Amazing pictures of the flooding in Fargo

This one is close to home as my son is among the students at North Dakota State filling sandbags in the indoor football stadium. The Globe has some amazing pictures of the area, as it looks like a war zone with the Blackhawk helicopters everywhere.

Funny how things work in the midwest...you don't see a bunch of people sitting around waiting for the government to take care of them ala New Orleans. And where the hell are all the Hollywood types offering their sage advice...and help. I keep waiting for Sean Penn to show up in his putt putt boat, but I'm sure it's way too cold for these guys.

Mention global warming around this group and they might just hand you a tin hat just before they chain you to an ice dam.

50 years ago today, the day the music died

It's been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll.

The years haven't diminished fascination with that night on Feb. 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens performed in Clear Lake and then boarded the plane for a planned 300-mile flight to Fargo North Dakota that lasted only minutes.

Thousands of people are expected to gather in the small northern Iowa town where the rock pioneers gave their last performance. They'll come to the Surf Ballroom for symposiums with the three musicians' relatives, sold-out concerts and a ceremony as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame designates the building as its ninth national landmark. The resort town of about 8,000 borders its namesake lake, and on winter days the cold and wind make the community 100 miles north of Des Moines anything but a tourist destination.

The Surf Ballroom has retained its vintage look, with a 6,000-square-foot dance floor, ceiling painted to resemble a sky, and original cloud machines on either side of the room. Ten Buddy Holly banners line the wall opposite the stage. The 2,100-capacity ballroom still hosts many national and regional performers, most of whom add their names to a backstage wall that is now crowded with drawings and signatures."It's quite a special place," said Nicholas, the Surf board member. "This place looks just like it did in 1959."

Buddy Holly tragedy still leaves us wondering: 'What if?'

The Day The Music Died in 1959

Can you get a ticket for OWD (operating while drunk)

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In the "you can't make this stuff up" department, take a look at this woman's ass. Although the video and the news story are unrelated....they should be!

William Yvorchuk, M.D., an independent Fargo plastic surgeon, was about to perform surgery on March 5 when the medical staff at the PSI Surgical Center of Fargo observed that Yvorchuk appeared impaired, according to a release sent out today by the Board. Yvorchuk’s blood alcohol level was later determined to be .351, about four times the legal limit!
Other physicians were called to observe Yvorchuk, and after evaluating him, agreed there was an apparent impairment, the release says. It also was determined that he had performed two surgeries earlier in the day, one of them must have been on this poor womans ass! STORY IN FARGO FORUM