thumbprint, he couldn’t cash the check. His options were to bring in his wife, or open an account.
Valdez says he asked if they were aware of the Americans With Disabilities Act and federal law. The manger said yes, they were offering him accommodations by giving him those two options.
A spokesperson for Bank of America says while the thumb print is a requirement for those who don't have accounts, the bank should have made an exception to accommodate Mr. Valdez. The Bank called and apologized to Steve saying they regret the error.
How sad is it that we live in a world where people can’t make common sense exceptions to policies anymore?
2. CHENNAI, India (Reuters) – A leading French chess player turned up drunk and dozed off after just 11 moves in an international tournament in India, losing the round on technical grounds.
Grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev, ranked number 58 in the world, arrived for Thursday's match against India's Praveen Kumar in such an inebriated state that he could hardly sit in his chair and soon fell asleep, resting his head on the table.
Indian papers carried pictures of the world number 58 sleeping and the organizers' futile attempts to wake his up.
The game was awarded to the his opponent on the technical grounds that Tkachiev was unable to complete his moves within the stipulated time of an hour and 30 minutes.
The player was warned and reprimanded by the organizers afterwards but has been allowed to take part in the remainder of the competition.
3. MADISON, Wisconsin - The city counsel of Madison, Wisconsin held a vote last week on what they would designate as the official city bird. The choice that they made an was an unusual one. A measure passed by a vote of 15-4 to make the plastic pink flamingo the city’s official bird. This unusual decision was made to honor a college prank from 1979 in which University of Wisconsin students planted an estimated 1000 of the plastic birds on a grassy incline outside the dean’s office.
Alderman Marsha Rummel told the Wisconsin State Journal the council's 15-4 vote ensured the event was "captured in our imaginations forever."
Although Vertically Striped Radio has been as of yet unable to confirm the follow up to this story it is rumored that Alderman Rummel then immediately invited everyone in attendance to the kegger at the Lamda Delta Phi house and the proceeded to yell the following… (Play clip 16 “We’re going streaking!”)
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Top Discussion: What is your best and worst experience as a fan?
2nd Discussion: Is ESPN mad with power? Are Simmons and Dameshek banned from Carolla’s podcast, or is Ace just quick with a rant?
First up on the docket today is helping pick a hockey team for MJ – Wants a local squad in NYC, so the contenders are: Isles, Rangers, and Devils.
Magnificent 7: Underrated Movies
7. Burn After Reading (2008) – A very smart movie about very stupid people doing very stupid things. It’s the first Coen Bros. flick after No Country for Old Men and it flew a bit under the radar, but it’s hilarious. (John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, J.K. Simmons)
6. So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) – To me, this is the funniest Mike Myers movie ever – The Pentaverate (Clip 18) and Charles Grodin (Clip 17)
5. Big Fish (2003) – Directed by Tim Burton, Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Guillame, Steve Buscemi
4. UHF (1989) – Spatula City – (19) Weird Al and Michael Richards
3. Diggstown (1992) – You are black (Clip 14) (James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr., a very young Heather Graham, Oliver Platt, Bruce Dern.
2. Roxanne (1987) – Steve Martin and Darryl Hannah star in this modern adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac - 20 Something betters an awesome scene that was just too long, plus this one, which I love (Clip 16 - Earn more sessions by sleeving)
1. Dragnet (1987) – Kids, It’ll grow back (Clip 15) (Tom Hanks and Dan Akroid)
Why the college football is vastly inferior to the NFL.
-Bad matchups – tons of crappy games every season
-Too many teams
-Inferior talent and inferior play
-The way the “championship” is determined
-Very little hope for everyone but a handful of schools to win it all
-Fantasy football is awesome in the NFL and barely possible in college football
-I was watching preseason NFL over Oregon-Boise St.
NBA versus NFL…can you guess which one?
36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, repeat, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits,
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is?
NBA or NFL?
Neither... it's the 535 members of the United States Congress
Extra Topics:
-Colorado Rockies playing some exciting baseball this past week. (2 extra inning wins this week versus teams in the hunt.)
-Electronic Cigarettes – Maybe the dumbest thing ever. “You can smoke anywhere!” Only now you have to come off like a douche, as you explain why it’s okay that you are smoking in your office or at a restaurant, because you’re not really smoking, you’re just being a dork.
-Educational toys – Why does everyone nowadays think that all toys have to be educational. Ugh. Hardly anything gets better if you put the word educational in front of it. (Television, Toys, Software, Video Games, Website.)
