The Musings of Brian Groce

Do you have some Halloween memories, ghost stories or any other October Oddness to share with Utter Oddcast listeners from around the globe (and beyond)?  And do you want to win some Future Karnies of America  prizes?

Check out the October Oddness 2007 Drawing for more information…

I’m not sure if I’ve blogged about MySpace before (if don’t have anything nice to say…) but today I am going to do so because I finally saw a change that is actually pretty useful/helpful.

They’ve been working on adding filters to view your “friends”, which was a little helpful, but today I spotted a “New Friends” option, which appears to list your most recent additions in order. Some people may not care about that, but when you’re managing multiple accounts and each has hundreds of friends it comes in very handy. Now I don’t have to wonder if someone accepted my friend request, I can simply look to see if they’re on the list and when I spot them I can pop over to their page and drop them a note. Very useful indeed.

Now if they’d add a decent region based option as well as adding RSS feeds for the bulletins I’d be a happy camper (I’m getting used to the “our page design options suck”…but it would be nice if it were improved as well).

While I don’t have a “personal” MySpace account (check out Facebook for that), here are the handful of accounts which I manage if you want to add me:

• Future Karnies of America
• Surge Bucket Media
• Trolley Dodgers Podcast
• Utter Oddcast
• Watershed Studio

The Future Karnies of America are at it again. Coming soon in limited edition, Future Karnies of America: Monkeys on the Midway.

Thanks to Len from Jawbone Radio and his Monster-by-Mail project for the artwork and video!

You can check out Len’s Flickr account for more great artwork and his YouTube account for more videos.

You can view the making of the Future Karnies of America: Monkeys on the Midway artwork on YouTube or by clicking on the link below. The background music is “Midway” by The Famous.

Release Date: Thursday, February 1st, 2007
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This week Jeff & Brian discuss:

SPORTS – FOOTBALL

• NFL’s lawyers sack church’s game plan
• Indy to make 2011 Super Bowl bid
• Palmer: Bengals’ run of arrests have to stop
• Chargers’ Kiel Cited for Urination
• Foley files civil suit against officer, city over shooting

SPORTS – BASEBALL

• Yankee Stadium to Host ‘08 All-Star Game
• Provisions in revised Bonds deal holding up process
• Bonds can lose contract if indicted: source

SPORTS – BASKETBALL

• No. 25 Indiana ends Badgers’ 17-game win streak
• Green, Campbell lift No. 11 Butler to seventh straight win

TASER NEWS

• Cop shocks naked, greased student

SQUIRREL NEWS (courtesy of squirreldish.com)

• ‘Gender’ Blamed for Katie Couric’s Low Ratings

ANIMALS

• Florida hunter bags a hermaphrodite deer
• Raw Cougar Meat Blamed for Trichinosis

OTHER

• Mexicans protest as tortilla crisis hurts Calderon
• Big baby causes sensation in Cancun
• Lavender Oil May Spur Breasts in Boys
• Student wants to ‘rent’ a girlfriend
• City fights leaky carnival crowd

HOUSE KEEPING

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• NFL’s lawyers sack church’s game plan
  You have got to be kidding me! First the NFL Network nonsense this year and now this. Using their trademark “Super Bowl” in promotional materials, fine, don’t allow that but I can’t even imagine the number of churches in violation of their “55 inches or smaller” policy regardless of what they call their get together. The NFL needs to get their heads out of their rears and start worrying about what “extracurricular activities” their players are up to.
• Churches react to NFL’s Super Bowl warning
• A Super Sports City
  Bill Benner on Indianapolis’ Super Bowl 45 bid
• Palmer: Bengals’ run of arrests have to stop
• Provisions in revised Bonds deal holding up process
  More on the Bobble-head Barry front
• Mexicans protest as tortilla crisis hurts Calderon
  Interesting and something that never occurred to me before now
• Big baby causes sensation in Cancun
  Wow! 14.5 pounds of pure beefcake.
• Screwtape Moves Forward
• Miss USA, out of rehab, admits cocaine use & Trump Considers Letting Miss USA Pose for ‘Playboy’
  I now have a major problem with Mr. Trump’s motives…”Playboy wants to have Tara on the cover (and) we’re thinking about it. It wouldn’t be nude… I would never want a thing like that to happen.” Nude or not, what a slime-ball! Don’t get me started.
• Uncle Sam spoils dream trip to space
  Leave it to the government and taxes.
• Toothpaste, bouillon cubes new frontiers of piracy
  You’ve got to be kidding me.
• Bones may indicate Indian burial site
  Not surprising around Indiana, but I always find this sort of “find” interesting.
• Lavender Oil May Spur Breasts in Boys
• City fights leaky carnival crowd
  The Karnies are coming, the Karnies are coming!