Welcome Back Nation!!!

Okay, so it has been awhile since I last gave you guys a shout out. Sorry, just a bit busy. You know, boxes, looking for a job and stuff. We are finally just about settled in here in Regina. I would say about 95 percent of the boxes are empty. The five percent still not empty being the boxes of books that we have no place to put because the movers demolished our book shelf. Yup, it was that kind of move. What else did they break you ask? Well I will tell you. They managed to damage my fish. You know the one, the 35 pound lake trout that was caught in 1979. The bent the hell out of the fins and broke one almost clean off. Nice

They also managed to put some big divits in the kitchen lineoleum when they brought the fridge in. That is okay because that means we get new kitchen lino. Oh and they broke one of our chairs. Awesome.

So that all went okay I guess. It is nice to be settled in in our new home. It is a bit bigger and has a few nicer amenities. It is all good.

So what else has happened since we last met here. Well, McKenna had her first day of school. She was quite excited. She gets to ride the bus to school. So you will not see me sitting in my car outside the school blocking traffic like so many parents I complained about in Edmonton. Man that drove me crazy. She loves school and her teacher. Apparently the school she goes to is the best in the city so that makes us happy.

What makes me even happier is Last night we were at my kids school for Pizza open house night at McNeill school. Crappy pizza, screaming kids, nice school, great teachers, you know all that stuff.

As we were leaving I saw this dude with Rider sweats gear on which is not uncommon to see in this town. Everyone has Rider gear. I looked closer to the guy and bingo, Kent Austin. Grey Cup Champion and current head coach of the Riders. His kids go to the same school as mine. Sweeet. He was outside throwing a ball around to the kids. He threw one and said to the kid "don't go to far I am an old guy" Then he threw a perfect spiral and hit the kid right in the numbers, the kid of course dropped it. I said "Looks pretty good to me." He laughed and said thanks. I so wanted to run over and push the kid down and have him throw me a pass. I sure as hell would not drop it. Stupid kid.

It is all good that we are here. Dakota had her first birthday party three days after we got here. She was surrounded by her cousins and family. It was all good. McKenna has been able to spend a lot of time with her cousins also. It is really nice to be close to family.


Anyway I am looking for work anywhwere and everywhere. I had a gig on last Monday at the CCMA's here in Regina. The Canadian Country Music Awards. I was a TVA, or Television Assistant. Which basically means bust your ass all day long doing whatever they ask you to. $220 bucks for 16 hours of work. Long ass day. The music was okay for the most part. With the exceptions here and there. The odd pick up and beer song mixed in with the my girl left me song. If you remember, Nation member, James Grandy, of the MinneApple Grandy's won a CCMA for writing with the singer Brad Johner.

Anyway, at the CCMA's I had the opportunity to talk with Dog the Bounty Hunter. That's right THE DOG. Way cool. Now I know you want to see my brush with greatness pic with the Dog, but me since I have not worked for about a month I forgot my routine. Which includes loading my camera with me. Bonehead. So I don't have the pic, just the memory. I suck. I can tell you one thing, just like Reggie White, he is not in charge in that family. Mrs. Dog is totally in charge. He did not do anything with out looking in Mrs. Dog's direction. Yes, he did have those crazy silver tipped boots and his shirt undone with gold chains on. I saw him in three different outfits throughout the day. Mrs. Dog also HAS to have major back problems, if you know what I mean. Dog is way cool though.

I was a TVA to the guy who ran the jib camera. That is the jib that crane like thing that is in front of the stage to the left. Oh and that is Shane Yellowbird singing about his truck in the picture. Nice. There were a couple of Riders there also. Cool to see those guys out and about representing.


NEXT: Now lets talk about the best thing that has happened lately. PACKER SEASON Whoooooooooo!!!!! Now we go to school Gordon, now we go to school. The Packers are 2-0 and on their way to a Super Bowl. You better believe that if Number 4 leads these boys to the Super Bowl I am going to be there. The Super Bowl is in Phoenix this year and I just happen to know a couple of people who live there, MY PARENTS, so I have a place to stay. Mitch Davis, of the Regina Davis', has already said he is in. Anyone else out there in the Nation wants to go, lets get it done.

First place in the NFC North, gettin 'er done. Favre looked great on Sunday, the Defense is the D I wish we would have had about 5 years ago when the offense was awesome, but the d sucked. Bring on the Chargers. They have not looked good this year but it is going to be a tough game. Packers going to the Super Bowl Baby. Book it!!!

Hey Queen fans, how does this taste? The best thing about it is no one gave the Pack a chance to win 5 games this year. Well, we already have two, it is about to happen. The Lions are getting a bit cocky but the Lions will always be the Lions and they will never be contenders. The Bears Still Suck and the Queens well are Queens. Look out Phoenix here we come.