-The Treasures which I discovered at Invesco Field…my very productive shopping trip to the Invesco Field at Mile High Gift Shop. Very Good Times!
-My burgeoning animation career with Flipnote Studio. Vertically Striped Animation Studios is really pumping out the quality films. This week I released what I consider my best masterpiece yet with The Ed’s music video. Good stuff!
-ElevationRadio.com a.k.a. Outsiders Edge – I am one of the correspondents over there. John Klein is doing some cool stuff with that website.
-I saw the movie “Taken” with Liam Neeson – Intense like a roller coaster, but it’s got really bad acting. 5 of out 10.
-Rundown of the myriad of football contests we are a part of over at Dameshek.com
1. Fantasy Football league – Dameshek.com (ESPN.com)
2. The Ed’s Super Deluxe Football Game – Dameshek.com
3. The Ed’s Super Deluxe College Football Game – Dameshek.com
4. Joe vs. The World – Gambling Title Competition – Dameshek.com
5. UMass Dameshek’s Pick’em League – Yahoo.com
6. Vertically Striped Survivor League on ESPN.com
On ESPN.com, I’ve started an Eliminator Group for the NFL. Pick a team each week to win, and as long as they do so, you stay in. You can only pick a team one time, and there will be some manner of swell prize for the winner!
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/group?groupID=1116
MJ’s Extra Topics:
-U.S. Unmanned War Drones
-The New Cowboys stadium
-Why CSI sucks
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Echo Echo by Carbon Leaf (2001)
This is some awesome rock music with definite Celtic and Bluegrass influences. It’s a weird mix of energy, electric and bass guitars, vocal harmonies, mandolin, drums, tin whistles and harmonica. This feels like rock music mixed with the kind of stuff you might only hear if you went to a foreign country. It’s got great hooks, great voices, and it’s interesting music. Carbon Leaf is a band that doesn’t sound like anyone else that I can easily compare them too, but I’m very glad they are a part of my music collection, as their music never fails to put me in a good mood when I listen to it. I like it because it’s just so interesting sounding and different, but still very solid rock music. We’ll play you out this afternoon with a great song off the album called “The Boxer”. There’s a lot of other cool tunes on this album including “On any given day” which is a slower groove, but still good. The band shows their chops with “Mary Mac” as they sing and play faster than my brain can follow at times, “Desperation Song” is another beautifully written song. This is some good stuff.
Shalom and Good evening to you all! (Music Clip 15 – The Boxer)
Joining us at the tail end of his first week as a college student, it’s It’s the show that’s still working on its degree in Kitchen Utensilry, this is Vertically Striped Radio brought to you as always by VerticallyStripedSocks.com. I am your host Craig Dodge, and joining us from the great state of New York, a man who is ticked that his fantasy football team’s name is not properly respected, a co-host and a gentleman, it’s MJ Amory! How are’s college life treating you you today, sir?
To join in the conversation today…
Give out the phone number - (646) 716-6831 OR 6-HOP-1-MOVE-1
Email address: radio@verticallystripedsocks.com
Today on the big show: No shirt, no thumbs, no service. Don’t drink and chess. Is ESPN mad with power? What are your highest and lowest moments as a sports fan? Plus we may be hearing from The Ed, although I don’t want to promise anything until he actually shows up. We’d love to hear from you and your stories of sports fan highs and lows as well, if you’d like to call in!We will help MJ pick an NHL team to call his own. We have a Magnificent Seven list for you today of underrated movies, Germany and Florida make their triumphant return to the news, why college football is inferior to the NFL,
All of this good stuff and more is on tap, but first…The News…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
1. BERLIN (Reuters) – Visitors to a tourist attraction in Berlin have been making off with an unusual memento -- the 30 cm long tail of a Lego giraffe.
The Lego tail belongs to a six meter tall model that has stood outside the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Center since 2007.
"It's a popular souvenir," a spokeswoman for the center said Tuesday. "It's been stolen four times now ..."
The tail is made out of 15,000 Lego bricks. It takes model workers about one week to restore it at a cost of 3,000 euros ($4,300), the spokeswoman said.
(30 CM is 12 inches long. So basically this story is saying that a one foot long lego giraffe tail takes a week to restore, and takes 15,000 lego pieces at a value of $4300. This is a Reuters story, published on Yahoo, and yet I don’t think anyone did any fact checking, because these numbers just don’t make any sense. Apart from that…why would anyone want a Lego Giraffe tail?)
2. NICEVILLE, Fla., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested a woman for attacking a smoker with air freshener sprayed from a can.
