The World Famous in Minnesota Show - November 4, 2008

Here’s the playlist and highlights from this week’s episode of The World Famous in Minnesota Show on the Voice of Brown College, The VBC

4PM
A-Punk – Vampire Weekend
Evil Ways – Santana
Patience – Tyrone Wells
Feed The Tree – Belly
Jesus is Just Alright – The Doobie Brothers
Rock n’ Roll – Eric Hutchinson
Grave Digger – Willie Nelson
Radar Gun – Bottle Rockets
Fix It – Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Classic Rock – Dramarama
Sequestered In Memphis – The Hold Steady
Calendar Girl – Stars
Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough – Patty Smyth

5PM
For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
24 – Jem
The Lovers are Losing – Keane
Life of Riley – Lightning Seeds
How I am to Be – Watson Twins
I Got Mine – Black Keys
In The City – Joe Walsh
Real Love – Lucinda Williams
Hold On – KT Tunstall
Miracle – Foo Fighters
Something’s Not Right – Cold War Kids
Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
(F)lannigan’s Ball – Dropkick Murphy’s with Spider Stacy
Ship of Fools – World Party


Moron This!
The Omaha police have arrested three teenagers in connection to the robbery of a Mini Mart. The bandits broke into the G’s Mini Mart and made off with a cooler of beer. One of the cases of beer broke open, leaving a trail of Bud Light cans that lead the police to the nearby house, where they found beer and a crowbar. This however, will not be the next Real Men of Genius commercial.

On this Date…
It was on this date in 1934 that Pittsburgh snapped the Detroit Lions’ shut out streak at seven games. The Lions went on to win the game 40-7. On this day, the Lions have been shut out of the win column, and could become the first team to go 0-16.

Real Life X-File
An Argentinean man is experiencing facial paralysis after he witnessed three UFOs. Ambulance driver Fernando Guerrero stated on radio that he has been feeling very strange since the event on October 25th near Villa Castelli. He says that he noticed the light on his cell phone became brighter. He added that the CD he was playing in his ambulance stopped suddenly and he heard a loud squeaking noise emit from the speakers. Scientists and researchers have failed to get in touch with Guerrero to conduct further tests.

My Least Favorite Things

This comment was originally posted on my Indianapolis Star blog "Tales of a Hoosier Ex-Pat"

Two of the four pillars of evil are the New England Patriots and Daylight Saving Time. Both descended onto Indianapolis on Sunday. Coincidence? Hardly.

Well at least one of them was vanquished yesterday. The “Hatriots” came into the game with a 5-2 record, taking on a Colt team that has had an identity crisis throughout the season. The game wasn’t a must win, but was getting to the point that the boys in blue couldn’t take another loss.

Indy’s D turned up big, and Anthony Gonzales’s two TD lets him hold onto his role as the best receiver on the team (enough for me to forgive him for going to “The” Ohio State University…which ironically is the third pillar of evil).

A win over the Hatriots is always fun, but I must admit that this year’s win is not as good as when Tom Brady is playing. Granted, I enjoyed watching Bill Bellacheat outsmart himself (which doesn’t seem to be that hard anymore), but seeing Tom Brady get flustered by the Colts just gives me a tingly feeling in a place I don’t talk about at parties.

Now if we can do the same for Daylight Saving Time, it’ll be a wonderful weekend. I was always proud of the fact Indiana was one of the lone holdouts to resist that idiotic tradition. I believe that DST is nothing more than a conspiracy perpetrated by the owners of golf courses across America.

DST allegedly reduces energy costs, but a study published last year indicated that people use less energy in place that doesn’t observe DST. It turns out that people use exactly one more hour of air conditioning in a DST time zone than in standard time. And where was this study taken? Indiana. That should be more than enough reason to switch back to the way it was. DST is irrelevant now, as we are now a 24 hour society. It’s an outdated concept, like praying to a sun god, saying “dandy”, or casting Rutger Howard as a romantic lead.

Seriously? Central Michigan?

This post orginally was posted on my Indianapolis Star Blog "Tales of a Hoosier Ex-Pat"

I went to firebilllynch.com today, to see if anyone had started the inevitable site. To my dismay, I didn’t see anything. Shocking, I know. Almost as shocking as losing to the second MAC team this year.

I was really hoping that Indiana (3-6, 1-4 Big Ten, 0-2 MAC) would build off of its bowl bid from last year. I was thinking that the Hoosiers were finally back. A new tradition was building.
But it’s painfully obvious that the fire that was building in Memorial Stadium died the exact moment Terry Hoepner passed away. Last year’s seven win season was the coasting of a promising legacy cut tragically short by the death of a passionate talented coach. That legacy was trusted to the man who ran Ball State's football team into the ground.
Indiana lost to Central Michigan. And not only did they lose to the Chippewas, they lost to their back up quarterback. At home. Against a MAC team. Again.

As much as I want to see Hoep’s dream of “defending the rock” at every home game continue with his assistant, it’s time to think about a new tradition, or at least a new direction.