What about that Bellicheat thing. Man did they get off easy. Suspend the guy and take away picks. As far as I am concerned their Super Bowls have an asterisk. Not sure if I can believe that they did it legit. Plus even after he was busted he acted like he did nothing wrong. No remorse, nothing. He cheated, and he got caught but did not want to make it right. In fact he just blew it off. Kinda sad. It also sends the wrong message to kids and coaches in the lower ranks that it is okay to cheat. I mean really what would you rather have? Three Super Bowl trophies or that one lousy first round pick? I would take the trophies in second. He should have paid a bigger price. Cheater.

I will leave you with this joke, Ivy, of the Moorehead Ivy's, sent it to me. Enjoy.....

This guy walks into a bar wearing a VIKING jersey and carrying a little dog that also has a VIKING jersey on with a little VIKING helmet too. The guy says to the bartender, 'Can my dog and I watch the VIKINGS game here? My TV at home broke and my dog and I want to see the game.' The bartender replies, 'normally, dogs in the bar would not be allowed, but it is not terribly busy in here, so you and the dog can have a seat at the end of the bar. But, if there is any trouble with you or the dog, I'll have to ask you to leave.' The guy agrees and he and his dog start watching the game. Pretty soon the VIKINGS kick a field goal and the little dog jumps on the bar and walks down the bar and gives everyone a high five. The bartender says, 'Hey, that's cool! What does he do for a touch down?' The guy answers, 'I don't know, I've only had him for 3 years.'

The time has come, AGAIN...

Okay, it has been a long time since I posted. I know I have been neglecting the blog and you the loyal readers of TundraTalk Nation. Well I have been busy. With that business comes a HUGE announcement. The Peterson Family has decided to move again. That's right, putting all my shit into boxes and moving to new city to call my own. What is this city you might ask? Well hold your britches I will tell you. Regina Saskatchewan is the city that will now be ground zero for operations of TundraTalk. Donna had an opportunity to take a good job that allows her to have summers off along with all the other holidays, I was not completely pleased with the direction of my job (and the person I worked with), we managed to take advantage of the current boom here in Edmonton by selling our house with a very large profit, very large, so we decided to take the plunge and move. This move allows us to move closer to Donna's family and my family. Plus I now am only about 4 to 5 hours from NoDak as opposed to 15. Closer to Funyuns, Dakota Kid Seeds, Leinie's, KFC's cornbread, Mountain Dew that contains caffiene, and most of all Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. Oh, and to all my boys that still reside in the North Country you will be seeing me a little more often than every six years. I think that is good.

We sold our house here in less than 48 hours. No listing it, no real estate agent taking 25 grand, no nothing. Sweet. I will post here our new digits when we get them, we have a house in Regina, the pic to the left. Yes it has a great 'Man Cave' in the basement. Oh and more importantly with all that global warming going on, air conditioning. Sweet. Apparently we had AC in Green Bay also, but I do not remember that. Maybe I was not allowed to use it? The address in Regina will be 1507 Devonshire Drive. Not sure what the postal code is as of yet but I will let you know when I know. If you need to reach us the current phone number 780-434-3457 is active until the 15th of August and Donna's cel will be good for a few days after that 780-966-3457.

So that is the big news, here is the rest...

Robby DuPuis, of the Minneapple DuPuis, was working the day of the bridge collapse. He was the first camera on the scene. He sent out this email to let everyone know what was up. I thought the collective should get the insight...

Just wanted to drop a line to you guys and let you know that Chrissie and I are ok. We had many calls last night wondering if we were. I was unable to answer my phone as I was the first photog on the scene and was neck deep in chaos. My reporter and I arrived so soon that we were able to park less than 20 yards from the collapsed bridge to find only two policemen and two paramedics amongst all of the injured and scared people around. It is very demoralizing to want to help all of those people and not being able to because: there was nothing I could do for them and much less importantly, I had a job to do. It's by far the worst situation I've had to be a part of in my career and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what happened. That's all for now. Please say prayer for all of the people that have truly suffered from this tragedy.
Peace, rob.

Robby, you need to do what you can on your own to deal with it, but should also seek some counseling if you need it. I myself have seen my share of tragedy (not on that scale) and I know that you cannot do this alone. Your station should be able to help and if you want to call me to talk do it. Anytime. Stay safe.

NEXT: I did a podcast last week. I meant to do this one last summer but did not have a chance. It is Mark Sutherland a Pro Chuckwagon Racer from Calgary. You might remember him from a post a long time ago whenI was on his ranch shooting a video for a DVD. Just click the link to the right and listen to your hearts content.

NEXT: As Football season is coming up real fast, and the Camps are all in full on mode, I decided to put up some video that I found recently. It is a shot of the Lambeau Field scoreboard when they played a video of Reggie White. They used to play this during games and the whole place would go silent, everyone watching closely. Amazing the goosebumps would rise up as Reggie (RIP) sings Amazing Grace. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS ONE.