Niceville police allege the woman was waving the can of Glade Potpourri Air Freshener around the other woman's head while dispensing its contents at a Niceville apartment complex Friday, the Northwest Florida Daily News of Fort Walton Beach reported Thursday.
The woman then allegedly pointed the can at the back of the other woman's head and sprayed it for nearly a full minute. Police said she told the victim she would keep using the spray can as long as the victim kept smoking in front of the attacker's apartment.
"I will do it again, and take it to the Supreme Court because I have the right to breathe fresh air," the police report quoted the suspect as saying.
The woman was arrested and charged with battery.
I’m not a big fan of sharing air with tobacco smoke, either. But how messed up in the head are you if you are spraying a can of Glade Potpourri all over someone’s head? That is some serious pent up anger and frustration!
3. MOUNT VERNON, WASHINGTON (AP) A northwest Washington man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while hunting an opossum that had been snatching his chickens.
Larry Tenbrink of Mount Vernon was watching TV when he heard his chickens "carrying on" late Sunday. He figured the problem was the opossum that had already killed more than a dozen of his chickens over the past few months.
Tenbrink grabbed his .22 caliber pistol, headed outside and spotted an opossum the size of a large cat wandering his property. But he accidentally pulled the trigger too early, sending a bullet through his lower right thigh.
The 61-year-old handyman told the Skagit Valley Herald on Monday that he's back home after a trip to the hospital. And though the opossum is free for now, he'll be hunting it again. But next time, he says he'll use a trap.
This guy accidently shot himself in the thigh with a pistol and he isn’t going to prison for two years? Plaxico is reported to be furious.
1. Tampa – Bank of America has a policy which requires non-customers provide two forms of identification and a thumb print in order to cash a check. This sounds like a reasonable requirement to fight fraud, but apparently they are not very flexible on it, even when the situation really demands it.
Steve Valdez doesn’t have an account at Bank of America, but he figured he could go in on his lunch hour to cash the check from his wife’s account. Steve tried to cash a check his wife wrote to him on her B of A Account., but a bank branch in Tampa insisted he had to put his thumbprint on the check before it could be cashed.
But Valdez couldn't give a thumb print because he was born without arms and doesn't have hands and fingers. The teller checked with the manager, and she said that since he couldn’t provide a thumbprint, he couldn’t cash the check. His options were to bring in his wife, or open an account.
Valdez says he asked if they were aware of the Americans With Disabilities Act and federal law. The manger said yes, they were offering him accommodations by giving him those two options.
A spokesperson for Bank of America says while the thumb print is a requirement for those who don't have accounts, the bank should have made an exception to accommodate Mr. Valdez. The Bank called and apologized to Steve saying they regret the error.
How sad is it that we live in a world where people can’t make common sense exceptions to policies anymore?
2. CHENNAI, India (Reuters) – A leading French chess player turned up drunk and dozed off after just 11 moves in an international tournament in India, losing the round on technical grounds.
Grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev, ranked number 58 in the world, arrived for Thursday's match against India's Praveen Kumar in such an inebriated state that he could hardly sit in his chair and soon fell asleep, resting his head on the table.
Indian papers carried pictures of the world number 58 sleeping and the organizers' futile attempts to wake his up.
The game was awarded to the his opponent on the technical grounds that Tkachiev was unable to complete his moves within the stipulated time of an hour and 30 minutes.
The player was warned and reprimanded by the organizers afterwards but has been allowed to take part in the remainder of the competition.
3. MADISON, Wisconsin - The city counsel of Madison, Wisconsin held a vote last week on what they would designate as the official city bird. The choice that they made an was an unusual one. A measure passed by a vote of 15-4 to make the plastic pink flamingo the city’s official bird. This unusual decision was made to honor a college prank from 1979 in which University of Wisconsin students planted an estimated 1000 of the plastic birds on a grassy incline outside the dean’s office.
Alderman Marsha Rummel told the Wisconsin State Journal the council's 15-4 vote ensured the event was "captured in our imaginations forever."
Although Vertically Striped Radio has been as of yet unable to confirm the follow up to this story it is rumored that Alderman Rummel then immediately invited everyone in attendance to the kegger at the Lamda Delta Phi house and the proceeded to yell the following… (Play clip 16 “We’re going streaking!”)
I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Top Discussion: What is your best and worst experience as a fan?
2nd Discussion: Is ESPN mad with power? Are Simmons and Dameshek banned from Carolla’s podcast, or is Ace just quick with a rant?
First up on the docket today is helping pick a hockey team for MJ – Wants a local squad in NYC, so the contenders are: Isles, Rangers, and Devils.
