Happy St. Urho’s Day!
Screw St. Pat, Urho is the saint for me!
Ode to St. Urho
By Gene McCavic
Written in Finnish dialect.
(Original located at the Iron World Museum,
Chisholm, Minnesota)
Ooksie kooksie coolama vee
Santia Urho is ta poy for me!
He sase out ta hoppers as pig as birds
Neffer peefor haff I hurd does words!
He reely told dose pugs of kreen
Braaffest finn I effer seen!
Some celebrate for St. Pat unt hiss nakes
Putt Urho poyka kot what it takes.
He got tall and trong from feelia sour
Unt ate culla moyakka effery hour.
Tat’s why day guy could sase does peetles
What crew as thick as chack bine needles.
So lets give a cheer in hower pest way
On this 16th of March, St. Urho’s Tay!
RIP, KIRRRRR-by Puckett
Hall of Famer Puckett dies at 45.
No offense meant by seemingly tongue-in-cheek title for this entry – it’s a text approximation of the way the Metrodome announcer (damn, and why can’t I remember his name?) would introduce Puckett’s at-bats,
I was privileged to be able to watch him lead the Twins to two World Championships and I realize now that I got the same sort of joy out of watching someone play – very well – a game that he loved that I ded out watching Jordan with the Bulls or Favre with the Packers.
It’s hard not to smile when you see someone like that, in this age of self-important superstars who forget that they’re getting paid to play a game.
Kirby, you’ll be missed.
Yes, Greg…
I’m still alive, just slow on the reading of your blog. Sorry.
Having been tagged, I reply (though I sort of did once already):
Four jobs I’ve had
- Process server
- Information Architect, Internet Administrator, Senior HTML Developer, Web Technician (all actual job titles I’ve held over the years with pretty much exactly the same duties – knowing and doing stuff on the web)
- Music/culture editor/writer
- Pizza delivery guy
Four movies I could watch over and over:
- Apocalypse Now
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Down By Law
Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
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Having kids sort of precludes me from getting to watch a lot of TV right now (not like I did anyway), but:
- Scrubs
- Boston Legal
- Grey’s Anatomy
- The Simpsons
Four places I’ve been on vacation
- Tuscany
- Lousville, Kentucky
- Sedona, Arizona
- Bloomington, Indiana
Four favorite dishes
- Pizza from almost anywhere
- my own chili, with tons of beers, around the campfire in Minocqua
- Gnocchi with four cheeses sauce
- Sheboygan-style brats
Four websites I visit regularly
- Daily Kos
- Boing Boing
- Atrios
- of late, Glenn Greenwald
Four places I’d rather be
- Bloomington, Indiana
- around the campfire in Minocqua with tons of beers
- with you
- anywhere in the spring and early summer
Four books I recommend
- Rule Of The Bone by Russell Banks
- works of Hunter Thompson
- works of Lester Bangs
- works of David James Duncan
Four bloggers I’m tagging
- Mark Pepperkorn
- Sulky when and if she returns to the online world
- two others (I don’t have a lot of blogger friends who didn’t tag me already, honest…)