Reggie Lives from hamiltongbp and Vimeo.

Oh and this one of Drunk Tommy Thompson....Classic...




Drunk Tommy Thompson from hamiltongbp and Vimeo.Have a great weekend and we will see you in Regina!!

It's All About Favre...

Since there has been a lot in the sports news lately about Favre and the Pack, I thought I would post some Pro Favre stuff. Before I go on I want to clarify something. I do not like Randy Moss, in fact I think he is a cancer in a room, but if Number 4 wants him on his team, I want him on the team. That is all I need to say about that.

Now, The Onion, formerly from Milwaukee Wisconsin, always has time to write something about the Packers. This whole thing with Favre was no exeption. CLICK HERE to read a hilarious article about Brett wanting the Packers to trade him to 1996 so he can win another Super Bowl. This about the funniest thing I have read in a long time.

Now I don't want to bore you with a rant, but I will. If Thompson, the GM of the Packers does not pull his head out of his ass soon, he is going to lose some of the faithful. He does not make any FA aquisitions, he talks about cutting Bubba Franks, he talks about cutting KGB, he talks about cutting Manuel, AND biggest mistake of them all, he does not keep Number 4 happy. I don't know but to me it does not seem like he is about winning, he is more about getting his way. This my friends is going to piss me off. If we have another 8-8 season he is going to have to do some explaining, and his defense of "we are rebuilding" is just getting a little old. You have Number 4 back for another kick at the can and you do nothing to improve your team. Your first two draft picks were guys who spent their last season in college on the bench with injuries? In every draft list that I read before that weekend, the first rounder Harrell was listed to go late first, early second. The brain trust that is Thompson picks him 16, when Quinn was still on the board? Aaron Rodgers, who Favre doesn't even like, plays 15 minutes of real football and breaks his foot. Favre has played for over 10 years with out missing a start. Screw Rodgers. Get Quinn. AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGH!!

Sorry about the rant. I just had to get it off my chest. Here watch these....

I also have some video of Number 4 for you to watch. First up is a series of commercials for Starter. It is about the family who lives next door to Brett in Wisconsin. My favorite part is when Brett comes out and yells at the neighbors for driving on his lawn. Classic...





Here is another commercial featuring Brett. This one is what Packer football is all about. Awesome...



And last but not least, the Super Bowl commercial for the NFL network. This one is great also...



So there is my Wednesday tribute to the greatest quarterback to EVER play the game. Well, except maybe, Bart Starr. Speaking of thanks to Trev's fictional girlfriend for the autographed photo of Bart Starr. She works for an airline and flew on a flight with him recently and scored a pic for me. HUGE...

Get back to work....

Chris Peterson....Master Builder.

I am sorry that I have been neglecting the blog a bit as of late, but I had a party to prepare and organize for a 5 year old and it took some time. Not only did Donna and I have a big party planned but as a gift to my VERY active 5 year old I built her a play house. Whaaaaa? Did I just say build. Yup. This coming from the guy who barely made it thru Vo Ag in high school. Building that stupd little box was just too much for me. Which I still have that box. McKenna uses it to store her girl stuff in. Good thing they had us build that box, it would have been tragic for McKenna not to have a box to put her fake princess jewelry in. Those guys teaching Vo Ag really knew what we needed.

So last year I added a room in the basement. Not only did I add a room, I added a Green Bay Packer Room. That's right, painted Packer green, with a great Packer border (picked up from the holy land and sent to me by the Nordic Man), and the bed has official Green Bay Packer sheets. As Bubbles would say, deeeeee heeee eeeecent. Notice the Ross Verba jersey and photo of the renovated Lambeau on opening day in 2003. I really outdid myself. Oh, and as I have said before all of you, the TundraTalk Nation, are welcome anytime to stay in the Packer room. Especially all of you viqueen fans. Especially you queen fans.

Now to bring us up to date I got a bit cocky and one day spewed out to McKenna that I thought I would make her a play house for her birthday. Well, if you have a 4 year old you know, that if you say it, there is no way to take it back. I was stuck. But I felt confident that if I just put my little mind to it, I could make it happen. I am the awesome creator of the Peterson Family Packer Room so I can do it.

So since here in Edmonton the snow doesn't officially go away until May, I had to start building in the garage. I scoured the internet for play house plans and all I found was eleborate designs for play houses nicer than my House. So I was on my own. I sat down and planned out the size and shape. Blair Stefishin, of the Edmonton Stefishin's, looked at it and told me how much wood I would need and I went to Rona and loaded up.

