in preparation for the black swamp festival next weekend here are a couple choice cuts:
dave alvin with 4th of july
charlie louvin with his brother ira – i don’t believe you’ve met my baby
I laughed, but seriously, why do this? (video has a very naked male butt)
via the big blue
Have they lost their collective minds? I was informed of this story by a University of Michigan season ticket holder last weekend. Prior policy was to allow ticket holders to bring in unopened bottles of water to Michigan Stadium.
What makes this even more bizarre is that instead of allowing fans to bring in unopened bottles of water…
the first 25,000 fans entering the gates will receive a bottle of spring water from Absopure that commemorates the stadium renovation.
UM officials are blaming homeland security for the ban, but as far as I know, fans are allowed to gather in large numbers all up and down and around the stadium and no one is taking their water away when they do.
So is it all about the money? Charging 110,000 people $4.00 for a $0.25 bottle of water seems like a very profitable venture. I guess if they are trying to raise enough to buy RichRod out of his deal, then perhaps all UM fans won’t mind chipping in?
ESPN Baseball analist (my bad) Tim Kurkjian was asked what he thought of the Cincinnati Reds‘ Joey Votto‘s MVP-type season and whether he can sustain it.
Kurkjian replied (in paraphrase), “Votto has 35 home runs. The Reds haven’t had a first baseman with that many home runs since Lee May 40 years ago. So, no.”
Can someone please explain to me what the past 40 years of first basemen hitting has the slightest bit to do with the future of Joey Votto?
These two stories appeared side by side in my inbox this morning.
WNWO reports that the Toledo Public School Board discovered $824,000 in unaccounted for money and will use a portion of that to pay for crossing guards.
I stick with my original post (linked below) that the district could save money by appointing parent organizations to run the program at very little cost to the district. Very little training or skill is required and the benefit of the program is directed at the kids and their parents.
Ed: An Asian couple I know had a child who was born with a birth defect.
Al: What did they name him?
Ed: Sum Ting Wong.
Blogger’s Note: While this may seem racist and with callous disregard of socially accepted principles, it was a very minor birth defect and the Asian couple has a voracious sense of humor.
Toledoans awoke this morning to the news that a car traveling at a very high rate of speed on a surface road at 3:30 this morning struck a utility pole and broke into three big pieces and lots of tiny pieces. Two of the car’s human contents were DOA and a third was in critical condition at last report. If you see the pieces that remain, it is highly unlikely anyone could survive that crash for very long.
I know two things. I would not want to be the first responder, and driving a stolen car at a high rate of speed in the middle of the night often leads to bad things.
Young people make mistakes. Pray that the mistakes they make are ones the results of which no one dies.
