Thursday (mixed bag) edition: Wha’ Happened?
Posted on February 28th, 2008 – 8:15 AMBy Michael Rand
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We are still a couple days from March, but already the madness is descending. Last night, you had the debut of Chris Simon (in a Wild victory), a Wolves loss to Toronto (a very bad matchup for an overmatched squad), a name-the-score loss for the Gophers men’s hoops team at Purdue (65-53, which should have been about three points within anybody’s best guess on both sides), OT high school hockey thrillers at Mariucci (Edina and Benilde-St. Margaret’s moved on to state with overtime goals, while defending Class 2A champion Roseau downed Moorhead 6-1 to make it back), not to mention plenty of non-Minnesota action. What’s a guy to do? It seems obvious. We have to empty out our e-mail linkage before things get any crazier.
*Sooze invites you to check out the Babes Love Baseball preview of the Minnesota Twins, in haiku form. She also confirmed there will be a Lizzy sighting around here in about a month; details will be provided.
*Our guy Linnemann went MacGyver on everyone.
*Sassbottom sent this along with the subject line, “For you.” Just for the record, we never studied abroad.
*Tom Brady’s ex, Bridget Moynihan, talks a little bit about pregnancy.
*And, of course, the Fasola-link! From the ‘matt: Tom Lehrer! He’s the guy who wrote all of the songs for “The Electric Company”, but he first made his mark as a social satirist in the early 1960s. He did a song every week for “That Was The Week That Was”, a precursor to “The Daily Show”. Before that, he was a tenured professor of mathematics at some school in Cambridge, MA.
Coming up: Stu’s Hunt Down and, hopefully one of the greatest RandBall Q&A’s of all time. Fingers crossed. We had a very interesting phone message last night.
18 Responses to "Thursday (mixed bag) edition: Wha’ Happened?"
Did Gary Coleman also call you in a drunken stuper last night?
One of my favorite Lehrer songs is the classic “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.”
When they see us coming
The birdies all try and hide
But they still go for peanuts
When coated with cyanide…
Ohhh, the last peanut, covered in the oil and cyanide of your departed brothers…
I read through “Stuff White People Like” last week- good stuffs. I’m sure Rand was sorry to see that Pugs weren’t on there yet, though they can’t be far off.
Did anyone else see that Michael Wilbon has responded to an insult from the DC SportsBog with a threat of a “beat down”? Good lord, is anyone involved with sports an adult? I mean, I can understand the athletes acting like children because they don’t know any differently/nor do they have anything more expected from them. However, when these media guys who act all high and mighty (like Wilbon), show their true colors its pretty sickening.
Uh oh, maybe he’ll read this and threaten me with a beat down. Dumb[redacted]…
The Hootie: I think it will just be “small, useless dogs”. If it were “pugs” they’d have to change the site name from “stuff white people like” to “stuff Michael Rand likes”, funny for us, but not quite the mass appeal of the original.
…oh my pulse will be quickenin’ with each drop of strychanine I feed to a pigeon (it just takes a smidgen) to poison a pigeon in the park!…
A BLB/RandBall field trip? I think I just peed a little. Also, I am 27 years old today, which is also the former number of my Canadian Crusher, who is awesome.
ITEM: Stuff White People Like. Please read the entry on the top ten hip-hop songs white people like. It’s like they read my mind.
ITEM: Tom Lehrer was married to Jane Fonda, wasn’t he?
ITEM: RandBall Q & A. I’m guessing either Fred Smoot or the late Nipsey Russell angrily wondering why Rocket is stealing his bit.
ITEM: Sooze’s birthday. Happy birthday, Sooze.
Sooze is another year older
And is still as solid as a boulder
Yet everyone could use a little more love
Even from a first basemen with no glove
Will her Canadian Crusher ever hold her?
Stu: The top ten hip-hop songs white people like was essentially the playlist at every Eden Prairie High School dance or party when I was in school. I think that is enough proof that they’re absolutely correct on all accounts.
I am excited for this Q&A.
Correction: Jane Fonda was married to Tom Hayden, not Tom Lehrer. I apologize for any confusion I caused to people who’ve likely never heard of any of these three people before this morning.
I am excited for this Q&A.
If The Marth is excited, that means it’s either Gus Johnson or Brian Bonin. Please let it be the former.
If it’s Gus Johnson, it should have been a podcast. Audio is necessary.
Correction: Jane Fonda THOUGHT she was married to Joseph Haydn and his wondrous music thus explaining her many Seductive Stances in “Barbarella”. Once she discovered it was Tom Hayden in bed with her all along, she discovered politics…and most likely herself along the way…
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