After I brought it home I went to the Used Architecture Warehouse and bought a coulple of windows. Then I started to build. I got really cocky and built all the walls in the garage. Thinking that when the weather cleared I could just go and put it up, in theory. Notice the purple door. McKenna picked the color of the door and I let her paint it. It is going to be a very effeminante shed when she is done with it.

A week or so later the snow cleared and then I could start my build. I put down some gravel and started to lay out the floor and the front patio. So far so good. It was all coming together. My vision was starting to take shape. As the late great George Peppard said on the classic show the A-Team, "I love it when a plan comes together!" I loved that show. Notice I had to cut a tree back to make room for the house. I got to rent a chain saw. I love man tools. After the saw I went and rented a wood chipper. Oh yeah, I am a man. A man who loves power tools. I kept thinking of Steve Buciemi in Fargo as I was stuffing wood into the chipper. Loved that movie.

Anyway, I was nervous and excited as I started to frame the walls. Of course it was a hard hat area so I wore my hard hat with pride. If McKenna was not careful she may have a Packer themed play house. They all fit together perfectly suprisingly enough. Of course after I had it all framed and was getting ready to go and buy some plywood to put the walls up a neighbor came over and pointed out that my house was not up to code. Well, duh. I built it. He said that it has to be at least 3 feet from an existing fence. Wha? Who the hell would put a shed that far away from the fence. That is stupid. Who cares, the city can take their thee feet and tell the story walking. Too late to move it now.

I managed to get the plywood up on the walls then right on cue, the weather takes a turn on me. Rain for about 5 days straight, AND two nights befor the party, you guessed it, SNOW. May 4th and we get snow. Only in Alberta.

Of course I did all the easy stuff up until now. The roof is the hard part. I tried to do one rafter after another but it just did not work. I did not want a 6 foot roof but I wanted it too look okay. Cory Blashil, of the Edmonton Blashil's, came over and power builded a roof for me in about three hours. That guy can build like no one I have ever seen. He measures then cuts. I have to measure about three times, sit and think about it, measure again, then cut. Anyway, the roof went up and then I could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Rain kept us from painting for several days so we would run out and paint whenever there was an opening in the weather for a few hours.

We were running out of time but we got a break on the Saturday before the party and we had about 6 hours of no rain and we painted as much as we could. We got the walls and deck painted and put up tarps to keep it somewhat dry. It worked and on the Sunday of the party we put the final touches on it and it was ready. I put up the window shelf, put in some carpet (that was donated by Jordi Weidman), Donna painted the window frames, I put up the deck rail, and Donna painted it. Done.

Party time came and McKenna had about 15-20 friends over and it was a huge hit. Garner, of the Radio Sonic Garner's, brought his kids Dora Bouncy House over and it was all good. Plenty of fun, sugar, more fun and more sugar.

So that is why I have been away from the blog lately. I will leave you with this video that I saw again last night on a SNL show. Funniest TV moment EVER. Chris Farley, dude, I miss you.

NFL Draft!!!

The NFL Draft is tomorrow and I am hoping that the Pack will have a big day. I want a RB (Lynch), a TE, and maybe a SS. There still are those rumors about Moss coming to Green Bay but I hope that TT does not spend any picks for him. I will watch about as much as I can. NFL Network is covering it from opening bell to the bitter end so I will watch.

God bless the NFL Network.

Go Packers and have a great draft!!

Dateline NBC really knows how to wreck a guys afternoon...

DISCLAIMER - After I wrote this I thought I would add this disclaimer to clairfy some of my statements. FIRST: Donna, my wife, would probably never let Dateline into our house. That is just bad news right off the top. SECOND: When I give examples of what would happen if these things happened during a Packer game I do not mean that would happen to Donna. She is smarter than that. She knows when the game is on, THE FREAKING GAME IS ON!!! She would never change the channel, or try to give me important information, or talk about Number 4 derogatory. THIRD: If I ask her to get me a beer, I believe that she would, because she is a good woman, that is why I married her. She is not like the women in this show. She is smart.

Thank you for letting me clarify. On with the blog...





Marty Frey sent me an email (bottom) detailing an upcoming episode of Dateline. Well this episode aired on Sunday, and I caught half of it. I have to say, outloud right now, SCREW YOU DATELINE. How dare you screw with a guys afternoon of football?

For those of you who missed it, the show was called 'Honey you're on hidden camera!!!!'. Click here to read about it on the MSNBC site. Basically what they did is put hidden cameras in a man's TV room and record them on the most hallowed days during the winter, freaking SUNDAY. As he is watching his favorite team on the tube, Dateline encouraged their wives to try to distract them or try to get them to leave the room. For God's sake they even had one woman go in and change the channel. Pulling back a stump in my house if that happened. Now that woman was in the household of vikingfan. So what she was doing was helping them from another afternoon of dissappointment.

