Greetings and Salutations, People: And welcome to the first, non
Mayan-scheduled day. Hope it’s going well for you. Merry Christmas to all, and
more importantly, Happy Festivus Eve! This is Vertically Striped Radio, I am
Craig Dodge, and let’s do this thing…
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Tweet of the Week:
@ChaseMit
Sometimes I like to mix things up by going big and then also going home.
Sometimes I like to mix things up by going big and then also going home.
Things I
liked this week:
Christmas
Music
Getting a
Christmas gift of tickets to the Broncos-Browns game tomorrow.
Today on VSR –
It’s the Christmas show, and we’re doing Christmas right with a Magnificent
Seven – 7 Worst Christmas Songs and we’re convening the He-Man Movie Watchers
Club to discuss A Christmas Story.
If you’d like
to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB
(Bring on
Face) –
Let’s get to
the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Let’s get to
the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Fort Worth, TEXAS – A handcuffed burglary suspect has
escaped from police in Texas - by driving off in their squad car.
Officers from White Settlement near Fort Worth had
arrested 41-year-old Darren Porter last Friday on suspicion of breaking into an
antiques shop.
But when they left him alone for a few minutes in the
back of their car, he managed to roll down a window, reach out and open the
door.
Video from a dashboard camera in another squad car shows
him then climbing into the driver's seat and taking off.
The second police car then shot off in pursuit, but to no
avail.
The antique shop owner, Kenny Boone, said it was a
comical scene.
"It kind of reminded me of the Keystone cops,"
he joked. "They were all running for their police car to chase this guy. I
shouldn’t say it was funny but it was kind of comical."
The police car was found abandoned in Fort Worth soon
afterwards, but Porter was still at large on Tuesday morning.
White Settlement Police Department said the window
switches in the back of their squad cars are supposed to be disabled.
But apparently not in this case.
Officers are now checking their other vehicles to make
sure the back windows do not open.
Santa Cruz, ARGENTINA - An Argentinian woman is planning
to marry the man convicted of killing her twin sister - but her mother is
determined to stop the wedding.
Victor Cingolani is serving a 13-year sentence for
murdering his girlfriend Johana Casas. The 19-year-old model's body was found
with two gunshot wounds in 2010. Victor also happens to be engaged to Johana’s
twin sister Edith.
Edith and Victor are planning to hold the service in a
prison in Santa Cruz and the nuptials are drawing intense media interest.
Edith, age 22, said her husband-to-be is innocent and
described him as somebody "who would not hurt a fly". However, her
mother, Marcelina Orellana, has vowed to do everything she can to prevent the
marriage going ahead.
"We know this will be hard because she is an adult,
but we will go to court to try to have her examined by a psychiatrist,"
she said.
"As far as we are concerned, she does not know what
she is doing."
Edith has accused her mother of abandoning her and her
sister, and said: "She cannot say I need a psychiatrist because I am fully
aware of what I am doing."
Victor, who insists he is not guilty of the murder,
added: "I loved Johana, but I love Edith. I have a beautiful bride and I
am going to marry her."
I’m Craig,
and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Bring on the Whale
Band name of the week:
Lloyd
Dobler’s Boombox
I am
anti-Santa, but pro-Christmas.
I’ve
explained my position many times, but it’s nice when someone you respect agrees
with you.
Flula on
Santa: (Clip 49)
Magnificent Seven - 7 Worst Christmas
songs:
Honorable
Mention:
Bar Side
Rambling Christmas Song (Clip 41)
7. Hey Santa
– Carnie and Wendy Wilson – Ugh. Just ugh.
6. Cherry
Cherry Christmas – Neil Diamond – Neil channeling the spirit of Dr Suess
5. Please
Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk this Christmas – John Denver – So ridiculous, you’d
almost think it was from Saturday Night Live
4. Christmas
Song – The Chimpmunks – So Squeaky
3. Santa Baby
– Madonna – So whiny
2. Last
Christmas – Wham – So cheeseball
1. Ay Ay Ay,
It’s Christmas – Ricky Martin and Rosie O’Donnell – This song makes one
question their belief in a loving God.
