Tuesday Links

Steven Hyden on seeing Oasis in London.

Noel Gallagher is not a great or even cogent lyricist, and his melodies can sometimes seem a little samey. But when it comes to writing songs that large groups of individuals in various states of inebriation can sing in unison, perfectly, Bob Dylan and Beethoven have nothing on him. He is the absolute genius of that very specific art form.

I Saw Oasis At Wembley And It Was The Greatest Stadium Show Of My Life

This article annoys me for several reasons. First, I’m pissed at myself for never thinking to pitch something like it when I was neck-deep in the kickball world. Second, it focuses teams from the south side of Indy. Third, that there aren’t 500 words about the day L kicked six home runs vs. St. L. Finally, that it avoids the “real” side of kickball I shared with you often. The umpires who don’t know the rules. The coaches who blatantly cheat. The idiot parents on the sidelines.

Then again, the Pope might have placed a call and killed the article if I had threatened to expose that side of the game.

Holy Rollers: Girls’ Catholic School Kickball

When we were moving M last week, we saw small lizards scattering each time we walked up or down her front steps. Which seemed weird. There aren’t lizards in this part of the world, right? Then M told us some story about how a kid smuggled some lizards home from a vacation in a sock and they are all descended from them. That story seemed so outrageous it had to be made up.

TURNS OUT IT WAS TRUE! What a crazy story!

10 lizards were smuggled into Cincinnati in a sock. Now there are tens of thousands.

What the hell??? Did someone put armadillos in a sock???

Armadillos are officially in Indiana, and they are expanding