What Dateline did is sneak in and put a few hidden cameras in the man's rooms. After the game they took the guys in and showed them the footage. Real ground breaking stuff Dateline. What, no pedophiles to chase this week? The fans teams that they covered were the viqueens, the Cowgirls, the Packers, and since NBC can't do anything without mentioning New York, the Giants.

Of course they went first with the Packers fan. You can see his video below. The wife was a bit crazy in this one. At one point she even said "Isn't Brett Favre old?" Sacrelige. How dare she say something so obnoxious in a Packer household. That is like saying that the Pope is satan in a catholic household. Ecommunicate her now. Screw sleeping on the couch for that one, she would be sleeping outside. However she did redeem herself for getting her man a beer later in the game. That is the sign of a great wife and a good woman. All you aspiring wives out there take notes on that one.



As for the viqueen fans, their wives as I mentioned before actually changed the channel among other things. They sent the wives in late in the game, by that time the queens were out of the game, in what they described as "Sexy viqueen gear". WRONG, there is no such thing. No woman looks good in a viking jersey. Take that to the bank. At one point when they wives were describing a soccer meeting that they needed to attend in the week I kind of felt sympathy for the queen fans, no man should be expected to remember details like that when the game is on. Think, talk about it after the game. Damn. But again, they are viqueenfan, I do enjoy when they are in pain. Which is every season. Where is your trophy? Ain't got one. Hah.

Now the Cowboy fan was interesting. Normally I do not like Cowboyfan much because they are usually arrogant, ignorant, and rich. Not always in that order. He had an amazing 'Cowboy Room'. Set up perfect. Nice leather recliners, theater style, sweet logo on the carpet, and bobbleheads everywhere. Not only did he have the bobbleheads, he had them in glass display cases all lit up. He also had a Lombardi Trophy and an actual hat of Tom Landry's. Much respect for his room. Too bad he was a Cowboy fan. I don't remember much from his segment because I was too busy admiring his 'Man Cave'.

So where am I going with this? Well rignt here, I encourage you, football fan and TundraTalk Nation to email the bastard who put this story together. Let them know it is not right and it is bad karma to mess with a man when he is trying to watch the game. The guy who did this story, to me, it seemed that he had never seen a game or even knew what a football looked like. He also seemed very effeminante. That's right, when another man screws with your game rituals and takes the side of "Why don't you pay attention to your wife?" when the Packers are beating the crap out of the queens, you must stand up and question his sexuality. It is law. So rise up Nation and beat this guy down. Do not let him get away with this atrocity. In the name of manliness and all that is right.

Here is Marty's take on the whole show....Oh, and I agree with Marty, I usually do...
_____________________________________________

What the hell is wrong with these Dateline people? My comments below on this very disturbing episode of Dateline..

I took issue with a stupid episode of Dateline and sent and angry E-mail
to one of the promo people there that I know..


**SUNDAY, March 18th: (7-8pm)
ARE YOU A FOOTBALL WIDOW? All across the country millions of
innocent wives are caught in a love triangle, battling for their
husband's attention with the players of the NFL. Now, in a Dateline
hidden camera investigation, they are fighting back by catching their
unknowing husbands on videotape throughout the season, in "Honey,
You're on Hidden Camera."

For the hour-long report, "Dateline" isolated some of the most rabid
football fans in the country and got their wives to go head to head
against football for their husbands' attention. The wives allowed
Dateline to set up hidden cameras and microphones in their homes
and then worked with Dateline to devise ways to distract their
husbands while they watched the games. Some of the most revealing
moments captured on tape:

-A Green Bay Packers fan repeatedly yells at his wife to "Stop it"
when she tries to talk to him during the game.
Then she should STOP TALKING!

-A New York Giants fan won't let his wife get up from the couch. He's
so superstitious that when his team is on a roll, he's afraid she
could change their luck if she moves.

Clearly - everybody knows that you should never take a chance on accidentally jinxing the your team by doing anything different from when they were winning. This is basic.

-A Dallas Cowboys fan refuses his wife's requests to take out the
trash or help with dinner while the game is in play. When a commercial
starts, he turns around to see whether she's still in the room.
Realizing she's gone, he decides to skip the chores and leans back comfortably
in his recliner chair.

What the hell is she thinking! For God sakes woman THE GAME IS ON RIGHT NOW! Dinner or taking out the garbage can happen anytime - Sheesh!

-A Minnesota Vikings fan doesn't pay much attention to his wife, until
she changes into her Vikings tank top, which he finds alluring.
Within minutes he's turned his attention from the screen, telling her "Get
naked and sit on me!" -

OK - that's just weird. Viking fans are demented anyway. She could have just waited until the game was over - If his team wins - then he's in the mood to celebrate. If they lose (like most of the time with the worthless Vikings) then he could really use the consoling.. She should just do something during game time to make herself more desirable - like getting her husband a beer.

