As with any contest, it’s foolish to think you can win. There are too many X factors. A bad set, a bad judge, one of the people bringing all of the audience, etc. etc. Either way, I’m in the finals of this contest; the grand prize of which is flight, hotel and a week’s paid work at the Crackers Comedy Club in Indianapolis, IN.

I’m competing against Teddy Daniels, Jimmy Allinder, and a few others whose names I either did not know or didn’t catch. Nobody seemed to have an entire list. Perhaps I’ll live-blog from the contest on my new DROID phone. Perhaps not. It depends on how good the Yuenglings are tasting to me.

Pretty cool if I do say so myself. I want smaller thumbs.

Achieving the below score, took waaaaaaaaaaaaay more time than I thought it would.  I can’t  believe I even played the whole way through.  It’s entertaining for a little bit but the whole thing seems like a rip off of the old flash games from ROMP.COM, the one that made a crappy National  Lampoon’s Cartoon movie a few years back,that I can’t seem to find the link  for right now. Oh well, if you want to try it yourself it’s over at ComedyCentral.com

From FOX NEWS:

Police have identified a “person of interest” in the case of a missing Florida baby girl, but a frantic search has so far turned up no sign of the 7-month-old infant.

Shannon Lea Dedrick was last seen at her parents’ mobile home in the rural Florida Panhandle town of Chipley when her mother and father went to bed about 3 a.m. Saturday.

Authorities believe the baby disappeared sometime before 8 a.m. Saturday. Her parents reported her missing at 11:23 a.m., the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. It wasn’t clear why it apparently took more than three hours to alert police about the child’s disappearance.

The mystery of Shannon’s whereabouts intensified throughout the day Monday. Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock revealed that investigators did have a “person of interest” in mind — whom he declined to name — but added that there had been no sign of a kidnapping, NWFDailyNews.com reported.

The baby girl’s parents also were not identified and were not speaking to the media. Haddock told reporters they hadn’t had any substantial encounters with police in the past, according to the Web site.

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Authorities did an exhaustive search for the baby over the weekend and on Monday. They were continuing their efforts Tuesday.

“We’re not leaving any stone unturned,” Haddock said Monday afternoon, according to NWFDailyNews.com.

Searchers combed through Dumpsters, residential garbage cans, bags of trash and ditches, according to Haddock.

“The child couldn’t walk away; the child couldn’t crawl away,” he said.

The Florida Department of Children and Families is assisting in the investigation.

“We don’t know where the baby could be,” said agency spokeswoman Barbara Ash, according to NWFDailyNews.com. “It’s heartbreaking. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed that they find her.”

Anyone with any information is asked to call the Washington County Sheriff’s Office at (850) 638-6111.

Baby Shannon is described as being 2 feet long and 11 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes, (and the biggest head I’ve ever seen on a child).  How does it take you three hours to figure out your child isn’t in your trailer?  You look left, you look right, the kid is gone.  It can’t walk, it can’t unlock doors, and I doubt that it can keep its head up on its own.

If you see anyone with a big-headed kid, even if it’s hidden under an extraordinarily large hat, in the Florida area; please make sure it’s not Shannon Dedrick.

KUFO 101, in Portland, OR, just announced that Kidd Chris will be joining their morning line up from 5-10AM PST. That means us eastcoasters can catch the show from 8am-1pm. Now if only I could get the firewalls down to listen online.

Looks like I might have to wait for the DROID Phone to be released on Verizon. If this is true, and I can get my KC fix from the celly, I don’t think I’ll be renewing Sirius this year.

Alpha Broadcasting completed its “Mothership re-fueling” stunt this morning and revealed a new talent lineup that starts with former WYSP, Philadelphia morning personality Kidd Chris doing 5-10am. He’s now living in Portland. Chris is followed by PD Ditch, who will handle 10am-3pm as “Ditch On The Job.” Then comes Ricker from KISW, Seattle, 3-7pm. Marconi, 7-midnight. And Art Webb, overnights. Scott Mahalick is Alpha’s Director of Music Programming and he calls the talent lineup “the beginning of a new era for the station”, which Larry Wilson’s Alpha acquired from CBS Radio earlier this year as part of a $40 million deal. One other change: the apparent drop of the previously-used “Rock 101” image, in favor of “101 KUFO.”

I just finished my first Harlan Coben book. I’d seen his name on the shelves of the local bookstore for quite some time (usually when I was looking for a new book by Tim Cockey); but never picked one up. I’d seen the trailer for a French film based on one of his books that looked really good, but I never made the leap to reading him. Now that I have, I plan on reading his complete oeuvre ( I may have just misused that fancy word there).

So far, so great. Although having picked up a second novel it seems that much like Irving (wrestling, boarding school, infidelity) he has several themes/actions that appear in all if not most novels. So far he seems to really like protagonists that are Doctors and live in NJ. They also have childhood reminiscences of bullied children and guilt about it. Usually they have one parent involved in some awful tragedy.

I can heartily recommend NO SECOND CHANCES, and I’m about twenty chapters deep into HOLD ON TIGHT.

So far, it looks like Mr. Coben has made a new fan.

In any college level reasoning class they love questions about liars and truthtellers. Periodically, I solve one particular question, and then forget the answer the next time it crosses my brain. Today is one of the days when I know the answer. So I’m blogging it, so I can check next time I’m stumped. Forgive me.

A man is wandering down the road, when he comes to a fork. There is a villager standing at the fork who may be a liar or a truth-teller. The truthtellers village lies down one fork, and the liars’ village lies down the other. The liars are cannibals, and the truthtellers are friendly. What question must the man ask in order to determine the path to safety?

The Answer:

“Which way to your village?”

I really really really want to support this kid in his struggle against a silly ‘policy’ of his school. If the state the school is in does not classify what you had as a ‘weapon’ I don’t know how you can be punished for having this ‘non-weapon-weapon’ in school.

He’s an upstanding young gentleman who is an eagle scout and the grandson of an area Police Chief. He also walks, talks, and looks like a complete psycho. That’s the only thing that makes me think, maybe the school board is erring on the side of caution, then again, they may be winding this fragile psyche up. Who is to say?

Forget your position on the case, just look at these photographs and tell me if you think he’s stable, and I’m being overly sensitive.

Despite all the press that the BalloonBoy is getting while the Colorado Authorities frantically search for a missing 6 year old boy. He cannot beat THIS PHOTOGRAPH on GoogleTrends.

I guess if you have to be a McCain, it’s good to be the Sexy McCain. A”Sexy McCain” sounds like something you would ask a streethooker for, doesn’t it?

FROM FANBALL NEWSBREAKERS:

DeMarcus Faggins : Faggins lands in Detroit

DeMarcus Faggins has signed a deal with the Lions, according to Brad Biggs of the National Football Post.
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The Lions will be hoping that Faggins could help their pass defense, which currently ranks 27th in the NFL in yards allowed per game (244.6).

Keilen Dykes : Dykes re-signed to practice squad

Keilen Dykes has been re-signed to the Cardinals’ practice squad Tuesday after being released yesterday, according to their official team website.
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Dykes currently holds no value for IDP leagues while serving as emergency depth at defensive end.

Stage names are not uncommon amongst actors, singers, comedians and Ron Mexico.  Is it too much to ask for that you consider a name change before getting Faggins or Dykes emblazoned on a Jersey?  Not that I would ever wear a Cardinals Jersey but if I did, I imagine there are some bars I would get thrown out of because of my favorite player’s last name.