Taken To The Cleaners

Went down to the Twin Cities 1 Mile Run tonight to hand out Power Bars with TNT info on them. Mucho thanks to Misty from the Tahoe team and TNT alum Jon for helping hand them out. We started with 250 Power Bars and they were gone in five minutes. They had fairly good success with this last year so hopefully we'll get some future TNTer's again this time. They had various waves, each starting every 10 minutes or so, and the first person from each wave was pretty consistently crossing the finish line in under 5 minutes. Yeah, that's not so much me...

I mentioned Sinead O'Connor in the last post and also wanted to mention her second album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", featuring her biggest hit "Nothing Compares 2 U". This is also a fantastic album worth digging out. I threw it in the car this morning - great CD.

Did you hear about this? There is a judge (yes, a judge!) who is suing his dry cleaner for $67 million for a lost pair of pants. I kid you not. Apparently, the pants were lost for only one week but the judge is still suing. Absolutely ridiculous!

One night in 1975, an out-of-work advertising executive named Gary Dahl was hanging out in a bar listening to his friends complain about their pets. It gave him an idea for the perfect "pet": a rock. He spent the next two weeks writing the Pet Rock Training Manual, which included instructions for house-training the rock. ("Place it on some old newspapers. The rock will know what the paper is for and will require no further instructions.") He had a friend design a box shaped like a pet carrying case - complete with air holes and a bed of straw - and then filled them with rocks he bought from a builder's supply store for a penny apiece. The rock debuted in August 1975 and sold for $3.95; by the end of October Dahl was shipping 10,000 a day. The fad encouraged a host of imitations as well as an entire Pet Rock "service industry," including dude ranches, "hair-care" products, and burials-at-sea. The fad died out in 1976. (From Uncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader.)

Sinead O'Connor's hit "Nothing Compares 2 U" was written by Prince.