When the taping was done, the husbands learn for the first time their
antics were recorded. The husbands then agree to sit down with their
wives and "Dateline's" Josh Mankiewicz to watch the hidden camera
footage and explain their behavior during the game.

And then beat the crap out of Josh for ruining their game!

A few good Packer jokes on a Tuesday...

We hate you too

I really have been enjoying reading the website PackerPalace.com lately. The guys over there are just the right amount of Packerfan. Kinda like me.


Number 4

They had a link to this auto website with Number 4 selling on it. He says something very, very, funny. CLICK HERE to see the hilarity.

Anyway, I thought I would share a few jokes with you. First off a viqueens joke...


You Suck queen

A man walks into a store and says, "I would like a purple hat, purple pants, a yellow sweater, and some white shoes."

The clerk says, "Are you a Vikings fan?"

"Yes," replies the man, "How did you guess, by the color combination?"

"No," answers the clerk, "because this is a hardware store."


Ugly, ugly, people

How about a Bears Joke or two?

Q: How do Bears Fans practice safe sex?
A: They get rid of all the animals that kick.
___________________________

Q: Why do Bears Fans like smart women?
A: Opposites attract.
___________________________

Yo Chicago Bears lovin' Mama's so dumb, she brung a spoon to SUPER BOWL XLI


PackersPalace.com

Now lets insult all three of the teams in the NFC North...

A Packers fan was driving down a country road when he came upon Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings football players hitchiking on the edge of the road. He told the players to jump in the back of his pick-up truck. He then drove down the dirt road rather fast and lost control of the truck as they were going around a curve, sending the truck into a lake.

The Packers fan scrambled to the surface and swam to the bank. When he looked back at the lake, the three football players were still sitting in the bed of the truck looking frantic. As the truck began sinking the Packers fan yelled for the Lions, Bears and Vikings players to get out truck.

To which they replied, "We're tryin' to get out, but we can't get the dang tailgate open!"

Have a good week...

Guess who made the show Americas Game on NFL Network?

First off this week we have some Dee Snider cleanup to do. The response for the contest was great, a few good stories and a couple good ones. I am still taking stories so keep them coming. This story I have for you comes from Deanna Weiser, of the North Dakota Weisers (not to be confused with the Seattle Weisers), She tells us of an athletic Dee Snider from back in the 80's. I love stories from the 80's. The 80's were rough on people. The only thing that would make this story better would be a picture but, alas, in the 80's everyone did not have a phone camera. Here goes...

Chris,

I just want to share my Dee Snyder story with you!!

In 1989 I was a traveling nurse in the east coast. I worked in CT and ME. One weekend my girlfriend and I went to Vermont to ski at Bromley ski resort. We noticed people pointing up to the chair lift and there was this guy with long, blonde, curly hair and a black, one piece ski suit. We found out it was Dee Snider from Twisted Sister. Had heard of him in the early 80's but didn't really know any more than that. Well, he happened to be in front of us by a chair or two on the lift and when he got off to the left, he fell. Well the people in front of us veered to the right and we were forced to go to the left as we got off the lift. He was still on the ground and right in front of me, and I was unable to turn sharp enough to miss him and my skis straddled his and I almost ran into his Butt with my right ski!!! I put my foot in my mouth by saying, "I almost hit your butt with my ski" and was extremely embarrased, but later thought, what is a celebrity doing embarrasing himself by skiing the way he did!!

That's my story for you. Hope you enjoyed it!!

Deanna Weiser

Great story Deanna. For the record you are the last person I would expect to have a Dee story. Just gotta watch out for his butt. It seems that Marty had mentioned it also. Nice of you to capitalize butt also. Either way, the Twisted Sister Guitar pic is on the way. Oh, first I need your address so send it to me.

Now, Ken Reid of the Edmonton Reids, sent me a link for a great Dee Snider story. The only thing is, is that Dee is telling the story.

SHOW,

I'M A BIG FAN OF THE HOUR WITH GEORGE STROM$#%$#%#@$%@$#% ON CBC - ANYWAY -
I YOUTUBED THE GUY - ADN THIS CAME UP

CLICK HERE

ENJOY

MERRY CHRISTMAS
PSB

AND Finally Preacher man, of the Pulaski Preacher Men, sent me a link to the actual video for the Twisted Christmas song...

Here's the link for the actual TS Christmas video:

CLICK HERE

I must say that picture of McKenna up on the Jumbotron and holdting up signs is one of the coolest things I've ever seen! She may be the chosen one. She could become more powerful than the both of us.