Magnificent 7: Underrated Movies
7. Burn After Reading (2008) – A very smart movie about very stupid people doing very stupid things. It’s the first Coen Bros. flick after No Country for Old Men and it flew a bit under the radar, but it’s hilarious. (John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, J.K. Simmons)
6. So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) – To me, this is the funniest Mike Myers movie ever – The Pentaverate (Clip 18) and Charles Grodin (Clip 17)
5. Big Fish (2003) – Directed by Tim Burton, Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Guillame, Steve Buscemi
4. UHF (1989) – Spatula City – (19) Weird Al and Michael Richards
3. Diggstown (1992) – You are black (Clip 14) (James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr., a very young Heather Graham, Oliver Platt, Bruce Dern.
2. Roxanne (1987) – Steve Martin and Darryl Hannah star in this modern adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac - 20 Something betters an awesome scene that was just too long, plus this one, which I love (Clip 16 - Earn more sessions by sleeving)
1. Dragnet (1987) – Kids, It’ll grow back (Clip 15) (Tom Hanks and Dan Akroid)
Why the college football is vastly inferior to the NFL.
-Bad matchups – tons of crappy games every season
-Too many teams
-Inferior talent and inferior play
-The way the “championship” is determined
-Very little hope for everyone but a handful of schools to win it all
-Fantasy football is awesome in the NFL and barely possible in college football
-I was watching preseason NFL over Oregon-Boise St.
NBA versus NFL…can you guess which one?
36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, repeat, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits,
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is?
NBA or NFL?
Neither... it's the 535 members of the United States Congress
Extra Topics:
-Colorado Rockies playing some exciting baseball this past week. (2 extra inning wins this week versus teams in the hunt.)
-Electronic Cigarettes – Maybe the dumbest thing ever. “You can smoke anywhere!” Only now you have to come off like a douche, as you explain why it’s okay that you are smoking in your office or at a restaurant, because you’re not really smoking, you’re just being a dork.
-Educational toys – Why does everyone nowadays think that all toys have to be educational. Ugh. Hardly anything gets better if you put the word educational in front of it. (Television, Toys, Software, Video Games, Website.)
-The Treasures which I discovered at Invesco Field…my very productive shopping trip to the Invesco Field at Mile High Gift Shop. Very Good Times!
-My burgeoning animation career with Flipnote Studio. Vertically Striped Animation Studios is really pumping out the quality films. This week I released what I consider my best masterpiece yet with The Ed’s music video. Good stuff!
-ElevationRadio.com a.k.a. Outsiders Edge – I am one of the correspondents over there. John Klein is doing some cool stuff with that website.
-I saw the movie “Taken” with Liam Neeson – Intense like a roller coaster, but it’s got really bad acting. 5 of out 10.
-Rundown of the myriad of football contests we are a part of over at Dameshek.com
1. Fantasy Football league – Dameshek.com (ESPN.com)
2. The Ed’s Super Deluxe Football Game – Dameshek.com
3. The Ed’s Super Deluxe College Football Game – Dameshek.com
4. Joe vs. The World – Gambling Title Competition – Dameshek.com
5. UMass Dameshek’s Pick’em League – Yahoo.com
6. Vertically Striped Survivor League on ESPN.com
On ESPN.com, I’ve started an Eliminator Group for the NFL. Pick a team each week to win, and as long as they do so, you stay in. You can only pick a team one time, and there will be some manner of swell prize for the winner!
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/group?groupID=1116
MJ’s Extra Topics:
-U.S. Unmanned War Drones
-The New Cowboys stadium
-Why CSI sucks
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Echo Echo by Carbon Leaf (2001)
This is some awesome rock music with definite Celtic and Bluegrass influences. It’s a weird mix of energy, electric and bass guitars, vocal harmonies, mandolin, drums, tin whistles and harmonica. This feels like rock music mixed with the kind of stuff you might only hear if you went to a foreign country. It’s got great hooks, great voices, and it’s interesting music. Carbon Leaf is a band that doesn’t sound like anyone else that I can easily compare them too, but I’m very glad they are a part of my music collection, as their music never fails to put me in a good mood when I listen to it. I like it because it’s just so interesting sounding and different, but still very solid rock music. We’ll play you out this afternoon with a great song off the album called “The Boxer”. There’s a lot of other cool tunes on this album including “On any given day” which is a slower groove, but still good. The band shows their chops with “Mary Mac” as they sing and play faster than my brain can follow at times, “Desperation Song” is another beautifully written song. This is some good stuff.
Shalom and Good evening to you all! (Music Clip 15 – The Boxer)
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