Must See Thursday TV, er film

For those of you who are childless, or flush with babysitters, and of course live in the Twin Cities, the Wholphin Shorts (a series of unconventional film shorts) is playing at the St. Anthony Main Thursday (Oct. 30th). The show opened last week to some pretty great reviews. The best of the shorts was the 24-minute "Heavy Metal Jr." in which a group of 9-year-old Scottish lads crank out Ozzy and Iron Maiden. The piece de resistance is when the group performs "Satan Rocks" at a redneck county fairgrounds in front of a shocked audience. Enjoy. Here's the link www.soundunseen.com/2008/movies/wholphin-shorts/

Flag football season comes to an end

Saturday morning marked the end of the 2008 Richfield Flag Football League season. Team Hypothermia (we were actually the Blue team, but the coaches decided to 'fancy it up' a bit) may have been out-gunned by teams that were two or three years older than us, but it didn't dampen our resolve. This was Nicolas' first year playing football. Technically he wasn't old enough -- flag football is for kindergarten through 2nd grade -- but I lied about his age and volunteered to help coach. In their season-ending contest, McLovin (aka Little Man) rushed for a pair of scores. The more dramatic one, a long run in which everyone on the other team missed grabbing his flags, came in the first half. My wonderful bride, who was responsible for videotaping the game as I coached, was tardy as per usual and missed videotaping the run. In the second half I took time off from my defensive coordinator duties to shoot some film, including the man's second score of the game.