Mike



So the NFL Network has been running this series called Americas Game. Basically a countdown of the greatest Super Bowl Champions in history. The other night was number 16, the 1996 Green Bay Packers. I set my PVR and was quite excited to sit down and watch it. By the way, I wonder where the vikings are on that list. Oh yeah, that's right, they have never won it so they must be around ZERO. vikings suck.



Anyway as I am watching the show, which chronicled the year that they won it. I was watching it with my brother in law, Mitch Davis, of the Regina Davis', and they came to the presser when Brett said he was addicted to painkillers and was going to rehab. I was just telling Mitch that I was there, when they showed a reverse shot of all the cameras there and, BINGO, right in the middle, yours truly. See if you can see me in there. Donna looked at it and could not pic me out. I must look a bit different now.



Here is a closer shot. That is me on the left...



Awesome. Have a look at the video...



presser on Vimeo

But it gets better. Later in the show they showed the footage of Brett Favre, Frankie Winters, and Don Beebe going Trick or Treating at Mike Homgren's house. Of course, I was the guy who shot that. They did about 10 minutes of the show on this. I was blown away. Here it is...



Halloween on Vimeo

It was so cool to see myself and my stuff on a network show. A network show about the greatest football team ever, the Green Bay Packers. A double whammy. It truly was a good Christmas. Which I will mention that I got some killer Packers stuff for the 'Packers Spare Bedroom' that I built in the basement. So if you visit, and encourage you all to do so (especially those of you who are viqueens fans), you will get the luxury of sleeping on Packers sheets and pillows, all the while being comforted by the Packers green walls and Packers borders. I rule.

FINALLY: The Packers have a shot this week at the playoffs. They have to beat da Bears. I believe, because we all know that the BEARS STILL SUCK. Here is a pic courtesy of Trev and the season opener at Lambeau.

Enjoy...



And this one courtesy of the PackersPalace...


Do you know what a FIB is?

Podcast and NFL is back!!!!

Well we kind of have been on hiatus this summer with the podcasts. I apologize if you are a bit miffed that there has been nothing for you to dump into your iPod. Yeah, right, like you are really missing listening to me annoy pseudo celebrities. Anyway, we have a podcast for you to ponder. Nothing major, just Cory interviewing me about my citizenship. Worth a listen. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN.

I have big ideas for this season of TundraTalk. I plan on eventually putting it up on iTunes. That is right, I am planning to make it available to anyone who has an iPod and wants to download it. Taking it worldwide. I just need to tweak a few things. One of those things being a real intro song and voice. Where to I get that? Marty Frey, of the Hollywood Frey's, is working on that. He sent me an update last week....

Chris,

This is the percussion bed for the :30 open that I'm producing for you.. I went to Vegas this past weekend and worked with the world famous percussionist, Michito Sanchez. (I'll send you some pictures from the session) I plan on having all the music on this laid down by real musicians playing real instruments and then putting it together in Pro-tools. Let me know what you think.. It runs about :30..

I'll have a bass line laid on this in about a week - it will be a jazz sort of baseline, think along the lines of the "Seinfeld" theme without too much string slapping..

Then I'll lay a rhythm guitar track on top of all this sounding something like the rhythm guitar at the beginning of "Every day is a winding road" from Sheryl Crowe..

Then - the announce...

Marty

Sounds good to me. Marty Frey is the man.

I also plan to step up the guests on the show. That is right, I will no longer be just talking to the guy sitting next to me. I plan on trying for 'real' psuedo celebrities. People like, well, I don't want to jinx it, so I will just tell you that I have a connection and he will be doing his best to get me in the presence of rock musicians. TundraTalk, the podcast that does not suck.


Nice Seats

NEXT/ The NFL is back and boy, it is going to be a long season. The Pack did not look good on Sunday. It was truly hard to watch. I can only imagine what it would have been like to be at Lambeau. Wait, I know someone who was there. Trevor Doroshenko, of the Edmonton Doroshenkos, had the honor of sitting in Vince Lombardi's house and watch that debacle. How did he swing that might I ask? Well, the legend of Gillet, the Nordic Man, Darrel Lucht, hooked a brutha up. Nordic Man rules!!!


Marty knows this place

Trev had a great time at the game, besides the outcome, and managed to weasel his way into a tailgate party that took place in front of a landmark in Green Bay. The curling club. This is the site of the infamous 'sattelite stealing press confrerence' that Chris from Green Bay staged for the show Sports Sound Off. SSO is a show based out of Des Moines Iowa hosted by that punk Keith Murphy. I owned that show when it was mine. Anyway, the curling club rules.


The Bears Still Suck

Trev even participated in the time honored tradition of making Bears fans look stupid. Like they need any help doing that. Bearsfan are only slightly less stupid than a vikingfan.

Nice Job Trev.



Tailgating in Green Bay is an experience that must be attended at least once in your lifetime. It truly is a religious thing. Those mensa members at city hall here in Edmonton are right by not allowing it to happen at an Esk game. They really are morons.

