In November Of 2000, I Wanted To Form A Band Called "The Recount Five" Soooo Bad

Via rockcritics.com, it's a great piece by Luc Sante on the essential Nuggets anthology.

He does a great job detailing the background of the original (and for my money, the best) punk rock. And wraps it up beautifully at the end:

Anyway, kiddies, these are your ancestors, who suffered through innumerable sock hops at American Legion halls so you can be the little Antichrists you are today.

Mike Wilbon Rules!

I'm sure that Tony "Monday Night Football" Kornheiser is considered the star of ESPN's Pardon The Interruption, but for my money Mike Wilbon is the man. I like Tony, but Wilbon is: The man whose sports sensibilites are better attuned (i.e. he is Midwest and not East Coast, he mocks the "the Yanks and the Sawks" overhyped rivalry, he is not a stars-only type sports fan), the man who is right more often, the man who is genuinely funnier, and the man from PTI who I would more like to drink beer with.

Today it was Wilbon who pointed that the Colorado Rockies great streak - they have won 18 out of their last 19 - has been underappreciated and that if this had been accomplished by the Yanks or the Sawks (or even the Mets or the Phillies) said team would be declared The Greatest Ever.

But on a generational note, Wilbon came up with the Quote Of The Week today. When asked by substitute co-host Dan Le Batard if he played video games as a kid, Wilbon yelled:

"No! We played Strat-O-Matic! Be a man!!"

Fun With Egosurfing

Just so you know, it was the State v. Tuomala case that decided that no pre-trial jail time credit be given for cases in which the defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity.

You Can Sing "Tuomala" To This Song

Maybe my favorite bit from the original UK version of The Office - their rendition of a Muppets classic. I could watch this all day.

If Derek Peltier Were My Teammate, My Nickname For Him Would Be "Free"

... and yet another funny sports thing. It's the annual "Gopher hockey team says it will be tougher" blurb in the sports page. According to Derek Peltier:

"We want teams, when they get done playing us, to have some bumps and bruises."

Yep, uh-huh, okay - but it won't be a big surprise when the Gophers are being pushed around by blue collar teams in February, March, and April (scratch that last month?) of 2008.

Gopher Hockey: Guaranteed Soft.

"No!! No!!!"

The Vikings have a bye this week, so alas you can't pen them in for a loss (and an automatic point) in your weekly football pool.

But you can watch this entertaing video. It's video of a game called Tecmo Bowl (note: my video game knowledge is pretty close to zero) combined with the radio call from noted homer, Paul Allen of KFAN, of the Vikings' classic loss to the Arizona Cardinals on the last week of the 2003 season.

Aside from hilarious memories of yet another classic Purple choke job, it's funny that the game spells "touchdown" as two words.

The King And I October Schedule

6-Sat> Nancy Cheng

8-Mon> Sigelman
9-Tue> Lisa McGrath
10-Wed> Plain Ole Bill
11-Thu> Housekeeping with Brian Thomas
12-Fri> Didgital Resistance with VERB X
13-Sat> Blunt City = JamesPatrick+DanielPaul

15-Mon> Rockit Fuel! Hosted by, C-Gull
16-Tue> D.O. & D.G.
17-Wed> Dj Nikoless
18-Thu> The Saint
19-Fri> Emma 1212 (from Paris) & The Fun Boys
20-Sat> Housekeeping with Brian Thomas

22-Mon> Rockit Fuel! Hosted by, C-Gull
23-Tue> It Takes All Kinds... with Platetektoniks
24-Wed> Brigadier Woodro of 3 King Sound System
25-Thu> Replicant Soul with Dj Tk
26-Fri> Treehouse Records
27-Sat> JOBOT

29-Mon> James Leonardo
30-Tue> It Takes All Kinds... with Platetektoniks

31- Wed> HALLOWEEN BASH!
with Ebony, The Saint & Cecil Otter
Costume Contest and 241's 9:30 'til 12:30

Exiled #43 Is Published

Here is the linkage.

Cheap Shot Of The Week

Mark Craig, in today's Strib, on Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan's chances of knocking off the favored-by-9.5-points Indianapolis Colts: "He'll have to win this one without Brewster."

You Learn Something New Every Day

I'm listening to the Outlaw Country station on Sirius and the deejay just said that today is Lynn Anderson's birthday - her big hit was "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" - and that she was born in Grand Forks. This got me curious, so I did some surfing and it turns out her mom, Liz Anderson, was born in Roseau and wrote songs that were hits for Merle Haggard: "I'm A Lonesome Fugitive" (quoted in Rock Dreams!) and the awesome "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers."

(Check out the great cover for Liz Anderson's album Husband Hunting.)

Replacements Book Out On November 15th

The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History by friend of Exiled Jim Walsh. With the number of anecdotes that this band has launched, this book should be cool.

Amazon link.

Myspace link.

All This Hotness Makes Me Dizzy

Last night on TBS I was watching an early episode of the US version of The Office in which a hot girl named Katy sells purses from the conference room. Katy was played by Amy Adams, but at first I thought this girl might be Allison Munn (Fez's psycho girlfriend from That Seventies Show). Secondly, I thought she could be Isla Fisher (from Wedding Crashers), who is NOT related to Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam in The Office, who I have a big-time TV crush on.

Update: Of course they are not related - I just realized their last names are spelled differently. Jenna Fischer stars in Willie Wisely's new video.

The King and I September Schedule

11-Tue> Lisa Mcgrath
12-Wed> Plain Ole Bill
13- Thu> Housekeeping with Brian Thomas
14-Fri> Dj Wicked
15-Sat> Blunt City = JamesPatrick + DanielPaul

17-Mon> Rockit Fuel! = C-Gull + T-Machine + A-me...
18-Tue> D.O. + D.G.
19-Wed> Dj Nikoless
20-Thu> The Saint
21-Fri> Brigadier Woodro of 3 King Sound System
22-Sat> Fun Boys = Pagel + Martinez

24-Mon> James Leonardo
25-Tue> "It Takes All Kinds" with Platetektoniks
26-Wed> Petey Wheatstraw
27-Thu> Ebony & Don Cacheine
28-Fri> Treehouse Records
29-Sat> Josh Mcdermott

Vikings Managment = Classless

The Minnesota Vikings had to rely on Channel 9 to step up and buy the remaining unsold tickets for the season opener against the Atlanta Falcons in order to avoid a TV blackout. On Wednesday, what reason did the Vikings give for not selling out the game? Believe it or not, they blamed it on traffic problems related to the 35W bridge collapse and the Crosstown exchange construction.

While I'm sure the traffic would scare away some fans, it was disingenuous of the Vikings management to not mention the #1 reason fans haven't bought tickets: the Purple suck. They have been 43-53 the past six seasons with only one playoff appearance, and last season's team was especially brutal and boring. But did Vikings managment step up and take the blame for lackluster ticket sales? No - they in part blamed it on the aftermath of a tragedy. Classless.

Go Vikings ... to Los Angeles ... the sooner the better.

Update: On Friday, the Common Man fired up The Excuse Computer and addressed this topic.

North Dakota Sending A Message To The Rest Of The Union?

Take the word "mistakenly" out of this headline, and suddenly it all makes sense:

B-52 mistakenly carried nuclear warheads from N.D. to Louisiana.