Okay, so remember when I wrote that I had shot a story about a local professional wrestler? Well, here we are a few months later and the story finally aired. I’m going to try and get a QuickTime video of the story posted here, but in the meantime, here’s a link to the KMSP website and a Flash video of the story. Enjoy!
The last few weeks I’ve gotten to attend a few cool things for work. A few weeks ago I got to talking with one of the reporters about his partner’s cousin, who happens to be a professional wrestler. She goes by the wrestling name ODB. It’s sort of a white-trash gimmick, complete with flask! She was going to be wrestling at First Ave and we thought it would make for a great “local girl done good” kinda story. Unfortunately, the good folks in charge didn’t really want to give up Maury for a night to go shoot it and put it together, so I went to First Ave and shot her match and some interviews. I even put a mic on her mom while ODB wrestled. Her mom might truly be the “original ODB”! It was a complete blast! I think it’ll make for a great story whenever we get a chance to put it together. Hopefully that will happen sometime in the next month. 
Then, this past weekend I shot the Barack Obama rally at the Target Center. Personally, I hope he gets the nomination. But either way, it was pretty friggin’ insane to see 20,000 people show up for a political speech. I have a feeling people are gonna be pretty burned out on politics by the time we get to November. Tomorrow, I cover the republican caucus in Bloomington. I think it might see a slightly more sparse attendance.
I can’t believe they want you to pay for Wi-Fi at the frigging’ airport! Bah Humbug! Isn’t it bad enough that they pump this sh#*ty Muzak?!
So, I forced Holly to go with me to see/hear the musical stylings of Mr. Jonathan Coulton at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis a few weeks ago. For those of you unfamiliar with the JoCo, he created a lot of excitement about his work with a year-long blog called “Thing a Week,” where he posted a newly crafted song every week. He’s a bit of a geek, so if you think you might like a song called, “Code Monkey,” give him a listen.
Anywho, the concert was great, with an opening band (Paul and Storm) who had a song called “Opening Band.” Rock on! I highly recommend checking out the JonathanCoulton.com. Here are a few more songs that I love:
For those of you who missed it, here’s a pic taken by Mr. JoCo himself.
