Some things never change
I don't know what inspired me to check the Columbia Daily Tribune yesterday, but Lord am I glad that I did.
When I was toiling away as a basement-dwelling minion of a Big Midwestern University (BMU) which need not be named here, one of the few joys of my life was reading the local paper every morning. For a small college town, Columbia gets a disturbingly large portion of the weird crap that goes on in this state. I'll always cherish the time the local Greek-types made national headlines for doing something stupid three times in three months, but that's a story for another time.
Anyway, when I checked the website yesterday, I was greeted by these two headlines:
The first is about a custodian at the county courthouse tracing an anarchist conspiracy that spray painted the courthouse wall. The second story (which has the best title I've heard in ages) is about a rescue effort that took at least 24 hours to get a runaway iguana out of a tree.
Ahh, that takes me back...
In other fun news, STL hockey great Tony Twist kicked someone's ass yesterday. This, of course, has happened many, many times, but yesterday he did it outside of the rink for a change. Twist won an appeal in his long-running lawsuit against washed-up comics tycoon Todd McFarlane. McFarlane, back in the early 90s, created a villain by the name of Tony Twist for his God-awful Spawn comic books. Shortly thereafter, Twist the NHL enforcer sued over Twist the lingerie-wearing mafia boss and won $15 million in court. About the same time, McFarlane's empire of crap collapsed under the crushing weight of his ego and vast unpaid debts.
Real Twist
All this is funny (to me anyway) for two reasons:
1. Todd McFarlane's misfortune is always funny.
2. The Twister retired from hockey six years ago, and he's still more entertaining than all the current Blues put together.
When I was toiling away as a basement-dwelling minion of a Big Midwestern University (BMU) which need not be named here, one of the few joys of my life was reading the local paper every morning. For a small college town, Columbia gets a disturbingly large portion of the weird crap that goes on in this state. I'll always cherish the time the local Greek-types made national headlines for doing something stupid three times in three months, but that's a story for another time.
Anyway, when I checked the website yesterday, I was greeted by these two headlines:
The first is about a custodian at the county courthouse tracing an anarchist conspiracy that spray painted the courthouse wall. The second story (which has the best title I've heard in ages) is about a rescue effort that took at least 24 hours to get a runaway iguana out of a tree.
Ahh, that takes me back...
In other fun news, STL hockey great Tony Twist kicked someone's ass yesterday. This, of course, has happened many, many times, but yesterday he did it outside of the rink for a change. Twist won an appeal in his long-running lawsuit against washed-up comics tycoon Todd McFarlane. McFarlane, back in the early 90s, created a villain by the name of Tony Twist for his God-awful Spawn comic books. Shortly thereafter, Twist the NHL enforcer sued over Twist the lingerie-wearing mafia boss and won $15 million in court. About the same time, McFarlane's empire of crap collapsed under the crushing weight of his ego and vast unpaid debts.
Real Twist
Fake Twist
All this is funny (to me anyway) for two reasons:
1. Todd McFarlane's misfortune is always funny.
2. The Twister retired from hockey six years ago, and he's still more entertaining than all the current Blues put together.
posted by Skippy | 2:25 PM
1 Comments:
Apoparently there's a Marmoset loose in Cali. Cute little feller!
Here's the story with pics:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/29/MNGKQJMRT811.DTL
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