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• 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts – Gotta love free fonts!
• Dollhouse gets a second season – I’m sort of surprised. Maybe they’re wising up to the “ratings” nonsense.  Either that, or my recent mention of it in our “Neilsen Family for a Week” log actually counted for a few million people.
• Indiana State drops tennis programs -I think I would have cut that crap they call a football team first, but maybe that’s just me?
• T.G.I. Friday’s: Snake’s Head – Did someone get Ozzy’s order?
• The League of Moveable Type – Creative Commons based fonts. Cool idea.
• Wayman Tisdale dies at 44 – I had no idea he had bone cancer.  I always loved him here in Indy and thought it was cool that he went on to have a successful music career as well. I’ll never forget the “I’m clean, I’m on Tisdale’s team” anti-drug campaign when I was in school.

• 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter -I’ve got some catching up to do.
• 2009 Italian Street Festival – Not sure I can make this.
• 2009 Vintage Indiana Wine & Food Festival – Sounds good too, but I’m not sure I can make it either.
• Crystal Classic Habanero Sauce – R.I.P. to the best hot sauce I’ve had to date.

• Season 3 of Bones for only $29.99, plus save an extra 10% off one item with coupon code: N3K4N8W through 2009-05-17  – Gotta love Bones.
• FDA Warns Cheerios on Health Claims – Not so good for you?  Well, they’re still tasty!
• First Tweet From Space – Go America!
• GM, Chrysler to cut up to 3,000 dealers – Not surprising. Times are a changing.
• IMS on Twitter – Indianapolis Motor Speedway Tweets! IndyCar rocks!
• New weapon turns fire ants into headless zombies – excellent news…zombies do exist
• Scooby Doo (3)! The Mystery Begins – not expecting much, but it is Scooby Doo & I will watch it when it comes out.
• Tattoos being used for medical alerts – nice, let’s start branding/tagging people…don’t forget history folks.
• Twitter users ticked off over feed settings tweak – wondering if this applies to 3rd party apps too. Because I can’t stand the web version of listings anyway.  Get Twhirl!

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Indianapolis, Indiana — According to a source at the Indiana Chronicle, rumors are starting to fly that the 2008 NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals are interested in bringing in former Atlanta Falcons starting quarterback Michael Vick as a backup and eventual replacement for Kurt Warner, provided that he is reinstated by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Tom Smith, spokesman for the Arizona Cardinals, denies these rumors.

In a phone interview with the Indiana Chronicle, Smith stated, “Why in the world would the Arizona Cardinals be interested in Michael Vick? We just re-signed Kurt Warner to a two year deal and have Matt Leinart waiting in the wings. That’s about as ludicrous as saying that the Arizona Cardinals want to bring back Dennis Green as their head coach.”

Personally, I would have to agree with Smith’s assessment. It makes no sense to bring in Vick unless 1)  you are unsure of Warner’s health given his recent hip surgery and/or 2) you just have no confidence in Leinart as a starter AND 3) you want to get back to your losing ways.

So what does the NFL think about this?

Roger Goodell could not be reached directly, but a spokeswoman for the NFL stated, “We have not heard any such reports and note that Michael Vick is still banned from playing in the NFL . In the event that Mr. Vick is reinstated and the Arizona Cardinals are interested in signing him, the NFL will stand behind it.”

Typical response.

While all of this is a bit intriguing, if the rumors are true I’d advise the Arizona Cardinals to not go down this path. Turn around and talk to someone like Jay Cutler if you really want to throw another quarterback in the mix. If you opt for Vick you might as well chase down all of the other goons that are currently available and sign them as well.

The Mammatus is here!  The Mammatus is here!  Save yourselves!!!

National Weather Service Indianapolis IN
951 AM EDT Tue Mar 31 2009

..Unusual Clouds Moving Through Central Indiana…

If you look into the sky this morning you may see some unusual clouds through. These pumpy looking clouds are called Mammatus.

What is so unusual with this situation is that Mammatus is usually associated with thunderstorms. Only very light showers are moving through.

So I’m out this morning and this “important” message comes through via the National Weather Service.  At first glance I’m thinking to myself, “Do we have something to worry about?”  Then upon a second reading it was clear…someone at the National Weather Service was way too excited to see this unusual phenomenon.

Well, at least they’re really into their job which is more than I can say for a lot of people. Keep enjoying it whoever you are and feel free to spread the excitement.  Count me in for the Mammatus party anytime!

Welcome to “Would You Rather”, the part of Blue Shotgun where Brian asks you, the readers, given two choices, would you rather…

1. …be chased by monkeys or be stranded in the desert?
2. …go to Walt Disney World for a day or take a week long cruise?
3. …eat a juicy steak (best cut of your choice) or eat a gourmet dessert (of your choice)?
4. …watch sci-fi or “reality” TV?
5. …be unemployed or work as a janitor?
6. …have tickets to the Super Bowl or tickets to the entire World Series?
7. …fly in space or fly in a hot air balloon?

Please reply in the comments section or leave a voicemail at 317-565-4250. And by all means, feel free to explain why.

Via James Hibberd’s The Live Feed Blog…

The CW’s “Reaper” (2.5 million, 1.0/3) at 8 p.m. was the only broadcast show to air against Obama’s press conference and climbed 11% to hit a season high.

All I can say is, God Bless You CW & Reaper! Keep up the good fight.  Thanks to you I wasn’t even aware that The Obamanator was running off at the mouth again on multiple networks in prime-time.  This every-few-weeks prime-time press conference is starting to feel like “state TV”…go figure, right?

But luckily it sounds like the networks are starting to get pissed, and rightfully so.  As if advertising dollars and a consistent audience aren’t hard enough to come by, then you have a president who wants free air time (which tax payers should not foot the bill for either) to ramble on about who knows what.  The economy is crap and the jackals in Washington DC are up to no good.  We know that.  Stop wasting your time and ours stating the obvious.  Shut your mouth and actually do something that doesn’t screw up our economy even more.  And by all means, STOP doing your damnedest to rewrite the US Constitution and having a blatant disregard for what this country was founded on and what it’s supposed to stand for.  If that’s what you really want there are plenty of other countries you can live in that already have those sort of “changes” in place.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a fan of politics and in the past have not been one to talk openly about politics.  But Obama and his Posse of Goons who are running this country concern me a lot and I can’t be quiet (I’ll reserve most of my rantings for Blue Shotgun Radio).  There’s a reason to have checks and balances in place, which there are not.  I’m just hoping that we can last 2 years and hopefully get enough people in this coutry to wise up to what is going down so that we can “lame duck” him and then God willing get him out of office 2 years after that.