If you’re
going to do a terrible Christmas song, do it RIGHT!
Steve Maudlin
– O Holy Night (Clip 50)
He-Man Movie Watchers Club: (Into Clip
12)
A Christmas
Story-
Red Ryder
carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the
stock and this thing which tells time.
Best movie
ever without an actual plot. The only other true example I can find is Forrest
Gump. Clearly A Christmas Story is a superior film…even if The Academy gave
Forrest Gump a Best Picture Oscar.
What makes it
one of my Christmas favorites is that it doesn’t idealize Christmas. The
characters in the story are all very flawed and the world they live in is dark.
There is a complete kid vs. adult aura about the entire world.
Memorable Visuals:
Randy so
bundled up he can’t put his arms down
Flick gets
his tongue stuck to the flagpole
Ralphie with
soap in his mouth
Ralphie in
the pink bunny suit
Leg lamp in
the front window
Bumpus Hounds
steal the turkey
Chinese
waiters singing “Fa ra ra ra ra”
Best Secondary Character:
Christmas Tree Salesman
Mrs. Shields
Scut Farkus - When the character of Scut Farkas
first appears, the "Wolf" music from Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter
and the Wolf" plays in the background. The name "Farkas" is
derived from the Hungarian word for "wolf".
Grover Dill – the toadie
Flick - For the scene in which Flick's
tongue sticks to the flagpole, a hidden suction tube was used to safely create
the illusion that his tongue had frozen to the metal.
Department Store Santa Claus
Kid with Goggles in the Santa line
Trivia and Notes:
Movie is set
in Hammond, Indiana in the 1940s. Filmed in Cleveland, Ohio with the school
scenes filmed at Victoria School in St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada.
The Orphan
Annie radio decoder pin that Ralphie receives is the 1940
"Speedomatic" model, indicating that the movie takes place in
December, 1940. Different decoder badges were made each year from 1935-1940. By
1941, the decoders were made of paper.
Jean
Shepherd's book "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash", which the
film is partly based on, is a collection of short stories that Jean Shepherd
wrote for "Playboy" magazine during the 1960s, including the stories
about the tongue sticking to the flagpole, and eating Christmas dinner at a
Chinese restaurant.
Ralphie says
that he wanted the "Red Ryder BB Gun" 28 times.
Radio
Announcer for Little Orphan Annie sounds like Marv Albert
There is a
debate about when the film takes place. Evidence seems to point to 1939 because
of The Wizard of Oz references. The decoder ring points to 1940. However, if
you look at the calendar on the wall (during the first dinner sequence), you
can clearly see the first of December falls on a Friday. December 1st fell on a
Friday in 1939, not 1940 as was previously accepted.
The Chinese
restaurant is named 'Bo Ling's'. There is a neon sign across the top of the
storefront that reads 'Bowling', except the 'W' is not lit.
In 2005, the
original home used for the exterior shots of the family home was put up for
auction on eBay and avid fan of the movie Brian Jones managed to purchase the
home directly from the seller for $150,000.00 USD. Jones then spent the
following year restoring the home to the way it looked on screen. The exterior
of the home was completely restored and the interior was renovated to match the
interior of the home shown in the movie. (Parts of the interior was actually
filmed in a Toronto studio) On November 25th, 2006, the famous home finally
opened its doors as a tourist attraction. Jones spent close to $500,000.00 USD
in preparation for this grand opening. In addition, Jones also purchased the
house next door and converted it to a gift shop and museum dedicated to the
film and the house. The real house used during filming can be found at 3159 W
11th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Pictures and a "Street View" of the
house can be seen on Google Maps. A nearby street that intersects with W. 11th
St is Clark Avenue.
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Recommendation:
Colorado
Christmas – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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