Anyway, have a great day at work, and stop wasting the company time reading crap on the internet. I leave you with this....

Root Canal and Honorable mentions....

Sorry no major post this week but I had a root canal this morning and I don't feel much like writing. No I did not take pictures... I forgot to take the camera. Plus the Oilers are opening up preseason tonight and I am working so I need sleep.

Preston rudie sent me a note and a link to his pics from the hurricane If you have a chance have a look. Pretty interesting stuff.

Also I added some of my honorable mentions to my concert list.

Have a nice weekend. Go Packers.



Hi Chris,

Thanks for the update on Kris R. Eric Loney was just asking me if I'd heard how she was doing.

I just returned from New Orleans 2 days ago. It was beyond horrific. It was without a doubt the saddest thing I'd ever seen. Words and pictures can't even begin to describe the situation.

Anyway, I've sent you a link to some of the stories I've been doing, but also the pictures I took while in New Orleans. I took all the photos that you'll see, except the pictures that I'm in. I think there are about 200 or so pics.

Enjoy and thank god it's football season.

GO PACK!!!!

Preston









Here are the also rans....

Barenaked Ladies - Summerfest Milwaukee WI

The first time I saw this band. Really funny and great live act. Make sure you bring your Kraft Dinner to throw at them durning the Million Dollar Song

Slim Dunlap - ReBar Des Moines IA

Former member of The Replacements. I got his autograph before the show and I told him that his music was the soundtrack of every good party I went to. He said thanks and then told me that it is not his legs in the fishnet on the "Don't tell a soul" album. Thanks Slim.



John Mellencamp - Seattle WA

I have seen him twice now in the span of about 10 years and he was great then and still great now.


Mojo Nixon - Rebar Des Moines IA

Mojo is the man who wrote "Debbie Gibson is the mother of my love child" or something like that and is great live. I asked him to sign a poster for me and he said "Yes sir. I would sign anything you ask. You are big enough to blot out the sun." Mojo also sings the song "Elvis is Everywhere" I believe these are words to live by.

Jayhawks - Summerfest Milwaukee WI

Great Alt country band that really put on a great live show. They are similar to Wilco but different. Do you understand? I don't either but they rocked.

Prince (Mormon Prince)- Kohl Center Milwuakee WI

Even the new reformed Prince can still perfome. I would have loved to hear some of the old songs like DMSR, or Do Me, or even Erotic City. Shane Keller has an interesting story about that song, maybe he will tell it someday. I really like the old funky stuff Prince did. Sexy MF is a song that just is funky, but he is a mormon now and does not play the older stuff. The show was still very good. Had he done the old stuff it probably would have been top 5.




REM Monster Tour - Hiltonhead Center Ames Iowa

Great show, and also I found out a guy I used to work with at Tower Records is now touring with the band. He was also in Young Fresh Fellows. Cool.



Blues Traveler/Wallflowers - Brown County Memorial Center Green Bay WI

My wife loves Jacob Dylan. He's okay I guess.



Garbage - Weidner Center - Green Bay Wisconsin

Shirley Manson rocks. Butch Vig produced Nirvana and the Pumpkins so it is all good.



Elvis Costello - Jube Edmonton Alberta

Quite possibly the best rock voice ever. He put on one hell of a show. Wish I had a copy of this one on disc.



Tori Amos - Hiltonhead Center Ames IA

Donna's favorite artist. A great show but I was out numbered by the female race by about 5 to one. Still guys I don't think this would be a show to go to and pick up women. Not a man-friendly crowd.



Henry Rollins - Uof Iowa Ames Iowa

Great spoken word show. I still would love to see him rock out.



Green Day, Rexall Place, Edmonton Alberta

See previous blog on this show.

Bryan Adams/Kim Mitchell - Bismarck Civic Center

Everyone went to see Bryan Adams but went home and bought the Kim Mitchell CD, errr tape. Kim kicked Bryans ass off the stage. Bryan wasn't bad back then, Kim was just better.



Great Big Sea - Grey Cup Pre-Party Regina Sask

Lots of football fans and drunk Saskatchewanites. The proper mixture for a great show. These guys are celtic rockers that do covers of slade among others. The perfect drinking band. Great time.

Trip Shakespeare - UND Grand Forks ND

Saw this show with Robby. Drove all the way from Minot to Grand Forks for the concert, then drove back after the show. Got home about 3am. I do not remember anything between Devils Lake and Rugby. Really. I believe that I slept the whole way. That would not be so bad except that I was driving.

James Brown - Skyreach Centre - Sound check

I got to watch James Brown do a sound check for a show here in edmonton. That man is in total control of his band. Unbelievable. Pure Funk. I wish I had gone to the show, but I had to work.